Tottenham news: Roberto De Zerbi names Micky van de Ven as one of five Spurs captains ahead of new season

By Ben Sully | 22 Aug 2026 00:14, Last updated: 22 Aug 2026 04:11

Tottenham Hotspur brag Roberto De Zerbi has named Micky van de Ven arsenic the club's caller skipper up of the Premier League season.

De Zerbi has been forced to take a caller skipper aft the club's erstwhile skipper, Cristian Romero, precocious completed a determination to Atletico Madrid.

Romero's erstwhile cardinal antiaircraft partner, Van de Ven, has present been named arsenic the club's caller skipper up of Saturday's Premier League opener against Brentford.

Van de Ven already has acquisition of starring the broadside aft donning the armband connected respective occasions past term, including successful the last six games of Tottenham's endurance combat owed to Romero's wounded absence. 

Porro features successful Spurs enactment group

In summation to Van de Ven's appointment, De Zerbi has besides named 4 much captains arsenic portion of Tottenham's enactment radical for the 2026-27 season.

“The caller skipper is Micky van de Ven, the 2nd Pedro Porro, the 3rd Ben Davies, the 4th is James Maddison and the 5th is Archie Gray," De Zerbi told reporters connected Friday.

“Why 5 captains? Just due to the fact that I privation galore captains wrong of the transportation and to beryllium wide successful their position, and each 1 of them they merit to beryllium skipper oregon successful the radical of the captains.

“But the personality, the passion, is not if you are skipper oregon you are not captains.”

Why volition Van de Ven not skipper Spurs against Brentford?

Unfortunately for Van de Ven, helium volition not beryllium capable to pb the broadside astatine the Gtech Community Stadium owed to injury. 

"Today helium (Van de Ven) worked with us, with the radical – he’s going precise well," De Zerbi said.

"He suffered a occupation during the pre-season successful Australia. I don’t cognize if [it was] the flight, but it’s not a large problem, but not close to work."

Porro volition besides miss the crippled arsenic helium continues to physique up his fittingness aft missing Spurs' pre-season schedule.

Ben Davies and James Maddison are unlikely to start, which means Archie Gray could deterioration the armband for the club's Premier League opener.