Tottenham fans heartbroken as former favourite likely plays final ever game
Tottenham are enduring a difficult Premier League campaign, with Sunday’s defeat to Fulham marking their 15th top-flight loss of the season.
Spurs also suffered an early FA Cup exit when they were beaten 2-1 by Aston Villa on 9 February, just three days on from their embarrassing 4-0 defeat to Liverpool in the second leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final.
Manager Ange Postecoglou is under growing pressure in the Tottenham dugout, but the club’s increasingly impressive Europa League run has been his saving grace so far.
While Spurs have seen several key players, such as striker Dominic Solanke, suffer injury setbacks this campaign, they have navigated their way through to the Europa League quarter-finals, where they will meet Bundesliga side Frankfurt.
Tottenham fans left devastated by Toby Alderweireld news
Former Spurs star Toby Alderweireld had already announced that he’s retiring at the end of the season, but while plying his trade for Belgian side Royal Antwerp at the weekend, he suffered a quadricep injury which will likely rule him out for the rest of the campaign.
If that prognosis is confirmed, Alderweireld would have played his final game as a professional footballer.
Tottenham fans have been left upset by that news, with one X user describing Alderweireld’s injury as “heartbreaking”, and another Spurs fan commenting that the centre-back was a “great player”.
Alderweireld was a fantastic player for Tottenham
It is no surprise that the Tottenham faithful have been left devastated by the injury suffered by Alderweireld, which appears set to prompt his early retirement from football.
After signing for Spurs from Atletico Madrid in the summer of 2015, the Belgium international spent six years with the North London side, racking up over 230 appearances and scoring nine goals in the process.
His defensive displays in Tottenham colours were underlined by consistent brilliance, while he made 12 Champions League appearances in the remarkable 2018/19 campaign in which Spurs reached the final.
Liverpool went on to win the final in Madrid 2-0, but Spurs had also done exceptionally well to finish as runners-up despite being one of the competition’s underdogs.
Alderweireld was deservedly named in Mauricio Pochettino’s lineup for the 2019 Champions League final alongside fellow Spurs hero and Belgium international Jan Vertonghen.
If this is the end of his career, every Tottenham fan will wish him nothing but the best for the future.