Tottenham Hotspur have some main rebuilding to do in the event that they’re to turn out to be real Premier League title contenders, with two huge names now tipped to go away as a part of the method.
Tottenham seal Europa League semi-final place after Thursday win
After a hard-fought victory at Eintracht Frankfurt, the place Ange Postecoglou‘s aspect have been compelled to dig deep and show actually heroic, last-gasp defending over a dogged displaying, Spurs have now booked their place within the Europa League semi-finals.
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The technical director has a plan.
Dominic Solanke’s penalty was sufficient at hand the Lilywhites a spot within the subsequent spherical, the place they may play fairy story semi-finalists Bodo/Glimt, after the Norwegian minnows knocked out Lazio on penalties.
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Tottenham’s subsequent 5 Premier League fixtures |
Date |
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Nottingham Forest (residence) |
April twenty first |
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Liverpool (away) |
April twenty seventh |
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West Ham (away) |
Could third |
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Crystal Palace (residence) |
Could tenth |
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Aston Villa (away) |
Could 18th |
Tottenham showcased true professionalism to get the job carried out on a troublesome, hostile evening in Germany, with Postecoglou’s aspect conserving their nerve on away soil and incomes severe reward from their supervisor.
“Yeah, I am delighted with many issues, tremendous happy with the lads,” mentioned Postecoglou after Tottenham’s win at Eintracht.
“Going away from residence, a quarter-final in opposition to an excellent aspect, you understand you are going to need to work actually arduous, be actually disciplined, and we would have liked to attain. We needed to present the standard we had as effectively.
“To a person, I simply thought they have been excellent, so happy with them. In such a giant recreation, they delivered a efficiency, and it means we’re by to a semi-final. I feel over the 2 legs we deserved to undergo. It might have been throughout within the first leg, however we earned the best to be within the semi.”
Playmaker James Maddison put his physique on the road to win Spurs the penalty which finally proved decisive, however in line with talkSPORT pundit Troy Deeney, the England worldwide is certainly one of 4 gamers who might be sacrificed within the switch market by chairman Daniel Levy.
Troy Deeney says Tottenham might let go of Son Heung-min and James Maddison
In addition to Maddison, Deeney believes fellow big-name Son Heung-min might go away Tottenham quickly.
The attacking stars, on a mixed £260,000-per-week at N17, have each performed mainstay roles underneath Postecoglou – however the pundit believes Spurs’ duo could effectively depart alongside the likes of Richarlison and Yves Bissouma.
“For me, he is carried out a very good job blooding the youthful gamers and giving them the arrogance to go and rating loads,” mentioned Deeney on talkSPORT this week.
“Brennan Johnson, what’s he on, about 16 objectives now? I feel they’re in a transition interval, I feel you may see the likes of Son [Heung-min] transfer on. Doubtlessly [James] Maddison, [Yves] Bissouma, Richarlison, these guys will begin transferring on.
“After which clearly they’ve quite a lot of younger gamers like Mikey Moore, however I nonetheless suppose they’re a bit of bit like Chelsea. They want one, perhaps two, older professionals simply to be like, ‘We do not do this right here, that is the way you win issues.’
“And that is the bit I feel that they are lacking.”
