I am looking forward to today’s game with a mixture of trepidation and hope. I expect more of the same from Spurs, where we cede possession to Arsenal and hope to hit them on the break. You don’t need to be a brain surgeon to work out our tactics. As long as we don’t go behind too quickly and by too many, we stand a chance of a result.
In regard to our transfer business, we are slightly stronger, but our squad isn’t deep enough to play in so many competitions and for those fans who gleefully cheered when our group was announced in the Champions League, reality has set in and there is no certainty that we will qualify for the next stage.
My overwhelming feeling for the quality and rating of any players we sign is based on the simple metric of whether they would get into Liverpool, City, or Chelsea’s teams and the jury is certainly out on that.
Kulu, Romero, and Bentancur do not really count as new signings as they came in last season. Of this window’s signings, Perišić has been good but he is thirty-three, Richarlison looks promising, but I agree that he was signed to replace Kane when he inevitably leaves, the jury is out on Lenglet who is unlikely to be a long-term solution and I have no idea what has happened to Bissouma who looked a good player at Brighton but seems very peripheral up until now.
What never ceases to surprise me is that the areas of the team/squad which are obvious to most fans that need strengthening have not been.