By David Woods

7th Dec, 2017 | 4:06pm

Reliable journalist: Attacker ruled out of Tottenham clash v Stoke

By Harry Sykes

Stoke City’s striker Jese has been ruled out of Saturday’s game against Tottenham for personal reasons, according to injury specialist Ben Dinnery.

Dinnery, who works as an injury analyst for ESPN and Sky Sports announced the news on his official Twitter account on Thursday afternoon.

Stoke are set to play Tottenham at Wembley on Saturday, but will have to do without their attacker, who is on loan from Paris Saint-Germain.

The Mail reported last month that Jese’s son had been born four months premature.

Tottenham will be looking to put their bad run of form behind them with a win on Saturday.

They haven’t won any of their last four Premier League games, a run that’s seen them drop to sixth in the league, behind rivals Arsenal.

Arsenal kick-started their bad run, beating them 2-0, before draws to West Brom and Watford, sandwiched by a defeat to Leicester has seen their stock plummet.

By contrast, Tottenham have been doing brilliantly in the Champions League where they finished with a flourish beating Apoel Nicosia 3-0 on Wednesday.

That left them clear at the top of their group and they’ll find out who they draw in the last 16 on Monday.

In other Tottenham news, Jamie Redknapp has criticised the club for their decision to sell this player in the summer.

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