Xavi Simons is one of several Spurs players to have suffered a serious knee injury in the past 12 months Tottenham have launched an extensive review into why their season was heavily affected by fitness issues, with a key focus on the "unusual" spate of anterior cruciate ligament injuries. Spurs avoided relegation on the final day of the season thanks to a 1-0 win over Everton but their difficult campaign was beset by a constant flow of injuries to key players. The club are now carrying out an internal audit - led by performance director Dan Lewindon, who joined the club from the City Football Group earlier this year - to work out why their season was so badly disrupted. It is understood the average availability of Spurs players last season was about 77%, and squad members were absent for a combined period of more than 2,000 days. Tottenham would prefer to take those numbers closer to 90% availability and fewer than 1,000 days, though there is an acknowledgement that may be difficult to achieve in the months leading up to next season. James Maddison, Wilson Odobert and Xavi Simons all sustained long-term ACL injuries, while Dejan Kulusevski missed the entire campaign after requirin
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Xavi Simons is one of several Spurs players to have suffered a serious knee injury in the past 12 months Tottenham have launched an extensive review into why their season was heavily affected by fitness issues, with a key focus on the…
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