The FA Cup is not a barometer for anything. Form of the day, draw, fixture congestion (of other teams too), competing in the League and so on. There are so many other parameters involved in Cup football.
They peaked last season. Spurs are done for the next decade at minimum.
This is a bit of wishful thinking. They have a chore of young players that will be performing at a high level in years to come and a well organised style of play. Most of their players will be prime for a few more seasons and they can keep adding to that. Just because they might âonly get 77 pointsâ this year doesnât mean they canât hit another 80 point season next season.
Lloris, Vertonghen, Alderweireld, Dembele are all 30/31 years old tho and like I said they are at it for a while. They probably need a small rebuild soon to go again.
Donât bother including the keeper in that, 30/31 is nothing for a keeper.
Eriksen is off to Barca this summer and Poch is gone after next season. I dont rate Kane, alli etc.
But thatâs quite a small number of ageing players compared to Arsenal, City and United and Iâd ignore Lloris
Compare that to who we need to replace: Cazorla, Mertesacker, Kosceilny, Cech (35), Monreal (32). Not to mention mediocrity like Xhaka, Mustafi, Welbeck, Iwobi, Chambers
Itâs simple: Spursâs current squad is like ours between 2004 and 2013. They need to invest to step up.
We are assuming their players wonât get poached.
I can definitely see Eriksen leaving especially after Kane cried about that goal.
I think Eriksen probably couldnât give a fuck about that in reality. But he can earn more money and have better shots at trophies elsewhere so heâll go. The same reasons players left us over the years.
Their players being poached kinda helps them because theyâre on long term deals. Barce come in and pay 150m for Erikson and Spurs have a summer transfer budget where they can pick up Lemar or Fekir or Bailey
Yeah their stadium will get financed within two transfer windows. Sigh
Or Soldado, Paulinho, ChiricheČ, Capoue and Chadli. Spurs are abysmal buyers.
Eriksen wonât go for that. Heâs not young like Dembele and he doesnât have the same marketability as Coutinho.
Spurs will be lucky to get ÂŁ60-70m for Eriksen. Heâs not a âsexyâ player.
You forgot Erikson himself off that list. That was generally a poor set of replacements and they have been hit and miss. Ultimately theyâve signed better than us in recent years.
In which case Levy probably wonât let him go.
Dembele would be a great fit for Barca, they need to give Busquets some genuine cover.
Alderweireld would be good too.
Swear for a few seconds I was like huh? They already have Dembelè!? Then I realised it was Spurs Dembelè you were talking about
Spuds are on a downward spiral as legendary AVB once said. No Eriksen no party.