Tottenham suffer huge blow with James Maddison’s ankle injury worse than expected
www.telegraph.co.uk
The midfielder has pulled out of the England squad, and it adds another problem for Spurs after the injury to Micky van de Ven
  • gll5dm85@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    9 possibly 10 games out for him and van de Ven. That’s going to hurt any club, and especially Spurs since these are among their two best players. Spurs should be looking for top four anyway and I think they can still get it what with no European football.

    • JessyPengkman@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I don’t want to speak to soon, who knows maybe somehow we beat wolves and City still. But this season was never about winning the league and the fact that it’s even discussed still amazes and excited me. Before the season started I’m pretty sure most Spurs fans would be happy with coming 6th whilst playing nice football given that we were obviously working towards something. especially now that Kane has gone

      • fa_kinsit@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        TBF, no season for you lot is about winning the league. Finishing fourth and maybe ‘putting the pressure on’ is what you’re about

        • JessyPengkman@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Well seeing as we’ve been in title races I’m not sure I agree with you. Nice try though you’d probably get a good rise out of one or two people on twitter where comments like that belong

      • lukemtesta@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Indeed, it’s been a great start for you guys. Tbh after last season, the expectations and hope this season has just been killing me

  • Plastic_Sand_2743@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Sad to see rival fans celebrating injuries and holding this over spurs as ‘karma’. I would never wish injury on a player, not even one of my bitterest rivals.

      • mattBJM@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        The league games in the middle of the season are worth the same as the league games at the end of the season

    • GameplayerStu@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Feel like Spurs fans knew the threat was looming because I seen a lot of “if x happens, we’re fucked”. Unfortunately x happened twice in the one match with VDV and Maddison. If anything happens to Son, prepare the eulogy.

    • gryffindor918@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The curse. Happened with us with Tomiyasu and Saliba vs Sporting. 12 minutes to ruin our title dreams

    • zxnoregretzxzx@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It hasn’t ruined your entire season. Spurs are still in a great position now to push for a CL place which would’ve been well above expectations at the start of the season. Even with your great start a serious title challenge was more fantasy than Lord of the Rings.

      • grey_hat_uk@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        They’ve got the top 3 scoring teams in their next 5 games with a weakened backline, that sort of thing can knock confidence quite a bit.

      • noob_wins@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Just imagining Saruman watching Spurs-Chelsea on the Palantir has me cracking up

      • airz23s_coffee@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Most peoples concerns are the push for a CL place.

        Lost VDV til potentially January so backlines dodgy. Lost our creative engine for ???. And that’s during a really tough run of games.

        Then in January we lose Sarr/Biss who’ve been running the midfield for AFCON, and Son for the Asian cup.

        Could be a really derailing run of results from here til February.

        • conceal_the_kraken@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          I think you’ll be alright for AFCON. Bentancur is back, Hojbjerg is hardly a slouch (and not too dissimilar to Gallagher, who Postecoglou wanted). January is a relatively nice time to lose them too, with not many PL games, no EFL cup semi, and a potentially easy FA Cup draw.

          There’s also a good chance that most of your other players will be back then. Even just getting Romero back after a few games will put you back into a good position. With no Europe or EFL Cup I don’t think you’ll be in too bad a position for December.

    • kruegerc184@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I mean look at us last year, some random 10 mins bullshit euro game decimated any hope we had at a title shot

    • kanavi36@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It do be like that. But tbh idk if this will completely ruin your season. Might be derailed for a bit but there’s still 75% of the season to go.

      • Merkarov@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        With the amount of games happening between now and the new year + then players leaving for afcon and asian games, that’s a big chunk of the season we’ll be missing vital players, while having fuck all depth

    • iKSv2@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I mean you have played 0 mins since the match. at least let there be something to concrete (results-wise) base this on.

    • Virusaurus@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Happened to united last season too. Marrinez, varane and garnacho all out when firing so hot coming into the biggest games. Spuds

      • grollate@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        That’s especially low coming from Poch to be putting a lemon curse on us!

    • klashne2@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Ah you’re at the ‘we got injury’s our seasons over’ stage of Ange ball. Don’t worry he’ll sign some fucking ballers in January.

