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Tottenham have suffered a major injury blow as they prepare to face Everton this weekend.

Roberto De Zerbi is still searching for his first Premier League win of the campaign after the north Londoners’ stuttering start, which has seen them beaten by Brentford and Newcastle.

Spurs then drew 0-0 with Nottingham Forest, and they then host the Toffees before their midweek Carabao Cup clash against Liverpool.

After over £300million was spent on the Italian in the summer, the pressure will be on De Zerbi to deliver.

Here is all the latest Tottenham injury news and potential return dates...

Mykhailo Mudryk

One of the two eyebrow-raising Deadline Day arrivals, Mudryk joined Spurs for more regular game time after his return to football.

The Ukrainian had not kicked a ball competitively for almost two years following his ban for breaching anti-doping rules, which became official in June last year.

The winger has since been cleared to play again, and Spurs moved to land a forward that De Zerbi knows well on loan.

Blow: Mykhailo Mudryk

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He made his debut for his new side at the City Ground last weekend, but there has been a major setback.

Mudryk has suffered an ankle injury in training, which will keep him out for a minimum of six weeks, perhaps even stretching to eight.

It comes as a major blow not just to Tottenham, but to the player himself, who was looking to play himself back into form.

Potential return date: Leeds (A) on November 7, 2026

James Maddison

Maddison has been sidelined since the opening game of the season, where he suffered a broken shoulder against Brentford.

The attacking midfielder came off the bench at the Gtech Community Stadium, looking to rebuild his fitness after an ACL injury kept him out for the majority of last term.

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He missed the trip to Forest, but there is fresh hope that he will return to the field having made his comeback to team training.

Potential return date: Everton (H) on September 12, 2026

Almost: Dejan Kulusevski

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Dejan Kulusevski

The Swedish international is closing on a return, according to international manager Graham Potter.

The former Chelsea boss revealed that the versatile forward was inching towards a comeback after over 500 days out on the sidelines with a complex kneecap problem.

Kulusevski has been back on the training pitch, but his return to action will be phased cautiously.

"He's very close actually. I'm so impressed with him, how he's handled his injury,” said Potter, speaking to Swedish outlet SVT.

"Of course we have to be careful with him. I hope he comes with us, but we have to talk to Dejan and Tottenham first.”

Potential return date: Unknown

Long term: Xavi Simons

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Xavi Simons

Dutchman Simons will not be back on the pitch this year after tearing his ACL against Wolves in April.

The attacking midfielder saw his season curtailed with the serious knee injury, but he will be eyeing a comeback after the Christmas period.

Potential return date: Early 2027

Comeback trail: Wilson Odobert

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Wilson Odobert

French winger Odobert also tore his ACL, ending his season early as well.

He is ahead of Simons on the recovery trail, and he could well see a return to action before the year is out, although nothing has been confirmed yet.

Potential return date: Late 2026

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Mykhailo Mudryk’s ankle injury has brought the chaotic final few days of Tottenham’s summer transfer window into perspective.

The Ukrainian winger, signed on a season-long loan from Chelsea on Deadline Day, is set to be out for between six to eight weeks after sustaining a problem with his left ankle in training.

With Mudryk sidelined until after the international break, Spurs are once again short of cover in attack, having also belatedly sent academy winger Mikey Moore on loan to Bundesliga side Cologne.

The timing could not be much worse for Roberto De Zerbi, who is in need of fresh attacking impetus following his side’s drab 0-0 draw away to Nottingham Forest last weekend.

Mudryk, who had been working his way back to full fitness after nearly two years out of action, was supposed to provide a fresh spark and competition to a Tottenham frontline desperately devoid of inspiration.

Now, though, De Zerbi is back to square one, with Mudryk’s injury exposing just how light Spurs have left themselves in forward areas despite a summer of heavy investment.

Tottenham spent in excess of £300million to overhaul their squad, moving quickly and decisively to bring in the likes of Sandro Tonali, Mateus Fernandes and Jan Paul van Hecke.

They also signed Manchester City duo Savio and Omar Marmoush. Yet with players working their way back from injury and Mudryk an opportunistic but risky signing - he had not played a competitive game since November 2024, before his cameo off the bench against Forest - the overwhelming feeling was that Spurs were undercooked in attack.

