All summer i have read how Spurs are the up an coming team, how they will force Arsenal down to fifth place, and up until two weeks ago i swallowed the whole thing, but then i did my fantasy football team, and i was shocked with what i saw.
As i was picking my team i was running out of money so i started to look down the different squads to try and find a bargain or two, but when i clicked on Spurs i got more than i bargained for, it amazed me that this team that had been so hyped up was so top heavy, make no mistake Spurs have the best front line selection in the country, Berbatov, Keane, Bent and Defoe is a strike force nearly all top teams would envy, but as i tried to find a good value midfielder and defender, they just were not there,and as i studied it more not only could i not find value , but i could not see any true Premiership class players, Tottenham simply have nothing behind the front line. They bought all these expensive strikers but never really thought about how to give them the ball and create chances. The whole thing has to be the work of an idiot........step forward Martin Jol and the board that blindly backed you, you just may have sent Tottenhan Hotspur on the road down the leagues of no return.
Spurs are so similar to Leeds a couple of years ago its a little bit scary, Leeds invested everything that they did not have on a manager that had no real pedigree but gave his youngsters in the team a chance and they did ok, so Leeds then threw money at David O Leary like it was going out of fashion, but we all know how that story finished up.
Spurs are much the same they have spent nearly 100 million over the last couple of seasons seasons with only Berbatov being good value for money. Now i know its early in the season and i would not usually comment like this, but Spurs under Martin Jol are so shocking underachievers that it has to be said they are the most likely to become the next Leeds.
Its early in the season but the Spurs team is so top heavy with strikers that they have to buy midfielders and defenders again before the deadline, and if Jol does what he has consistently done and buys the wrong players, then relegation is a real threat because his team has been so poor so far and has already been beaten by two of its relegation competitors.
I would be sad to see Spurs go the same way as Leeds as they have always played good entertaining football, but they really need big changes to survive, and the biggest change they need, is finding someone that can buy players that give the team a balance, as good a defence and midfield to go with an attack that a team like Spurs can afford, not the all out attack house of cards that Jol has built, so maybe if Spurs act now and get a manager who understands that a team is built from defence, midfield and attack they may just salvage something from this season.
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