Jose Mourinho expects Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris could be available for selection in February.
The France captain was ruled out for the rest of 2019 when he sustained a dislocated elbow and ligament damage in a fall during a Premier League game against Brighton and Hove Albion in early October.
Paulo Gazzaniga has proven an able deputy for Lloris, with Mourinho describing the goalkeeper as having magic hands after a key late stop in Spurs 2-1 win at Wolves last weekend.
But Lloris is on the comeback trail and, speaking ahead of Sunday s home league game against old club Chelsea, Mourinho offered an update on the 32-year-old.
He s a champion. Not just a champion of the world but also a champion as a professional, Mourinho said of Lloris.
He works very, very hard, very brave, accelerates processes, but there are limits of that acceleration of process with such an important injury. But he s doing amazingly well.
He s working with a different group of people, since the physios, until the goalkeeping coaches, working really, really hard.
It s difficult to set up a date, I would say February. I probably would not be far from it and February goes from the 1st to the 29th this year [2020].
Lloris would, therefore, be in line to return for France in time to help Didier Deschamps World Cup winners attempt to follow that success at the European Championships.
