Tottenham put no time frame on Kane injury

Harry Kane, yes, Harry Kane, Spurs big time scorer and franchise cornerstone, a genuinely great guy on and off the pitch could be missing for up to two months.

Manager Mauricio Pochettino conceded post-match that the player may have suffered ligament damage, with medical tests duly undertaken on Monday.

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino is reminded of a young Lionel Messi when he watches teenager Marcus Edwards.

Kane twisted his ankle after scoring in the 1-0 win over Sunderland on Sunday and had to be carried off on a stretcher towards the end of the contest.

“We will continue to assess him every day but don’t want to put a time frame on it”, Pochettino said. “Today it’s impossible to see the times for recovery”.

“I am not a doctor, I can only explain what the doctors said to me”.

“It is hard without him, but we signed Janssen, he’s working very well and he is a striker that can give us a lot of things”.

“There are different rumours but we can not guess”. Now the damage is done. “Credit to the players, that’s what we are at the moment – we have to be resilient in games and looking to get things”, he said. “That’s very important and it’s our responsibility to tell him”.

Kane’s absence will afford summer signing Vincent Janssen an opportunity to stake his claim as the club’s leading striker.

“We have a lot of worldwide players”. Beating the Blacks Cats took Pochettino’s unbeaten side up to third in the table and they are showing last season’s title challenge wasn’t merely a fluke.

“We created many chances but okay, I’m happy with the performance and attitude and the way we played from the first minute”. We stay near the top and we believe we can do everything this season. Football is a collective sport.

“When you are involved in different competitions like the Champions League, it’s a new competition for us and we spent a lot of energy on Wednesday”, he said. “Now he needs to be calm, and he has an opportunity tomorrow to compete”.

But he added that Spurs, who won thanks to Harry Kane’s close-range strike, “need to be more clinical”.

Spurs also lost Mousa Dembele, who was making his return from a six-game suspension, and Eric Dier, both of whom went off holding their hamstrings.