Here are the Tottenham evening headlines for Wednesday 27 January 2021.
Mourinho transcript
The Spurs head coach faced the media ahead of the Liverpool game and the main talking point from his press conference was about Dele Alli's future.
Having not been a regular this season, there has been talk of the attacking midfielder leaving before the January transfer window closes at the beginning of next week.
However, amid links to Paris Saint-Germain - where Alli would be reunited with Mauricio Pochettino - Mourinho has revealed that he expects the England international to stay put.
"I expect (him to be here) and I am saying that since the beginning of the window. I was not expecting anyone to leave or expecting anyone to come. We are almost at the end of the window.
"I don’t believe that anything will happen but it is open still."
With that said, Mourinho didn't completely rule out the prospect of Alli leaving as hinted at the possibility of some movement between now and next Monday.
"Football is football and the transfer window is open and sometimes unexpected things can happen but I don’t expect it," Mourinho added.
Liverpool injury boost
Liverpool could welcome back captain Jordan Henderson for Thursday night's game against Spurs.
The midfielder has missed the Reds' last two fixtures - a 1-0 loss at home to Burnley and an FA Cup defeat against Manchester United - due to a minor fitness concern.
But Henderson has returned to full training and will be assessed before the squad makes the trip to London.
"No new cases [injuries] and Hendo and Joel trained yesterday with the team fully," Jurgen Klopp confirmed in his pre-match press conference.
"Like always with these things we have to see how they react overnight and what they can do today, but they trained yesterday."
However, Klopp will once again be without Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez as the central defensive pair remain long-term injury casualties.
Rule change
Premier League referees have this week been given updated guidance on the offside rule.
It comes in the wake of Manchester City's Bernardo Silva scoring a highly controversial goal in the 2-0 win over Aston Villa last week after teammate Rodri had initially run back from an offside position to dispossess Tyrone Mings of the ball.
Rodri was not adjudged to have been offside because Mings had intercepted a City pass and controlled it on his chest thereby 'deliberately playing the ball' according to the offside law.
Referee Jon Moss awarded a goal and VAR did not overturn it.
However, in a change to the rule, that goal would now be disallowed.
The new guidance states: "Where a player in an offside position immediately impacts on an opponent who has deliberately played the ball, the match officials should prioritise challenging an opponent for the ball, and thus the offside offence of ‘interfering with an opponent by impacting on the opponent’s ability to play the ball’ should be penalised."
