Lloris out for a month with a hamstring injury. Hopefully to be back for Spurs first CL game Sept 13/14. Poch says “We are confident [he will be ready] because it’s not a big issue, it’s a minor injury,. We’ll see what happens but we hope that he’ll arrive to be available for the Champions League. It’s always difficult when your captain is not on the pitch but we trust in Michel [Vorm]. He’s been doing well in pre-season. He was here from day one and he played a lot of friendly games and he’s ready to compete. He’s a keeper that has a lot of experience in the league and is an international. There is no doubt about his quality.”

Dembele is still on suspension.

Spurs have activated contract extension on Lamela so he be with he club till 2019 instead of 2018.

– clever fellas. Must be so we dun have to pay him a penny more probably. If need to increase wage, then will be extended further. Smart.

Eriksen contract ends in 2 years time. Poch is convinced time will see Eriksen penning a new contract. Eriksen said that he was happy at the club and the 150k contract were rumors.

– From wat I’ve read, there’s possibility that his agent is doing his first round of negotiation by “leaking” the 150k story

Son is back in the squad after returning from the Olympics, where he represented South Korea. He is available for CP game. “Son is available,” said Pochettino. “He arrived a little bit sad after the elimination in the quarter-finals [against Honduras]. We’ll see, we need to assess him tomorrow to see if he is in the squad or not.”

Latest on GKN…

The poor fella is probably bloated oredi sitting in a hotel room munching away and awaiting for confirmation on his transfer. Everything has been done and only left the paper work.

Unlike Spurs with Njie, Marseille did not recall GKN back to the club. Unsure if he is training with another team or in the hotel fitness center. By the way, who is footing his bill??

Lately it’s been mentioned that the deal is back on and that’s been more than 48hours. We can really do a series 48hours.

If I remember correctly, same thing happen to Schneiderlin where he sold his flat and waited in hotel to come to us only for it to collapse in the last minute. He was said to have sat there crying.

Anyway Poch refused to discuss Spurs’ interest in Marseille winger Georges-Kevin N’Koudou but insists Clinton Njie has a role to play this season – unlike Nabil Bentaleb. “They are still our players. I was clear with you about Bentaleb – he’s not in my plans – but Clinton is in the squad and he’s in my plans.”

– and BOOM Bentaleb is gone! Lazio is looking at him. Funny no EPL club is looking at him.

Oh and Inter wants Vert. FDB is looking to bring his former Ajax star to Inter. He wants to get Vert yet he says, give them Vert and cash for a midfielder of theirs…Brozovic.

– at 29 injury prone. So how? I prefer we swap with a defender than a midfielder though. And there’s no way we paying cash on top. Heh