Destiny Udogie is the latest Tottenham star to suffer an injury as he was forced off against Manchester United in the Premier League
Tottenham have been handed yet another blow in their injury crisis with Destiny Udogie forced off against Manchester United. The Italy international has only just returned from an absence, but he now looks set to be on the sidelines again after coming off at Old Trafford with January signing Souza on as his replacement.
Pedro Porro, Kevin Danso, Ben Davies, Rodrigo Bentancur, Lucas Bergvall, Richarlison and Mohammed Kudus have all suffered problems over the last few months. That is in addition to long-term absentees Dejan Kulusevski and James Maddison.
With Djed Spence also absent, that is three left-back options out of action which makes the failed move for Liverpool's Andy Robertson hit even harder.
Spurs had all-but agreed terms to sign him only for Liverpool to pull the plug on the deal after some injury problems of their own and with the decision made not to recall Kostas Tsimikas from a loan at AS Roma.
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With the Scotland international remaining at Anfield, Souza was thrown on with his new club down a man after Cristian Romero's first-half red card.
The Spurs captain was given his marching orders for a reckless challenge on Casemiro and with it being his second red card of the season, he will miss four games.
In addition to all of the injury blows, Frank cannot call on his captain for league games against Newcastle United, Arsenal, Crystal Palace and Fulham.
That Romero red card decision arrived in a week where he has dominated the headlines following his Instagram outburst at the club board.
He wrote: "Great effort from all my teammates yesterday ,they were incredible.
"I wanted to be available to help them even though I wasn’t feeling well, especially since we only had 11 players available — unbelievable but true and disgraceful [face palm emoji].
"We’ll keep showing up and taking responsibility to turn this around, working hard and staying together. All that’s left is to thank all of you for being there and for always supporting us ,the fans [two white heart emojis]."
After admitting his comments were dealt with internally, Frank said: "If you want to know what he meant, you of course need to ask him. That’s the right way to take that question.
"Cuti is a very passionate character and player who wants to leave everything on the pitch and is very ambitious. He wants to win every single time.
"Sometimes when you are like that, sometimes there can be an outburst. It happened this time and it’s something we of course dealt with and dealt with internally."