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It's time to check in on those players who have left Tottenham in the past 18 months and what they have got up to in their careers
The Tottenham Hotspur squad that is currently fighting a relegation battle has seen many changes over the past two years.
In that time there have been three different head coaches in the dugout with the prospect of a fourth taking the helm in the coming weeks. With that turnover in the manager's seat the squad changes have been accordingly tumultuous and in all 18 first team players have departed the north London club permanently in the past two years alone.
Ben Davies remains the longest serving player at Spurs and it will be 12 years under his belt as he reaches the end of his contract this summer. The currently injured Welshman is also the final remaining member of the squad from the Champions League final in 2019 still remaining at Tottenham.
It's time to take a look at how those 18 players who left the club in the past two years have got on after heading out of the Hotspur Way exit doors. Many of them were big stars, one a club legend, another the man who brought them their first trophy in 17 years, some were expensive flops, while others were long-serving servants of the club.
Let's start with the last player to have left the north London outfit.
Brennan Johnson
Spurs shifted their policy this season to start getting better money in for players that they feel are not essential to the squad. That meant Brennan Johnson, just over six months after scoring their winning goal in the Europa League final, was informed that he was no longer required at the club as he did not fit into Thomas Frank's plans.
A £35million move to Crystal Palace came in January and it's fair to say the Wales international just hasn't fit into Oliver Glasner's set-up. He found himself playing as a right wing-back recently and the Eagles fans are struggling to see what he brings to them at this point in their system.
Johnson has yet to score in his 16 appearances so far for Palace, with just two assists to his name. It may be that he fits in better under Palace's next manager, as long as it's not Frank.
Son Heung-min
Son Heung-min left Tottenham Hotspur as a legend following a decade of service to the north London club, having scored 173 goals and registered 101 assists in 454 appearances. He became the first Asian player to score 100 goals in the Premier League and in May the South Korean star managed to do what so few before him had managed at Spurs in lifting a European trophy as captain of the club.
The 33-year-old told Frank that he wanted a new challenge last summer and duly joined LAFC in an MLS record fee of more than £20million.
Son revelled in the USA and racked up 12 goals and four assists the final 13 matches of his new club's MLS season. This season has started slightly slower with two assists and no goals yet in the early weeks of the league but with one goal and four assists in four CONCACAF Champions Cup games.
All eyes for the Spurs legend are now on the next few months and then the World Cup with South Korea.
Bryan Gil
Bryan Gil left Spurs last summer after four years as a Spurs player but with only 43 appearances and two assists to his name. The Spaniard just never found a place in N17 and was loaned out three times over those years.
He enjoyed his final loan spell at Girona and joined the La Liga club permanently for 10million Euros (£8.7million) at the very last moments of deadline day.
The 25-year-old suffered a knee injury towards the end of last season but after a summer of rehabilitation, Gil has become a regular starter as this campaign has worn on and had registered 24 appearances with three assists back in his homeland.
Sergio Reguilon
Another Spaniard who exited Spurs last summer, Reguilon left at the end of his contract, having made 73 appearances for Spurs, scoring twice and contributing nine assists over his five years at the club since joining from Real Madrid. That half a decade included an ill-fated loan to Atletico Madrid and then more successful half-season spells at both Manchester United and Brentford with Thomas Frank.
Last season Spurs could not find a move for Reguilon and he ended up playing six times for the club under Ange Postecoglou when needed.
Now he is with Lionel Messi at Inter Miami in the MLS although a knee sprain has meant a slow start to life over there with just the two appearances so far for the left-back.
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Timo Werner
Completing the MLS hat-trick, Timo Werner left Spurs after two loan spells and plenty of criticism from the supporters and is now playing for San Jose Earthquakes and has two assists in his first four games across the Atlantic.
The 30-year-old played 41 times for the north London club, scoring three goals and providing seven assists. Werner returned to RB Leipzig before making the winter move to San Jose.
Fraser Forster
The 37-year-old played 34 times for Tottenham over his three seasons at the club and managed eight clean sheets but conceded 54 goals during those games. He made four appearances in the Europa League last season meaning he got a winners' medal after the final in Bilbao.
After a little spell without a club, Forster, an England international with six caps and plenty of experience, moved to Bournemouth in the winter window and was on the bench in the immediate weeks after his move, including for the Cherries' win against Tottenham.
Alfie Whiteman
The long-serving Tottenham academy product departed the club last summer after a decade in Spurs colours.
Whiteman made his competitive first team debut in a Europa League win over Ludogorets at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in November 2020 and had two separate loan spells at Swedish top-flight side Degerfors IF in 2021 and 2022, helping them avoid relegation from the Allsvenskan on both occasions.
The 27-year-old goalkeeper announced his retirement from football at the end of last year to move into the world of photography and directing. He has also taken acting lessons so perhaps we'll see him on the big screen in years to come.
Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg
Hojbjerg left Spurs a long time ago, although technically he was only on loan at Marseille until his contract ended at the north London club last summer as he joined the Ligue 1 outfit with an obligation to buy that could rise to £17million.
The 30-year-old joined Tottenham in 2020 and played 184 times, scoring 10 goals and providing 17 assists during his four seasons before that loan to France.
This season the Danish midfielder has turned out 36 times for Marseille, scoring three goals and supplying four assists. He has captained the Ligue 1 side for much of this season.
Tanguy Ndombele
Tanguy Ndombele will be remembered by many as Tottenham's biggest flop after arriving from Lyon for a club record fee worth more than £60million back in 2019.
The Frenchman played just 91 times though over half a decade at the north London outfit before having his contract mutually terminated in the summer of 2024.
