Harry Kane’s unfortunate injury means that Spurs will be without their talisman forward for the next few weeks.
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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