{"id":28124,"date":"2026-04-11T15:22:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/mohammed-kudus-tottenham-winger-may-need-surgery-after-injury-setback\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:22:52","slug":"mohammed-kudus-tottenham-winger-may-need-surgery-after-injury-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/mohammed-kudus-tottenham-winger-may-need-surgery-after-injury-setback\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammed Kudus: Tottenham winger may need surgery after injury setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Tottenham<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> winger Mohammed Kudus may require surgery after suffering a setback in his recovery from a thigh injury.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Ghana international has been out for more than three months after limping out of Spurs&#8217; 1-1 draw with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/sunderland\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Sunderland<\/a> on 4 January. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spurs had initially hoped the 25-year-old former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a> midfielder would return after this month&#8217;s international break, making him available for the club&#8217;s remaining seven matches of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But sources have told BBC Sport that he is now unlikely to feature again this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement on Thursday, Spurs said: &#8220;He had returned to team training during the past week, however will now require further specialist review and, potentially, surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will provide any relevant further updates in due course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roberto de Zerbi&#8217;s side are 17th in the Premier League table, one point above the relegation zone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kudus, a \u00a355m signing from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a> last summer, faces a race against time to be fit for Ghana&#8217;s World Cup squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Black Stars open their World Cup campaign against Panama on 18 June, before facing England on 23 June and Croatia on 27 June. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cjd8r239139o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham winger Mohammed Kudus may require surgery after suffering a setback in his recovery from a thigh injury. The Ghana international has been out for more than three months after limping out of Spurs&#8217; 1-1 draw with Sunderland on 4 January. Spurs had initially hoped the 25-year-old former West Ham midfielder would return after this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28126,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28124\/revisions\/28126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}