We still want to finish strong, not saving Romero and Van de Ven for Europe - Ange - video Dailymotion

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Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglu said they weren’t saving Micky Van de Ven and Cristian Romero for the Europa League and that they want to finish strongly Hotspur Way, London, UK

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00:00Ian, please.

00:01Hi, Ange.

00:02How are you?

00:03I'm good.

00:04So, Romero and Van de Ven possibly back imminently.

00:05Can you be more specific?

00:06No, mate.

00:07Because I'm not a doctor, and also, as I keep saying, there's a barrier that you can't cross

00:24when you're talking about people and, you know, whether that's injuries or medically.

00:30As I said, unless you want to call me a liar, what I'm saying is that both of them are training.

00:38There's evidence of that if you want that.

00:40Both of them are in a good place in terms of their recovery.

00:44Different reasons we've held both back.

00:47And once they're right, they'll be in.

00:48I most certainly was not calling you a liar.

00:50I'm just thinking because you've now got seemingly from the outside all or nothing on the Europa

00:56League this season.

00:57Are you saving them for that competition?

00:59No, and we're not all or nothing on anything.

01:01We still want to progress in the league.

01:03You know, we're not happy with the position we're in.

01:06There's still significant games.

01:07It's not like there's only a few games to go.

01:09There's still a lot of football to be played in the league, and we want to address our

01:13league position and finish the season strong.

01:16And alongside that, like you said, you're perfectly right that, you know, obviously

01:19the Europa League now is a great focus for us with us being out of the other cups, but

01:24we're not saving anyone for anything because ultimately what I want is, you know, both

01:29Miki and Romero have had disrupted seasons in that, you know, they've got injured, come

01:34back, got injured again.

01:35I don't want the same scenario.

01:37You know, whilst it may look with Miki like we had a false start with the Elswog thing,

01:43I just thought it gave us an indication of where he's at.

01:45And we could have pushed on, absolutely, we could have pushed on Romero, but my view is

01:49let's get him back and get him back right till the end of the season so that we give

01:54them a chance as well to kind of make a contribution to hopefully a strong finish for us.

We still want to finish strong, not saving Romero and Van de Ven for Europe - Ange

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