Tottenham Hotspur EXCLUSIVE: Spurs to hold top-level meeting over Harry Kane injury; loan signings and Troy Parrott promotion being considered

Tottenham Hotspur EXCLUSIVE: Spurs to hold top-level meeting over Harry Kane injury; loan signings and Troy Parrott promotion being considered
Tottenham have planned a ‘top-level meeting’ to discuss how to deal with Harry Kane’s absence over the next couple of months.talkSPORT understands loan signings are being considered, as well as the potential promotion of Troy Parrott, the 16-year-old academy striker.Kane is set to be sidelined until early March with an ankle injury picked up in Sunday’s defeat by Manchester United, leaving Mauricio Pochettino, the club’s manager, with a selection crisis.2

Kane suffered ankle ligament damage in a challenge with Phil Jones

Kane joins Lucas Moura on the treatment table, while fellow attacker Heung-Min Son has now joined up with the South Korea squad for the Asian Cup and could be unavailable for selection until the middle of February.Spurs had not been expected to make any major signings throughout the January transfer window, despite not buying a single player during the summer, but this could change with Kane’s injury the catalyst.And talkSPORT host Jim White has learned a meeting will be held to assess Tottenham’s options to deal with the England international’s absence.Jim exclusively revealed: “A top-level meeting is planned to look at all the options on the table – even possible loan signings. “Even young academy prospects.“One name being considered even at that level – and this would be a meteoric step-up – is an academy star, young striker Troy Parrott.”Parrott, the Republic of Ireland youth international, has played regularly for Tottenham’s Under-23s this season despite not turning 17 until next month; he also travelled with Pochettino’s senior squad to the Premier League match at Leicester in December.2

Troy Parrott could be in line for a promotion to Tottenham’s first-team

Parrott got a taste of competitive football earlier this season, playing in two Checkatrade Trophy group stage matches for Spurs’ Development Squad.Pochettino has already ruled out using Vincent Janssen throughout Kane’s absence despitethe Netherlands forward making a scoring return from injury for the Under-23s last week.The only other senior striker Pochettino can call upon is Fernando Llorente, who grabbed a hat-trick in the FA Cup defeat of Tranmere at the beginning of the month but remains without a Premier League goal in over a year.Lucas Moura, the Brazil international, has played as a centre forward this season alongside Kane, but he revealed the knee injury he suffered against Tranmere ‘is still painful’ though treatment is continuing to get him back to full fitness at the earliest possible opportunity.

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