That feeling has only intensified since Mudryk’s injury, and Spurs are now left in a predicament.

Do they address their issues in attack when the window reopens in January? Or do they rely on Mohammed Kudus, Dejan Kulusevski and James Maddison all being available before the turn of the year?

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Kudus has been steadily involved for Tottenham this season since returning from a serious quad injury, and has made several productive cameos off the bench.

Maddison has been dealing with a shoulder fracture suffered on the opening weekend of the season, while Kulusevski is nearing a return to action after nearly a year-and-a-half out with a serious knee injury.

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Each player is at a different stage in their respective recoveries, but it is feasible to suggest that all three could start together by the end of the year.

De Zerbi, though, on the advice of the club’s remodelled medical department, has been reluctant to risk his players’ fitness, and he will be especially cautious not to rush Kulusevski back.

De Zerbi is therefore in a difficult position. The club ran into major problems last January, when they decided against entering the market for attacking reinforcements and backed those players out injured to make swift recoveries.

Spurs’ fitness woes only grew once the January window closed, leaving them scrapping for solutions in attack as they battled to stay in the Premier League.

However, the club can’t wholly take blame for looking at a market where there was little value and opting to back themselves and their players.

With egos and finances to manage, the decision to bring in another attacker, with so many players due back, was always going to be complicated.

That situation simply can’t afford to happen again, though. So come January, De Zerbi will have to know, one way or the other, if Spurs can rely on their current crop of injury-crocked forwards.

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Sweden manager Graham Potter has revealed that Tottenham star Dejan Kulusevski is “very close” to a return to fitness after nearly a year-and-a-half out injured.

Kulusevski has not played a single competitive match for club or country since May 2025 after suffering a patella injury during Spurs’ 2-0 defeat at home to Crystal Palace in the Premier League.

The injury was initially described by Tottenham’s then manager Ange Postecoglou as being minor. Yet after two surgeries and nearly 500 days on the sidelines, Kulusevski is still working his way back to action.

Spurs have understandably been cautious with the 26-year-old, given the complicated nature of his injury, but there is hope that he will soon be available for selection.

Kulusevski returned to full team training at the start of last week, with Tottenham boss Roberto De Zerbi including the playmaker in his Premier League squad.

A small issue meant he had to stop training with the team at the end of last week, but De Zerbi remains optimistic and said he was looking forward to having Kulusevski available for his matchday squad.

With the first international break of the season fast approaching, Kulusevski could be in line for selection for Sweden, and Potter admitted he was hopeful, though realistic, about the former Juventus man’s chances of a call-up later this month.

"He's very close actually. I'm so impressed with him, how he's handled his injury,” said Potter, speaking to Swedish outlet SVT.

"Of course we have to be careful with him. I hope he comes with us, but we have to talk to Dejan and Tottenham first.”

Sweden begin their latest Nations League campaign in the last week of September. They take on Romania, both home and away, as well as Poland and Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of a newly-expanded three-week international window.

"The importance of getting Dejan Kulusevski into the national team cannot be emphasised enough,” Potter continued. "He is incredibly important to the team. We love him, his character and qualities.

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Spurs sacked manager Thomas Frank in February after a miserable run of results left them hovering around the relegation zone, then replaced him with interim boss Igor Tudor, who failed to win any of his five league games at the helm.

After only 44 days in charge, Tudor was relieved of his duties and Spurs were left scrambling to appoint another new manager to save them from the brink of disaster.

They eventually negotiated a five-year deal with Roberto De Zerbi, who had previously been reluctant to take the role, but not before they approached former Spurs boss Pochettino.

Tottenham fans had consistently sung Pochettino’s name during the final months of Frank’s short-lived tenure in the hope that he would drop his commitments to the USA national team and help save his beleaguered former club.

The move did not transpire, with Pochettino leading the USA to the last 16 of their home World Cup this summer. But he admits he was contacted by Spurs and would have taken them up on their offer had he not already been in work.

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“The problem was that the timings were never the best,” Pochettino said.

“When I was free, I never received a contact. And then when I was working, I received a contact, but I cannot make the decision to come back. It was a little bit unlucky.

“Maybe one day the stars will align, and it can happen. But the problem was that when we wanted and we were free, we didn’t receive the approach. When we were working, we received the approach.”

