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Pedro Porro has dismissed suggestions that Ange Postecoglou’s injured Tottenham players are working too hard in training and has expressed his admiration for the “fantastic” pairing of Archie Gray and Lucas Bergwall.
Spurs slipped to their 12th Premier League defeat of the season at the weekend, Going 3-2 down against Everton After a torrid opening 45 minutes, the visitors found themselves three goals behind at the half-time interval.
Goals from Dejan Kulusevski and Richarlison made the scoreline respectable for Spurs, but they are 15th. Premier League table after a disastrous run that coincided with persistent injury problems.
Cristian Romero, Miki van de Ven, Guglielmo Vicario, Dominic Solanke, Destiny Udogi, Yves Bissoma, Brennan Johnson, Timo Werner and Wilson Odobert all miss the trip to Merseyside, with the majority, if not all, likely to be included in Spurs. ‘ Matchday squad if they were fit.
There are suggestions that under-fire Postecoglou, Whose job is safe nowPerhaps his methods on the training ground are to blame, but Poro has come out in defense of his manager saying each player has their own recovery regime and their workload is well managed and looked after.
“We have a plan for all of our training,” Porro said football.london. “The players who don’t play that much have their own plan to come back and me too, I train at the club but I also do my own work outside the club, recovery work, injury prevention.
“Everyone has their own schedule, if the training sessions are less intense it is for the players who are coming back, they have the necessary training, and even for the players who are playing, we need a lot of recovery.”
SpursA list of injuries has seen Gray and Bergwall exposed to more first-team football than expected at this juncture in their careers, but both have been hugely impressive despite results not going the club’s way.
Their form caught the eye of Poro, a €40m signing in January 2023, who while praising the duo suggested he was not entirely surprised by how good they were.
“When you get injuries and you sign young players who are probably for the future, you sign them for the future, but if you get injuries you also have options,” said the Spaniard. “Lucas, Archie and others are doing very well but that, at the end of the day, is why the club brought them in. They’ve got their chance and it’s up to them to take it.
“They are doing a fantastic job for the club and if we go through a bad moment and they are suffering like all of us at the moment, it will make them great players in the future because they are putting everything out there. For the team.”
