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Ben Pearce for ESPN has confirmed that Josh Onomah is being kept on at Spurs.
“Josh is part of our plans. He’s injured and doing his recovery with Harry Winks. That’s why he’s not here.”
Oh were that entirely true.
Josh Onomah is part of Tottenham’s plans alright – solely because the the club are completely lacking in confidence that they will manage to secure any decent additions in this window.
I do hope all the die hard Dumb Dumbs are looking forward to having that bravery explained to you in slow motion over the forthcoming season.
The bravery was player retention.
Showing you Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Christian Eriksen & Co., all smiling away in their new little ‘elite shirts’ is the where your expectations ought to be.
Onomah was throughly nondescript at Villa.
He received a warm welcome and then he just sort of fizzled out.
Their fans won’t miss him.
This is the truth – but of course, thick fans will rail against this – with some mumbo jumbo about ‘yeah but that was just because the Villa fans wanted one their own players to start instead.’
Bottom line with Onomah is that he’s not good enough to make a Premier League starting bench and will be hung onto as he’s English, and his departure wouldn’t solve anything anyway.
Who would buy him, and for just how little?
As a card-carrying journalist, I can assure you that no reporter would write illiterate stuff about "Dumb Dumbs" and "thick fans" for a mainstream sports website such as ESPN.
So there's either a copy and paste error here or something more nefarious.
Anyway, here's what Ben Pearce actually wrote at ESPN:
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Tottenham's Vincent Janssen for sale, but Josh Onomah part of plans - Mauricio Pochettino
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- Ben Pearce, Tottenham blogger
Janssen and Onomah both spent last season out on loan, with Fenerbahce and Aston Villa respectively, and neither player was included in the group that has traveled to the U.S. for Spurs' preseason tour.
But Pochettino says that Onomah's absence is due to a knee injury.
"It's different personal situations for different players," he said. "It's clear the situation for players like Vincent. But Josh is part of our plans. He's injured and doing his recovery with Harry Winks. That's why he's not here."
Josh Onomah played part in Tottenham's last International Champions Cup campaign. Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images
Onomah's injury means he will miss the chance to impress during Tottenham's ICC matches against Roma, Barcelona and AC Milan, with senior central midfielders Mousa Dembele, Eric Dier and Winks all missing.
Dembele and Dier are on holiday after reaching the World Cup semifinals with Belgium and England, while Winks is facing a race to be fit for the start of the season as he continues his rehabilitation from an ankle problem.
"He [Winks] is doing well after his injury," said Pochettino. "We're waiting for the evolution and we hope he can join the group as soon as possible. At the moment he's out of the group. We need to assess him every day."
Centre-back Juan Foyth also misses out on the tour with a knee injury after initially being named in Tottenham's 25-man ICC squad.