Pochettino has been linked with a move back to Spurs for many years, first while he was manager of Paris Saint-Germain and then again in 2023 before he took over at Chelsea.

The Argentine, who took Spurs to the Champions League final in 2019 and oversaw two Premier League title challenges in 2016 and 2017, has a connection like few others to his previous club.

He admits, though, there was nothing special about him being approached by the club late last season, with Spurs “under pressure” to appoint a manager after Frank and Tudor’s disastrous spells.

“They were under pressure to bring another coach, to give him the possibility to stay for a long period like happened with De Zerbi,” Pochettino continued. “It was an obvious situation.

“In this moment, they called everyone, they called all the coaches. Free and not free.

“If I was free, of course I come. But I wasn’t free, I was preparing for the World Cup.”

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Mauricio Pochettino has sensationally claimed that Chelsea should be stripped of their 2016/17 Premier League title, which he says should be awarded to Tottenham instead.

Chelsea were in July fined £10million by the Football Association (FA) and handed a suspended two-window transfer ban as punishment for 74 breaches of financial regulations between 2009-22, when Roman Abramovich owned the club.

In March, they were also fined £10.75m by the Premier League and hit with a nine-month academy transfer ban. In 2023, they were fined £8.6m by UEFA for "submitting incomplete financial information" between 2012 and 2019.

Pochettino, however, believes the punishments were too lenient. Tottenham finished second in the Premier League during the 2016/17 season, seven points behind Antonio Conte’s Chelsea, and their former boss believes the title should be retrospectively awarded to Spurs.

“We should win one Premier League, we should have been awarded it,” said Pochettino, who now manages the United States Men’s National Team (USMNT).

“If that [Chelsea’s breaches] was true, then we deserve to be champions that year, for sure. They were punished. They admitted it? So that’s it. The title should be for the team that was second.

“We can say that they scored goals, they won games. OK. But it’s completely fair to say that we didn’t compete before the start of the season with the same card.

“Maybe with the same rules, we could’ve signed some players that would have made the team better or scored more goals.”

Pochettino, who went on to manage Chelsea between 2023 and 2024, said: “I have no doubt and I’m not scared to say the truth.

“The Chelsea fans will be upset with me. But if we were at Tottenham and broke the rules, I’d admit the same: ‘We don’t deserve the title because we broke the rules’.

“It’s impossible if only some clubs play with offside and another plays with no offside, or one plays with VAR and another plays with no VAR. For everyone, it needs to be the same rules. And then you have the capacity to create the best team.

“I don’t say that Chelsea didn’t play well, that Conte was not great. I don’t say that. I don’t want the message to be twisted. But if you broke the rules then, ciao, you need to give it to another team. I don’t know why that didn’t happen.

“What is being promoted and incentivised is to break the rules. If you don’t punish in the way that you need to punish, I say: ‘Yeah, I lost my job [at Spurs] because we didn’t win a title.’”

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The 15-year-old academy sensation Ashiah Haughton-Sinclair trained with Tottenham’s first team on Tuesday afternoon.

Haughton-Sinclair gained attention last season after he became the youngest player to turn out for Spurs’ Under-18s team, as well as netting a combined 90 goals and assists.

The teenager is considered one of the brightest young talents at Spurs’ academy and has now been rewarded with a call-up to train with Roberto De Zerbi’s first team.

Haughton-Sinclair’s call-up to the first team comes just a month after he was included in England’s Under-16s squad for the first time.

The 2011-born forward subsequently found the back of the net against Italy and has seemingly continued where he left off last season, scoring 10 goals and providing six assists for Spurs’ youth teams already this term.

Haughton-Sinclair confirmed he was in first-team training in a since-deleted Instagram story post, with the caption reading: “First team training."

With Spurs not in European competition this season, De Zerbi has more time on the training pitch and therefore more time to take a look at some of the academy’s most promising young talents.

After a remarkable rise over the last 12 months, Haughton-Sinclair is considered to have a bright future in north London and is now firmly on De Zerbi’s radar.

A senior debut may still be some way off yet, but the young forward is certainly making a name for himself at Hotspur Way.

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Tottenham’s 0-0 draw with Nottingham Forest may have been devoid of inspiration, but Roberto De Zerbi will hope it marks a step in the right direction.

