Today’s starting XI against Southampton doesn’t feature a single new signing, which feels at odds with a top-flight side that supposedly got its business done early doors, with only one new player failing to board the preseason flight to South Korea.
Antonio Conte’s bench boasts 5 new faces and only 4 old ones. However, it remains to be seen just what value Bryan Gil has for the Italian.
Whilst it is easy to sneer, progress is undoubtedly being made, although glacial, which is about right considering the extent of the neglect. The £150million ‘cash injection’ has been far from exhausted, indeed, given the number of players that look to be sitting in the Departure Lounge at Hotspur Way, the overall net spend may well be as vertically challenged as normal.
Today’s starting XI feels like a band kicking off a new tour by playing its greatest hits, as opposed to debuting new material.
Tottenham is in no position to palm off fans with hits of yesteryear, because over the last two decades very little has managed to chart.
