Was it April Fools Day recently?
I didn't realise it was April Fools Day recently, that's the only conclusion I can come to when a website suggests Ben Davies hasn't settled as well as he'd like at Tottenham.
According to Ben Davies he settled immediately, having to learn a new style of football and a new training regime didn't affect his settling. The fact that he wasn't producing his best again is not an indication he hasn't settled, especially when you take into account he has, until recently, been playing with some players who are not good enough and other who have the wrong attitude.
Now that he has got himself into a side who do have the right mental approach his game has leapt forward, indeed he remarked before the Swansea game that he was back to his best.
The article tells us Benoit Assou-Ekotto looks set to leave. No he doesn't.
Tottenham told him in the summer he could leave for free but he is in dispute with the club so has no intention of leaving. He is on £40,000 a week for doing nothing, just the way he wants it to be. Nobody is going to offer him that money and he doesn't like football anyway so forcing Tottenham to pay him a wage for nothing is his way of putting one over on Daniel Levy.
The suggestion that Tottenham have told Assou-Ekotto he can leave this window is laughable, he already knows and as I say is unlikely to have any intention of doing so.
Tottenham have two left-backs they are happy with and are not in the market for a left-back in January so the two names being bandied about, Alex Telles, Galatasaray and Aymen Abdennour, Monaco, won't be January signings.
There are far more important areas of the squad to concentrate on and with Pochettino being happy with both Davies and Rose, one would have to leave for another left-back to join, you don't have three on the books. Benoit Assou-Ekotto is not in the first team squad, he was not named among the 25 players for the Premier League so can not play in the competition, not that he would given he has been told he will never play for Spurs again.
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Offloading him, if it were possible before the summer when his contract runs out wouldn't free a non-home grown player place in the squad, we have our full quota so there are not slots available to buy players for. The Cameroon international can come into Spurs and train as and when he feels like it, Spurs are not bothered if he doesn't come in at all but can't ban him.
Any left-back story can be immediately dismissed at the moment, indeed it is far more likely that Tottenham are watching other players and these stories are a smokescreen for that.
According to Ben Davies he settled immediately, having to learn a new style of football and a new training regime didn't affect his settling. The fact that he wasn't producing his best again is not an indication he hasn't settled, especially when you take into account he has, until recently, been playing with some players who are not good enough and other who have the wrong attitude.
Now that he has got himself into a side who do have the right mental approach his game has leapt forward, indeed he remarked before the Swansea game that he was back to his best.
The article tells us Benoit Assou-Ekotto looks set to leave. No he doesn't.
Tottenham told him in the summer he could leave for free but he is in dispute with the club so has no intention of leaving. He is on £40,000 a week for doing nothing, just the way he wants it to be. Nobody is going to offer him that money and he doesn't like football anyway so forcing Tottenham to pay him a wage for nothing is his way of putting one over on Daniel Levy.
The suggestion that Tottenham have told Assou-Ekotto he can leave this window is laughable, he already knows and as I say is unlikely to have any intention of doing so.
Tottenham have two left-backs they are happy with and are not in the market for a left-back in January so the two names being bandied about, Alex Telles, Galatasaray and Aymen Abdennour, Monaco, won't be January signings.
There are far more important areas of the squad to concentrate on and with Pochettino being happy with both Davies and Rose, one would have to leave for another left-back to join, you don't have three on the books. Benoit Assou-Ekotto is not in the first team squad, he was not named among the 25 players for the Premier League so can not play in the competition, not that he would given he has been told he will never play for Spurs again.
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Offloading him, if it were possible before the summer when his contract runs out wouldn't free a non-home grown player place in the squad, we have our full quota so there are not slots available to buy players for. The Cameroon international can come into Spurs and train as and when he feels like it, Spurs are not bothered if he doesn't come in at all but can't ban him.
Any left-back story can be immediately dismissed at the moment, indeed it is far more likely that Tottenham are watching other players and these stories are a smokescreen for that.
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