it’s joever
He probably only misses Wolves
Only wolves?!?!
Out for 1-3 months
He’s excepted back in January lol
Theres always next season.
I don’t want to speak to soon, who knows maybe somehow we beat wolves and City still. But this season was never about winning the league and the fact that it’s even discussed still amazes and excited me. Before the season started I’m pretty sure most Spurs fans would be happy with coming 6th whilst playing nice football given that we were obviously working towards something. especially now that Kane has gone
TBF, no season for you lot is about winning the league. Finishing fourth and maybe ‘putting the pressure on’ is what you’re about
Well seeing as we’ve been in title races I’m not sure I agree with you. Nice try though you’d probably get a good rise out of one or two people on twitter where comments like that belong
Ok?
Indeed, it’s been a great start for you guys. Tbh after last season, the expectations and hope this season has just been killing me
Thats ferrari motto
A serious miss for them.
Guess we see now how good they are!
It sounds like the update is that he’s been left out of the England squad, meaning he’s for sure out a couple weeks. Not a lot of details beyond that.
Now saying he’ll need surgery and will be back January at the earliest
he’ll probably be back straight after the international break to absolutely rinse our high line with passes into Son
Son could play on his own and still find a way to score against us, atleast that mouth breather is gone to terrorise those pretzel merchants.
this is why he cost only £40m
He requires the team to revolve around him, he’ll exceed expectations by scoring and assisting regularly, then he’ll get injured and the club will be clueless on how else to play because everything revolved around him.
Spurs will get 4pts max in the next 7 games
4 points in 7?
Sure, Jan.
What watching so much anime does to a mf
How the fuck has one 10 minute spell ruined our entire season
It do be like that. But tbh idk if this will completely ruin your season. Might be derailed for a bit but there’s still 75% of the season to go.
With the amount of games happening between now and the new year + then players leaving for afcon and asian games, that’s a big chunk of the season we’ll be missing vital players, while having fuck all depth
I mean you have played 0 mins since the match. at least let there be something to concrete (results-wise) base this on.
It hasn’t ruined your entire season. Spurs are still in a great position now to push for a CL place which would’ve been well above expectations at the start of the season. Even with your great start a serious title challenge was more fantasy than Lord of the Rings.
They’ve got the top 3 scoring teams in their next 5 games with a weakened backline, that sort of thing can knock confidence quite a bit.
Most peoples concerns are the push for a CL place.
Lost VDV til potentially January so backlines dodgy. Lost our creative engine for ???. And that’s during a really tough run of games.
Then in January we lose Sarr/Biss who’ve been running the midfield for AFCON, and Son for the Asian cup.
Could be a really derailing run of results from here til February.
Keep talking, I’m nearly there……
I think you’ll be alright for AFCON. Bentancur is back, Hojbjerg is hardly a slouch (and not too dissimilar to Gallagher, who Postecoglou wanted). January is a relatively nice time to lose them too, with not many PL games, no EFL cup semi, and a potentially easy FA Cup draw.
There’s also a good chance that most of your other players will be back then. Even just getting Romero back after a few games will put you back into a good position. With no Europe or EFL Cup I don’t think you’ll be in too bad a position for December.
Just imagining Saruman watching Spurs-Chelsea on the Palantir has me cracking up
Feel like Spurs fans knew the threat was looming because I seen a lot of “if x happens, we’re fucked”. Unfortunately x happened twice in the one match with VDV and Maddison. If anything happens to Son, prepare the eulogy.
More like “if x happened were fucked”, and then it was xxxxxxx
Unfortunately X happened twice
Well yeh, X is always gon’ give It to ya.
just be glad it happened near the middle of the season and not near the end to ruin your whole year
The league games in the middle of the season are worth the same as the league games at the end of the season
The Christmas season usually makes or breaks a season
Arsenal : first time ?
Becuase ye’re spurs, bottling is in your DNA
It’s those lemons…
That’s especially low coming from Poch to be putting a lemon curse on us!
Lack of squad depth
It is the history of the Tottenham
The curse. Happened with us with Tomiyasu and Saliba vs Sporting. 12 minutes to ruin our title dreams
I don’t know. Ask Pogba.
Those damn lemons that Poch has in his office!
Happened to united last season too. Marrinez, varane and garnacho all out when firing so hot coming into the biggest games. Spuds
Mate, it’s Tottenham
What happened to QPR? They used to have a football team, right?
Sadly it’s still there.
Ah yeah, I didn’t look far enough down the table
I mean look at us last year, some random 10 mins bullshit euro game decimated any hope we had at a title shot
A bullshit euro game where we rotated half the squad to avoid injuries aswell
Tottenham 🤝 Arsenal 🤝 Bottling the league due to injuries
That’s a reach to say spurs were in a position to bottle it this year. This league is City’s until it isn’t
Yeah its not a bottle for you what so ever. Dudes smoked
Ah you’re at the ‘we got injury’s our seasons over’ stage of Ange ball. Don’t worry he’ll sign some fucking ballers in January.
Poch Voodoo
The comments in here are wild, mainly from people who can’t wait to talk bad about Spurs, it’s not like any team losing a key player could face some set back. Arsenal is a shit team, yet on this sub they’re stronger than early 2000 galacticos.
People always eventually get sick of media darlings. It’s nothing new.
Arsenal are a shit team? I wouldn’t disagree if you said they were overrated on here, but to say they’re shit is just nonsense. They’re one of the top 3 teams in the league easily.
