Tottenham: The curious case of Micky Van de Ven, Cristian Romero and their ‘slow-burning’ injuries

As Spurs’ injury crisis finally begins to ease, with “three or four” players due back in full training this week, Van de Ven and Romero have gone from being “the first cabs off the rank”, in Postecoglou’s words, to mystifying cases, the situations of two of Spurs’ most important players seemingly as unclear as ever.