TOTTENHAM have just 15 senior players available heading into tonight’s clash with Newcastle.
It comes with Archie Gray set for a spell on the sidelines after suffering a calf problem.
The versatile Tottenham midfielder, 19, is expected to be ruled out for at least four weeks.
He is believed to have initially felt the problem during last week’s 0-0 draw with Monaco in the Champions League.
Gray then had discomfort in the area at Everton on Sunday too and is understood to have undergone a scan on it on Monday which revealed the extent of the issue.
It comes as a big blow to the former Leeds star who was hoping for a rare start under Thomas Frank at Newcastle tonight in the Carabao Cup fourth round.
While his absence takes the number of players injured in Frank’s squad to TEN.
Captain Cristian Romero is still recovering from a muscle injury, while record-buy Dominic Solanke has barely featured this term due to a nagging ankle issue.
Left-back Destiny Udogie has also missed the last three games with a knee injury.
On Monday, Frank ruled out all three of the cup trip to St James’ Park but did say all three were on the pitch in training and “making steps forward”.
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Ben Davies, Yves Bissouma, Radu Dragusin, James Maddison, Dejan Kulusevski and Kota Takai complete Spurs’ list of injured players.
Dragusin, 23, has not featured since doing his anterior cruciate ligament in January but is set to play in a friendly over the international break.
His country Romania would like to call him up – just as they wanted to last month – but Frank feels that would be a bad idea given the stage he is at in his recovery.
The Dane said: “That doesn’t make sense to me.
“(His recovery) is going well. He’s fully integrated into training now.
“Because an ACL is such a… it’s not tricky but it’s such a big injury, because you’re out for nine months so you need to build strength in the knee and so on.
“Then because we don’t train that much, the big area stuff is not that much so we need to give him some of the bigger area stuff. But he is definitely getting closer to being involved.
“(A November return after international break) could be likely. I think we plan to play him in a friendly there as I understand it so that’s a big part of it.”
But Takai – the Japanese centre-back, 21, brought in for £5million – still looks no closer to being in a position to make his debut.
Frank added: “He’s still not training on the pitch. Hopefully soon.”