In the summer, one of Tottenham Hotspur’s most gifted players decided his time was up at White Hart Lane and chose to move to Spanish giants Real Madrid in the summer.
He was regarded by many as the most important player in midfield because he kept Spurs ticking over when they had the ball, everything pretty much went through him.
With his golden vision, his great technical ability and his creativity in the heart of the midfield, he soon become one of the best players at the club and after four seasons at Spurs he decided that his time was up in London and he wanted to test his skill somewhere else.
Madrid turned out to be is destination, and even though he is still finding his feet in Spain. He will surely kick into gear and be worth every penny that was spent on him.
But with his loss, have Spurs replaced him well enough?
I don’t believe that they have brought enough quality to say that they have replaced him; in fact I believe Spurs are actually weaker than they were last season.
The new arrivals have all made a decent impact in a Spurs shirt this season, but I don’t believe they were the right kind of player to come in and replace the little playmaker.
Tottenham needed somebody who can pull the strings, keep the ball and supply that killer pass.
Moussa Dembele, Clint Dempsey and Gylfi Sigurdsson are not that kind of player and were not the men to replace Modric.
I totally agree, but in truth a player like Modric is not really replaceable. With only Friedel, Walker, Bale and Lennon regular starters from Harry Redknapp’s first choice team this is effectively almost a whole new team. The decision to sack Redknapp has set Spurs back 3 years, I don’t expect them to repeat last seasons top 4 finish.
Most of what we bought this year have been sh*t and I blame LEVY and ENIC, if you want a world class team then you have to pay for it, there is no use pussyfooting about and that is what Levy and Co does – with them in charge we will always be also rans. yes they bought Modric etc. but we never followed it up over the years and so we relied on a couple of good players to run the team, we have no depth and so now Modric has gone we have NOTHING in back up and it shows. AVB could be a great manager for us but only if Levy and Co leaves and somebody with backbone comes in and spends money. Look at the winners from the past 10 years and show me a team that has not spent big! ENIC are one of the cash richest companies in the world but talk about ‘jewish’ in the way they spend, they buy but stagnate the clubs they have … we need them gone NOW! the sad fact is that the Ruski wanted to buy Spurs – oh how i wish he had
We wanted Moutinho, but there were complications…
the decision to sack redcrapp was the right one should have been done earlier the geezer was a jackarse who tried to sell ball and buy arse wipe Campball and in plain english won nothing won nothing
but levy is partly to blame as well doesnt like spending have a looks at the blog about the least spenders we are 4th out of 15 average spending of 2-3m a season pathetic Dempsey was a cheap option and
Rafa he saw a good deal being told by redcrapp he couldn’t finish a game etc etc ,10 games gone he has finished every one redcrapp harry didnt buy him and didnt like him
so much for all those know it all bloggers saying he is finished cant last a game hope you are happy now!!!!!!
Not sure which planet spur1950 has been on. Van der Vaart started virtually every game that he was fit under Redknapp. He was taken off late in games to give Defoe a go. He was sold after Redknapp was sacked and apparently replaced at the last minute by Dempsey. Adebeyor and Van der Vaat or Defoe and Dempsey hmmm. So Harry didn’t know what he was doing eh? Yes of course AVB is an expert on the Premier League after 5 minutes. Spurs were the second highest spenders during the close season so don’t start handing out the excuses about it’s all Levy’s fault for not opening his wallet. Perhaps this Portugese wonder will work out that Dawson (former Captain and England squad member) might be a better long term bet than the almost senile Gallas who against Chelsea scored 1 goal and gave away 3. Those that think that the only way to success in the Premier League are billionaire owners who have more money than brains, should think again. The likes of Jimmy Greaves, George Best, Glen Hoddle, Paul Gascoigne, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, David Beckham, Gareth Bale etc etc were/are all British players. We have the talent if clubs don’t just look for a quick fix by spending ridiculous amounts of money on foreign imports but give youngsters a chance to develop. Liverpool were a dominant force in European football for nearly two decades with a British manager and almost exclusively British players. We’d do well to give Chris Hughton the managers job-at least he has Spurs in his veins.