Former Tottenham player Alan Hutton spoke to The Boy Hotspur about Tottenham and our chances this season!
Tottenham have been fantastic so far this season. They appointed Jose Mourinho simply because he was a serial winner, and he’s found a formula which seems to be working for the players that he’s got available to him. A lot of people brand it as ‘parking the bus’, but it’s not. It’s called being technically very good and defensively sound.
And when you’ve got players like Harry Kane and Heung-min Son with pace who can break – if you can do your job defensively, those guys will do the business on the counter attack and they’re very difficult to stop. I think at the moment they’ve been absolutely brilliant, and it’s nice to see them near the top of the table.
I was part of the last Spurs side to win a trophy, back in 2008. It was my fourth game with the team after joining in the January, so it was an unbelievable first few weeks. It’s crazy to think about some of the squads that they’ve assembled in those 12 years since, and some of the individually brilliant players they’ve signed, it’s difficult to believe that they’ve not won a trophy in that time.
But I think they’ve got a great chance of winning the league this season. There’s probably five or six who will fancy their chances. Mourinho will be keeping it to himself and won’t really be saying much, but he’ll know he’s got a great opportunity to win the league this season.
If you’re asking me where I think Spurs could strengthen at the moment, I’d have to say I’m struggling to think of an area where they aren’t already strong with solid cover.
If you look at their squads in Europe, they’ve literally been able to change their whole team. I think it’s a year that they’ve got a lot of strength in depth; Gareth Bale is struggling to get a game in the league. I’m trying to think of where they could strengthen and nothing is screaming out to me. They’ve literally got two international players for more or less every position. And I think that’s what separates Spurs from every other side in the league at the moment; every other team has an area that you feel could be strengthened.
And that’s down to Jose Mourinho, quite simply. He’s come in and built a squad; not just a solid starting XI. You look at Dele Alli, he doesn’t even make most squads, and that’s a lad who’d get into pretty much every other team in the league.
