Tottenham Hotspur have some main rebuilding to do in the event that they’re to grow to be 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 had been compelled to dig deep and show really heroic, last-gasp defending over a dogged exhibiting, Spurs have now booked their place within the Europa League semi-finals.
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Dominic Solanke’s penalty was sufficient handy 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 (house) |
April twenty first |
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Liverpool (away) |
April twenty seventh |
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West Ham (away) |
Might third |
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Crystal Palace (house) |
Might tenth |
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Aston Villa (away) |
Might 18th |
Tottenham showcased true professionalism to get the job accomplished on a troublesome, hostile night time in Germany, with Postecoglou’s facet retaining their nerve on away soil and incomes critical 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 house, a quarter-final towards an excellent facet, you understand you are going to need to work actually exhausting, be actually disciplined, and we wanted to attain. We needed to present the standard we had as properly.
“To a person, I simply thought they had been excellent, so happy with them. In such a giant sport, they delivered a efficiency, and it means we’re by to a semi-final. I believe over the 2 legs we deserved to undergo. It may have been throughout within the first leg, however we earned the appropriate 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 in keeping with talkSPORT pundit Troy Deeney, the England worldwide is one in all 4 gamers who could possibly be sacrificed within the switch market by chairman Daniel Levy.
Troy Deeney says Tottenham may let go of Son Heung-min and James Maddison
In addition to Maddison, Deeney believes fellow big-name Son Heung-min may 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 properly depart alongside the likes of Richarlison and Yves Bissouma.
“For me, he is accomplished job blooding the youthful gamers and giving them the arrogance to go and rating lots,” mentioned Deeney on talkSPORT this week.
“Brennan Johnson, what’s he on, about 16 objectives now? I believe they’re in a transition interval, I believe you might see the likes of Son [Heung-min] transfer on. Probably [James] Maddison, [Yves] Bissouma, Richarlison, these guys will begin shifting on.
“After which clearly they’ve a variety of younger gamers like Mikey Moore, however I nonetheless suppose they’re slightly bit like Chelsea. They want one, possibly 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 believe that they are lacking.”
