Ange Postecoglou rules out Tottenham transfer - 'We have to deal with this shock'

Injury to goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario volition not alteration transportation strategy and Tottenham brag Ange Postecoglou is assured that seasoned Fraser Forster tin bash a good occupation arsenic deputy

Ange Postecoglou has ruled retired signing a escaped cause goalkeeper aft being rocked by first-choice Guglielmo Vicario breaking his ankle and the Tottenham caput manager is backing seasoned Fraser Forster to radiance contempt outer doubts astir his kicking ability.

Vicario is expected to miss respective months aft fracturing a bony successful the archetypal fractional of their stunning 4-0 triumph distant to Manchester City connected Saturday.

Spurs, who big Roma successful the Europa League tonight, are allowed to motion a escaped cause stopper extracurricular of the transportation window.

Postecoglou has described losing Vicario, who played connected done the symptom astatine the Etihad, arsenic "shock" but helium has categorically ruled retired a stop-gap signing and played down the anticipation of a determination successful January.

“That's not going to happen,” helium said. “That's wherefore we've got a squad of players here. I don't deliberation america signing a escaped cause present is going to assistance us. “If I hadn't named Fraser successful the Europa squad, past jeez that would've been a extremist determination … and past you benignant of [would] look astatine it.”

Pushed connected whether Spurs’ plans for the January transportation model person been reassessed arsenic a result, Postecoglou added: “Not from what's happened now. We've got an wounded and immoderate nine that gets a important wounded with their goalkeeper benignant of assesses wherever they're at.

“It's not conscionable different injury, but astatine the aforesaid time, similar I said, it is conscionable 1 injury. We've been dealing with setbacks for a while. There's a batch of work.

“We speech astir depleted squads, we had 2 schoolboys connected the seat astatine the weekend. “We've been precise shallow for rather a portion but due to the fact that I don't item it each week, it doesn't disregard the information that we've benignant of learned to woody with these things, and this is different situation for us.

"January, we're ever moving towards the adjacent model of what the champion script is for us, and a batch of that volition beryllium connected wherever we're astatine from the squad position and the game's perspective. But conscionable this wounded doesn't alteration immoderate plans for January.”

Postecoglou is assured that Forster, 36, tin soundlessness doubts astir his quality with the shot astatine his feet. He thinks determination is simply a “misconception” astir older goalkeepers not being bully passers of the shot - pointing to however Joe Hart thrived during his clip successful complaint of Celtic.

And Spurs besides person Brandon Austin and Alfie Whiteman to telephone upon if required. Postecoglou added: “Fraser I've known for a agelong clip and he's specified a beardown quality wrong the radical and acceptable to play.

“I bash privation to play retired from the backmost but I don't request my goalkeepers to beryllium Maldini oregon Platini. “In fact, the simpler they tin support it the amended for me. I support saying to the players, don't walk it to the goalkeepers, they've got the gloves on, they're the goalkeepers and you're the player.

“The happening is mounting it up truthful we springiness truly elemental solutions to our goalkeepers. It's not astir their method quality due to the fact that if you look astatine the mode we play retired from the back, it's astir them executing truly elemental passes that they bash each day. They're really rather bully astatine it, goalkeepers. All goalkeepers. It's much astir mindset.

“It's much astir them not reasoning that what they're doing is risky, due to the fact that that's what it comes down. It's not a skill. I'm not asking them to pin 50 yarders. In fact, it's harder erstwhile goalkeepers spell long. It's really a harder accomplishment for them to do. So I'm asking them to bash abbreviated passes that they're susceptible of.

“It's more, similar I said, the mindset of it. Just showing them that there's nary hazard here. Don't interest astir the risk. The setup is determination for you to execute.

“And I recovered that with Joe and different keepers I've had successful the past wherever it was, 'oh, helium can't play retired from the back', and of people helium can. He's a goalkeeper, helium tin walk the ball, that's what they do. It's conscionable astir having a operation which allows them to bash it successful the cleanest imaginable process. And changing their mindset.

“The lone obstruction to that is if the goalkeeper doesn't consciousness comfy doing it. Not due to the fact that they can't. Joe was superb astatine Celtic, helium embraced it each in, and Fraser's the same.

“It's not similar [goalkeeping manager Rob] Burchy is going to commencement moving with him this week. He's been doing it for 18 months. That's each we bash astatine training. They get included successful immoderate of our passing drills, immoderate of our possession drills.”

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