14 Spurs stars receive senior national call-ups – Hotspur Way set to feel empty

There will be no rest for many of the Spurs players this week, with as many as 14 call-ups to senior national teams all around the world.

Spurs players earning recognition from national teams

Many fans watching Tottenham on Sunday would have been dismayed at their performance. However, this inconsistency at club level has not swayed the devotion of the players’ national team managers.

With competitive fixtures scheduled for national sides, many of the Tottenham senior squad have received call-ups to their teams to help secure qualification for forthcoming international tournaments.

Tottenham have named each player called up on X but it looks set to be a lonely two weeks at Hotspur Way for those who are left behind.

Fourteen senior Spurs players called up

Vicario, Porro, Romero, Dragusin, Davies, Udogie, Bentancur, Bissouma, Sarr, Bergvall, Kulusevski, Johnson, Son and Solanke will all join up with their national sides for the next week.

Most national sides have two matches scheduled to take place over this break. European teams will compete in the Nations League while South American and Asian nations will play for World Cup qualification in CONMEBOL and AFC respectively. African teams will be playing for AFCON qualification.

Of the 14 called up, there are a mixture of players who are considered first XI stalwarts for their country and those aiming to secure positions in their national team squads going forward. There is likely to be an element of rotation in most national teams, but there is a chance that some of Spurs’ players will be competing in another 2 games before they return to face Manchester City on the 23rd.

Postecoglou left to stew for weeks, once again

Tottenham have now lost every single Premier League game before an international break this season. This period of two weeks before the next fixture will be as painful for Ange Postecoglou as it is for fans.

With so many of the first team squad away and many of the others injured, there is little to nothing that can be worked on to rectify issues in their last game before everyone returns.

Ange has said previously that he “doesn’t like sitting on a loss”, also commenting that there can be a tendency to “over-analyse”. Even after the loss to Ipswich, Tottenham’s underlying numbers remain good so there is perhaps not a necessity to shake up the tactics to too great an extent.

However, with Tottenham’s lethargic starts to recent games (inferring a mental issue rather than a tactical one), perhaps this is an opportunity for a period of reflection. Postecoglou is an excellent communicator, so fans can at least have faith that over the next week, he may be able to figure out how to galvanise this team as they enter a difficult run of games in December.

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