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		</div><p>Jose Mourinho has complained that the Premier League has timed Tottenham’s winter break wrong.</p>
<p>Spurs, who are in FA Cup action at Southampton this weekend, are due to clock off for two weeks after next Sunday’s league game with Manchester City.</p>
<p>They will return to action against Aston Villa on February 16 – three days before their Champions League last-16 tie with RB Leipzig.</p>
<p>The winter break is split over two weekends, so Spurs in theory could have had their game with Villa on the weekend of February 8-9, giving them more time to prepare for their European fixture.</p>
<p><em>“It is what it is. I am not happy that the break comes in the wrong moment because the break should be before the Champions League,”</em> Mourinho complained.</p>
<p><em>“In the end before the Champions League we don’t have the break. We have to play Aston Villa on the Sunday before playing Red Bull (Leipzig) two days later.”</em></p>
<p>To make matters worse, if Spurs draw at Southampton on Saturday then they will have to play a replay on February 4-5 – when they are supposed to have downed tools.</p>
<p>Mourinho is less concerned about that, adding: <em>“We really don’t care about the break really.</em></p>
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<p>ð¹ <a href="https://twitter.com/Ben_Davies33?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Ben_Davies33</a> (ankle), <a href="https://twitter.com/HKane?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HKane</a> (hamstring) and <a href="https://twitter.com/MoussaSissoko?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MoussaSissoko</a> (knee) are continuing rehabilitation.</p>
<p>ð¹ <a href="https://twitter.com/HarryWinks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HarryWinks</a> (ankle) is being assessed ahead of this weekend’s match against Southampton.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/THFC?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#THFC</a> âªï¸ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COYS?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COYS</a> <a href="https://t.co/mbSQZCR6sA">pic.twitter.com/mbSQZCR6sA</a></p>
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<p><em>“If we have to play Southampton in a second match it means we are still alive in the competition and it is better than losing.</em></p>
<p><em>“If we can choose a result, the one we are going to try to get is of course to win the match, if we get a draw we are still alive. To play at home in the second match is better than to lose.”</em></p>
<p>Spurs will head to St Mary’s without a recognised striker following their failure to sign a replacement for Harry Kane.</p>
<p>Teenage Troy Parrott is their only other out-and-out striker, but he is 17 and Mourinho has said he is not ready to replace Kane.</p>
<p>But he might get the chance to impress at Southampton.</p>
<p><em>“He is ready to work with us every day like he is doing,”</em> the Portuguese added. “<em>He trains with the group, after training he has a special programme of individual development of his qualities as a striker and this club takes very good care of the players.</em></p>
<p><em>“That is the only thing I can say. If he has to play with us, he will.</em></p>
<p><em>“He will do his best, he will show his good qualities, he will show his fragilities because at this moment he is a 17-year-old kid with fragilities in his game.</em></p>
<p><em>“But in this moment I cannot tell you, it is possible he is selected for this game.”</em></p>
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