A TRIP TO BILLY’S MIND
It was no time for fouling around. Billy had to be very precise with his decisions this time if he wanted to remain in Tottenham’s bench. His tactical approach could not be considered as successful so alternations were needed. All the season, the team’s defense was suffering from the opposite wingers who easily, since most of the time they had been totally unmarked, were able to deliver their crosses in the box. Moreover, every time the team was trying to push higher up in the field they were get easily exposed from through balls.
For the first problem he was thinking of setting the team to play wider in order for the center backs to be closer to opposite wingers and to instruct all of his players to close down more. He believed that with this way the opposite players would not find enough space to exploit their attack. For the second problem maybe instructing two of his center backs to play as stoppers, so as to close any gaps from through balls would be the key.
Will all the above thoughts, he sat down and started to evaluate his roster. The first thing he saw was that more fast defenders were needed for the stopper role. David Luiz and Toby Alderweireld would have to depart since they were not fulfilling this criteria anymore and one or two new players will fill their places. It was also time to check out whether it was time for some new youngsters from the under 21s to come to the first team, since many of our young defenders were playing key roles in the small national teams of England. Together with Luiz and Alderweireld, Eric Dyer’s place was also in doubt since the Englishman had expressed his desire to leave the team. Billy had promised to himself from his years at Olympiakos that he would never keep a player in the team against his will no matter how good he was.
In midfield Kristofer Ajer and Will Hughes would be his two and only choices since they both had bags of quality for this roles. Will does not have what it takes to play as an advanced playmaker so we would share his game time with Ajer in the deep playmaker role. That meant that another lad must be bought for the advanced playmaker position since we had only Coric right now.
Billy was also expecting Carlos Gruezo to come forward and to justify the money that were spent for him. Gaston Gill Romero was a question since he was still not able to play for Tottenham as his work permit is still not granted. Williams was able to fulfill this position but ball winning midfielder was not his natural position. So a player for this position should be bought as well.
As far as the wingers are concerned Redmond and Leroy Sane will be the first picks. Cerny was an amazing player, but he was not a winger and it was also time for him to say goodbye to White Hart Lane. The same thing stands for Sam Bryan. A very good attacking wingback that could never develop to a good winger so goodbye to him too. As a result, Billy had to search for one or two players to be used as backups.
In offence the team was more than ok. We had three young players with amazing potentials and Billy did not want to bring a more experienced player that would take game time of their evolution. Pozo‘s place in the roster was not certain since he had not offered much so far and Billy had already find one more youngster in the academy that was ready for the first team.
To sum it up Luiz, Alderweireld, Dyer, Bryan, Gill Romero, Cerny and Pozzo will definitely be sold. Billy, had already start to track their replacements and it was one more time to go for shopping.