Tottenham Hotspur have some main rebuilding to do in the event that they’re to change into real Premier League title contenders, with two massive 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 facet have been pressured 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’ll 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 accomplished on a tricky, hostile night time in Germany, with Postecoglou’s facet protecting their nerve on away soil and incomes critical reward from their supervisor.
“Yeah, I am delighted with many issues, tremendous pleased with the lads,” stated Postecoglou after Tottenham’s win at Eintracht.
“Going away from residence, a quarter-final in opposition to an excellent facet, you already know you are going to should work actually exhausting, be actually disciplined, and we wanted to attain. We needed to present the standard we had as nicely.
“To a person, I simply thought they have been excellent, so pleased with them. In such a giant sport, they delivered a efficiency, and it means we’re by means of to a semi-final. I believe over the 2 legs we deserved to undergo. It might have been throughout within the first leg, however we earned the fitting to be within the semi.”
Playmaker James Maddison put his physique on the road to win Spurs the penalty which in the end proved decisive, however based on talkSPORT pundit Troy Deeney, the England worldwide is one in every 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 depart 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 nicely depart alongside the likes of Richarlison and Yves Bissouma.
“For me, he is accomplished a superb job blooding the youthful gamers and giving them the arrogance to go and rating quite a bit,” stated Deeney on talkSPORT this week.
“Brennan Johnson, what’s he on, about 16 targets now? I believe they’re in a transition interval, I believe you could possibly see the likes of Son [Heung-min] transfer on. Doubtlessly [James] Maddison, [Yves] Bissouma, Richarlison, these guys will begin shifting on.
“After which clearly they’ve plenty of younger gamers like Mikey Moore, however I nonetheless suppose they’re just a little bit like Chelsea. They want one, perhaps two, older execs simply to be like, ‘We do not do this right here, that is the way you win issues.’
“And that is the bit I believe that they are lacking.”