{"id":467052,"date":"2026-05-26T02:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/467052\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T02:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:10:09","slug":"maddison-calls-for-tottenham-investigation-into-astronomical-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/467052\/","title":{"rendered":"Maddison calls for Tottenham investigation into ‘astronomical’ problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Maddison has called for Tottenham to launch an investigation into their \u201castronomical\u201d injury woes this season, insisting they would not have been in relegation danger had he and three other stars not spent long spells on the sidelines.<\/p>\n

Tottenham beat Everton 1-0 on the final day of the season to retain their Premier League status having been hit by a number of significant injuries to key players to hamper their progress this term.<\/p>\n

Dejan Kulusevski was out for the whole campaign after knee surgery, Mohammed Kudus missed the second half of the season with a hamstring problem, Rodrigo Bentancur also suffered a hamstring injury and was out for 15 games, and Maddison<\/a> himself only managed brief cameos in the final three games of the season after recovering from a torn ACL.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: 16 Conclusions from the Premier League final day: Spurs survive, West Ham down, Euro fighters<\/a><\/p>\n

The Spurs playmaker insists it\u2019s a problem worth investigation as although some of the injuries can simply be put down to bad luck, he insists it\u2019s a \u201cfact\u201d that Tottenham would not have found themselves fighting relegation without so many long-term absentees.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur situation with the injuries has been worse than any other club,\u201d Maddison told reporters following Tottenham\u2019s win over Everton.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople try and say, \u2018Oh, but we\u2019ve got this and that\u2019. But ours is astronomical and we need to look at why that is.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes it can just be unlucky, sometimes it can be a coincidence, like me doing my ACL or (Dejan) Kulusevski getting a horrendous knock off [Marc] Guehi.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not the medical team, that\u2019s not the pitch or all the theories that you see, sometimes that\u2019s rubbish.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been a bit unlucky. But like I said, the big names that we\u2019ve missed, it does affect you and you can\u2019t just deny that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we had had myself, Kulusevski and [Mohammed] Kudus, and [Rodrigo] Bentancur missed three months and whatnot. If you had had them for the whole season, we wouldn\u2019t have been in this situation, I strongly believe.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s just not me being naive, that\u2019s just a fact. But it is the situation we find ourselves in, and I am just proud of the lads to dig deep today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Maddison has called for Tottenham to launch an investigation into their \u201castronomical\u201d injury woes this season, insisting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[914,61,60,38206,43,112,3568],"class_list":["post-467052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-front-page","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-james-maddison","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}