“I don’t think…….”: Ange Postecoglou delivers verdict on 28-year-old whether he will be at White Hart Lane next season after a woeful performance against Fullham [Full story link in comment]
Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou has now opened up on the long-term future of Timo Werner.
The German international joined Tottenham on loan during the January transfer window and the North London outfit have an option to make the move permanent. However, the Australian manager believes that the time is not right to discuss about the striker’s future and it will be decided in due course of time.
He said to Football London: “I don’t think it’s the time for those kind of decisions and I don’t think it would be fair on Timo for me to [discuss it]. Whenever I’ve signed a player on loan I say to them at the outset that I will treat them like I do everyone else, like they’ll be here for the long term.
Then if it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen because even the ones you hope are here for the long term sometimes aren’t. Timo has come in and really contributed to us from the first day. He’s had to.
It’s been important for us, as I said when we signed him, because we were really short in that front third, when Sonny was away and then we lost Richy. If we didn’t sign Timo at that time, we would have had some real gaps.
Then the burden on guys like Brennan and Kulusevski would have been even greater. I think all of the guys in the front half have handled it really well. Timo has done well, but the time for those kind of discussions is down the line for us, for me.”
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“I don’t think…….”: Ange Postecoglou delivers verdict on 28-year-old whether he will be at White Hart Lane next season after a woeful performance against Fullham [Full story link in comment]
Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou has now opened up on the long-term future of Timo Werner.
The German international joined Tottenham on loan during the January transfer window and the North London outfit have an option to make the move permanent. However, the Australian manager believes that the time is not right to discuss about the striker’s future and it will be decided in due course of time.
He said to Football London: “I don’t think it’s the time for those kind of decisions and I don’t think it would be fair on Timo for me to [discuss it]. Whenever I’ve signed a player on loan I say to them at the outset that I will treat them like I do everyone else, like they’ll be here for the long term.
Then if it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen because even the ones you hope are here for the long term sometimes aren’t. Timo has come in and really contributed to us from the first day. He’s had to.
It’s been important for us, as I said when we signed him, because we were really short in that front third, when Sonny was away and then we lost Richy. If we didn’t sign Timo at that time, we would have had some real gaps.
Then the burden on guys like Brennan and Kulusevski would have been even greater. I think all of the guys in the front half have handled it really well. Timo has done well, but the time for those kind of discussions is down the line for us, for me.”
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