but having been on the bench for the last two matches he now gets his first competitive appearance in the third round of the EFL Cup. Strikers are always excited to play and sometimes feel the pressure — now he needs to be calm. However the England Under-21 star didn’t care about his starting position and even offered to play in goal if that got him into the first team squad on a regular basis. The Spurs boss will need the £17million summer signing from AZ Alkmaar to fill the huge void left by Harry Kanes injury. I was in Dubai when I was informed that he had instead decided to sign a kid from Real Sociedad who had just broken into the Spanish national team. manceMourinho made that clear in the minutes after their latest capitulation, the 3-1 defeat at Watford, on Sunday. And Spurs fans will be hoping it all goes swimmingly for the Dutchman, 22, in tonights EFL Cup third-round clash with Gillingham. He has won a whopping 31 U-21 caps having worked his way through the age groups and more time with his parent club could help in his quest for full honours. Those players will not do for Mourinho in the same way that they did for David Moyes and Louis van Gaal. It was a very, very hard thing to accept especially when your judgement is clouded by alcohol and drugs.