Harry Redknapp has confirmed that Jermain Defoe suffered an ankle injury during the Tottenham’s warm-weather training camp in Dubai on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Defoe broke down during a session in Al Ahli’s Rashid Stadium where Spurs were training as part of their five-day break between matches.<\/p>\n
It is unclear how long the striker will be out of action for, but the club will hope that the injury is not a recurrence of the ankle ligament damage that ruled him out for eight weeks following England’s 3-1 win over Switzerland in September.<\/p>\n
Defoe is yet to score in the league this season but news of his injury is still a blow to Redknapp due to the fact that he is already without several key players through injury.<\/p>\n
“Defoe has an injury again. He’s had a problem with his ankle before and it didn’t feel too good,” Redknapp said in Dubai-based newspaper The National.<\/p>\n
“We’re trying to finish in the top four and it’s so close. But we’ve got so many players injured, people forget.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got Tom Huddlestone, Younes Kaboul, Ledley King, [Jonathan] Woodgate, [Gareth] Bale, [Rafael] Van der Vaart.<\/p>\n
“If you could pick a team of injured players it would be a fantastic team.”<\/p>\n
Tottenham will return to England on Wednesday ahead of their Premier League match at Wolves on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Another of the club’s injured players, Vedran Corluka, is expected to be out for two months, which will give Alan Hutton a chance to stake his claim to be the club’s first-choice right-back once more.<\/p>\n
The Scot’s last game for Spurs came a month ago when he needlessly barged into Clint Dempsey in the penalty box to gift Fulham their second goal in the Cottagers’ 4-0 rout over their neighbours.<\/p>\n
Hutton was rumoured to have had a dressing-room bust-up with Redknapp following the match at Craven Cottage, but Redknapp insists he has not fallen out with the former Rangers man.<\/p>\n
Redknapp said: “Alan had a groin strain, but he’s fit now. I changed it after Fulham; I brought Corluka back in and we went and won four games on the spin, went to Milan and won. But that’s football: now Charlie [Corluka] is injured, so Alan’s got a chance to get back in the team.”<\/p>\n
Tottenham followed up their momentous 1-0 win at the San Siro with a sub-par performance in a 3-1 defeat to Blackpool seven days later.<\/p>\n
The result put a serious dent in the club’s ambitions for a top-four place, leaving them two points ahead of Chelsea having played one more match.<\/p>\n
Redknapp admits the defeat at Bloomfield Road was a big blow for his side, but has urged them to bounce back this weekend.<\/p>\n
He said: “We had been playing so well and everything just went wrong on the day. But we have to come back from that now.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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