James Maddison has described Tottenham Hotspur's injury problems this season as 'astronomical' and called on the club to investigate the root cause. The midfielder, who recovered from an ACL tear suffered in pre-season, helped Spurs avoid relegation with a 1-0 win over Everton on the final day.
Maddison highlighted the absences of key players, including Dejan Kulusevski, who last featured in May 2025, and attackers Dominic Solanke and Mohammed Kudus, both of whom missed half of the Premier League campaign. Xavi Simons also suffered a recent cruciate ligament tear.
'Our situation with the injuries has been worse than any other club,' Maddison said. 'People try and say, “Oh, but we’ve got this and that”. But ours is astronomical and we need to look at why that is.' He acknowledged that some injuries were unlucky, such as his own ACL tear or Kulusevski's knock from Marc Guehi, but insisted the scale of the problem required scrutiny.
Maddison believes Spurs would not have been in a relegation battle if not for the injuries. 'Myself, Kulusevski and Kudus, and Rodrigo Bentancur missed three months... If you had had them for the whole season, we wouldn’t have been in this situation, I strongly believe,' he said.
