MLS game means more game time for Yedlin

With DeAndre Yedlin getting his first taste of Premier League football and laying a lovely ball to feet in the box from out wide, I wondered if we would be playing America again this summer, even though we are not touring.

 DeAndre Yedlin Spurs debut


Kyle Walker has continued to misplace passes although not in the dangerous way Vlad Chiriches does so I could see Yedlin quickly jumping ahead of Chiriches in the queue. Attacking wise he is better than the Romanian, even from such a brief appearance that was clear to see, how he is defensively is still an unknown.

There is certainly potential there, potential to put serious pressure on Walker next season. How much game time will he get until the end of the season? Well with my cynical head on it occurred to me that if we were to go to the USA then now is the time to introduce an American player on a regular basis. That would certainly heighten interest in any game we played over there.

Now we have the announcement that Tottenham are to play the MLS All-Stars on July 29th in Colarado. ,ast summer we went to the USA and on the final leg of the tour played at Chicago Fire where we drew a large crowd and had more people watch that game on TV in America than the Arsenal game being played at the same time. Tottenham are popular in the States and Yedlin can only help our profile.

"The fact that this will be our only fixture outside of Europe during pre-season says a lot about how we view this game, We see this fixture against the best players from MLS as good preparation." said Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino when asked about the game.

We now have an end of season high profile game in Australia, a pre-season (for us) high profile game in America which of course we will be receiving fees to plat in so it wouldn't surprise me if we heard of another game later. Sky Sports will be screening the MKA All-Stars game so it will b readily available to fans.

From a marketing point of view it would do no harm to see Yedlin playing, I'd immediately have him as th number two number 2.