A first point and a first clean sheet of the season constitute progress. However, Spurs’ scoreless streak now stretches to three league games, and they looked no closer to ending their barren spell in front of goal at the City Ground.

De Zerbi’s side, despite sporting £145million worth of new attacking talent in the form of Savio and Omar Marmoush, failed to register a single shot on target against Forest as the two sides played out a war of attrition that won’t live long in the memory.

Savio, for all his energy and endeavor, lacked incision, while his former City team-mate, Marmoush, could not keep his composure in the fleeting moments when Spurs had Forest’s defence worried.

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Decision-making in the final third continues to be an issue for Spurs, with De Zerbi criticising Mathys Tel for a performance in which he spent 74 minutes trying to bring the ball under his spell.

“We have Mathys Tel, big potential. But also, Mathys takes too many wrong decisions,” De Zerbi said post-match.

The problem, though, lies not in young players making mistakes but in the regularity with which they are able to make them.

Spurs simply do not create enough opportunities for their attackers to showcase their quality. They rank ninth for touches in the opposition box, 16th for shots on target per match and 14th for big chances created.

It is therefore little surprise then that the three Spurs players who rank highest for xG this season are centre-back Micky van de Ven, Dominic Solanke - who has yet to start a league game - and the recently departed Mikey Moore.

Spurs’ attacking deficiencies ultimately stem from a midfield lacking structure, cohesion and a creative threat. This is an age-old problem that shows no signs of improvement despite heavy investment over the summer.

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They competed well, covered ground and fulfilled their defensive responsibilities - Tonali and Bentancur ranked second and third, respectively, for distance covered.

But crucially, when they got on the ball, they lacked both the inclination and the accuracy to play forward and ask questions of Forest in transition. They managed a combined eight passes into the final third.

Omar Marmoush

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This, though, is not necessarily a fault of the players but a reflection of the profiles that De Zerbi has within his squad.

Playing Gallagher as a makeshift No10 is not the solution, while it was a little concerning to hear De Zerbi say that he did not feel entirely comfortable using Mateus Fernandes, by far Spurs’ most creative fit and available midfielder, in amongst Forest’s physicality.

The return of James Maddison from a shoulder fracture can’t come soon enough, but there are no guarantees that the England midfielder will be able to put a string of appearances together.

De Zerbi could also look to Mohammed Kudus, who has been bright on his return from a serious quad injury, as an option through the middle. But as with all the options currently at his disposal, there is an element of risk attached that exposes one of the main shortcomings in Spurs’ aggressive summer of spending.

Spurs did well to cover most bases in what was an ambitious squad overhaul, but they remain short of a creative midfielder who can open up space and opportunities for their attack to flourish.

De Zerbi has a gaping wide issue in the middle of the park, and not an awful lot of solutions staring him in the face right now.

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When Tottenham CEO Vinai Venkatesham took to LinkedIn this week to discuss the club’s summer transfer window, he described the “months of scouting, analysis and planning” that went into overhauling a squad that came within a hair of being relegated to the Championship last season.

Indeed, Spurs started breathlessly in the transfer market, quickly identifying and convincing targets to buy into Roberto De Zerbi’s project.

A concerted plan was ruthlessly executed, and the rest of the Premier League took note as the north Londoners twice broke their transfer record to sign Mateus Fernandes and Sandro Tonali.

However, as the deadline edged closer, panic seemed to set in. Spurs, having failed to score in either of their opening two league games, were still short in attack and had missed out on their top two targets in Cody Gakpo and Iliman Ndiaye.

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De Zerbi, Venkatesham, and sporting director Johan Lange were left scrambling for market opportunities before landing on a Deadline Day loan deal for Chelsea winger Mykhailo Mudryk.

In a summer in which the club prioritised Premier League-proven talent, they ended up securing the services of a player with just five goals in 53 top-flight appearances.

Add to that the fact that Mudryk has not played a competitive match since November 2024 due to a doping ban, and it is fair to say Spurs have taken a risk in helping to rehabilitate the Ukrainian’s career.

For all the talk of surefire signings, Mudryk is the antithesis. An unpolished gem, all pace and power. But a player ultimately lacking finesse and a footballing education.

De Zerbi once tipped Mudryk, his former protege at Shakhtar Donetsk, to go on and win the Ballon d’Or. The Spurs boss knows there is more than a lot of work to do to get the Ukrainian anywhere near those conversations now.

