It\u2019s one thing to talk about Tottenham Hotspur player injuries. It\u2019s another thing when Spurs\u2019 primary attacking target picks up a long-term injury. David Ornstein, among others, is now reporting that Bournemouth attacker Eli Junior Kroupi has sustained a metatarsal injury to his foot during preseason training and will miss the next 3-4 months, putting a significant crimp into Spurs\u2019 summer transfer window plans (as well as everyone else\u2019s who were pursuing a move for Kroupi this summer).<\/p>\n
OK here\u2019s the point where you can make lots of #jokes about Tottenham\u2019s injury history, including swipes at Spurs\u2019 medical team extending their remit to injuring Spurs targets, resigned quips about how will fit right in on Tottenham\u2019s recovery table, and sensible chuckles about how Ange Postecoglou is at it again \u2014 when will he stop getting away with this?<\/p>\n
Okay, now that we\u2019ve gotten it all out of our system, this is a real shame. Kroupi looked to be the ideal young attacker that could really level up Spurs\u2019 attack. I\u2019d say it\u2019s almost a certainty that Spurs will now move onto other targets (Cody Gakpo is the name coming up most frequently, more on him later). It probably means that all the teams that are after him now will shift their attentions to signing him NEXT summer, or possibly in January if he returns before then.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s a real bummer. There was no guarantee that Spurs would\u2019ve signed Kroupi this summer (even though they were ostensibly in the lead according to several sources), but I like him a lot and was really hoping we\u2019d end up buying him. And let\u2019s also not forget that this is also a serious blow to Bournemouth, who were hoping to keep him and capitalize on his play to improve on their sixth place finish from last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s one thing to talk about Tottenham Hotspur player injuries. It\u2019s another thing when Spurs\u2019 primary attacking target…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99,55348],"class_list":["post-791884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-transfer-news-rumors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}