This clip from our friends at Amazon Prime is all about the moment immediately after Harry Kane was taken off with his hamstring last season, and the impact it had on the team and the coaching staff at Tottenham. To put it crudely, not having a decent second striker is an inexcusable, self inflicted foolishness.
There are no extenuating circumstances, no yeah but‘s, no mysterious riddles of which football fans are blissfully unaware. Deloitte’s darlings, but a walking time bomb when it comes to mastering the basics.
One gets the feeling that the groundwork for the excuses have already been wheeled out. We’ve had Daniel Levy patronizing the entire fanbase, telling how beyond our understanding getting a deal is – while rivals appear to be able to breeze through the process. We’ve had Steven Hitchen’s espresso fuelled executive stress moment. Yesterday, we had Alasdair Gold tell us that Callum Wilson was £3M too expensive – given his injury record. Just pause and let this risible piece of propaganda sink in.
“From what I understand, it just got to the point where Tottenham felt with his injury record, and his age isn’t the normal Tottenham transfer profile, especially for a player that’s had injuries. They felt where it was getting up to, it was around the £17 million mark, but I think it is now around the £20 million mark that looks like Newcastle are potentially going to get him for. They just felt that with his injury history, it was just too much of a risk.”
The player would have been spending and extra £3million on, if it wasn’t for his pesky injury history. In the last 2 years, Wilson has been absent through injury on 4 occasions. This information was always in the public domain.
Pffffffft.