He moved back home when Nice signed him on a two-year contract. It was all going reasonably well to begin with before a sports hernia issue ended his season prematurely. Last summer he then had to go under the knife in a bid to fix a groin injury.
Now 29, Ndombele has had another injury-fragmented season, making his first appearance of the campaign in December but he has only played two minutes of Ligue 1 football since mid-February.
Giovani Lo Celso
Another expensive signing in that summer of 2019, Giovani Lo Celso had injuries aplenty at Tottenham and unfortunately they've followed him to Real Betis.
The Argentine, who turns 30 next month, hit the ground flying at first back in La Liga before muscle injuries hampered his first season and now in this campaign he started well for club and country only for a hamstring injury to have ruled him out of action since January.
Lo Celso played 108 games for Spurs, scoring 10 goals and laying on eight assists.
Emerson Royal
Emerson Royal is back in Brazil with Flamengo after a difficult time in Italy with AC Milan immediately after leaving Spurs in 2024.
The 27-year-old right-back left Tottenham in a deal worth £12.6million plus add-ons but Emerson struggled to impress in Serie A, although he did win the Italian Super Cup.
Emerson has found himself in and out of Flamengo's league side this season but has been getting some cup games, making 10 appearances so far this season.
Troy Parrott
Troy Parrott is one of the biggest success stories among the Tottenham departures in recent years, after joining AZ Alkmaar in a £6.7million deal in 2024 with a 20% sell-on clause for the north London side.
The 24-year-old Republic of Ireland international hit 20 goals for the Dutch side last season across 47 matches and this campaign has already got 28 goals and 10 assists in 41 matches.
Parrott has been linked with a big move this summer, with AC Milan mooted at one point as well as a Premier League return to Fulham or Everton, and Spurs will get that sell-on clause wherever he goes.
He also has 10 goals now for his country and he goes from strength to strength and Irish eyes are firmly set on the striker as the great hope for them ahead of the World Cup play-off semi-final against the Czech Republic.
Ryan Sessegnon
Everyone just wanted to see Ryan Sessegnon playing football again after his years of hamstring injury hell and he's doing exactly that back at Fulham.
Other than a little hamstring strain in December, the 25-year-old has been a near ever-present for Marco Silva's side at left-back. He has played 50 appearances for Fulham so far since joining them two seasons ago and this season has two goals and three assists to his name.
He scored last season against Tottenham in the defeat at Craven Cottage with a well-taken right-footed curling effort that brought no celebration.
"I spent five years at Spurs and I'm grateful for my time there. So that's why I didn't celebrate," the 24-year-old said after that game. "I'm feeling good, sharp and strong. I just want to play a little bit more. When I get the chances I want to prove I can play at this level."
When Tottenham decided not to take up the option of the additional year on his contract last summer, Sessegnon's return to Fulham meant that all of the club's arrivals in that now infamous 2019 window, including Ndombele, Lo Celso and even Jack Clarke went back to their previous side at some point after joining Spurs.
Joe Rodon
Joe Rodon has not looked back after leaving Spurs either as he helped Leeds United to the Championship title and missing only four minutes of football in their entire promotion-winning league season.
After joining permanently as part of the deal that brought Archie Gray in the opposite direction to north London that summer, now the 28-year-old is a Premier League regular with 30 appearances to his name this season in a Leeds shirt.
He will be hoping that Leeds remain up this season and that could end up being at the expense of Spurs. The two sides do battle at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in May in what could be a crunch match.
Oliver Skipp
Oliver Skipp has become a regular starter finally for Leicester but it took going down to the Championship for it to happen. The 25-year-old struggled for minutes in the first half of the campaign but has become a regular in the midfield since November.
Skipp had left Spurs in 2024 after 18 years at the north London club and more than 100 first team appearances in a transfer that could eventually bring Tottenham more than £20million plus a sell-on clause.
Leicester boss Gary Rowett has turned to Skipp regularly since his appointment as the Foxes look to try to avoid dropping into League One.
Japhet Tanganga
Like Sessegnon, Japhet Tanganga left Tottenham and in doing so left his injury woes behind.
Tanganga, now 26, has played 96 times since heading out of Spurs. As with Sessegnon, Tottenham did not take up the option in the summer of 2024 to extend Tanganga's contract by its final year. Instead he signed on a free transfer for Millwall after impressing for the Championship side on loan last season.
Last summer though Tanganga made the move to Sheffield United and he has captained the Blades in the Championship for much of this season as he continues to develop in his career.
Ivan Perisic
It feels like the Croatian left a long, long time ago, but Ivan Perisic technically stopped being a Tottenham employee in the summer of 2024, even if he had already joined Hajduk Split the previous January on loan until the end of his contract.
His time at Spurs ended with that torn cruciate ligament and then his return to Croatia with Hajduk went in the wrong direction with the arrival of Gennaro Gattuso as the now 37-year-old's contract was mutually terminated.
That brought a move to another new league in his remarkable career with a switch to Dutch side PSV Eindhoven and age has been no barrier for Perisic as he has racked up a remarkable 24 goals and 24 assists in 73 matches for the Eredivisie side.
Eric Dier
Similar to Perisic, Eric Dier has been gone from Spurs for longer but only officially left in that summer of 2024 after the option in his loan move to Bayern Munich was triggered in the second half of that season.
In all Dier played 48 matches at Bayern and left as a title winner for a new chapter at Monaco, where he signed a three-year contract.
He started well, scoring twice for the Ligue 1 side, including against Manchester City in the Champions League, but hamstring and calf injuries have fragmented his season before he returned to the bench at the weekend at Lyon.
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