Has Pochettino revealed Dominic Ball is staying at Tottenham?

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Mauricio Pochettino has been very revealing with reporters in Melbourne, not only has he said Federico Fazio, Nabil Bentaleb, and Alex Pritchard do not figure in his plans but now he has said we are not in the market to boy another centre-back.
He was asked about the situation and he reeled off names of players who can play and cover that position, leaving out the name of Fazio.

"Jan Vertonghen is in London but he is training very well now. He's very close to coming back. Wimmer, Alderweireld and Eric Dier and Victor Wanyama can play centre-back. And then young players like CCV [Carter-Vickers] and Ball. We have enough players in that position. 

"He [Vertonghen] is going well in the last few days and we'll see when we arrive Monday and start training with all group what condition he is. If it's not possible [for him to play against Everton], we have players enough to replace him."

Does the fact that he mentioned Dominic Ball indicate that he intends to keep him around the first team this season. he did suggest earlier that he was going to assess ball during pre-season, has he already made up his mind?

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