The Brazil international, who joined Spurs from Paris Saint-Germain this week for an initial fee of £25 million ($35 million, 28 million euros), struggled to get into the French side’s first team after the arrival of Neymar and Kylian Mbappe last year. Erik Lamela has found it difficult to regain his place at Spurs since returning from injury and Pochettino said Moura too will be given no special preference. “For him he’s not going to come here, arrive and say, ‘Oh because he is Lucas Moura and came from Paris Saint-Germain, he’s going to play because he is Lucas Moura’,” Pochettino said. If you are in Paris Saint-Germain and Neymar arrives, if he is better than you then he plays. “I think this season, we are more mature, no?” said Pochettino, whose side demolished Liverpool 4-1 at Wembley earlier this season.

Source: The Guardian February 03, 2018 14:03 UTC