Could Eriksen complete a return to Tottenham?
Martin Macdonald
- 8 Jan 2022 12:23 GMT
- 5 min read
Christian Eriksen is currently a free agent after being forced to leave Inter in December, with the Dane linked with a move to the Premier League.
In the summer, Eriksen was playing in a Euro 2020 match between Denmark and Finland when he collapsed suddenly on the pitch.
It was subsequently reported that he had suffered a cardiac arrest and was, according to the player himself, dead for a few minutes.
Eriksen, thankfully, survived the ordeal but his career has already been impacted.
Due to the presence of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in his body, he is no longer permitted to play in Italy due to Serie A regulations, which is what led to the termination of his contract with Inter.
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Eriksen is now on the lookout for a new club and has filmed training individually in the hopes of proving his fitness to find a team.
In an emotional interview posted by Danish outlet DR1, Eriksen explained that he had discussed with his with Sabrina about making a professional return to football.
"I'm forever in love with football,' he said. "I can feel they [his family] support my desire to play again. If Sabrina had said: 'I don't want you to play anymore,' this would be a very different situation.
"Of course, we have a trauma from June 12, but since then we have found our bearings so that Sabrina is OK with me going to the gym for a few hours and to the practice field. She trusts that when I go, I always come back."
A return to Tottenham?
Eriksen played for Spurs between 2013 and 2020, making 305 competitive appearances for the North London side.
In January of 2020 he moved to Inter and helped the Italian giants win their first Scudetto in nearly a decade the season after.
A return to Tottenham has been mentioned as a potential destination for Eriksen, and when manager Antonio Conte was asked about it, he said the "door is always open" for the Dane at Spurs.
"For sure, it was great, it was fine, to see him on a pitch, to see that he is kicking a ball," Conte said of the footage of Eriksen on the training pitch.
"What happened this summer was very not good, not good, for the people that worked with him, and the people that know him. I was scared in that moment.
"And now, to see him again ready to play football is great news. I think for Christian, the door is always open."
