Eriksen and the untold damage



Tottenham Hotspur is bigger than Christian Eriksen. We have made the player and last season was the first that he has been consistent for the majority of the season. Previously he had turned it on after January and made fans forget his poor start to each season.

It has been an eternity since he scored from a free-kick and we have returned to being totally unproductive from direct shots from them. Is it now the time to take some of the free-kick duties away from him, if, and only if, we are going to take a direct shot, should we be allowing Eric Dier to take them, It is one area that Harry Kane doesn't inspire confidence in.

He is not the be-all-and-end-all at Tottenham and if he moves on he moves on. There are plenty of footballers in the world to replace him. He gives Tottenham two or three years to get to the elite level but his words will have no effect.

Tottenham have a strategy under Mauricio Pochettino and he will continue with that strategy to build. The club is a way off being in the financial league of Barcelona, who he has basically said come and get me to. taking Tottenham to the next level has to be done within a budget, first the income has to increase to be able to increase transfer fees and wages to the next level.

Gambling the other way around could do untold damage to the club if it were to fail, as it did for Leeds United who have never recovered and more recently QPR who went crazy for a season, got relegated and are still paying the price. I don't suggest Spurs would get relegated, but if you raise your wage structure you have to be able to afford it if you don't qualify for the UEFA Champions League and a few players start to drift off to be replaced by lesser players. It is a dangerous game and not one any responsible club should adopt.

There is a reason Sir Alex Ferguson said to have a successful football team you have to have a successful business. That is the reason. It is quite amusing that journalists, who haven't a clue how to run a multi-million pound business write what a chairman should be doing and indeed advise a policy that could take tens of years to recover from.

Do we have replacements for Eriksen in the ranks, no not at the minute. While Josh Onomah is developing and will play more next season I don't see him as an Eriksen replacement and Marcus Edwards needs time to develop. The exciting and talented youngster could step into Eriksen's shoes in time if he doesn't think ahead of himself and believe he should be playing when clearly he isn't ready. that can be a difficult one to manage.

This week Eriksen played for Denmark against Germany in a friendly and opened the scoring after 18 minutes from a misplaced pass. Germany scored with 3 minutes to go to secure a 1-1 draw.


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