Tottenham have been dealt a double blow that could end their title challenge before it started.
The North London club were at the top of the table for several weeks, before losing 4-1 to Chelsea on Monday.
Now manager Ange Postecoglou has revealed that attacker James Maddison and defender Micky van de Ven are long-term absentees.
Both players are out until the start of 2024 at the very least, with Van de Ven possibly out for longer.
Postecoglou told reporters: "Yeah we don't get a lot of time to enjoy the moment, do we? I'm glad you put it in there but let's get onto the real stuff. No, all good. Fair to say there was a fair bit happening after Monday night.
"If I can go through them... Micky Van de Ven with a hamstring injury we knew was fairly significant. Probably a couple of months for him - looking into the new year.
"Madders, a lot worse than we thought. He came off with the ankle injury, but the next day wasn't great so we sent him off for a scan. So again not great for him and probably into the new year for him.
"Richy [Richarlison] had the operation, which we'd kind of scheduled anyway because Richy has been battling with it from day one and we thought with the international break coming up we thought it would be a good time to get it done. He should only be a month if everything goes well so not too long after the international break.
"They're the main ones, obviously we have a couple of suspensions as well. Davies is back and available. Porro's fine."
