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Player The Injury & Suspension Thread 2025/26

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I can understand wanting Solanke To go in the summer and replace him with someone better but we have lost him to injury and cannot replace him. We have no one in the Under 21’s to step up as we have sent our best kids on loan. We normally start with 2/3 forwards and then replace 2/3 of them each match. We had a major problem a few matches ago with no attacking players on the bench. Losing Solanke & Simons is putting us back into that position. The likes of Richie tends to become less effective if they play for 90 mins. Now we have Richie, Tel &Muani as forwards & need to play Gallagher, Bergvale or Sarr if fit in the front 3.

How anyone cannot see that has weakened us I cannot see. We have struggled big time to score &now only have say Richie having to play 90 mins every match unless of course he gets injured.
 
spursmalc said:
I can understand wanting Solanke To go in the summer and replace him with someone better but we have lost him to injury and cannot replace him. We have no one in the Under 21’s to step up as we have sent our best kids on loan. We normally start with 2/3 forwards and then replace 2/3 of them each match. We had a major problem a few matches ago with no attacking players on the bench. Losing Solanke & Simons is putting us back into that position. The likes of Richie tends to become less effective if they play for 90 mins. Now we have Richie, Tel &Muani as forwards & need to play Gallagher, Bergvale or Sarr if fit in the front 3.

How anyone cannot see that has weakened us I cannot see. We have struggled big time to score &now only have say Richie having to play 90 mins every match unless of course he gets injured.
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We are weakened without Simons, of course.
It's difficult to find someone less effective than Solanke.
So being forced to play without a 9 - might actually help. Like it did against Athletico.
 
Nutter-Naylor said:

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3 years and running that’s really something else.
It just has to do something with our facilities, pitches etc. 3 years 4 different managers so different training methods

That’s not just bad luck. This is going on too long to just be bad luck.
A priority this summer should be to find out what the factors are that caused this.

Maddison ACL buy xavi ACL buy new player and...

Even Chelsea with their recruitement strategy would suffer from this.
 
Just mental. Surely it's just too varied and freakish to be blamed on one thing. Like, even if there is some iota of truth in the 'stadium pitch' conspiracy theory, can you seriously blame that on Maddison and Xavi's ACLs at different grounds and Kudus' re-injury in training after months of being nowhere near the stadium?

My guess is it's some bizarre combination of a ton of factors - a bit like how our horrific season isn't down to 1 specific thing. Some mix of the v.intensive calendar, lots of internationals, dodgy medical dept, and just plain old shitty luck.

Probably doesn't help that we've changed managers and styles so drastically too. Going from Ange's intense sprints, to Franks heavy focus on duels and second balls, to Tudor's hard running, and now intensive on-the-ball work under De Zerbi.

Compared to most clubs we are fairly unique in that we're both regularly in Europe and have a squad stocked with full internationals but also completely dysfunctional and changing managers and styles every five minutes. Most teams are either one or the other and there's some degree of consistency.
 
Sky Sports made a Spurs "injured 11" which is almost as mental as some of the match day suggestions you lot come up with.

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Mine, with the same players. 3511
Vicario
Romero Davies Udogie
Kudus Mads Sarr Xavi Odobert
Deki
Solanke
 
Current list of injured players

Vicario
Udogie - may return this season in a game or two
Davies
Romero
Sarr
Maddison - may return this season
Kulusevski - possibility of return this season
Simons
Kudus
Odobert
Solanke - may return this season in a game or two
 
Turfie said:
3 years and running that’s really something else.
It just has to do something with our facilities, pitches etc. 3 years 4 different managers so different training methods

That’s not just bad luck. This is going on too long to just be bad luck.
A priority this summer should be to find out what the factors are that caused this.

Maddison ACL buy xavi ACL buy new player and...

Even Chelsea with their recruitement strategy would suffer from this.
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Ange

Ange sacking the medical staff

Ange appointing people who say "yes" when a coach asks when injured players will be fit.
 
The retractable pitch is worth investigating but surely that would only be a minor contributing factor to the current issues. Most of these big injuries have not happened on our home pitch, though I accept playing on it regularly might make players more injury prone generally.

But the stadium opened in April 2019 and these extreme injury issues only started in the 23/24 season. For 4 years we played on this surface and had a normal amount of injuries (considering some of our players were absolutely made of glass like Lo Celso and Sessegnon). We had some more frustrating ones but I wouldn't say it was anything noteworthy.

The real explosion in injuries happened after Geoff Scott, then our head physio, left early in the Ange era. That seemed to coincide with a total re-staffing of the medical department and a much more cavalier approach from Ange. He put a big load on the players in terms of sprints and he also rushed players back from injury, even admitting to playing players who were not ready or ignoring the advice from medical staff about how long they could play before needing to be subbed.

We seem to have had constant staff turnover in the medical department ever since the 23/24 season and a lack of expertise from successive coaches about managing the physical load when playing in the PL and Europe. Under Conte I don't think we had these kinds of issues so I would be looking at the competence of the medical and coaching staff appointed since then, I think that's the biggest factor. We have had clueless managers running certain players into the ground and a medical staff that is constantly getting players re-injured, getting injury timelines wrong, delaying necessary surgeries etc.
 
I don't think the injuries have anything to do with our retractable pitch because we didn't have unusual amounts of injuries in the few first seasons, when the new stadium was in use.

I think it's more likely a consequence of mental stress.

This article below is an interesting read.

Stress and Its Impact on Sports Injuries - Is there a link?

Many sports injuries occur through a physical factor. But how does stress influence the likelihood of sustaining an injury?
www.londonbridgeorthopaedics.co.uk www.londonbridgeorthopaedics.co.uk
 
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