The start of the new Premier League season is just starting to creep up on us.
Indeed, while it feels like last season only just finished, we’re only a few weeks away from it all kicking off once again.
A number of players are starting to report back for pre-season training, while many international players have an extended break.
Tottenham have returned to training already, and a number of players are already catching the eye.
Spurs fans want to see Jamie Donley get a chance next season, while Luka Vuskovic has made an impression already.
Speaking on his YouTube channel, Alasdair Gold has been discussing Tottenham’s return to training, and he says that one player has actually returned earlier than planned.
Pedro Porro makes early Tottenham return
Gold spoke about Tottenham reporting back to pre-season duty, noting that Pedro Porro has come back to Hotspur Way earlier than he was supposed to.
Porro had been on international duty with Spain, but he was back on Friday with many of the non-international players.
Gold noted that Porro has always been brilliant in terms of preparing for any game, hence why he’s so fit, noting that the right-back is a ‘machine’ of a player.
“Pedro Porro was back in the gym the day before, on Friday, I would imagine that because he was international duty he’s not meant to be back in the building yet, but that sounds like Pedro Porro to me,” Gold said.
“I had an interview with him and hearing how he prepares himself for games, the man is a machine, and it’s no coincidence that he didn’t pick up an injury last season because he’s the most ridiculously prepared man in the way he looks after himself.”
Pedro Porro’s injury record
Gold says that Porro is a machine of a player who looks after his body brilliantly, and that reflects in his injury history.
Indeed, the £39m man has only had one injury since signing for Spurs, and, even then, he only missed two games.
Throughout his entire career, Porro has missed fewer than 50 games with injury, and over an eight-year period, that really isn’t a bad record.
At the age of 25, Porro is in his prime, but time moves quickly in this game, and before he knows it, he’ll be past his physical prime and slowing down a touch, but with this level of preparation and workrate, there’s no reason why Porro can’t be a star well into his 30s.