Thomas Frank's big Son decision and the two Tottenham teams he could pick for double header

Tottenham have an unusual double header of friendlies on Saturday as they take on Wycombe Wanderers and then Luton Town.

The behind-closed-doors friendly against Wycombe has been added at late notice to the schedule and while it will be shown on the club's SpursPlay channel, there will be no admittance to the general public or media for the game against the League One side that kicks off at 11am.

Four hours later, Spurs will kick off their previously scheduled friendly against another League One side in Luton Town, who will now feature former Tottenham goalkeeper Josh Keeley after his £1million move from north London last week. That game at Kenilworth Road will, like the 2-0 win at Reading last Saturday, be played out in front of a decent crowd.

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New Spurs head coach Thomas Frank, who will be in charge of both games on Saturday, has a big, bloated squad with 32 senior players potentially fit and available - not including those on loan or injured - and wants to ensure that as many players as possible are now moving up their match minutes quickly.

"We wanted an extra game in our schedule to give as many players as many match minutes as possible, in order to put them in the best position, physically," said the Dane. "We will play two even, strong teams and they will play between 60 and 75 minutes, maybe more.

"By the end of Saturday, 22 players will have played a lot of match minutes and they will be in a very good place before we go on tour."

So who plays in which match? First off there are the players who won't be there. Keeley, Alfie Dorrington and Ashley Phillips have now left the club, the latter two back to Aberdeen and Stoke City respectively on loan, while Alejo Veliz is at Rosario Central on loan. Manor Solomon is unlikely to be fit after suffering a calf injury in training while Dejan Kulusevski, Radu Dragusin and Bryan Gil remain out after their different knee injuries and subsequent surgeries.

James Maddison however does appear to now be back in training with the squad after Frank told football.london last week that he was part-training with the team at that point. Frank said Kota Takai was expected to return to training this week following a small training ground knock.

Richarlison missed the match at Reading but Frank said afterwards: "Richy has trained well, we’re just building him, that’s the big thing, He trained earlier today, and we expect a full training week next week and, right now, we expect him to play next week."

So who will play behind closed doors against Wycombe, albeit on camera, and who will play in front of a crowd at Luton?

Maddison might be eased back into things gently as could be the case for some of the trio of Archie Gray, Mathys Tel and Wilson Odobert who were granted extra time off after their exploits at the U21 European Championships. For Maddison a 30 minute spell might suit him better while one or two of the other three could be in a better place to get some longer game time as they were only playing full matches a month ago.

There is also captain Son Heung-min. The 33-year-old has been the subject of plenty of speculation as he enters the final year of his contract and struggled to find his rhythm during Saturday's win at Reading as he played the second half, although he did win both corners that led to Tottenham's goals.

football.london reported on MLS interest for Son early last month with his former Spurs team-mate Hugo Lloris at LAFC and now the Los Angeles side are reportedly trying to make a move happen.

Frank will have to weigh up whether it is better for Son to build up his rhythm behind closed doors with a smaller online audience or give the Luton fans, and travelling Tottenham supporters, the chance to see the popular South Korean star in action on Saturday. As he did in Reading in both halves, the Dane might utilise Son and Romero as the captains of each side.

The Spurs head coach did say that both teams would be even, which suggests a sprinkling of senior players across both starting XIs. There is also the issue that Wayne Burnett's U21s, who played on Tuesday night with a strong side, also have a friendly on Saturday at Woking, kicking off at 3pm, which means that he will likely need to put out a young mostly U18s side there with most members of his development squad required to supplement both first team squads. The U18s are currently in Ireland for the week but will return on Friday.

It could be a bit of a push to have some U21s players coming on for the final 15-30 minutes of the Wycombe game only to then be whisked to Luton to come on again at Kenilworth Road so that development squad is going to have to be split across both games with potentially 14 or 15 young players required to come off the bench.

Here are our wild stabs at two Spurs starting line-ups that Frank could put out, and he might take the chance to look at some different combinations and how comfortable players are in different roles. We've also named some players involved with the first team who might get a shorter run-out

Wycombe XI (4-2-3-1): Kinsky; Spence, Danso, Van de Ven, Udogie; Sarr, Bissouma; Johnson, Son, Moore; Richarlison.

Luton XI (4-2-3-1): Vicario; Porro, Romero, Vuskovic, Davies; Bergvall, Bentancur; Kudus, Donley, Tel; Solanke.

Others to be used: Maddison, Takai, Gray, Odobert, Lankshear, Devine, Scarlett, Yang, Abbott, Austin.

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