Antonio Conte revealed he’s towards the concept of sending his younger Tottenham Hotspur expertise out on mortgage throughout the January switch window.
Spurs host Portsmouth within the third spherical of the FA Cup on Saturday earlier than taking over Premier League leaders Arsenal the next weekend, one month out from their Champions League last-16 first-leg journey to AC Milan.
Oliver Skipp, 22, began rather than the suspended Yves Bissouma in Spurs’ 4-0 victory over Crystal Palace on Wednesday evening, whereas 21-year-old winger Bryan Gil was awarded his second Premier League begin after making his first towards Villa on New Year’s Day.
Boss Conte mentioned: “Skipp and (substitute Pape) Sarr showed they are really reliable players for me and I’m really happy. We exploited the period of the World Cup to work with these young players to improve themselves under the tactical aspect and physical aspect.
“Now they stay with us in the squad. I don’t want to send these young players on loan because the league is very difficult. We have to play Champions League, we have to play FA Cup. I think these young players can stay here to help us face these three competitions.”
Gil had been linked with a short lived transfer again to his native Spain however was a standout performer at Selhurst Park, selecting up his first Premier League help within the victory.
While Conte hopes to have extra choices for the Arsenal conflict, hinting at doable returns for the injured Richarlison, Rodrigo Bentancur and Dejan Kulusevski in addition to Bissouma, he was thrilled by what he noticed from Gil.
He mentioned: “We are talking about a player who was born to play football. He understands football quickly. He’s so clever, so intelligent to understand the situation.
“Then you know this league is difficult, because you have to be good in quality and be fast and to have good endurance and he has this type of quality.”
Patrick Vieira, in the meantime, was as soon as once more left asking himself why Palace have routinely failed to seek out the crowning glory when supplied with promising alternatives.
Shortly after his reverse quantity lauded Spurs’ youthful expertise, Vieira puzzled if age and inexperience may play a consider his facet’s struggles in entrance of aim.
He mentioned: “Sometimes we want things that will take time to have. We are talking about knowing which part of the game that they need to improve, and sometimes when a player scores one goal, who did something really well, we think that he’s already there.
“We have some young players we need to improve. We put them in a really good condition, they are in a really good club where we’re putting something in place to allow them to keep improving, and sometimes it’s tough.”
