Tottenham pre-season plans take shape as Ange Postecoglou prepares players for busy schedule

While Ange Postecoglou's focus remains squarely on this season, Tottenham have already started finalising plans for the Australian's post and pre-season preparations for the next campaign.

Spurs still have 10 matches to go in the Premier League this season and are teetering on the edge of the top four in fifth spot with a game in hand on Aston Villa. However, plans need to be confirmed well in advance for matches ahead of next season with all of the travel required as well as sorting out which opponents Tottenham will play in those games.

Here is what is being lined up in the post-season months around a summer that will contain the Euros and the Copa America for some of Postecoglou's squad.

With no FA Cup final in their calendar, Tottenham are set to jet straight off after the end of the Premier League season and the game at Sheffield United's Bramall Lane to play a friendly match in the city where Postecoglou grew up.

Spurs are set to announce a game against Newcastle United, following their FA Cup exit at the hands of Manchester City, which will be played on Wednesday, May 22 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

As one of its famous sons, having moved there from Greece as a child, Melbourne is a bit Postecoglou-crazy with various murals of the Tottenham boss across the city and it already had a strong contingent of Spurs fans before his appointment.

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The north London club have played post-season games before, including one in Hong Kong in 2017 and another in Malaysia in 2015, and that tight turnaround between the Sheffield United match and