Here are your Tottenham Hotspur evening headlines for Wednesday, February 17.
'No good news' on Reguilon
Jose Mourinho has confirmed Sergio Reguilon will remain out injured.
Spurs face Wolfsberger in the Europa League Round of 32 first leg on Thursday and ahead of the game, Mourinho has held his pre-match press conference.
Tottenham fans will have been hoping for good news on full-back Reguilon, who has missed the last five league games with a muscle injury.
But there is no good news to provide, according to Mourinho.
"No, good news is not coming, is not coming," he said. "No setback. Just the process is not going as fast as initially we thought. But no setback. So let’s see. Let’s see. Weekend, next Europa League match next Wednesday, let’s see."
Aurier opens up on dressing room incident
Serge Aurier has admitted that he had to bite his tongue when Mourinho was criticising him in the dressing room before a big Champions League match.
In the Amazon Prime Video show All or Nothing, Mourinho was shown telling Aurier ahead of his first Champions League game as Spurs head coach that he was scared of the right-back giving away a penalty that VAR would pick up.
Now Aurier, in an interview with Soccer Stories - Oh My Goal, has given his side of that dressing down in front of his team-mates before the match against Olympiacos.
"In the past I would have responded directly, because if you're scared of me, you don't pick me," said the right-back.
"If you don't trust someone, you don't let them deal with your stuff, right? So if you're scared of me, pick someone else.
"So I was about to say, I swear, I was about to say it. 'Pick someone else!'"
Bale defended by agent
Gareth Bale's agent, Jonathan Barnett, has said that it is up to Mourinho to answer why the winger is not playing more at Spurs.
Speaking at the Financial Times Business of Football event, Barnett said that the 31-year-old winger is coming to the end of his career but only the Spurs head coach is in a position to explain why his client has spent much of his season on loan from Real Madrid as a substitute.
"He's towards the end of his career," Barnett said. "You have to ask Mourinho that. When they say what's happened to him he's won more trophies abroad than any player in British history. He's done very well financially, he has money for the rest of his life."
Barnett, owner of the Stellar agency that represents Ben Chilwell and Jack Grealish among others, also spoke about Bale turning down two other offers for better money when he joined Spurs for the first time in 2007.
"With Gareth we always knew where he wanted to be," Barnett added. "We knew he had the talent so when clubs came in, the first thing we did was looking at the clubs that were there and the ones to progress his career.
"We chose Tottenham for clear reasons - the path to the first team, there was good coaching. We turned down two offers for more money than what we offered at the time but we spoke with him, his parents and they listened to us and he finished up at Real Madrid."
