You're Right TottenWho?

Well we had this discussion about Tottenham trying to break into the title chase. Although I doubted the credentials of that. I didn't know that they would start this slow in the beginning of the season. When most of the top four teams lose only one or two games in a whole season, it seems like Tottenham is far away from that especially with losing both of your games. When you see them on paper, you should say well they should be able to challenge with signings of Dos Santos, Modric, and Bentley then they should be able to challenge at least on paper. But there are many flaws that have been exposed during the first two games of this season.

We all marvelled about their preseason performances where they just steamrolled teams even I was a guilty of believing this, but the Premiership has a way of finding your flaws even when you are playing against teams who are in the middle of the pack like Middlesbrough and Sunderland. When you play in this league, you need strong midfield play to be success. When you look at Chelsea and Liverpool, who are the current front-runners they have very strong midfield play with the likes of Deco and Steven Gerrard respectively who both picked up game-winning goals this weekend. When you look at Tottenham, they have solid players, but they aren't the midfielders who put fear in the oppositions eyes. I mean David Bentley can serve in a good ball and he's one for the future but in all honesty he isn't a matchwinner and the same goes with Jenas and Modric. Also with Jermain Defoe leaving early last season and Robbie Keane heading to Liverpool for this season and the impending departure of Berbatov. The only out and out "proven" striker is Darren Bent who had one great season with Charlton, (I remember that cause he was my MVP for my fantasy league team hahaha) but I believe that they need a couple more strikers to help out. I don't know with the addition of Dos Santos and maybe Arshavin will help with that cause because they aren't the strikers that is needed in the premiership. Plus it is kinda hard to replace an almost 50 goal partnership of last year with Keane and Berbatov all but gone. I believe that they will have to pick up the strength and character of Ledley King and Woodgate who are their rocks in the back, but they both also have injury problems so if one or the other has to spend long times in the stands then it could spell trouble and they could be back in the relegated zone as they were last season.

So as for Aaron and the coach that claims that Tottenham will make the title challenge, you can laugh at him real quick and just hate on him for no reason like you do.