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Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino has admitted he doesn't know if Erik Lamela will appear for Spurs again this season.

The winger has not played since October for a range of issues, starting with a hip injury.

But Argentine Lamela was then plagued by off-field problems, including a motorcycle incident seriously injuring his brother and struggling to get over the death of his beloved pet dog, Simba.

Lamela even turned to his old club Roma to help with treatment for his injury in January.

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Pochettino says Lamela is now recovering in London and his problems are physical rather than personal, but admits he doesn't know if he will pull on a first-team shirt between now and the end of the campaign.

"I don't want to lie to you and give some information that after you use, and you are right to use, but I can't say one, two weeks, three weeks, one month or maybe next season, I don't know," Pochettino said.

"It's too difficult my position because we are assessing him every day, how he is in the morning, we prepare a plan, sometimes he is involved from the beginning in the warm-up with the team, sometimes he feels pain, we change the plan.

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"Now it is day by day and we see. We hope he can be available again as soon as possible as that is our idea but we can't give any more information."

Danny Rose and Lamela are Spurs' only absentees ahead of their FA Cup quarter-final against Millwall on Sunday, with the England left-back due to return from a knee problem next month.