Ange: Not sustainable for Son to play a lot

LONDON — Ange Postecoglou has mentioned that it isn’t sustainable for Son Heung-Min to function in each match for Tottenham this season and that the ahead has already performed greater than was initially deliberate within the opening weeks of the brand new marketing campaign.

The 32-year-old limped off the pitch after receiving therapy within the 71st minute of Spurs’ Europa League victory over Qarabag on Thursday and is a doubt for the workforce’s match towards Manchester United this weekend with what his coach described as “fatigue in his hamstring.”

Son has made 415 appearances for Spurs in all competitions since signing for the membership in 2015 and has featured in each recreation this season, together with the Carabao Cup third-round win over Coventry Metropolis on Sep. 18.

On Wednesday, Son spoke out towards the quantity of video games that elite footballers are actually being requested to play, saying that it’s “typically very exhausting” and that “the chance of harm is huge.”

Requested whether or not it’s “sustainable” for Son to proceed enjoying so many minutes for Spurs on the age of 32, Postecoglou mentioned: “No, no … I’d have wished to ease his kind of workload on this early a part of the yr. However we misplaced [due to injury] Richy [Richarlison], then we misplaced Dominic [Solanke], then we misplaced Wilson [Odobert]. Invariably in soccer typically it isn’t the quantity of accidents, it is the form of accidents you get. So, he is performed greater than I feel I actually need him to.

“And the thought, like I mentioned, of signing Dom and bringing in Wilson and lengthening Timo’s [Werner] mortgage was that we might kind of handle his load as a result of he is acquired worldwide soccer as properly. It is one thing that I am aware of is simply the circumstances thus far. And Sonny all the time desires to play. That is his angle, however we have to be wise about it.

“I do not assume it is acquired to take action a lot together with his age. I have not seen that have an effect on him. It is extra, I simply do not assume that form of workload within the fashionable recreation is sustainable. We have spoken lots about fixture overload. Nicely, I feel I mentioned final week that a part of that duty I assume lies with us, while the calendar is like this, to try to shield our gamers and definitely with Sonny we will need to be aware of it.”

Postecoglou admitted that whereas Son desires to play as many video games as potential, he doesn’t assume he wants to take a seat down together with his captain over “a cup of tea” to elucidate his choices.

“I feel while you’ve acquired a participant like Sonny, I’ve had expertise with guys like that earlier than. They’re all the time simply going to need to play,” the Spurs boss mentioned. “And do I need to boring that competitiveness by having a reasoned dialogue over it with a cup of tea? Saying: ‘Sonny, that is going to be nice for you, nice for me’ — no. I would quite I go away him out and he is disillusioned with me as a result of I feel that is what you need in him.”

Son can be the star of South Korea’s nationwide workforce and makes himself out there to play for his nation at each alternative. Postecoglou mentioned that he would by no means ask the winger to retire from internationals to deal with his membership soccer.

“Oh, mate. No. No probability,” he mentioned. “No. I perceive how essential it’s for him. We will have a look at this stuff in kind of only a chilly, harsh gentle of ‘his membership soccer will profit if he does not play for his nation,’ however at some point he will not be capable of play for his nation. And the very last thing I would need is for him to have regrets that he missed out on a possibility to play as a lot as he might and symbolize it.

“I feel all these choices are higher off being left to the participant themselves. They know themselves how they’re feeling about their profession. It does not matter how lengthy you play for, the lifespan of knowledgeable footballer continues to be pretty brief when it comes to how lengthy you reside your life. So that point you could have, you need to try to get as fulfilled as you presumably can.

“You are making an attempt to create as a lot of a basket of reminiscences as you possibly can as a result of at some point you will not have that chance. So, I’d by no means be the one to say to him: ‘Search for egocentric causes for us as a membership, it would be nice in the event you did not play in your nation.’ I simply would not do it.”