Pochettino takes stock of Lucas Moura's injury and questions his future against Serge Aurier

Tottenham Hotspur's director, Mauricio Pochettino, took stock of Lucas Moura's state of health and also talked about the reported incident involving Serge Aurier this week.

Tottenham's offensive options are rare this week with Harry Kane's ankle injury, Heung-Min Son's Asian Cup draw and Lucas's knee injury.

The Kazaiah Sterling Academy striker was involved in the training of the first team this week and could be involved in the team for the Premier League match at Fulham on Sunday.

Lucas missed the last two games after being injured during the England Cup win at Tranmere and Pochettino does not know if the Brazilian will be able to play any role in Fulham.

"I do not know, if you ask me today, it's 90% eliminated, tomorrow, maybe the percentage will be better but I do not think so," he said.

"If it happens, it's only maybe on the bench to help for a few minutes, but I do not think it will fit."

The Spurs boss also confirmed that Aurier would be in his group despite an incident involving Ivorian this week.

Pochettino once said that he had told the defender when he had met him for the first time that he was repeating his controversial antics at PSG in Tottenham, he would "kill" him by imitating a shot of head.

According to reports, Aurier was arrested on Saturday at his home by Hertfordshire police on suspicion of bodily injury but was released without further action.

Pochettino was asked whether he was now going to fulfill his threat of giving the Ivorian a whim.

"But it's a private matter.One thing is what I told you if something was happening on the training ground, between us, [or] in public, you know very well what happened in Paris St-Germain, "said the Spurs boss.

"Another thing is a private matter that I was not involved [in]. It is private and we will take care of it privately. "

Argentina was also asked whether it would be risky for Tottenham not to sign an attacker this month to cover Kane's absence until March.

"No, I do not see it that way, I think our philosophy is clear, it's because we do things differently that some opinions can be [out there]I do not say you, the media is a lot of people who write or speak in media that are not journalists – I do not talk about journalists, the most important here is what we believe, "he said. he declares.

"In the end, the people who know the inner reality, the plan according to which we have to face different situations and I think at the end, if for another transfer niche we do not sign the players or we do not sign an attacker, it's not going to be a bet, it will not be a risk.

"I think we have players who can deal with this place when Harry Kane is not available and of course, if we want to find a player similar to Harry Kane, I think we're going to make a mistake because finding another Harry Kane is impossible because we are talking about the three, four, five best attackers in the world.

"We have the opportunity to create our new star through the academy.You know different names, I do not mean [names] because that might not help, but of course our goal is to try to create the new Tottenham star, to find it here in our academy, that would be the most exciting thing. "

Pochettino explained that he is in a club that likes to find stars from the inside.

"That's how we feel, happy, it's a way to feel responsible, we studied three and a half years ago, we did not find Harry Kane or Dele Alli here as big stars," he explained.

"When we look back and compare with another big European club, the two most important players on the team were built here in Tottenham How many clubs have done the same thing for us in the last four or five years It's huge – it's a huge thing to be satisfied for us and our fans.

"Mixing, or balancing, is sometimes the most important, I respect the opinions, you've managed to create two and make two big stars like Dele Alli and Harry Kane, so why not try it?" to add a few more players and to help the club to progress? All is not possible because of the period when we built these two stars, we are building the new stadium at the same time. "

"We need time, that's why our wish or our hope is the moment we finish the stage, we can pay the debt quickly and start investing with these young players who can be the big stars of the future it is the dream. "

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