Spurs are battling a curse that even potential transfer targets can't avoid

Tottenham Hotspur are top of a very unwanted table, and their problems aren't new - despite making a big change behind-the-scenes last summer...

It's probably something that all football fans feel, but surely Tottenham Hotspur are cursed when it comes to injuries?

If you want to know just how far the curse extends, simply ask Real Betis midfielder Johnny Cardoso. Spurs only have an option to sign the 23-year-old next summer if they wish and he's already picked up a hamstring injury.

The USA international is expected to be out until next month after damaging the muscle in his left leg.

So now it's that bad that you can get injured simply by association with Tottenham Hotspur.

Spurs have an option to sign Johnny Cardoso next summer. Now even he’s injured.

Every time Ange Postecoglou feels like he's emerging from the trees and into the daylight, so the wood grows back around him and takes him back into injury hell.

Spurs seem to have a special habit of taking brand new players, ones who haven't had a single injury, and managing to break them. The club simply can't have nice things.

Wilson Odobert did not miss a single game for Burnley last season through injury or even at Troyes in the previous campaign.

On Saturday, he underwent hamstring surgery at the Princess Grace Hospital in Marylebone, London and will presumably be out for months. The 19-year-old Frenchman had played just 182 minutes of football for Spurs since arriving in a £30million deal.

Even Dominic Solanke had not missed a game last season for Bournemouth through injury. He duly got injured in his first match for Tottenham following his £60million move. Thankfully he only missed the next couple of games for Spurs.