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I remember seeing an interview with Arsenal and England Physio Gary Lewis where he talked about medicals.
He said there isn’t really such a thing as a pass or fail of a medical. It’s just an examination to determine risk. Eg a player has little or no injuries so is low risk whilst another player has a history of problems with injuries in a certain part of his body so is considered a high risk.
The medical is as brief or thorough as the buying club decides. Bigger clubs are more thorough and take less risk (in theory) than smaller clubs.
All we can determine from this (if true) is that something has come up on the medical that has led us to change our minds. Doesn’t mean the player can’t/won’t sign for another club who are prepared to take whatever risk we weren’t.
In ten years time, no one is going to care or remember who finished 2nd or 17th in the 24/25 season but I guarantee people and especially Spurs fans will remember winning the Europa League…