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🧵 Pre-match press conference thread Double Gameweek 23 [Thursday]

🇮🇹 Spurs

📢 Cristian Stellini on Hugo Lloris injury return: "Maybe between five [and] seven weeks to be back..."

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📢 Stellini on Lloris injury return: "...we say to Hugo, 'see you soon'. [We hope he makes] a good recovery."

On Forster [£3.9m]: "We have a good experienced goalkeeper in Fraser. He has great experience in the Premier League and..."

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📢 Stellini on Forster [£3.9m]: "...good experience in the Champions League.

"So we have a tough five weeks in front of us [in terms of fixtures] but we trust in Fraser. We are happy to play with him."

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📢 Stellini on team news: "Yeah, everyone else is available for the next game."

- Cristian Romero serves a one-match ban in Gameweek 23

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🦊 Leicester

📢 Brendan Rodgers on Kelechi Iheanacho: "I think you saw last week - when you have the profiles that you want - the effect that his talents then bring on the game.

"He scored a goal, he created two. Especially the pass..."

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📢 Rodgers on Iheanacho: "...to Tete, which was the perfect weight of pass.

"He does that because he drops in deep, that's his natural instinct.

"He will run in behind but he's a fantastic link player. In order to do that, you need..."

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📢 Rodgers on Iheanacho: "...people to run beyond him. His quality is there. We now have the guys in the roles who can do that.

"I thought he was excellent last week and he's been very good in training also."

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📢 Rodgers on Soumare: "Bouba has looked very good. He probably won't be ready for the weekend.

"I think it's going to be Manchester United [Gameweek 24] for him.

"He needs to build up a little bit more fitness."

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📢 Rodgers on Evans: "Jonny, he's worked well [but] just a couple of little niggles from him coming back after being out for so long.

"We'll assess how he is tomorrow."

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📢 Rodgers on Ricardo Pereira: "He's looked great so he'll come into the squad.

"He played 70 minutes in an [Under-23s] game on Tuesday. Him and Ryan Bertrand played in that.

"Ricardo's probably a little further down the line than Ryan."

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📢 Rodgers on Wilfred Ndidi: "He's back in training. Hopefully, he should be fine for the weekend."

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😇 Southampton

📢 Nathan Jones on team news: "It is a bit too early for Juan [Larios] but the other two [Kyle Walker-Peters and Stuart Armstrong] are a lot further ahead. It is about putting them into games when they are ready. They are important players."

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🇮🇹 Spurs

📢 Tottenham have confirmed that Yves Bissouma will undergo surgery tomorrow, in order to repair a stress fracture to the midfielder's ankle

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🌲 Nottingham Forest

📢 Steve Cooper on team news: "Ryan Yates is close to returning to full training, should be early next week - hopefully.

"Moussa Niakhate is back on the grass, training with us but [it is] non-contact. So he's not in..."

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📢 Cooper on Niakhate: "...full training. He is at the final stages of his rehab, where he can do some parts of training with the group.

"He's not close to featuring in games."

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📢 Cooper on availability: "The rest are as we [were].

"Lads who are injured are recovering, rehabbing as normal.

"There's a few niggles that we're managing but every team will be the same."

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📢 Cooper on Jonjo Shelvey: "He's close. We've seen him on the grass this week. He looks really happy to be close to training.

"He'll want to get involved as quick as we can. We want the same."

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