Tottenham Memorabilia

Will he be a Hit or  a Miss?

It’s very hard to tell after half a game but if you had to side one way or the other which way would you go with Spurs new signing Gilberto?

He can certainly use his left foot, seemed to be the only one he could use, which does beg the question, why can players of today not use both feet like Sir Bobby Charlton?

Whenever possible Gilberto was seen going down the left touch line and wanting the ball with some attacking flair. He reminded me of an England and former Gooner full back, being left footed and adding width. When settled next season with Gareth Bale in front of him they could form a left side pairing not many sides in the top flight have.

Clearly he is comfortable on the ball, has skill and a mean line in rugby tackles!

Ok the goal was his fault, a pass to Chimbonda and not a dribble was called for. He had no idea what his fellow defenders were doing and was constantly getting caught out of position, but they will be resolved with a greater understanding of his team mates, which only matches can provide.

Gilberto’s first game makes me think back to the debut of Kaboul, he looked skillful and very promising before the realisation that he wants to dribble his way out of defence every chance he gets.

So for me pushed to side one way or the other, he will be a hit. How about you, what do you think?

It didn’t take Avram Grant long to start bleating did it, is he Arsene Wenger in disguise? The pressure of losing is clearly getting to him. The reports in the paper were commincal this week, he has to win a trophy or at least finish in the top 4 to get money to spend this summer! That’s no target, finishing below 2nd is abject failure for that squad for goodness sake.

 There have been many injuries in football but never to my knowledge has a manager come out and said a player should never be allowed to play again. That, despite a later retraction, is despicable and Arsene Wenger should have been asked at least to explain his comments. Just ask yourself how can a player get a 4 game ban for a tap on the face (whilst the other guy gets nothing) and a manager making a comment like that gets off scott free?

Tottenham Memorabilia offer our best wishes to Eduardo and hope for a speedy recovery, which was a pure accident. He just got to the ball as Taylor was making the challenge, a guy 3 clubs have sold or tried to sell because he is too soft.

Onto better things a Spurs tie away to Birmingham City which we must be looking to win even if we do not need a league place to qualify for Europe. A cup double would be nice but that is a long way off yet.

Who is the 19th highest payed player in the world on basic wages? Why it’s the overpriced Darren Bent, he must have a good agent or our board are idiots to pay him £4.55 million, no wonder we can’t wait to offload him at a hugh loss. Great business guys!

Hutton has settled in well, as has Woodgate, it will be good to see Gilberto and of course next season we will have Gareth Bale back, that will seem like another new signing. I can’t wait for next season already.