Suddenly all these potential Tottenham Hotspur transfer moves for central defenders makes more sense. In a Daily Telegraph piece that’s mostly about Spurs lining up Axel Disasi as a backup plan in case the Fikayo Tomori deal collapses, our good buddy Matt Law does drop some info about Radu Dragusin.
Radu appeared to injure his knee shortly after coming on as a second half substitute during Tottenahm’s 3-0 Europa League win over Elfsborg on Thursday. He tried to go back on the pitch and play but it was quickly apparent that something was seriously wrong. Law writes that while Spurs are waiting on the results of scans to evaluate the extent of Dragusin’s injury, the initial signs don’t look good.
Dragusin and Spurs are still waiting to find out the full extent of his injury with no definitive time frames put on his absence yet. But there is concern he could be ruled out for most of the rest of the campaign, which has heightened Tottenham’s desperation to sign a new defender before the winter transfer window shuts.
— Matt Law, Daily Telegraph
So sure, the sudden urgency about a central defender (or two) makes a lot more sense now. Spurs only had four first team CBs to start with, Cuti Romero is still working his way back, Micky van de Ven is freshly back after another hamstring injury, and Ben Davies is almost 32 years old. You’d think a defensive body or two would suddenly leap to the top of the priority list.
Some fans are going to scoff or make jokes about how losing Dragusin is “good” because he hasn’t especially been playing well. It’s true that it doesn’t appear Dragusin is a particularly good fit for Ange Postecoglou’s tactics, but he’s also a young guy and has been putting in warrior’s minutes in the back line during the injury crisis. You gotta respect that, even if you don’t like him, and losing him for an extended period just makes Postecoglou and Tottenham’s job even harder.