Eriksen and the untold damage
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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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From the words he actually said you could just as easily work an equally misleading headline "Eriksen ready to commit to Spurs with continued improvement". But that wouldn't fit the agenda to unsettle this squad.
We have to hope these were simply musings without intent, but if they come for him we go two steps back. Barkley can't do what Eriksen does.
BTW the other 4 players are Kane, Dele, Alderwiereld and Dier
Last year, Eriksen made a clear statement when into the season he only signed until 2020, meaning we would have to sell him this summer or next to get a good price. The eternal optimists came out and said load of rubbish, all players only sign 4 years but they almost all signed for 5.
Ive been saying for years we need to get a player who can replace Eriksen or we will start to fall apart if he leaves.
Wanyama aside we wasted plenty of money on dross and other than a failed deadline day before deadline day attempt to bring in Isco we made no effort to sign any creative attacking mid yet again.
Yes, Alli is getting more creative, Son also and we should have the clever Lamela back next season but losing a player responsible for as much creativity as Eriksen would be devastating for Tottenham, not just because its hard to attract a decent creator for our wage structure but…
I read the interview, then read the twisted headlines which selectively took some of his words out of context, and i'm not fussed in the slightest.
Eriksen is only saying what most of our players are thinking. We'd like to win trophies and we'd like to win trophies at Spurs if possible. But if that isn't possible then we'd have to look to move elsewhere, and it's hard to say no to a team like Barcelona. Very difficult to argue with anything he's said or is thinking, so basically Spurs have to keep progressing like they have done recently and they now have to win something,or at the very least make themselves a CL QF/SF team and PL challenger on a regular basis. Can't say that's beyond us if this group stick together.
But i think, playing in Europa, should be taken more seriouse now.
is on the biggeste stage of all. go out there and show why Tottenham are there, and belongs to be there.
The players must also be hungry for that, Kane, Lloris,
the current squard reminds me of AC Milan, when they dominated with the 3 flying dutchman.
is a dream squard, a team in harmoni, there have fun together.
and try to find some goalscorings jewels, like Brentford Lasse Vibe.
23 goals 27 match, also the Dane "Conan" aka. jannik Vestergaard.that little detail yesterday in denmarks match agains Germany , he where close to score,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffHWx0e_0NQ&t=3s
1:38
What I think is important to remember is that he arrived during a period of ‘management change’.
Mousa, Jan, Hugo & Erik also arrived during this time.
Putting aside Erik’s injury would we really want to lose any of these players?
These are the guys who were prepared to sit through uncertainty and have now become part of the backbone of our team.
If Christian (and Toby) want to rattle a few cages… good on them…it’s part of the price of success and, Daniel, perhaps it’s part of your learning curve also…easy to control the failures but not so easy to govern the successes!
We have to take the knocks when they come. We don't have to keep worrying about potential knocks that only MAY come.
COYS!!