Ange Postecoglou is confident Tottenham adolescent Mikey Moore will possibly withhold his feet on the headway and not acquire a Ferrari after comparisons to Neymar.
Moore administered only his second Spurs prelude in Thursday’s 1-0 win over AZ Alkmaar and, after he again entraped the eye, staff-coworker James Maddison administered a tongue-in-cheek reference that it was favor Brazil international Neymar messed around on the wing.
With Son Heung-minutes still not 100 per pence after he reported muscle soreness at the prelude of this week, Moore is in opinion to supply his full Premier League launching versus Crystal Palace, but Postecoglou lugs out not aim the hyperbole to attend the 17-year-ratty’s head.
“Just to be clear, I didn’t telephone call Mikey, Neymar,” Spurs honcho Postecoglou said via a smile.
“I assume you’ll position that my demeanour around Mikey will possibly be the super same today as it was yesterday and that’s what he’d aim.
“The ideal indicator is the guy himself and I’ve got a thumbing that won’t affect Mikey. I don’t assume we’ll go to him bring here via a dissimilar colour hair or a Ferrari. Well, he can’t drive can he! I assume he’ll be alright.
“I assume Mikey just wishes to be Mikey and favor I said after the game, what I go to via him is that he’s super totally flourished for a 17-year-ratty, he steals treatment of points in fact nicely.
“Sometimes young players are thrilling but you can go to pitfalls down the roadway, but I don’t go to that via him. At 17, you assume what is he gleaning entailed in be favor at 21 and hopefully I am the supervisor then!”
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Postecoglou was timid over whether Moore would possibly prelude a second succeeding match in reference to the Selhurst Park barbecue on Sunday, but has limited recourses.
Richarlison and Wilson Odobert have only just reverted from injury, while Timo Werner, who deputised when Son was absent for 3 weeks via a hamstring shame, has fallen short to score in his last 16 appearances for Tottenham.
On Moore, Postecoglou added: “I assume he’s unanimously calculated to prelude a Premier League game, for sure.
“For us what we twinge to execute is to perpetuate to build Mikey in the correct way and enact on him a belvedere to withhold perfecting. So far whatever we’ve inquired of him, he’s administered a real burden and the strategy is to perpetuate to execute that.
“He’s one of the recourses (versus Palace). Again, two arcades in a week, the greatest priority I have for him is literally more than anything else.
“He’s still a farming child, his body is still acclimating to this level, so to ask to mess around two arcades in a quickly hole of time, I’d be judicious around that, but we’ll have a kind at how the staff shapes upward.”
The emergence of Moore has appreciative Tottenham followers, who have placed him the incantation ‘he’s one of our super own’, which had belonged to Harry Kane in days gone by his 2023 separation to Bayern Munich.
Postecoglou disclosed there might be more to stemmed Spurs’ academy, via Luca Williams-Barnett an thrilling prospect in the Under-18s.
“As shortly as we lugged Mikey upward last year and he messed around a couple of times in the Under-21s, he tolerated out,” Postecoglou discussed.
“(Academy director) Simon Davies and the men in the academy were in fact tenacious around his probability, how he trains, his habits. As shortly as he came into the coaching truly feel, he introduced zero horror.
“In pre-season, he was habitually a standout for us. There are some others in there. Some boys who are boosting to supply some inroads, some a little vivid around the 15-to-16 era team.
“If you go via a successful period, it’s more eco-well-mannered if you’ve got players at the nightclub unborn via.”
