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The Tottenham Hotspur players will be looking to get to work to impress new head coach Thomas Frank as quickly as possible in pre-season.

The Spurs squad are expected to return to Hotspur Way at the beginning of July, following a summer break, with a packed pre-season schedule already in the calendar.

And everyone will be eager to impress the new boss before he choose his travelling squad to go on the club's pre-season tour of Asia, with games against Arsenal and Newcastle in Hong Kong and South Korea.

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But Frank will be without three players for the very start of pre-season training because of international commitments.

FIFA guidelines state that all players should have at least three weeks off together following the end of domestic and international commitments at the end of a season.

And Spurs have three players still out on duty in Slovakia for the UEFA Euro U21 Championships.

The semi-finals of the competition take place on Wednesday evening, with England taking on the Netherlands and France taking on Germany. The final will be held on Saturday.

Archie Gray is part of the England U21 squad, while Spurs teammates Mathys Tel and Wilson Odobert are in the France squad for the tournament.

Even if the two countries are knocked out tonight, the trio are likely to go on holiday and are unlikely to return to Spurs until the third week of July at the earliest. That would be just before the squad travel out to the Far East for the pre-season tour.

Frank green-lit the deal to bring Tel back to the club permanently after his loan spell last season, so it is clear he has high hopes for the Frenchman, while Gray and Odobert were big money signings last summer that have a bright future at the club.