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The best Spurs team of the Premier League era
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Kingdawson
Banned
11/12 season by a mile.
Agree with this. Probably had the second, if not third best in the country that season.
Yep - not even a contenst
Rossi22
Pedro Mendes
Friedel
Walker Kaboul King Ekotto
Lennon Parker Modric Bale
Van Der Vaart
Adebayor
Walker Kaboul King Ekotto
Lennon Parker Modric Bale
Van Der Vaart
Adebayor
So only Walker, Kaboul, Lennon and Ade survive as 1st team players. Parker, Modric, Bale and VDV gone, King retired, Benny loaned and Friedel's now backup. Quite the turnaround in just two years.
Armchair Expert
Vedran Corluka
Its really disappointing thats its virtually impossible to build a team these days. Saying that, maybe if we had played in the CL 3 times - which is conceivable - we could have retained the likes of Modric, Bale etc.
Still unlikely however as until we can match 6 figure weekly salaries across the board and genuinely challenge for the league we (as with all clubs outside Chelsea, City and until recently Man Utd) are always going to be susceptible to being picked apart.
THat team really was fantastic. The only thing it lacked was like for like replacements for the speed merchants: whenever Krancjar came on for Lennon for example the team morphed into a completely different outfit.
Still unlikely however as until we can match 6 figure weekly salaries across the board and genuinely challenge for the league we (as with all clubs outside Chelsea, City and until recently Man Utd) are always going to be susceptible to being picked apart.
THat team really was fantastic. The only thing it lacked was like for like replacements for the speed merchants: whenever Krancjar came on for Lennon for example the team morphed into a completely different outfit.
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
11/12. Even though we did well to finish above Chelsea, we should have also finished above Arsenal.
Let's all agree the manager took his eye off the ball and it harmed us, but bare in mind what else happened to us that season:
London riots - First game of the season postponed which left us in the position of playing the Manchester clubs back to back, undercooked, not ideal.
Redknapp's heart surgery - He mentions in his book that he doesn't think it was a coincidence that he had a health scare right around the time of his trial.
Stoke away - The most nonsensical and incompetent refereeing I've seen relating to Spurs. Granted any team could pick one game in isolation and say "that game cost us" but people still bring up the Lasagne game. Now I'm not denying we weren't incredibly unfortunate on that occasion also, but we also threw points away that season but people tend to forget that.
Take away any of those factors and I'm sure we would have finished 3rd. Let's put things into perspective too, we finished 4th, 1 place and 1 point behind where we should have finished, everybody would have taken 4th at the beginning as I'm sure most people wouldn't have predicted we would finish above Chelsea.
Let's all agree the manager took his eye off the ball and it harmed us, but bare in mind what else happened to us that season:
London riots - First game of the season postponed which left us in the position of playing the Manchester clubs back to back, undercooked, not ideal.
Redknapp's heart surgery - He mentions in his book that he doesn't think it was a coincidence that he had a health scare right around the time of his trial.
Stoke away - The most nonsensical and incompetent refereeing I've seen relating to Spurs. Granted any team could pick one game in isolation and say "that game cost us" but people still bring up the Lasagne game. Now I'm not denying we weren't incredibly unfortunate on that occasion also, but we also threw points away that season but people tend to forget that.
Take away any of those factors and I'm sure we would have finished 3rd. Let's put things into perspective too, we finished 4th, 1 place and 1 point behind where we should have finished, everybody would have taken 4th at the beginning as I'm sure most people wouldn't have predicted we would finish above Chelsea.
chicken_badge
Gudni Bergsson
Emirates Marketing Project away. Defoe a stud's length from keeping us as serious title contenders going into February. Wouldn't have won the title but would be a very different story now.
That season was littered with so many what ifs.
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Yep. Until early January of that season we consistently produced our most thrilling football since the early 60s. (86/87 was not far off tbf).
glorygloryeze
Tom Huddlestone
Have to agree with this. It was often said at the time that if Fergie manager this team or the team of the season before, we'd have certainly finished 2nd.
