Originally posted by TonyDA
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It's a bit ambiguous though as "next month" could be as soon as 1st April or as late as 30th April. The former and he'll miss 2, 3 or 4 matches, the latter and he'll only be back for a couple of matches right at the end of the season.
I can understand the ambiguity though, even if they're confident of an earlyish return there's always the chance of an unexpected setback, and then people will complain about him being back later than the club said he would be.
Edit: an article in The Guardian, which carries the Spurs quote about him returning to training next month, says he's expected to be ready to play in four weeks time and his likely first match back would be at Wembley against Man City.
That wouldn't be too bad, he'd miss the quarter-final and league matches against Chelsea and Stoke, but would be back for most of the league run-in and any potential (fingers crossed!) cup matches. He might possibly miss the match against Newcastle too, depending on what the rescheduled date ends up being.
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