TORONTO – Toronto FC has given permission to star striker Jermain Defoe, returning from a groin injury, to train with his former club Tottenham.
The training period begins Thursday and lasts one week.
“The club can confirm that Jermain Defoe will train with our development squad for the next week in order to maintain his fitness during the MLS close season,” Spurs said Thursday on its website.
The 32-year-old Defoe scored 11 goals in 16 league games for Toronto in an injury-interrupted debut MLS season in 2014.
“Just touched down in the UK from south of France, was training with my fitness guy feeling stronger than ever! #Ready,” Defoe tweeted earlier in the week.
His future in Toronto has been up in the air since the MLS club turned down a franchise-record transfer offer at the end of the summer transfer window.
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