Tottenham fans will have to remain patient when it comes to watching Randal Kolo Muani and Xavi Simons in action for the very first time. The 2025/26 Premier League season may only be three games old but the first international break of the term is now underway.
Tottenham sit fourth after securing six points from a possible nine, with their first defeat coming last Saturday when they lost 1-0 at home to Bournemouth. Thomas Frank's side will be aiming to get back to winning ways next time out when they travel to West Ham on Saturday, September 13.
The Spurs team could look slightly different in the 5.30pm kick-off at the London Stadium as Kolo Muani and Simons should be in a position to play after joining from PSG and RB Leipzig respectively. Unfortunately the Bournemouth game came too soon for Simons to feature but he was paraded in front of the home faithful ahead of kick-off.
As Kolo Muani's loan move from PSG was confirmed on Monday evening, his first opportunity to take to the field for Tottenham will come in the West Ham fixture. So will both players be handed full debuts in east London? football.london takes a look at the strongest XI for the match right here.
Guglielmo Vicario, as ever, will start in net for Tottenham and it will be a back four of Pedro Porro, Cristian Romero, Micky van de Ven and Djed Spence ahead of him. Destiny Udogie returned off the bench in the Bournemouth game but he may have to bide his time to start again with Spence performing so well in his absence and duly earning an England call-up in the process.
Joao Palhinha and Rodrigo Bentancur are then the pairing of choice for Frank when it comes to his midfield. Things then get interesting ahead of the duo as the head coach has a number of different options he could select.
Mohammed Kudus is a certain starter against his former club but it may be a question of whether he remains on the right or switches to the left. Kolo Muani can play on either flank, with the majority of his games when deployed out wide coming on the right.
Simons can then take on the No.10 role, although he can start from the left if Frank wants him to do that. Amid Dominic Solanke's injury absence against Bournemouth and question marks over his return date, Richarlison will be the favourite to lead the line once again.