The Tottenham defender is the first person to give his reaction to the long ban dished out to the Uruguayan midfielder after his FA charge
Ben Davies is the first Tottenham player to have given his verdict on Rodrigo Bentancur’s seven-game ban following his comments about Son Heung-min.
On Monday morning Bentancur was handed a seven-match suspension by an independent regulatory commission, along with a £100,000 fine for his comments, containing a racial slur, to a Uruguayan reporter regarding Spurs captain Son Heung-min. Tottenham have a set amount of time to decide whether to appeal the decision or not.
The 27-year-old will now be out of action for six Premier League games and the Carabao Cup quarter-final with Manchester United, before being able to return to action on Boxing Day.
As it is a specifically a domestic ban, Bentancur will be able to play in Tottenham’s two Europa League matches against Roma and Rangers during the period.
Davies, currently on Wales duty ahead of his country’s Nations League match against Iceland on Tuesday, was asked in a press conference about his Spurs team-mate’s ban.
“I read the news this morning, probably just like everyone else did. It’s something that it felt like at Spurs it’s been handled in-house and now it’s been handled outside as well,” he said.
“I think that as a group, as a team at Tottenham, we’ve all put a line under it and moved on, but I think ultimately, it’s important that we realise that these kind of things need to be looked at with the seriousness that it has been. As far as I’m concerned and the team’s concerned, there’s a line under it now and we move on.”
