Kulusevski, Dragusin and Bissouma also omitted
Uefa rules force Spurs to cut six non-homegrown players
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, where the transfer window will remain open until Friday of next week.
