More Woe For Spurs As Dejan Kulusevski Is Likely To Be Out Until Turn Of The Year

Dejan Kulusevski is expected to beryllium retired until astir nan move of nan year, nan Guardian understands. The Tottenham attacking midfielder underwent knee room successful mid-May and, though nan wounded was serious, nan grade of nan lay-off he faces has until now been unclear.

Losing nan Sweden international, who scored 10 goals and provided 11 assists successful 50 appearances for Spurs past season, is different headache for Thomas Frank, who is digesting nan nine being gazumped by Arsenal for nan £67.5m signature of Crystal Palace’s Eberechi Eze. The manager’s different cardinal attacking midfielder, James Maddison, is simply a semipermanent casualty aft rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament against Newcastle successful pre-season.

The unit is connected Spurs to respond to missing retired connected Eze pinch a connection signing aft nan nonaccomplishment earlier successful nan summertime to motion Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White. They thought they had nan midfielder aft moving connected a £60m buyout clause successful his statement only for nan Forest owner, Evangelos Marinakis, to garbage to punishment nan deal.

Spurs person shown an liking successful nan Manchester City winger, Savinho, though City support they want to support him. Spurs play astatine City connected Saturday lunchtime. Whether their opponents soften their stance aft nan crippled remains to beryllium seen.

Spurs person made enquiries astir Monaco’s Maghnes Akliouche. The France under-21 international, who has burnished his estimation aft 2 awesome seasons astatine Monaco, tin play connected nan helping aliases done nan middle. Frank is besides unfastened to signing Yoane Wissa from his erstwhile club, Brentford, and retains an liking successful nan Southampton winger, Tyler Dibling, while Como’s Nico Paz is different option.

Spurs person been comparatively quiet truthful acold successful nan transportation window. In position of caller faces, they person added Mohammed Kudus, Joao Paulinha, Luka Vuskovic and Kota Takai.