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Oliver Walton

Thu 21 August 2025 19:13, UK

Djed Spence has taken to social media to share a gag at Kevin Danso’s expense after he unleashed a secret weapon in their first game of the new season.

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Tottenham have started the domestic campaign well despite a penalty shootout loss to PSG in the UEFA Super Cup, with a 3-0 win at home to Burnley last weekend to begin their Premier League exploits with aplomb.

Thomas Frank will have been impressed with his side’s defensive performances in each game, with Spence starting both in an unfamiliar left-back role, while Danso was deployed in a back three for the PSG tie but then left on the bench against the Clarets.

Both players look set to stay at the club beyond the end of the summer window, with Danso only joining permanently from Lens in May, while Spence recently signed a new contract at Tottenham to extend his stay at the club for another four years.

The duo look to be striking up a close relationship off the pitch as well as on it, and the full-back has now taken to social media to joke with Danso about something new that he has brought to the table on the pitch under Frank.

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Danso tried his arm at some long-throws in Spurs’ first game of the new campaign against PSG last week, and they were a success as they caused chaos in the penalty area and led to a number of big chances for Frank’s side.

Frank later admitted that they were “a weapon” and that he had particularly focused on set-pieces with his long throw in mind, and it is clear that Spurs players, and Spence in particular are also fans of Danso’s peculiar attribute.

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The full-back took to Instagram on Wednesday (20 August) to share a number of pictures of his recent time on and off the pitch, and at the end of the carousel of updates was a meme of Danso’s head on former Stoke player Rory Delap’s body along with the caption: “You killed the man…but not the idea.”

Football Insider verdict

Danso created two chances against PSG from his long-throws into their penalty area, and it certainly was reminiscient of Delap’s days in the Potteries when Stoke would load the box as he arrowed the ball into the mixer.

The Potters were famed and largely disliked for their rough-and-tumble approach under Tony Pulis, and Delap’s not-so-secret weapon was a huge asset in times of trouble during their Premier League days of the late 2000’s.

Danso’s is similar, albeit not quite as dangerous, and it is a technique that Frank will be very familar with after he implemented it at Brentford with the likes of Mads Bech Sorensen and Ethan Pinnock able to do similar from the touchline.

Spurs will need their goals to come from a host of different players and situations if they are to improve on last season’s disastrous league showing, and it makes sense to utilise the Austrian international’s ability to chuck it long when they think it will be useful.

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