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• Pavlyuchenko 'needs to be a bit more aggressive'• Strikers' World Cup ambitions give Spurs manager a dilemmaHarry Redknapp has urged his Russia striker Roman Pavlyuchenko to prove he merits a place in Tottenham Hotspur's long-term plans after admitting that the desire of each of the club's four forwards to be selected at the World Cup has become "a problem".Pavlyuchenko will start tomorrow evening's Carling Cup tie against Everton at White Hart Lane alongside Robbie Keane, with Peter Crouch injured and Jermain Defoe suspended, having effectively lost his regular place for club and country since the turn of the year.
The £13.8m signing from Spartak Moscow has played only 36 minutes of Premier League football this term with his only club start coming in the 5-1 defeat of Doncaster Rovers in this competition back in August.His club toils prompted the Russia manager, Guus Hiddink, to visit Redknapp at the Spurs Lodge training complex last Friday to discuss the 27-year-old's situation.
Pavlyuchenko, once a key member of the national squad, was on the bench for the recent World Cup qualifier in Wales and, more critically, in the key game against Germany in Moscow with Hiddink painfully aware of his lack of competitive football at club level."We spoke about Pav, how he is, and how you try to get him going," said Redknapp.
"He had the same opinion as me, really.
He said sometimes he shouts at him, sometimes he's nice to him, sometimes he doesn't speak to him at all.
He's tried all those things.
I said to him: 'So have I, Guus.
Exactly the same.' We both feel Pav's got terrific ability.
He's got everything, but he just needs to be a bit more aggressive."I'm looking for a big performance from him [against Everton].
A performance that says: 'You can't leave me out of the team now.' I'd love him to bang on my door on Friday after scoring three and say: 'Am I playing against Arsenal now or what?' I'd love that.
But he's a laid-back guy, a lovely boy.
You're not going to stir him up, and you can't change someone's nature.
But he's got a chance now, and it's up to him to show me what he can do.
Make it difficult for me."Pavlyuchenko managed 14 goals in his first season in English football, playing initially alongside Darren Bent, only for Redknapp to re-sign Defoe and Keane, with Crouch following them to Tottenham - who have formally submitted a planning application to Haringey council to build a 56,250-capacity stadium on the site of White Hart Lane - in the summer.
Each of the new arrivals has proved prolific, with Crouch even relegated to the bench after his hat-trick in the previous round at Preston North End, leaving the Russian on the outside looking in and Redknapp aware of the problem his recruitment has effectively created."Four strikers can be a problem," he said.
"In all honesty, I'd rather have three good forwards.
People say you can't have too many, but it can be a problem when you're talking about top-class players who want to play every week and in the World Cup for their countries.
Pav is a player on the world stage, so there'll always be interest in him.
But hopefully he'll do well and give me a nice problem for Saturday."Redknapp will be without Aaron Lennon and Jonathan Woodgate tomorrow evening, the pair requiring scans on ankle and cheek injuries suffered in Saturday's 1-0 defeat by Stoke City.
David Bentley will play against Everton, with the manager concerned only over his lack of options in central midfield.
Interest in the £14m-rated Internacional midfielder Sandro is likely to be revived in the midwinter window even if the South American club would only part with their Brazil Under-20 captain reluctantly.
"We're very short in central midfield after [Jamie] O'Hara, [Kevin Prince] Boateng and [Didier] Zokora went in the summer," added Redknapp.
"We've been looking at Sandro.
He's just breaking into the Brazilian team and can play - he's a modern-day midfielder.
Ian Broomfield, my chief scout, has been in Brazil and watched a lot of games and there were a couple of players there that he came back and recommended strongly.
If we do decide to do anything, it'll be up to the chairman to push it on from there."
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