Tottenham star Randal Kolo Muani was involved in a car crash after his tyre blew out on the motorway.
The French forward, 27, had been travelling to Stansted Airport on Tuesday ahead of his side’s Champions League clash against Eintracht Frankfurt, when the offside front tyre of his black Ferrari blew out.
Fellow Spurs man Wilson Odobert had been following Kolo Muani on the M25 when the smash occurred, and pulled over to make sure his team-mate was safe.
Images from the scene show the players standing at the side of the motorway, with the front of the car – believed to retail at around £350,000 – wrecked. The airbag in the driving seat of the Ferrari also appears to have been activated.
Spurs boss Thomas Frank confirmed the players had come through it unharmed.
‘Both are fine,’ said Frank, when asked if they had been shaken by the accident. ‘Unfortunately, they were both involved in a minor accident. Everyone else involved in that accident was fine. It was a tyre blowing up and so the two of them are a little bit delayed. But they will land later.’
Tottenham’s Wilson Odobert and Randal Kolo Muani were involved in a car crash on Tuesday
Images from the scene show the French attackers standing at the side of the M25 motorway
The offside front tyre of the black Ferrari was completely burnt out in the crash on Tuesday
Frank’s squad took off without Kolo Muani and Odobert, but both are expected to be available for the game in Germany.
The Danish manager is desperately short of available players. Counting Kolo Muani and Odobert the Spurs boss has 11 senior outfield players available for the game.
Pedro Porro and Micky van de Ven, meanwhile, are the latest additions to a growing injury list.
Porro has been ruled out for four weeks with a hamstring injury picked up at Burnley on Saturday, when he was replaced at half time. Van de Ven, who played for 90 minutes at Burnley, has not travelled to Frankfurt.
Frank said it was ‘a minor issue’ and ‘not a hamstring’ and that the Netherlands centre half is ‘big possibility’ to face Manchester City in the Premier League on Sunday.
‘It definitely does not help any of us,’ said the Spurs boss. ‘Of course, we prefer to have the best players out there on the pitch. Any coach and teammate wants that, but we also have a squad and need other players to step up as they’ve done and perform.
Spurs are already guaranteed to qualify for the knock out rounds but know victory in Frankfurt will clinch a top eight finish and a bye into the last 16 of the competition.
