"Thomas Frank has left Mathys Tel out of his Tottenham squad for the league phase of the Champions League while he has been unable to find room in it for Dejan Kulusevski and Radu Dragusin even though they could return from long-term injuries while there are still ties to play. Frank has been in an impossible position because of how the profile of his players has jarred with Uefa's regulations."
"Put simply, the head coach has too few homegrown squad members and too many who have come from elsewhere. He was always going to have to exclude six players from his 25-man A list. The others to miss out are James Maddison, who will be unavailable for the entire league phase of the competition with an anterior cruciate ligament rupture, the new signing Kota Takai and Yves Bissouma, who is out of favour and linked with a move to Turkey,"
Thomas Frank omitted Mathys Tel from Tottenham’s Champions League league-phase squad and could not accommodate Dejan Kulusevski or Radu Dragusin despite potential returns from long-term injuries. UEFA homegrown-player regulations left the squad with too few locally trained players, forcing six exclusions from the 25-man A list. James Maddison is unavailable for the league phase with an anterior cruciate ligament rupture. New signing Kota Takai and Yves Bissouma also missed the squad, with Bissouma linked to a move to Turkey while that transfer window remains open. Deadline-day loan signing Randal Kolo Muani, a non-locally trained player, was named in the squad. Kulusevski underwent knee surgery and is expected back around the turn of the year.
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