Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank could be missing as many as 11 senior players for the trip to face Manchester United on Saturday.
Spurs criticised for lack of top level recruitment
Tottenham legend Chris Waddle told Football FanCast this week that the club should be challenging the likes of Liverpool and Manchester City for the highest level players in the transfer market, not struggling to keep hold of their best.
"Tottenham’s a business. Tottenham sometimes look more interested in the NFL, in boxing, music. It’s a business,” he said.
"That stadium is unbelievable. It’s probably the best stadium in the world. They’ve got the best training ground in the world, but they haven’t got the best team in the world. Was Tottenham thinking we want to buy a business all along and get NFL, get rugby, get music?
"It’s a money-business stadium, we know that. But at the end of the day, there’s 60k fans who turn up every week wanting that team to do well. I think they’ve got away from being a football club and I think it’s become a business."
Cristian Romero appeared to slam the hierarchy for their lack of activity in the January transfer window recently, claiming the state of the squad for the Manchester City clash was "disgraceful".
And things could be about to get worse for the Argentinian, who has now been added to the list of doubts to face Manchester United.
Man Utd vs Spurs team news
Tottenham will definitely be without nine senior players at Old Trafford - Pedro Porro, Kevin Danso, Ben Davies, Rodrigo Bentancur, Lucas Bergvall, James Maddison, Mohammed Kudus, Dejan Kulusevski and Richarlison.
However, there are also now questions about whether Frank will select Romero after his outburst last week.
On top of that, full-back Djed Spence is touch and go, meaning the Lilywhites could be incredibly light in defence.
Manchester United will be missing two defenders of their own, with Matthijs de Ligt and Patrick Dorgu both out long-term, albeit the Denmark star was thriving in a more advanced role before pulling up in the win over Arsenal.