Leeds United terminated Djed Spence’s loan at the club last week, and it seems as though his Tottenham career is effectively over as they ship him out to Genoa.
Leeds didn’t have a great deal of work to get on with in the January window, but that has become a more pressing matter due to the right-back decisions made of late.
Djed Spence was the first major decision that the club made this month, cutting short his loan deal at the club in a surprising turn of events.
Daniel Farke explains Djed Spence axe.
Fans were shocked to learn of the club’s decision, but Daniel Farke shed more light on the matter in the aftermath as he pointed to potential “professionalism” issues with the 23-year-old (via talkSPORT):
“I don’t want to talk too much about Djed right now, because he’s meanwhile also back at Tottenham, that I totally respect that he’s their player.
“Listen, in the summer we came here in order to create and to bring new values and to create a new culture within the club and when we speak about a player if he’s on here on a permanent or a loan deal, we have expectations and these expectations are in several topics important.
“Obviously it’s important, the potential and the quality of the player but also it’s professionalism, it’s discipline, it’s workload on and off the pitch and also the soft skills, so also if he’s positive and committed, good for the group and engaged with these topics, paint them more or less a picture.
“And we decided okay, this is the player we want in our group and want to represent Leeds United. Our demands are very, very high and we don’t differ between loan players, permanent players so we are pretty picky in this topic.”
Romano: Spence being loaned out with £8.6m buy option
It seems as though Spence is not welcome back at Spurs either after his recall, with the right-back being put in the offer sent to Genoa for their centre-back Radu Dragusin.
Spence is expected to head to the Serie A side on loan this week, with Fabrizio Romano sharing that the 23-year-old will have an £8.6million buy option included in his loan deal:
