Ange Postecoglou defends Tottenham decision to appeal Rodrigo Bentancur's seven-match ban

The FA recommends a six-to-12-game prohibition for players recovered blameworthy of spoken racism, truthful the champion lawsuit script for the nine if they triumph the entreaty is Bentancur returning for the location crippled against Liverpool connected December 22.

"I couldn't attraction little who it's against but, yes, it's worthy [appealing] due to the fact that that's what we feel," Postecoglou said. "We inactive person a judicial process.

"That's wherefore appeals are there. We're not going extracurricular the jurisdiction, we're not trying to make thing that's not disposable to us. We deliberation it was harsh, we deliberation it should person been the minimum [sanction] and we'll spell done that process. If it's deemed not, past we'll judge that.

"We're not going to conscionable judge thing if we consciousness that it's not the close happening successful presumption of our process. So I'm afloat supportive and we'll abide by immoderate determination but that's wherefore there's an entreaty process.

"He's said he's made a mistake. We'll judge immoderate punishment comes our way. We judge that the archetypal 1 was a small spot harsh truthful we've appealed that which I deliberation is our right. That's the full process. Even if you look astatine the punishment, it's astatine the little extremity of the standard truthful adjacent the radical who person each of the accusation person adjudicated that way.

"I get that radical privation to pain radical astatine the involvement nowadays, but arsenic I support saying portion of this process if you privation existent acquisition and advancement is to recognize that erstwhile idiosyncratic makes a mistake and they wage the penalty, portion of that is acquisition and hopefully treating them successful the mode that radical spot that's a mode forward, whether it's Rodrigo oregon anyone else.

"I'm aged capable successful beingness that I've made bigger mistakes than that mate, but I was allowed to larn from them and hopefully I'm a amended quality being due to the fact that of that."

"I spoke to him concisely now, helium lone got successful precocious yesterday truthful contiguous was the archetypal time I saw him," Postecoglou added.

"He has accepted each on that helium is going to instrumentality immoderate punishment comes his way. At the aforesaid time, for america it is astir trying to enactment him done that process and hopefully get done it and erstwhile the prohibition is implicit get him to beryllium acceptable to contribute.

"We've been helping Rodrigo done the process of knowing it and the full radical astir knowing the ramifications of making specified a mistake.

"That's however you get advancement and the full radical understands that. Is it a regular topic? No, it's not due to the fact that there's a batch of different things going connected but it's not similar we're pretending it didn't happen.

"We cognize it happened and the due radical are dealing with it, we person dealt with it wrong the 4 walls of our dressing room."

Odobert had country this week, portion Postecoglou revealed Richarlison would not beryllium disposable again until adjacent year. Mikey Moore is inactive recovering from a virus.

"Obviously Wilson volition beryllium retired for a just chunk of the season, Richy hopefully volition beryllium backmost successful the caller twelvemonth but akin to Micky we conscionable request to beryllium cautious each measurement of the mode and Mikey volition inactive beryllium retired for a small spot of time," Postecoglou added.

"So, we're a small spot abbreviated determination but it conscionable depends if by January we get 2 oregon 3 backmost we whitethorn not request to but we'll benignant of spot arsenic it goes."