Over the last few seasons, no team in world football has had worst luck with injuries than Tottenham Hotspur, and while it does not fully excuse how poorly the club performed this season in nearly getting relegated from the Premier League, it does help explain a huge reason for just how much the Lilywhites struggled.
Goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, center back Cristian Romero, and fellow central defender Micky van de Ven all missed matches with injuries. Radu Dragusin missed half the season. Destiny Udogie was out of the lineup almost as much as he was in. And in the midfield, Rodrigo Bentancur, Lucas Bergvall, and Xavi Simons all missed significant time while James Maddison never started a single match after tearing his ACL.
The attack was even more injury ravaged. Richarlison had a couple of knocks, Randal Kolo Muani did not play for much of the beginning of the season, Dominic Solanke barely featured at all, Wilson Odobert tore his ACL, Mohammed Kudus suffered a season ending injury, and Dejan Kulusevski never featured for a single minute of the 2025/26 season.
Tottenham might be onto something here
Everyone has been searching for answers as to how Tottenham Hotspur keep having massive injuries year after year no matter the manager, and, well, Spurs think that that is precisely the problem. According to a report from Football.London's Alasdair Gold, there is a feeling behind the scenes that one of the key contributing factors to the injury crisis at N17 is the constant turnover of managers.
Tottenham point to three key reasons for this belief. Firstly, the players physically are having to change training sessions and the different modalities could be leading to injuries. Secondly, new managers will push their players harder in training to get their new ideas going and get immediate results to avoid getting the sack. And thirdly, the players themselves may overexert themselves, particularly in training, in order to impress the new manager and get minutes.
These are all valid points, and the strain year over year in an increasingly congested schedule with little rest between seasons are only exacerbating these issues. Since firing Mauricio Pochettino for no real valid reason, Tottenham have been cycling through managers, and they are hoping that after surviving the Premier League drop, Roberto De Zerbi can be the one to stay for the long haul so Spurs can break this cycle. Because it really does feel like the management turnover cycle is a huge hidden causative factor here.
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