Good Article.

From the Spurs Club website.


THE DOS SANTOS RIDDLE







After another sparkling display in last night's victory over Benfica, I
have been wondering what the agenda is with Gio Dos Santos.

Clearly
every Spurs fan you speak to has pretty much loved him from day 1 and
would be delighted for us to keep him. Most would even welcome the lad
being given his chance in the squad proper, so why are we still hearing
stories about swap deals, loans and sales?

Harry hasn't exactly
got Rafa Benitez's 'eye for a player' so he must be able to see what we
see. Gio is pacey, has quick feet, gets into space brilliantly, has good
vision and can finish - I've even seen him chasing back and putting in
solid tackles recently! Yet Harry seems incapable of publically backing
the lad., all we hear is the "must knuckle down" sort of comments.

The
thing is, Gio was the young player of the tournament at the World Cup,
impressed me in his second half cameo against Villarreal and worked his
socks off last night. What more does he have to do? We clearly have a
need for a tricky second striker/in-the-hole type player and if Dos
Santos is good enough for AC Milan (alledgedly) then he must be able to
do a job for us.

I'm now wondering if this is just the legendary
Redknapp man-management in action. It seems like insanity to give up a
young player with this kind of genuine potential just because he likes a
party or two. I can only assume that Harry knows what works with the
player, and in his case the stick is more effective than the carrot.
Time to give him his chance now though don't you think?

We can't
seriously be about to sell him can we? If Keane goes he's a ready made
replacement, a seat on the bench every week as one of the 4 strikers
would be seen as apromotion for the player, so I expect he'd be happy. A
perfect impact player when we need to beat the team bus against
Blackpool?

I for one would be delighted for him.

Even though Dos Santos had a decent World Cup & Pre-Season, i have this feeling that Harry is still going to offload the lad. I for one like him and hope we hang onto him, he is a great talent and has bags of skill, but he is still very young and learning. At Galatasaray, they loved the player and wanted to swap him for their left winger Arda Turan, but it didnt happen. Fingers crossed, i hope he stays.

I think it may come down to whether the player himself has the patience to hang about. Same thing with whats happened with Tarrabt at the moment. Also, look at Pavlyuchenko last Season, he only got a handful of games and it was the fans voice which got him a few games in the end. If only the fans had more of a voice in these situations, at the end of the day we're the ones who know the players just as well.

harry is wrong if he sells dos santos and he was wrong for selling tarrabt to ... but we have to trust harry now

I'm not to sure about Gio he has some good spells in games but then drifts out and looks less effective over 90 min. Even In the WC he looked good in short bursts, but I would certainly want to keep him now, as he has shown in the last few weeks that he possibly could be a real talent.
But more importantly they are talking about a swop for Huntelar and that is one very overated player and I don't want to see him at the lane. He seems to move clubs every 6 months and plays a few games and is dropped. If he came to us he would hardly get a game so we don't want him. In my Opinion.

Mikey M