Although Ben Davies's career at Tottenham Hotspur seemed to be over both last summer and the summer befoer that, the vice captain and club icon is still going strong as an important veteran leader and piece of depth off the bench.
A lot of fans wrote him off in 2025, but Spurs kept him on a one year contract, and when he did play before a season ending injury, he was quite good, surprisingly. And then despite the injury last season and even rumors that he could be an interim coach to finish up his career with the Lilywhites, Davies is back, and, again, whenever he has taken the field, he has not looked washed up at all.
Over the September international break, Davies has picked up where he left off and delivered a quality defensive performance for Wales in their tough 1-0 loss to European heavyweights Portugal. Davies led Wales with seven clearances and three blocked shots as one of the team's starting center backs. He also led the team with 62 passes and a pass completion percentage of 92.
Andy Robertson has been too prone to errors
With Andy Robertson making too many mistakes defensively at left back while still looking less than sprightly going forward, just as he did at Liverpool over the past two seasons, Ben Davies has a real chance to supplant the Scottish international as the emergency left back to Destiny Udogie. Davies has become something of a forgotten man, and while it isn't ideal for him to start, he can play left back. And if Robbo throws more games away, like he did against Aston Villa, Roberto De Zerbi may have a low threshold to call his number.
Meanwhile, there is more depth at center back with Jan Paul van Hecke and Micky van de Ven obviously entrenched as the starting center back pairing. And new signing Tosin Adarabioyo has been a bigger positive than expected after many Spurs fans disagreed with the signing from Chelsea to replace Kevin Danso, who is now at Sunderland.
However, Marcos Senesi has been poor. His quality of passing has not impressed Spurs fans, unlike Van Hecke, and, defensively, he has been by far the weakest of the center backs. Neither he nor Andy Robertson have shown the level expected as free agents, and since they were mostly brought in for experience, if Davies keeps producing well for club and country, De Zerbi has no reason to keep overlooking him if Senesi and Robbo don't improve.
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