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Erik Lamela may have been out of action for Tottenham Hotspur for almost a year, but he's still been helping out the team.

The 25-year-old has not pulled on a Spurs shirt since last October in a League Cup tie at Liverpool. He has struggled with injuries to both hips which required two operations towards the end of last season.

The midfielder is back training with the first team training and he appears to have struck up a friendship with one of Tottenham's summer signings, and fellow Argentine, Juan Foyth.

The duo have begun turning up on each other's social media feeds, sharing a meat-laden barbecue with another summer signing, Fernando Llorente at one of their homes last week, and on Monday both seemed intent on teasing each other during the day.

Lamela mocked the 19-year-old in his Instagram Story because he claimed he had beaten him 4-0 on FIFA 18 in the video below and then Foyth returned the favour by trying to put off the Argentina international finishing whatever he was doing on his phone, shown in the video at the top.

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With players often struggling to settle in new countries and Lamela having faced a nightmare time with his hips, it appears that both Spurs players might just end up helping each other get through a tough period in each of their Tottenham careers.