After a barren run of results against arguably smaller clubs, the future does not look bright for Spurs fans. However, this is where they may be wrong. Spurs can and will improve. Or will they?
This isn’t any old team in the Premier League, this is Tottenham Hotspur. Not a pushover. A club with history, a club that shouldn’t be finishing below eighth this season. But, it’s happened before, with other Premier League clubs. Everton finished fourth in the 2004-05 season, but a season later plummeted to eleventh place. Aston Villa, similarly have dropped out of the top six to languish nearer the bottom six. Does this mean it is certain to happen now, this season, with Pochettino at the helm? No. However, it doesn’t rule out the possibility of Tottenham severely underachieving this season, finishing somewhere disappointing for most fans.
Spurs will clamber out of this abyss
If the players keep working hard in training, under Pochettino’s wing, slowly but surely there should be visible improvements in the squad. However, Pochettino has mentioned a weak mentality as an area which needs improving before, but has still found himself repeating this very message a few games later. Maybe it’s because he can’t find the right words in this foreign tongue; maybe his players aren’t working with him. For anything to click at Tottenham, the players must commit to him. Many of the current squad have seen three different managers in the last three seasons, something that must discourage them and suggest that another manager could be present next season. This mustn’t happen. Stick with Pochettino for two seasons, or go bust. When will Levy learn that a manager cannot instantly implement his ideas within one season? It’s a case of a square hole and a round peg for Pochettino. He’s doing the best he can do with the squad he has been given. Give him time.
With teams like Southampton and West Ham flying high, two teams are going to have to drop out of the top six. Is it overachievement from those two sides? Or is there no such thing? Both teams have had remarkable starts to the season, apparently out of nowhere compared to their respective finishes the previous season. It may be a case of wait and see for Tottenham, because it’s still early doors. Teams have played eleven out of thirty-eight games. The halfway point is still on the horizon. The table could look completely different come the end of the season. So, perhaps a team like Southampton or a team like West Ham may choke and splutter and end up falling off the top six wagon, to trudge behind in the lower part of the Premier League table. But, there’s no guarantee that these teams will. The football is good from them. It’s visibly showing the health of the respective clubs. At the moment, in comparison to Tottenham, West Ham and Southampton have easily been having the better form. Even though Spurs have both beaten of those teams, it seems as though it has spurred these teams on to to improving on their performances to go one better in the Premier League.
In short, this is football. Anything can happen between now and the end of the season. Which means Tottenham can still improve and could recover to finish in the top six, which, for most fans, will look like a distant hope, when in reality it is only a stone’s throw away.
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