Mystery solved! It’s a gradual information day at Tottenham Hotspur-land, as the group spent most of the day flying to and getting settled in Hungary forward of tomorrow’s Europa League match towards Hungarian champions Ferencvaros.
But the huge thriller of the day was what the hell was Sergio Reguilon doing on the aircraft? It induced a bunch of kerfluffled feathers (if I could combine a metaphor? I could!) from silly individuals on-line misreading UEFA laws and suggesting he had changed Destiny Udogie in Spurs’ Europa League facet (sidenote: he can’t) and getting preemptively mad at Ange Postecoglou on Djed Spence’s behalf.
Well, it seems that Reggie was there for cause, in keeping with Big Ange — he’s a site visitors cone. Postecoglou defined in his press convention that Reggie went to Hungary, together with a few unnamed academy youngsters, to fill out the coaching roster to ensure that they had sufficient our bodies. And that’s all it was.
“He’s a Spurs participant, mate. I imply, we’ve bought a coaching session so it’s a stability that we want 20 gamers for coaching, that’s what we do for match day minus one. It didn’t make sense to convey somebody like Radu [Dragusin, suspended] or a few guys who have gotten accidents as a result of we received’t get again till late on Thursday.
“We’ve brought a couple of young guys in. The academy played last night and we didn’t want to disrupt that, but we brought a couple of young guys and Reguilon to make sure our training is really good today. Squad-wise, from the weekend Destiny hasn’t travelled. It’s nothing significant, his injury but again it didn’t make sense to bring him over if he wasn’t going to play. Radu is suspended and Sonny is back in London doing rehab, but the rest of the squad plus the young players have travelled.”
So it’s not a conspiracy, and everybody can put their purple and yellow glasses again in the field. Reggie’s simply being teammate, and if he can’t (or received’t) play no less than he may also help prepare the guys that may.
Elsewhere, Ange stated there aren't any new issues in the facet and that Dominic Solanke is match and out there to play towards Ferencvaros, although that doesn’t imply that he'll. I’m fairly certain I noticed BIG WILLY LANKS in the boarding-the-plane video Spurs posted earlier on social media, and though each Cuti Romero and Micky van de Ven made the journey to Hungary, Ange stated that it’s very possible that 18-year outdated Archie Gray will function someplace in the again line… even central defender.
“No, I think Archie can play centre-back. He’s obviously played full-back, played midfield, played probably left-back. He’s a pretty versatile player and that’s one of the reasons we were really excited to bring him to the club. He takes in information well and with Radu being suspended and Destiny out, we’ll definitely need him at the back. We’ve got a couple of different options about where we use him, but I’d be comfortable using him in any of those areas.”
Ferencvaros dropped their first match in the Europa League group stage, falling 2-1 at Anderlecht September 25. They at the moment lead the Hungarian League, which isn’t shocking as they’ve received the league the previous 5 seasons. The match kicks off at 12:45 p.m. ET / 5:45 p.m. BST, and is televised on TNT 1 in the UK. It’s streamed, as standard, on Paramount+ in USA.