Fergie, really was a phenomenon in terms of football management...
Raoul Duke
Gordon Durie
Seems to be the right answer.
But my favourite team was probably the second part of 97/98 with some brilliant players (Klinsmann, Campbell, Ginola) and some horrible players (Edinburgh, Vega, Austin)
glorygloryeze
Tom Huddlestone
97/98 certainly had some VERY good players interspersed with some real dross: Moussa Saib and Nicola Berti spring to mind (very good players, that is)
Raoul Duke
Gordon Durie
Hully
Tony Parks
That side was great, but King didn't start enough games for us to reach our potential. Having to constantly change our defensive lineup was a major weakness and cost us a lot of points.
I believe the current squad has the potential to be at least as good.
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
1m % !!!!!
Best football I've ever seen live from a Spurs team aside from the 87 team and also Gazza's football single handedly winning up the cup in 91
It's not even up for debate this. The 2011/12 team walks all over our other Premier League sides.
We had a set first team with two or three genuine top class players, had a couple of English players in their prime, a full season of consistency from Adebayor, solid defensive partnership and, the bonus it played great football. We should have finished second, I think our team that year was better than Man Utd's at the time.
Now we have no set first team, instead far too many like for like squad players so lots of chopping and changing, not enough English players in the squad for my liking, rather than dish out hammerings they get handed to us and we play very dour football.
We've gone backwards a lot in a short space of time, but that hasn't been helped by the retirement of King, sales of Bale, Modric and van der Vaart and waste of money we generally committed last summer.
Just gotta hope this time in two years we're back to where we were in early 2012, as difficult as that will be.
We had a set first team with two or three genuine top class players, had a couple of English players in their prime, a full season of consistency from Adebayor, solid defensive partnership and, the bonus it played great football. We should have finished second, I think our team that year was better than Man Utd's at the time.
Now we have no set first team, instead far too many like for like squad players so lots of chopping and changing, not enough English players in the squad for my liking, rather than dish out hammerings they get handed to us and we play very dour football.
We've gone backwards a lot in a short space of time, but that hasn't been helped by the retirement of King, sales of Bale, Modric and van der Vaart and waste of money we generally committed last summer.
Just gotta hope this time in two years we're back to where we were in early 2012, as difficult as that will be.
Kingdawson
Banned
Has anyone got the ability to watch 90 minutes of that game still? i recorded it on sky plus and watched it 3 or 4 times.
If anyone can watch it......please look at a couple of incidents late on when Foy gave a goal kick to Stoke rather then a corner (one i remember was against Ade). **** was the most blatant, corrupt officiating i've ever seen. I mean...it didn't even look like a goal kick. Everyone focused on the main incidents but those 2 incidents were much more damning to Foy.
SPURSphenomenon
Kevin Scott
11/12 gave me so many highs at the time. But whenever I look back at that team and see clips etc there is an inevitable sadness about what-if.
As a rounded squad though, I really think our current squad has potential to be on par with that season, we need a maverick like VDV to spark it perhaps? (experience/a winner/a leader/an icon)
As a rounded squad though, I really think our current squad has potential to be on par with that season, we need a maverick like VDV to spark it perhaps? (experience/a winner/a leader/an icon)
I think Kaboul was sent off for a really ridiculous reason towards the end wasn't he? Ade had a goal disallowed and just generally Foy was awful all day. We got bumped a few times in 11-12 tbh.
I remember Sturridge's equaliser for Chelsea at WHL after a blatant handball by Ashely Cole in the previous phase of the move before crossing which should have been blown for. The phantom goal by Mata in the semi final that put us 0-2 down and chasing the game. Rose being sent off at Villa when he really slipped into the challenge and Balotelli not being sent off in the City game. Every team can point to decisions over a season but those that I have mentioned along with the Stoke game were really poor decisions that directly influenced the result of each of those games.