Published: 21:59, 28 January 2026 | Updated: 22:00, 28 January 2026

Randal Kolo Muani hardly cut the figure of a Tottenham hero as he stood on the hard shoulder of M25 and inspected his damaged Ferrari Purosangue.

It seemed like an image to encapsulate his season. The Spurs season, in fact. A front tyre had blown on the way to the airport, and he missed the team flight to Frankfurt along with Wilson Odobert who pulled over to help when he saw his teammate in trouble.

Fortunately, nobody was hurt. With a wheel missing and air bags deployed, Kolo Muani had clearly had a very lucky escape and had Spurs not been in such desperate need of players they might have decided they could cope without him.

He had scored only twice in his first 23 games of his loan spell from Paris Saint-Germain. He arrived lacking fitness, was disrupted by freakish injuries and has been flirting with a return to Juventus, where he finished last season in a flurry of goals.

Spurs flew him out to Frankfurt though and Thomas Frank made him...