They will also be missing their South Korean star Son who is away on national duty. This has put Mauricio Pochettino on hold as he is facing a shortage of attacking options. The boss has come up now with the idea of Alli playing up front and he seems to have been inspired by Messi.
“Yesterday I was watching Barcelona [against Levante] and the striker was Leo Messi,” said Pochettino. “You can play Llorente, you can play Dele Alli, you can play Erik Lamela, you can play [youngsters] Kazaiah Sterling, Troy Parrott, I don’t know. You can play many, many players. It’s not that you have to play one specific striker. Look, Chelsea played against us with [Eden] Hazard like a striker, when [Olivier] Giroud was on the bench and [Alvaro] Morata was out of the squad.
“We are so crazy, the managers that sometimes we decide to do something different, no?”
Indeed you are Mauricio but you are also a genius manager who has managed to take a Spurs team short on players and budget to the next level; so we believe in your crazy!
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