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Spurs have been beset by injury problems this season, with first-choice centre-back partnership Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven playing a combined 1,752 minutes of Premier League football from a possible 4,320 (which represents just 42%).
Full-back Destiny Udogie has also been sidelined alongside goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, who has not been seen since November’s 4-0 win over Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium – an extraordinary high point of a season that has subsequently unravelled.
Spurs are 15th in the Premier League table, with 13 defeats to their name from 24 games played, and to compound their misery, they have now lost Romanian central defender Radu Dragusin to injury with Van de Ven having only just returned and Romero still out.
Sky Sports report that Tottenham were in advanced talks to sign Tomori from Milan, four years after he arrived at San Siro from Chelsea. But the 27-year-old is understood to have turned down the move in favour of staying in Italy, where he plays alongside Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Tammy Abraham and Kyle Walker, who recently joined on loan from Manchester City.
Asked about the severity of Dragusin’s injury in his latest media conference, Postecoglou admitted he was worried as Spurs wait to learn the full extent of the issue.
“Still not [sure]. We’ll let it settle down and obviously get some information over the weekend,” he said. “Not available for the weekend at the moment and we just have to see the extent of it. Hard to tell [if it will be long-term]. It’s a knee, so we’ve got to let it settle down. There’s always concern when there’s a knee injury but we don’t know the extent.”
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