The reason Randal Kolo Muani is not in Tottenham's squad to face Brighton

Tottenham's summer deadline day signing Randal Kolo Muani is out of their Premier League match at Brighton on Saturday afternoon with a dead leg.

The 26-year-old made the switch to Tottenham from PSG on transfer deadline day with a €5million (£4.3million) season-long loan move. Spurs had been building up the Frenchman's fitness as he had not been training with the Ligue 1 side ahead of his move.

Kolo Muani was at Juventus last season on a half-season loan but the Italian side were unable to secure a permanent move for the France international this summer after he scored eight goals in 16 matches in Serie A.

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He was set to be on the bench for the game at the Amex Stadium on Saturday but picked up the dead leg in training. The forward had come off the bench late on in the 1-0 win against Villarreal on Tuesday night in the Champions League to make his debut but could not be spotted training with the substitutes on Thursday at Hotspur Way.

Kolo Muani was brought in to add experience into the young squad and provide cover with Dominic Solanke out with an ankle problem and Richarlison having availability issues over recent seasons.

The deadline day signing, who has been capped 31 times by France and scored nine goals, has made 23 appearances in the Champions League, scoring three times, and has adapted and scored good numbers in Ligue 1, the Bundesliga and Serie A. He also played at this summer's Club World Cup.

Kolo Muani had missed just one game through injury in his senior career before today, while at Eintracht Frankfurt with a sore adductor, according to the stats on Transfermarkt. He missed one at PSG with a virus. Tottenham will be hoping it's another two-and-a-half years until his next injury-enforced absence.