Ange Postecoglou will proceed to watch out with Tottenham winger Mikey Moore, however would think about handing the 17-year-old a full Premier League debut at Crystal Palace with captain Son Heung-min “unlikely” to characteristic.
Moore made solely his second Spurs begin in Thursday’s 1-0 win over AZ Alkmaar within the Europa League and after he once more caught the attention, team-mate James Maddison made a tongue-in-cheek reference that it was like Brazilian Neymar performed on the wing.
With Son nonetheless not 100 per cent after he reported muscle soreness at first of this week, Moore is in rivalry to characteristic towards Palace.
“He is able to begin any recreation however I simply really feel and particularly with younger gamers it is advisable be actually cautious with their introduction into senior soccer,” Postecoglou stated.
“Even final yr, he did not actually have a full season of soccer, he had fairly a couple of accidents, a few accidents that saved him out and he went from enjoying under-18s soccer to little or no under-21s soccer earlier than we built-in him. You need to have a look at that.”
“I believe he’s nonetheless bodily rising and you are taking that into consideration. I believe he is prepared to start out a Premier League recreation, for certain.”
“For us what we wish to do is to proceed to develop Mikey in the best means and provides him a platform to maintain bettering. To this point no matter we have requested of him, he is made an actual affect and the plan is to proceed to try this.”
The absence of Son, who solely returned from a hamstring harm to attain towards West Ham on Saturday, opened the door for Moore to make his full dwelling debut on Thursday.
Postecoglou had hoped the South Korean could also be match to face Palace, however was extra downbeat on Friday.
He added: “Sonny remains to be not proper or feeling 100 per cent. He will not practice as we speak and so unlikely for the weekend and we’ll see how he’s past that.”
It could possibly be a straight shoot-out between Moore and Timo Werner for the left-wing spot regardless of a troublesome interval in entrance of purpose for the Germany worldwide.
After Werner was changed at half-time towards AZ, Moore moved from the best wing into his favoured spot on the left and went on a number of mazy runs.
Nonetheless, Postecoglou expects the Spurs academy graduate to maintain his toes on the bottom and hopes to easily be his supervisor in 4 years time.
“I believe Mikey simply desires to be Mikey and like I stated after the sport, what I see with him is that he is very mature for a 17-year-old, he handles issues very well,” Postecoglou added.
“It is thrilling as a result of it filters by way of the entire membership and everybody within the academy will take huge pleasure in that. The entire membership feels good about seeing somebody come by way of the programme.”
“As a supervisor, you might be excited that at 17 you will have a participant who’s exhibiting maturity and a mindset the place he’s giving himself each probability to be one of the best participant he could be.”
“Typically younger gamers are thrilling however you may see pitfalls down the street, however I do not see that with him. At 17, you suppose what’s he going to be like at 21 and hopefully I’m the supervisor then!”