Top shelf work would have involved selling one of them already for huge money (a la Coutinho or Hazard) and reinvesting those funds to build the next team.
Right now they’re just treading water without either putting together a team that could seriously challenge for top four or seriously laying the foundations for the next team.
The current team under Nuno has the same basic problems that Spurs did under Mourinho. Their players in the back and midfield just are not good enough with the ball to control matches and play with the ball except against teams that sit back the entire time. Fight them aggressively and they just cannot keep and advance the ball. Even teams like Palace and Brighton have been able to completely stifle them.
It will take major surgery in the transfer market to correct this issue if they ever want to get serious about it.
I think selling players and reinvesting is overestimated in it’s influence.
There’s something systemically wrong about how Levy runs Spurs that keeps them where they are. It’s been overlooked but I think Conte snubbing them is very telling in which they had to chase a manager lower on the footballing totem pole (Nuno).
Playing well from what I’ve seen, Reims whole backline has really contained Spurs threat (not that they are very threatening) and given them very little beyond the own goal. But I just had it on in the corner of my screen while I did some work so I wasn’t watching very closely.
Spurs fan called in 606 to say Kane is useless and should have been sold, then went on to say he’d rather have Salomón Rondón up front. Just unrivalled content.
