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| September 27th 2010 by Ben McAleer Apologies, first of all, for another Spurs related post. However, their poor start to the season is something I can’t turn a blind too, being a Spurs fan and all.Admittedly, it wasn’t as bad as the 08/09 season when we had 2 points after 8 games yet, for a team hoping to become a solid top 4 outfit, things aren’t looking ideal at the moment.A massive contributing factor to this has to be the current injury crisis facing Tottenham. Gallas has since become the latest defensive casualty joining Dawson and Kaboul along with frequent visitors King and Woodgate in the physio room coupled with Gomes and Defoe playing their trade in there at the moment, it isn’t a position I was hoping to find Spurs in so early into the new season. The 4-1 defeat to Arsenal on Tuesday night was swiftly followed by a 1-0 defeat to a West Ham team that took full advantage of a weakened Tottenham team and kudos to them for doing so.However, to be hitting the crisis button now would be a mistake of immense proportion. Spurs are in a bad run of form to put it bluntly. The North London outfit have the players to make things right as was proved when Redknapp took over in October 2008 and make it right they will. A positive result on Wednesday night against FC Twente will give confidence back to the players ahead of the visit of Aston Villa at the weekend. Personally, I have no idea on the outcome of Wednesday’s fixture and I don’t care how it’s done as long as Spurs win with Redknapp today stating he will go on the offense against FC Twente simply because he has 2 centre backs to pick from – Bassong and Corluka. Yes, Huddlestone can fill in at CB if need be yet, to take him out of Midfield would be a bad move by Redknapp as much as I dislike Corluka at CB.Sticking with Redknapp briefly, he today claimed he would like to mirror the style of Arsenal’s play by purchasing more ‘flair’ players instead of defenders when he is given the opportunity either in January or in the summer transfer window. There are 2 mistakes with Redknapp’s statement here. 1) What Wenger has done with Arsenal has taken over 10 years to accomplish whilst, with Capello leaving his post as England manager in 2012 and with Redknapp the favourite to succeed him, I can’t see how he would accomplish this feat in just over 18 months. 2) Preferring to buy ‘flair’ players ahead of a much needed world class CB is criminal especially as we are facing a minor defensive crisis. With Woodgate on the verge of retiring and King with his long standing knee problems, another CB and a new striker should be taking priority in January. Granted, South African CB Bongani Khumalo (Mbulelo Mabizlea MK: II perhaps?) is set to join in January but he doesn’t strike me as a world class CB. For all I know, I could be proved wrong and I hope I am yet, I cannot see that being the case.All in all, I am praying for a win against FC Twente on Wednesday night in Spurs’ first ever, proper, Champions League fixture at White Hart Lane not just for the sake of the Champions League but to give Tottenham confidence ahead of the visit from Aston Villa over the weekend to gain all 3 points and propel the North London outfit back up the league. |
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