Emmanuel Adebayor returned to the Tottenham line up for last night’s league cup tie with West Ham and showed more emotion than he had collectively in the last two seasons when he found the net in the second half.
Tim Sherwood’s decision to withdraw the striker shortly afterwards has predictably sparked some anger following the Hammers’ comeback but as the interim coach tried to justify his decision, he may have given some insights into team selection while he remains in charge.
“We were forced to make the changes which meant we lost a bit of rhythm,” Sherwood said.
“Ade had to come off, Danny Rose had to come off otherwise you risk losing them for a long period during the season.”
Of course, that could have been no more than an excuse after a bad choice that backfired but it may also have indicated that 4-4-2 actually works. Sherwood has Adebayor, Defoe and Soldado at his disposal for Sunday’s game with Southampton but will he use the Togolese to help his case for the manager’s job and could the Togolese yet revive his career at White Hart Lane?
Heaven help us if Ade is supposed to save our season. He is too unstable, temperamentally, to be the cornerstone of our season. He may flit in and out of the first team, showing goalscoring form every now and then, but we need either Soldado to come good (add Eriksen and Lamela to that score) or another venture into the January market to save our season.
need to sell gomez, kaboul, sandro, demblele, adabayer, sigurddson, defoe, lamela to replace contrao, nikolos otamendi, pastore (loan), lavezzi, hulk, hernandez, maschrano under mouricio pochhetio
Under mouricio pocchitio after january 4-2-3-1 lloris- walker- vertoghen- otamendi- contrao- mashcarano- paulinho- hulk- pastore- lavezzi- soldado
Yeh,this makes perfect sense.rip up a team that’s been together 4months,spend more millions in the s**t transfer window and start all over again.sack levy and put this man in charge immediately.this is logic we’ve been crying out for!!
Ha ha!! Nicely said harry!!
Am hoping Ade can get us some goals over xmas and that the players stand up for tim sherwood and every spurs fan. Really want tim to succeed, he’s british, tottenham through and through, down to earth, and a real football man. COYS.
does anyone not think that malky might be a good fit for the job, considering he will be available for free and would surely take the job
The headlines should read like this instead :
DOES TOTTENHAM HAVE A FUTURE ??