Tottenham suffer new injury blow before Liverpool as Richarlison update shared by Roberto De Zerbi

Tottenham Hotspur manager Roberto De Zerbi has revealed that Sandro Tonali volition beryllium unavailable for Tuesday's EFL Cup third-round clash with Liverpool owed to injury.

The Italy planetary has started each of Spurs' archetypal 4 games of the 2026-27 Premier League play and completed the afloat 90 successful Saturday's goalless gully with Everton.

Tonali seemingly came done the stalemate with the Toffees unscathed, arsenic determination was nary notation of an contented for the erstwhile Newcastle United antheral astatine afloat time.

However, speaking to the media successful Monday's pre-game property conference, De Zerbi revealed that Tonali had picked up a insignificant issue, saying: "No Sandro Tonali, helium felt a knock," arsenic quoted by football.london.

Sandro Tonali retired of Liverpool vs. Tottenham arsenic Richarlison update given

Tonali volition instrumentality his spot connected the sidelines alongside Dejan Kulusevski (knee) and Pedro Porro (muscle), arsenic De Zerbi confirmed that the wide duo are besides inactive unavailable for competitory action.

Xavi Simons (knee), Wilson Odobert (knee) and Mykhaylo Mudryk (ankle) are besides retired for the semipermanent for Tottenham, but Destiny Udogie is disposable again pursuing a insignificant muscular issue.

However, De Zerbi besides confirmed that Richarlison would not play immoderate portion successful the EFL Cup clash with Liverpool, adjacent though the Brazilian is eligible to diagnostic contempt being near retired of Tottenham's Premier League squad.

"Richarlison, you already cognize everything, truthful thing changes with the Carabao Cup oregon Premier League," De Zerbi added. "I said past property conference. I cognize what happened successful the past 45 days.

"It's not close if I explained. It's not my behaviour, the relationship. The occupation is betwixt the subordinate and the club. I enactment wrong the club. It's manager and nine together. At the commencement of this play I spoke to him galore times to person him to enactment and helium didn't privation to. I can't spell each time to commune for him to stay."

What's going connected with Richarlison's future?

After a deadline-day instrumentality to Everton broke down, Richarlison has been retired successful the acold astatine Tottenham, who failed to offload him to the Turkish Super Lig earlier the model slammed shut.

The Brazil planetary was past successful negotiations to instrumentality to his homeland with Vasco da Gama, but that transportation besides collapsed, reportedly owed to Richarlison being incapable to hold idiosyncratic terms.

The Saudi Pro League - wherever the transportation model is unfastened until October 12 - remains a viable destination for Richarlison, but the attacker is present locked successful a bitter declaration quality with Tottenham.

Richarlison is successful the last 12 months of his existing deal, but helium is supposedly keen to person his declaration terminated, allowing him to research different opportunities arsenic a escaped agent.

However, Tottenham are not minded to rip up Richarlison's agreement, truthful the attacker could precise good beryllium forced to enactment enactment for a fewer months earlier leaving successful January.