  • UnKarl_Marx@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    this is why he cost only £40m

    He requires the team to revolve around him, he’ll exceed expectations by scoring and assisting regularly, then he’ll get injured and the club will be clueless on how else to play because everything revolved around him.

    Spurs will get 4pts max in the next 7 games

  • ThereWillBeGoals@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It sounds like the update is that he’s been left out of the England squad, meaning he’s for sure out a couple weeks. Not a lot of details beyond that.

    • eaeb4@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      he’ll probably be back straight after the international break to absolutely rinse our high line with passes into Son

      • Rickcampbell98@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Son could play on his own and still find a way to score against us, atleast that mouth breather is gone to terrorise those pretzel merchants.

    • SirFox14@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      There are a lot of quality midfielders available. Son if you don’t have it yet, if you have two transfers and have Romero or Udogie you can go for Palmer (for the penalties alone he’s a good cheap pick) and Trippier for example, or if you have only Maddison, you can trade him for Bowen, Mitoma or one of the Arsenal lads. Since I had Romero and did a transfer already, provably will wait to see if he returns after the national team break (and hope he does not drop price twice).

    • brahim1997@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I picked palmer since he’s cheaper and a guaranteed started, and decided to buy better players with the money left.

      • TheDutchKid@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Look, I know Palmer is literally Chelsea’s best player right now, but with nkunku’s return who do you think is gonna lose his place? I think palmer is not as nailed as u might think

        • MrCleanandShady@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Palmer at his current level is basically one of the first names on our team sheet, it’s far more likely that one of Enzo/Gallagher will drop to the bench to facilitate a 4-2-3-1

        • washag@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          I think Palmer is much more likely to move to one of the wings than the bench. Losing his creativity and intelligence would be disastrous when our strikers take 5 good chances to score a goal.

  • lowtime_sport@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The comments in here are wild, mainly from people who can’t wait to talk bad about Spurs, it’s not like any team losing a key player could face some set back. Arsenal is a shit team, yet on this sub they’re stronger than early 2000 galacticos.

    • CuteHoor@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Arsenal are a shit team? I wouldn’t disagree if you said they were overrated on here, but to say they’re shit is just nonsense. They’re one of the top 3 teams in the league easily.

  • SnooMacarons1185@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The way Maddison went down looked strange for spraining an ankle. Replay didn’t show any twisting motion. Looked more like some type of an Achilles injury to me but hopefully not.

  • disagreeable_martin@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The rate of injuries all over Europe is out of control right now, and then you factor in how the transfer prices for reinforcements just keep going up. It’s a bubble and very concerning.

    No wonder everyone has thin squads when it costs so much just to get a viable starting 11, who then get over played.

    • jptoc@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Aye. Then imagine how much worse it is when you’re in that position but you’re Sheff Utd. At least the players big clubs can bring in are quality. We’re bringing on the likes of Ben Osborn. I like the bloke but christ.

    • monthlymeeples@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It’s a bubble for sure, but I don’t expect that bubble to burst, instead I expect that bubble to cause the sport to seek even richer owners…like the kind who have money that comes straight out of the ground.

    • Freddichio@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Yep - for all the shit Chelsea and United get (rightfully) for underperforming, there’s only so much that you can do when you’re missing basically an entire team’s worth of players.

      For a good few weeks, Chelsea and Manchester United could put out an “out XI” that was better than their starting XI…

      • SkinnyMc@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Sorry, are you saying Chelsea and Man U are victims of inflated player prices resulting in top heavy squads? The team that spent a billion quid in a year and iirc the leading spender over the last decade?

        • Freddichio@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          What? No, I’m not.

          I’m saying that while both teams should be performing better, there’s only so much you can do with so many injuries. You can have the best plans the world, but if half the team is out injured at any given time you’re never going to get a sense of consistency and it’s a case of “who can play” rather than “who should play”.

    • ianff@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I wonder if the excessive stops for VAR checks, which then lead to excessive amounts of extra time could be a contributing factor.

  • kwhicks@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Chatted all that shit about bottlers. Team didn’t even give city a race to January lmao