Djed Spence Tottenham return with England Nations League squad, Digi Mart USA News: Djed Spence has made a return to Tottenham just months after leaving the club. The now-Inter Milan defender returned to north London as part of England’s Nations League camp for this month’s international break, after he was called up by Thomas Tuchel as one of the Three Lions’ two left-back options alongside Lewis Hall of Newcastle United.
Spence starred at last summer’s World Cup, when England reached the semi-finals in North America, starting in the 2-1 defeat by Argentina in Atlanta, Georgia. The 26-year-old moved to Serie A in the transfer window following the tournament in a £25million deal.
Spurs had already signed Andy Robertson to bolster their defense under Roberto De Zerbi, who oversaw a £380m summer overhaul of his first-team squad. Spence’s game time at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium already looked in doubt with Pedro Porro, the club’s vice-captain and go-to option at right-back, and versatile midfielder Archie Gray also having deputized ably in that role.
At left-back, Destiny Udogie had established himself as the first-choice pick despite persistent injury issues.
Spence’s return to Hotspur Way, the club’s former training ground, was captured on social media, with the full-back posting a photograph of himself with three former teammates to his Instagram story. They were two of Spurs’ injured players, Xavi Simons and Wilson Odobert, and Richarlison, who has been frozen out under De Zerbi after not being registered in the club’s Premier League squad this season.
The Brazilian failed to secure a move away from the club in the summer, unlike Spence, and he has not featured for Tottenham since the transfer window and squad registration deadline closed.
