The latest Spurs injury news ahead of their Premier League clash with Bournemouth.
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On the field, everything has gone according to plan for Tottenham Hotspur and Thomas Frank over the course of the first fortnight of the new Premier League season – but injury issues have ensured that it hasn’t all been smooth sailing for Spurs’ new head coach.
James Maddison is expected to miss the majority of the 2025/26 season with an ACL injury, already a bitter blow to Spurs’ ambitions of a return to the top four, and several other key players are also missing in action, including Destiny Udogie and Dejan Kulusvski, while summer signing Kota Takai is another stuck on the sidelines.
Ahead of Saturday’s match against Bournemouth, we’ve pulled together all the latest updates on Spurs’ stricken players alongside their expected return dates when available.
Will Destiny Udogie play against Bournemouth?
Italian left-back Udogie hasn’t played for Spurs since July due to a knee injury he picked up during the warm-up ahead of a pre-season game against Luton Town, but he is now closing in on a return with Frank describing the 22-year-old as “better” ahead of last weekend’s 2-0 win over Manchester City.
“He's trained with the team twice,” Frank told reporters. “Full training sessions… but he is just too short [of match fitness] to be involved for City. We want him to… have another good week next week as well, but he’s in a good place, looks very positive.”
No further setbacks have been reported and Udogie seems set to make his first appearance of the season against Bournemouth this weekend, although it is not clear that he will be fit enough to start and Djed Spence may well be in the XI once more to face Andoni Iraola’s side if Frank prefers to ease Udogie back into action.
Dejan Kulusevski & James Maddison injury updates
Spurs have two key starters who won’t feature for some time yet – Dejan Kulusevski and James Maddison, both of whom are recovering from serious knee injuries.
Kulsevski is expected to be the first back having been out of action since May, but Frank has refused to set a target return date at this stage of the recovery process, simply telling reporters that “it's a longer one” and that he doesn’t “want to put a time frame on it.”
As it stands, it’s unclear whether Kulusevski will play again in 2025, with The Evening Standard estimating that he won’t be available again until early next year – but that remains unconfirmed.
Maddison, for his part, will miss at least the majority of the season after undergoing surgery on a ruptured ACL sustained during pre-season. The most optimistic timeline would see him return in the final weeks of the campaign and it’s possible that he doesn’t play until the 2026/27 season.
Kota Takai out for ‘weeks’ with Yves Bissouma among other worries
Several other Spurs players are also out of action at the moment, including summer signing Takai, who has been sidelined for “weeks” with a plantar fascia injury – the band of tissue that runs across the sole of his foot.
The 20-year-old Japan international missed most of pre-season thanks to the issue and while Spurs have not provided a likely return date, the timeline suggests that he could be available to make his debut after the upcoming international break in early September.
Yves Bissouma also missed the win over Manchester City with an unspecified knock but even if passed fit to play against Bournemouth may not be selected as negotiations over a move to Galatasaray continue. Manor Solomon, likewise, could be available following a lower leg injury but may be left out of the squad depending on the progress of a potential transfer to Leeds United.
Two more victims of knee ligament injuries, defender Radu Dragusin and winger Bryan Gil, are out for the long term. Dragusin could be back in December if his rehabilitation goes well, while Gil is more likely to be sidelined until the New Year. It is too early for definitive return dates to be provided in either case.