Spurs' Postecoglou admits he has played Son more than he wanted to and that he is mindful of player workload
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00:00Again, invariably in football, sometimes it's not the amount of injuries, it's the kind
00:05of injuries you get. So, he's played more than I think I certainly want him to. And
00:10the idea, like I said, signing Dom and bringing in Wilson and extending Timo's loan was that
00:21we could sort of give him, manage his load, because he's got international football as
00:25well, a little bit better. And it's something that I'm mindful of, it's just the circumstances
00:30so far. And Sonny always wants to play. I mean, that's his attitude, but we've got to
00:35be sensible about it. I don't think it's got to do so much with his age, because I haven't
00:39seen that affect him. It's more, I just don't think that kind of workload in the modern
00:44game is sustainable. You need to, you know, we've spoken a lot about fixture overload.
00:51Well, I think I said last week that part of that responsibility, I guess, lies with us
00:56whilst the calendar is like this to try and protect our players. And certainly with Sonny,
01:01we're going to have to be mindful of it.