Injuries can derail any team’s season, just ask Tottenham Hotspur.
Indeed, Spurs have had so many injuries this season, and it’s been an ongoing problem for the north London club.
However, there have been some suggestions that Tottenham’s players have taken some liberties with injuries this season.
Of course, there’s no grounding to those suggestions, but that isn’t to say that this hasn’t happened before.
Indeed, according to former Tottenham ace, Ryan Nelsen, speaking on the Footy Prime Podcast, one of his teammates when he was at Spurs faked an injury for six weeks because of something the manager had said to him.
High profile Tottenham player faked back injury
Nelsen spoke about the idea of players faking injuries.
The defender says that he has seen this happen at the highest level, claiming that one of his teammates at Spurs faked an injury for six weeks after having a bit of a falling out with Harry Redknapp.
“That’s, that happens. I mean, I can tell you stories in saying that. I can tell you stories at Tottenham when I was there, that certain players in the locker room, high, high profile players decided to have a back injury for six weeks because the manager said the wrong thing to them in a team talk,” Nelsen said.
“I won’t say who it is, he was on six figures a week and decided to have a back injury for six weeks. Well, when we’re like second in the league, third in the league. It does happen, it’s the world you live in.”
Tottenham’s form in 2012
Ryan Nelsen only spent six months at Spurs after arriving in January 2012.
Spurs were flying high that January, sitting third in the table.
However, after the January window closed, things seemed to go awry, as highlighted by a key player seemingly faking an injury.
Those issues spilled over onto the pitch as well, as Spurs’ form heading towards the end of the season was poor.
Spurs would ultimately hang onto fourth-place, but they would drop out of the Champions League due to the fact Chelsea won the competition that year.
Harry Redknapp would ultimately be sacked at the end of that season, and, based on what Nelsen says, Redknapp had seemingly lost the dressing room a bit towards the end of his time at Spurs.