Tottenham will have Kevin Danso and Mathys Tel available for Thursday’s Carabao Cup semi-final second leg at Liverpool but Ange Postecoglou has revealed Micky van de Ven is set to miss out.
Spurs were active during the final days of the winter transfer window with centre-back Danso signed from Lens on Sunday before, 24 hours later, forward Tel was convinced to join the club from Bayern Munich.
Both loan additions have received their international clearance and work permits to be in line to debut at Anfield, but a “conservative approach” will be taken with Van de Ven, who played in last week’s 3-0 win over Elfsborg after a seven-week lay-off with a hamstring issue before he missed the victory over Brentford.
“Kevin and Mathys are both available. They have trained and are cleared to play so they are all good,” Postecoglou explained.
“With Micky and (Cristian) Romero to a certain extent, I kind of feel we have to be a bit more conservative with them.
“Micky got through the game alright but I don’t think he feels ready for that step up to the Premier League, the intensity of it. Same with Romero.
“After losing Radu (Dragusin) for the rest of the season, which is really disappointing for him and for us, my view is and I made the decision that I don’t want to risk losing these guys.
“We are going to keep them ticking over in training and try to make sure they are absolutely ready without any more setbacks.”
