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Thomas Frank has revealed that Tottenham's match against Manchester City on Saturday has just come too soon for Destiny Udogie to return. The left-back has not featured since Spurs' first pre-season game at Reading due to a knee injury.
Udogie sustained the issue the following week while warming up for the friendly at Luton Town and he was subsequently not included in the squad for the tour of Hong Kong and Singapore. The Italian international will have to wait to make his comeback and the same goes for Yves Bissouma, who missed out last week against Burnley due to an injury sustained in training.
"Destiny is better and trained with the team twice, full training, just too short to be involved against City," outlined the head coach in his pre-match press conference. "We want him to train tomorrow and get another week. Bissouma is also out. [Dejan] Kulusevski is out but I don't want to put a timeframe on it."
It appears that Richarlison will once again be leading the line for Tottenham after his excellent double against Burnley. The Brazilian was this week linked with a surprise move to Crystal Palace as part of a deal for Eberechi Eze but Frank has stated that he wants to keep the attacker in N17.
"Right now he is my starting nine," confessed the Dane. "He scored two top goals. Richy wants to stay, I want to keep him and there's been no talks about anything else."
Amid Tottenham's search for a new No.10, Frank knows he has options and he pointed to the team scoring three goals last weekend.
"I think we just played the first game and scored three goals so I think that was pretty promising," he said. "[Mohammed] Kudus has that spark and creativity. I think Mathys Tel can play in different positions. Dom [Solanke] and Richy can score goals and Brennan [Johnson] is our deep runner. We have variations."
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