Spurs: Stating the Bleedin' Obvious

Article by e-Spurs Correspondent Dino Gallina

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Ok, first up I don’t want to go on a witch hunt, or a slagging session on our average performance shown tonight. It was in all honesty our second real test, behind the loss to the A*SE the FA Cup. Manchester City will romp the league the years’ end. They play with a confidence and belief that very few teams in the world could do. To lose Aguero and replace him with an equally deadly striker in Jovetic says it all. To add salt in the already gaping wound, their best striker didn’t even come off the bench.

I have from the start had my reservations in regards to Sherwood, I still have. Again we started with Bentaleb and Dembele in the middle, one overawed by the class of the opposition, one with a doubtful ankle, so why did he persist. Don’t get me wrong, Bentaleb is definitely one for the future, but just not now. On the bench we have a French and German International, both fit, and from what showed not match fit, but fit, so why persist with the original duo in the centre. Sigudsson hasn’t played much of late, he too falls in the category of not being match fit, so why play him on such a big stage. Soldado and Defoe on the bench, so when the game was on the line, we bring on a defender, Why/..... Look I can go on and on, Rose’s send off was poor, but I have to say, I could not see a change in the result had he stayed on.

You have to admire the style and swagger to which they play. You also have to admire the dollars/pounds they have to play with. What they showed was how a well balanced, smart, super talented and confident team should and did play like. They were simply a yard and half smarter and faster than Spurs. I can’t remember that far back as to when the last time Tottenham have been spanked on three or four occasions in one season.

Tonight showed what players are require to ever get to their level. Forget Man U, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool, it will take years to catch up to the talent and ability Manchester City have at their disposal. Don’t get me wrong I’m as disappointed as any Spurs fan at present, but I have to admit I would have settled for a point! We just didn’t have the cattle to match this team of stars. Irrespective who you follow as a supporter, you have to admire the class Manchester City have and we lack. No doubt we have the ability, do we have the talent required?

So where from here! Realistically I hope our new signings are match hardened next season. They would have surely by now understood the pace and power of the EPL. New players, and I have to say we need some. We have some good professionals that belong in teams that sit mid-table. I admire players like Dawson, great player against burly strikers, but not so sure against world class players such as Man City posses, Rose is honest but.... I kept thinking, how many current Tottenham players would be Man City’s top 16 players list, Vertonghen possibly, maybe Lloris, Paulinho beyond these three I struggle. Our inconsistencies this year have cost us dearly. As much as Sherwood says the right things at the press conference, I’m still on the side line regarding him as being the Spurs manager beyond this year. The new guy, whoever it maybe will have the task to in-still belief, courage, confidence, consistency, bring in two-three class players and above all cement a winning mentality that Manchester City have and will have for years to come.

In a nutshell we were beaten by a team that would e in the top 5 in Europe right now. They will challenge for the European title, no doubt and I believe last night we saw the next super team for the next 3-5 years to come.

Spurs for life

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