Tottenham defender Dragusin suffers ACL injury

Tottenham Hotspur defender Radu Dragusin is acceptable to miss the remainder of the play aft injuring the anterior cruciate ligament successful his close knee.

The 23-year-old suffered the wounded during Tottenham's decision of Elfsborg successful the Europa League past week and has to person surgery.

He is expected to beryllium retired for astatine slightest six months and immoderate ACL injuries tin support players retired of enactment for up to a year.

Tottenham said Dragusin "will beryllium assessed by our aesculapian squad to find erstwhile helium tin instrumentality to training".

Dragusin started 21 of Tottenham's past 23 games.

The Romania planetary joins Destiny Udogie, Guglielmo Vicario, James Maddison, Brennan Johnson, Timo Werner, Wilson Odobert, Cristian Romero and Dominic Solanke connected the sidelines, portion chap defenders Micky van de Ven and Ben Davies person lone precocious returned to action.

Dragusin joined Tottenham from Genoa successful a £25m woody successful January 2024.

On Sunday, Tottenham signed Austria defender Kevin Danso connected indebtedness for the remainder of the season, with a acquisition enactment worthy £21m.

On Monday, they had a £70m connection for England defender Marc Guehi rejected by Crystal Palace, but signed 19-year-old attacker Mathys Tel from Bayern Munich.