{"id":53157,"date":"2025-10-29T09:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/?p=53157"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:31:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:31:30","slug":"tottenham-suffer-setback-as-midfielder-ruled-out-for-eight-weeks-with-fresh-injury-adding-to-growing-list-of-10-sidelined-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/?p=53157","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham suffer setback as midfielder ruled out for eight weeks with fresh injury, adding to growing list of 10 sidelined players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham\u2019s injury problems continue to mount, with another setback hitting Thomas Frank\u2019s squad as yet another player is sidelined for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Frank\u2019s insistence that measures were put in place to prevent another fitness crisis this season, his plans appear to have fallen short. Spurs have already battled double-digit absences early in the campaign, with several players facing lengthy spells on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The situation has now worsened, as young midfielder Archie Gray has picked up an injury that will keep him out for around eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jake Sanders of The Sun, the 19-year-old\u2019s injury details remain unclear, but the absence comes as a major blow for Frank, who is already without a host of key names. Gray now joins Cristian Romero, James Maddison, Dejan Kulusevski, Dominic Solanke, Destiny Udogie, Ben Davies, Radu Dragusin, Kota Takai, and Yves Bissouma on Tottenham\u2019s growing injury list.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders also noted that Spurs now have just 15 fit senior outfield players available ahead of their Carabao Cup tie against Newcastle United.<\/p>\n<p>With a congested fixture list on the horizon, Tottenham\u2019s midfield depth has become a serious concern. Yves Bissouma is already out long-term, and Gray\u2019s absence leaves Rodrigo Bentancur, Joao Palhinha, and Pape Sarr as the only remaining central midfielders. Another injury in that department could leave the Lilywhites facing a full-blown crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham\u2019s injury problems continue to mount, with another setback hitting Thomas Frank\u2019s squad as yet another player is sidelined for the foreseeable future. Despite Frank\u2019s insistence that measures were put in place to prevent another fitness crisis this season, his plans appear to have fallen short. Spurs have already battled double-digit absences early in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":53155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2243133801.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53158,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53157\/revisions\/53158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}