Ange Postecoglou has claimed even Mohamed Salah would wrestle in his Tottenham facet regardless of the Liverpool ahead’s red-hot kind in entrance of aim.
Salah has scored 21 targets throughout his 27 appearances in all competitions this season and can now look to hold this manner into Wednesday’s Carabao Cup semi-final in opposition to Tottenham, reside on Sky Sports activities.
In the meantime, Postecoglou’s facet have slipped to twelfth within the Premier League desk following a run of 4 video games with out a win, which included a 6-3 loss to Liverpool again in December.
Salah scored two targets and offered two assists throughout that assembly and regardless of his scintillating kind all through the 2024/25 marketing campaign up to now, Postecoglou has acknowledged the Egypt ahead would nonetheless wrestle to thrive in his staff.
“Mo’s a world-class player, but if you put him in our team at the moment, I’m not sure he would have the same impact because of the situation we’re in as a group,” stated the Tottenham boss.
“He is enjoying in a implausible staff which are flying in the intervening time. I would hazard to say that in case you put Sonny [Heung-Min Son] in Liverpool’s staff, I reckon his goal-scoring return can be respectable.
“It’s hard for our players at the moment, they’re trying awfully hard to be the best they can be.”
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No rush to find out Son’s long-term future after one-year possibility activated
Tottenham enter the showdown in north London buoyed by the information that Son Heung-min will stay on the membership till no less than the summer season of 2026 after activating an possibility to increase his contract.
The South Korea ahead is an influential participant for Spurs, scoring 169 targets in 431 appearances, however Postecoglou insists there is no such thing as a rush to debate his longer-term future.
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Tottenham have exercised the choice to increase Heung-Min Son’s contract to maintain him on the membership for a further 12 months till June 2026
“It’s not something that needs to be forced one way or another,” he stated.
“When you’ve got a player like Sonny who has such a standing at a club – and I know how highly the club regards him and how much he loves the club – I just think it’ll all happen mutually.
“I do not assume the membership will likely be able of attempting to drive something or Sonny would attempt to drive something.
“There is enough respect and credit between both parties that those kind of discussions will happen naturally and I think will come to a conclusion that everyone is happy with.”
Ange: Carabao Cup success might help our future
Postecoglou has historically seen league kind as one of the best barometer of his staff’s progress however with 10 gamers out injured and Pape Sarr and James Maddison serving suspensions in opposition to Arne Slot’s facet, he believes one thing particular may very well be solid in adversity.
Tottenham Hotspur supervisor Ange Postecoglou is hoping the Carabao Cup glory can set his staff up for the longer term
“We’re having a tough season. Our league form is really poor and we need to improve,” he stated.
“But we are in a semi-final of a competition and with the group of players we’ve got at the moment, if we can achieve something where they are in their careers, it sets you up really well for what we’re trying to build here. I think it does.
“It isn’t the be-all and end-all, as I’ve stated many occasions. But when we get to a ultimate and win a trophy, we’ll look again on this era of the place we’re as a small group of gamers having to rise above and past to get there.
“That will be as worthy of the achievement as actually winning it.”
Watch Tottenham vs Liverpool within the Carabao Cup semi-final, reside on Sky Sports activities, at 8pm on Wednesday.
