Leeds United defender Djed Spence is ruled out for several weeks with a lateral collateral ligament injury, according to Dr Rajpal Brar.
The injury expert claims that the Tottenham Hotspur owned defender is out with an injury that’s extremely rare for footballers.
It is a Grade 2 moderate tear – which means it could have been worse – but he will not be back in action for Leeds until mid November.
Spence has yet to start a game for Leeds since his loan move this summer but looked impressive coming off the bench against Sheffield Wednesday.
His absence will come as a blow for Daniel Farke who made the decision to loan out Cody Drameh in the summer transfer window.
Luke Ayling is expected to be the first choice right-back at least until Spence is fit with Jamie Shackleton serving as his backup.
The 21-year-old traded Hoffenheim for Elland Road in January, with the club shattering their transfer record to bring Rutter into the fray amid an ongoing relegation battle, which they eventually lost.
Rutter himself enforced next to no impact on proceedings either and struggled to gain full fitness and, crucially, the all-important license of faith from his manager.
Indeed, the French youth international only received one league start, in which he played a peripheral role for just over an hour in Leeds’ slender 1-0 defeat away to Chelsea at the beginning of March, and it wasn’t until the final day of the season when he notched his first goal contribution, an assist against Tottenham.
So naturally then, given the sheer amount of faces that sought the Whites’ exit door, Rutter had appeared among those primed to move on despite being with the team for a short duration.
