Harry Kane says that his month off has recharged his batteries and he’s looking forward to his first proper preseason at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.
Kane was inevitably asked about transfers and perhaps revealingly said that “you’d rather have no players than a player who isn’t really right for your team.”
This is quite a chilling remark. Whilst the bed wetting Flat Earthers amongst you always get a nasty twinge at the though of doing anything other than pursing a devout routine of hope and prayer, this ‘Brexit’ strategy reinforces the utter nonsense that ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’.
Like all empty rhetoric, it doesn’t take much analysis to debunk the daftness of standing still. Nobody else is standing still. Of course the window has yet to shut, but it hardly looks incisive when everyone else is shopping and Spurs are resolutely refusing to.
Add to this (for the umpteenth time) the Wembley factor and Spurs cannot afford to stand still. We’ve been here, we’ve covered this. Many many times.
Poch has wheeled out his confidence and pride in our youth spiel again. As admirable as that sounds, who is he actually talking about?
Onomah who wouldn’t walk into most Premier League first XI sides, or Edwards who once got a few charity minutes in a League up game?
Unless Spurs make even the most modest additions to the squad the chances of everything ‘being alright’ are not great. It’s not impossible, but it is illogical. It doesn’t stack up because that path is reliant upon luck.
This window has a good while to run yet, and Levy has form for buying later rather than sooner.
A multi-million pound business and here we are again, implementing the the old ‘Fingers Crossed’ strategy.
