Postecoglou not interested in noise surrounding Rashford and Man Utd

Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou mentioned he was not within the noise surrounding Marcus Rashford’s future at Manchester United forward of their EFL Cup tie on Thursday.

Postecoglou will likely be aiming to get Spurs one step nearer to ending their trophy drought, which dates again to their success on this very competitors again in 2008.

However the pre-match build-up has been dominated by Rashford’s future at Outdated Trafford after he was not noted of the Purple Devils’ 2-1 win over Manchester Metropolis final Sunday.

The United ahead mentioned in an interview with Henry Winter printed on Tuesday that he was “prepared for a brand new problem” after a tough 18 months in Manchester.

Postecoglou has made it recognized that he needs to enhance Spurs’ assault regardless of his aspect being solely behind Chelsea for probably the most objectives scored within the Premier League this time period.

“There’s at all times noise about Manchester United, come on mate. The place have you ever been?” Postecoglou mentioned when quizzed about Rashford.

“No curiosity. Don’t care. Not . He’s a Manchester United participant. An excellent participant, they’ve loads of good gamers, however I handle my gamers and different managers will handle their very own gamers.

“By way of Marcus’ state of affairs, I’ve no actual need to look at it any additional.

“If I checked out everybody we have been linked to, I might haven’t any time to do the rest to be sincere. I’ve obtained different folks to try this a part of the method.

“For us, we’ve been fairly disciplined in what we’re making an attempt to construct right here, and we’ll proceed to be so.

“That’s not on my radar. You’ll be able to ask me about Marcus, however you may ask me about each single Premier League footballer, and I’ll say the identical.”

Spurs come into the fixture on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on the again of a powerful 5-0 victory over Southampton final Sunday.

They scored 5 objectives within the first half of a Premier League match for the primary time ever, while their eight pictures on track is their joint-most on document within the opening 45 minutes of a sport (since 2003-04).

And they are going to be assured of reaching the semi-finals of the competitors given their earlier data within the EFL Cup and towards Thursday’s opponents.

Tottenham have progressed from their final 4 EFL Cup quarter-final ties (2014-15, 2018-19, 2020-21, 2021-22) since dropping 2-1 to West Ham again in 2013-14.

They’re additionally unbeaten of their final 4 video games towards United (W2 D2), all within the Premier League, and have crushed them 3-0 already this season. They haven’t gained consecutive video games towards them since April 1990 (three in a row), nonetheless.

However Postecoglou mentioned Spurs had loads of work nonetheless to do after being reminded of his feedback earlier this yr about at all times profitable a trophy in his second season at a membership.

“I haven’t reiterated it many instances, however in the event you ask me a query, I’ll reply it. So, in the event you ask me 100 instances, I’ll reply it 100 instances, however I’m not strolling round with banners saying, ‘I win issues in my second yr’,” Postecoglou identified.

“I don’t assume the quarter-finals are shut. You get to a ultimate, then I believe you’re shut. There may be nonetheless a good bit of soccer to be performed. All we will do is be prepared for tomorrow evening.”