Tottenham players returned to Hotspur Way on Saturday to begin Thomas Frank's first pre-season at the north London club.
While many of the club's international players are set to return to the Enfield training complex next week, the first group of Spurs players were back on Saturday to begin their testing with the sports science staff and have their introductions to new head coach Thomas Frank and his staff.
Among those shown by the club heading back through the doors were Dominic Solanke, Lucas Bergvall, Guglielmo Vicario, Dejan Kulusevski, Yang Min-hyeok, Dane Scarlett, Djed Spence, Antonin Kinsky and Brandon Austin while other young players who were out on loan last season returned on Saturday such as Jamie Donley, Alfie Devine, Josh Keeley, George Abbott and Will Lankshear.
Bryan Gil, who has become something of a forgotten man at Tottenham following a series of loans away from the club, was also back at Hotspur Way following a season at Girona that was ended prematurely by knee surgery as well as young Argentine striker Alejo Veliz, with both players linked with moves away from the club this summer.
Spence, when asked if he was happy to be back as he walked into the training ground, said: "Of course, most definitely." His fellow full-back Pedro Porro posted images of himself inside the Hotspur Way gym on Friday showing his dedication to getting back into match shape as quickly as possible. The 25-year-old Spaniard was one of the few players not to suffer a single injury across last season and ended up playing 51 matches and 4,130 minutes of football for the club on the way to that Europa League triumph and another 503 for his country.
Radu Dragusin has already met Frank while doing rehabilitation work following his cruciate ligament injury as has James Maddison with his knee injury.
Other international players will return to Hotspur Way in stages over the course of the next week, while those first teamers at the U21 and U19 European Championships, which stretched later into last month, in Archie Gray who won the competition with England, Mathys Tel, Wilson Odobert and Mikey Moore will all be given longer to rest if they choose to take it ahead of a busy new season.
The pre-season fixture programme under Frank begins with a match away against Reading on July 19. A trip to Luton comes on July 26 before the tour to Hong Kong and South Korea with games in Asia against Arsenal and Newcastle.
Harry Kane's Bayern Munich are the hosts on August 7 before Frank's first competitive encounter at the north London club arrives on August 13 with the UEFA Super Cup final against Champions League winners PSG in Udine. There is little time to recover as just a few days later the Premier League season kicks off with Scott Parker's Burnley the visitors to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.