Tottenham hit by senior player injury blow ahead of Gent clash
By Harry Sykes
Mauricio Pochettino has revealed that Danny Rose is “weeks away” from a return to training with the Tottenham squad.
The Spurs manager delivered a pessimistic update on the left-back’s fitness just a fortnight after describing his knee injury as “minor”.
Rose saw a specialist about the problem that has forced him out of Tottenham’s last four matches and the initial prognosis was that he would soon be in contention for a place in the starting XI.
But it now appears that Rose will be sidelined for longer than the five matches initially expected following the latest Pochettino bulletin.
“Danny continues to recover and rehabilitate, but remains a number of weeks away from full training,” said Pochettino, as quoted by the official Tottenham website on Wednesday.
The manager was speaking ahead of Spurs’ Europa League home clash at Wembley against Gent on Thursday night, as his team try to overturn a 1-0 deficit from the first leg in Belgium a week ago.
Ben Davies, who has deputised for Rose over the last three weeks, is set to once again deputise for the senior full-back in the last-32 tie, which is a 90,000 sell-out.
Rose has already missed matches against Middlesbrough Liverpool, Gent and Fulham, and is also in line to miss forthcoming Premier League fixtures against Stoke and Everton.
In other Tottenham transfer news, Daniel Levy has lined up the next Spurs arrival as the deal is all but done.
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