Unavailable for the Champions League fixture against RB Leipzig on Tuesday night, Steven Bergwijn could be out for the rest of the season with an ankle injury.
The January signing finished the game against Burnley, but it was announced later he would be unavailable for the foreseeable future, adding yet another fitness issue to an already decimated squad.
However, soon after, Algemeen Dagblad journalist Sjoerd Mossou explained he wasn’t surprised the player had gone down so quickly after his move from the Eredivisie side as it had been said, by PSV Eindhoven, that it was ‘inevitable’ he would get injured.
Het Parool columnist Henk Spaan has since disputed this, claiming the journalist has been spreading a ‘false message’ and that Bergwijn is ‘suffering from the disinformation’ that was pushed at the time of his transfer.
Explaining he watched the game against Burnley, the writer maintains the Spurs forward ‘was fit’ and his direct running was ‘praised’, believing that instead of being overweight, the injury happened because both Jeff Hendrick and Phil Bardsley kicked him towards the end of the game.
He also has a go at PSV for sending out the message the player was ‘too fat’, saying that everything is seemingly ‘allowed in football’ these days and ‘everything comes out’.
At least one person is fighting in Bergwijn’s corner.