“He has had many problems,” De Zerbi reflected when asked about his prediction, which he gave in 2022 while manager of Brighton.

“In the end, the potential is clear, and now his challenge is to respect all his qualities. He's a great player. He has to feel this season, to live this season in the right way. Not too much pressure, but it's the right moment for him to show all people things.

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De Zerbi is better placed than many to get the best out of Mudryk. Credited by the 25-year-old as his footballing father, De Zerbi will need to show the patience and unconditional love that only a father can.

Mudryk is a complicated young man. Quiet but brimming with self-belief, his reserved character means he often internalises his confidence in his own ability, neglecting the help of his team-mates as he flies down the flanks on a one-man crusade to prove his doubters wrong.

The January 2023 move to Stamford Bridge, for a fee that could still rise to £89m, perhaps came too soon for him and De Zerbi believes the price tag weighed heavily on the winger.

“From Shakhtar to Chelsea, I think he paid a big price because different leagues, different countries, a different level of the club with a big, big responsibility because he knew the price Chelsea paid for him.”

Inked from head to toe in tattoos that reflect his religion, self-confidence and relentless work ethic, it is the tattoos located aptly just above his feet, which read "Play Freely" and "Play Happy", that De Zerbi will be looking for Mudryk to embody.

Confidence dictates the forward’s game. It even rules him at times. But find his stride, as he fleetingly did during Chelsea’s 2024-25 Conference League campaign, and he can cause all sorts of issues.

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Dizzying dexterity in tight spaces, a yard and a half of pace on his marker and a venomous curling shot off his favoured right foot, Mudryk in full flow has defenders retreating into their own box.

His relentless work ethic, “he works double than other team-mates”, means he will do everything in his power to try to get his career back on track under De Zerbi.

Channeling that energy - Mudryk turned up late to his Spurs media duties because he was out doing extras after training - into productivity on the pitch remains the major hurdle for De Zerbi, though.

He does not need another uncut gem of an attacker trying to turn pressure into diamonds. Spurs’ business this summer was supposed to produce instant results.

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Tottenham picked up their first point of the Premier League season at the weekend with a 0-0 draw at Nottingham Forest.

Roberto De Zerbi’s side are still looking for their first goal of the new campaign having lost 3-0 and 2-0 in their opening to games to Brentford and Newcastle.

Savio and Destiny Udogie continued their cautious return to action at the City Ground, with the pair sacrificed on the hour, but there is no injury concern over the pair.

Spurs are missing their two No10s, and that was evident on Saturday as Conor Gallagher and Mateus Fernandes both struggled.

Here is all the latest Tottenham injury news and potential return dates...

James Maddison

Maddison is still sidelined after injury his shoulder against Brentford on the opening day.

The midfielder came off the bench at the Gtech Community Stadium, as he looks to build his sharpness following his ACL injury last year.

He again missed the trip to Forest, but there is fresh hope that he will return to the field having made his comeback to team training.

Potential return date: Everton (H) on September 12, 2026

Almost: Dejan Kulusevski

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Dejan Kulusevski

The Swede is back on the training pitch, but his return to action will be phased cautiously.

De Zerbi gave his latest update on the playmaker ahead of the visit to Forest, saying that the former Juventus winger had suffered a setback in his recovery.

He is coming back from a serious patella injury, which has kept him out for almost 18 months.

“Kulusevski started [training] with us at the beginning of the week, and then the last two days, a small, small problem, stopped [him from training],” De Zerbi said.

“But I think he’s in a good way. It’s going very well. I already said the medical staff is very high level.

“We can be positive with him. I’m looking forward to having Deki in the squad.”

Potential return date: Unknown

Long term: Xavi Simons

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Xavi Simons

The Dutchman is out for the remainder of the year after tearing his ACL against Wolves in April last season.

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The attacking midfielder has been a sore miss for Spurs, who are lacking the No10 department of late, but he has been spotted in and around the squad in a supporting capacity.

Potential return date: Early 2027

Comeback trail: Wilson Odobert

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Wilson Odobert

Winger Odobert is in a similar boat to Simons.

The Frenchman also tore his ACL last term,but he is further along than his team-mate.

He could well make a comeback before the turn of the year.

Potential return date: Late 2026

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