{"id":506847,"date":"2026-04-01T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506847\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:40:09","slug":"roberto-de-zerbi-dealt-fresh-injury-blow-one-day-into-taking-tottenham-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506847\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberto De Zerbi dealt fresh injury blow one day into taking Tottenham job"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> boss Roberto De Zerbi has already been dealt an injury blow after midfielder Pape Sarr was unable to feature for Senegal<\/a> in their friendly with Gambia.<\/p>\n

De Zerbi was confirmed as Spurs head coach on Tuesday on a five-year deal, which does not contain a relegation release clause, the Press Association understands, despite the north London club being only one point above the Premier League<\/a> bottom three.<\/p>\n

With seven games left this season, De Zerbi has limited time to work with a team without a league win in 2026, but has immediately been affected by an ongoing injury crisis in N17.<\/p>\n

Pape Sarr is the latest in a long line of Spurs players to sustain an injury this season\u00a0Izzy Poles – AMA\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Senegal midfielder Sarr joined up with his national team last week and featured in Saturday’s 2-0 win over Peru<\/a>, but was left out of the squad to face Gambia on Tuesday due to a shoulder injury, according to Senegalese media.<\/p>\n

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Any potential injury to Sarr would be untimely for De Zerbi, who has already discovered a lengthy list of absentees at Tottenham’s Hotspur Way training ground, with Guglielmo Vicario<\/a>, Ben Davies<\/a>, Rodrigo Bentancur<\/a>, James Maddison<\/a>, Dejan Kulusevski<\/a>, Wilson Odobert<\/a>, Mathys Tel<\/a> and Mohammed Kudus<\/a> all previously sidelined or currently unavailable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Tottenham Hotspur boss Roberto De Zerbi has already been dealt an injury blow after midfielder Pape Sarr…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-506847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}