Arsenal is a shit team??? You think this is 2019??
RIP fpl. Who to pick now?
Mbeumo if he’s not in already, over Bowen especially.
Bowen
I can’t decide between Bowen and Gordon
There are a lot of quality midfielders available. Son if you don’t have it yet, if you have two transfers and have Romero or Udogie you can go for Palmer (for the penalties alone he’s a good cheap pick) and Trippier for example, or if you have only Maddison, you can trade him for Bowen, Mitoma or one of the Arsenal lads. Since I had Romero and did a transfer already, provably will wait to see if he returns after the national team break (and hope he does not drop price twice).
I picked palmer since he’s cheaper and a guaranteed started, and decided to buy better players with the money left.
Look, I know Palmer is literally Chelsea’s best player right now, but with nkunku’s return who do you think is gonna lose his place? I think palmer is not as nailed as u might think
Palmer at his current level is basically one of the first names on our team sheet, it’s far more likely that one of Enzo/Gallagher will drop to the bench to facilitate a 4-2-3-1
We Chelsea fans will be very upset if Cole and nkunku doesn’t play together
I think Palmer is much more likely to move to one of the wings than the bench. Losing his creativity and intelligence would be disastrous when our strikers take 5 good chances to score a goal.
You do realize he’s already playing on the wing
He’s got some nasty fixtures ahead though
The way Maddison went down looked strange for spraining an ankle. Replay didn’t show any twisting motion. Looked more like some type of an Achilles injury to me but hopefully not.
I swear I remember Sky showing an angle of him pulling up holding his hammy
That’s what I thought too when I first saw it. Didn’t really seem to twist it, more like he just pulled up suddenly which is never good. But I thought he was walking on it after, if it was a serious Achilles problem I doubt he could. Hopefully he’s alright
You could weight bear on a partially ruptured achilles, but it could still require a few months to heal.
Tendons do not get the same blood supply as muscle, so they take a lot longer to heal.
The rate of injuries all over Europe is out of control right now, and then you factor in how the transfer prices for reinforcements just keep going up. It’s a bubble and very concerning.
No wonder everyone has thin squads when it costs so much just to get a viable starting 11, who then get over played.
I wonder if the excessive stops for VAR checks, which then lead to excessive amounts of extra time could be a contributing factor.
That has nothing to do with Spurs. They only have the league and the cup.
It’s a bubble for sure, but I don’t expect that bubble to burst, instead I expect that bubble to cause the sport to seek even richer owners…like the kind who have money that comes straight out of the ground.
now add the fact that so many of the powers that be want these players to play MORE games…
Yep - for all the shit Chelsea and United get (rightfully) for underperforming, there’s only so much that you can do when you’re missing basically an entire team’s worth of players.
For a good few weeks, Chelsea and Manchester United could put out an “out XI” that was better than their starting XI…
Sorry, are you saying Chelsea and Man U are victims of inflated player prices resulting in top heavy squads? The team that spent a billion quid in a year and iirc the leading spender over the last decade?
What? No, I’m not.
I’m saying that while both teams should be performing better, there’s only so much you can do with so many injuries. You can have the best plans the world, but if half the team is out injured at any given time you’re never going to get a sense of consistency and it’s a case of “who can play” rather than “who should play”.
Maybe pay more for medical and physio staff?
I wish it were just a good few weeks for Chelsea. :(
Tbf, we’re out of it a good bit. Just Lavia, Nkunku, Chilly, Chalobah, Chukwuemeka and Fofana out longterm, although Nkunku is almost back
That’s still half of a starting lineup though.
We used to have like 1 or 2 long term problems, and maybe 2 short term injuries.
Now players drop out weekly like it’s a reality competition.
3 players isn’t half,
Lavia
Nkunku
Chilwell
Chalobah
Chukwuemeka
Fofana6 Players is over half a starting XI
Trev is getting sold anyway.
Just
I’ll believe the Nkunku returning in November news if it happens. Almost every injury we have goes on longer than expected and now he’s supposed to be back two months early, I have my doubts.
Nah nkunku was always said to be back in December. I will never forget that
Aye. Then imagine how much worse it is when you’re in that position but you’re Sheff Utd. At least the players big clubs can bring in are quality. We’re bringing on the likes of Ben Osborn. I like the bloke but christ.
Tough for him. It’s always a matter of when not if for an injury.
The amount of people so gleeful about injuries for us is quite distasteful
You should see the casemiro thread.
Wolves away is suddenly looking a lot more tricky than it did a week ago
This is Matt Law, given that he didn’t say Maddison is dead, him missing international duty is probably just a precaution.
Is anyone really surprised, Isn’t this James Maddison’s M.O…
Play really well for a few weeks, then get injured for 2 months… Repeat.
Unfortunately yes, it is. Although I think most people were hopeful that our lack of fixture congestion this year would allow us an extended run with him.
I guess it’s now about showing the other half of the squad and seeing if Ange can get a tune out of the traditional underperformers on the bench.
Gio, Dier, Davies, etc are all going to have to step up massively, and we’ll see if Angeball works so well with a depleted squad.
On the other hand, this is an opportunity for the younglings to break into the team. Veliz will no doubt get minutes, and hopefully Ashley Phillips can get some time in the back line.
How? Im looking and he averaged like 35 starts in the last 6 years around 40 games played per season. Transfermarkt says he was only injured for more than a month twice. It looks like he mostly missed England games than Leicester games.