I’m having a serious deja-vu moment with my football team. I get that Harry Kane is going to leave, I understand his reasons and have sympathy with his decision, totally. Disloyal FUCKER!! And thus, as ever, we must ‘move on’, we must ‘think of the future’. So after wondering if we in fact have one, with no manager and the best player in the country about to jump ship, I get exited by the prospect of the ‘new start’. Because Spurs is a bit broken and needs to be re-built. We’re not ready to be liquidated but we’re having some major restructuring work. And Harry’s departure should leave us £150million to the good, which should go some ways to build our future. My deju-vu re-boot.

A bit like when Gareth Bale, at that time, the world’s best Welshman, left Spurs for Madrid, inflated our coffers by 100million Euros (like pounds but a bit less value and a lot less welcome) in 2011. And we all thought: brilliant: re-build. And the management went out and pissed away all the money on a bunch of tossers, jobsworths, journeymen, losers, wankers, cretins… and Christian Eriksen. Who was the cheapest of them all  and by several light years the best. So that didn’t really help much. And with Harry Redknapp in charge at the time, you never knew who was a really prospective player to buy and whose agent would produce the biggest bung. No accusations but Harry was… Harry. And the result was a touch less than the expectations led us to believe.

Now we need a manager first. A man who can manage temperamental players, who knows about football, about men, about men playing football and football playing men. Someone like… Pochettino. Well, how about… how about Pochettino???? You can’t get any closer than that, can you. And then he can spend the Kane money on his choices. Neymar will follow him to Spurs. Probably Mbappe too. Probably for dirt cheap wages. 

So that’s it then, Spurs 21-22, under Mauricio Pochettino, with Neymar, Mbappe, Gareth Bale and probably Messi. If you think this an overly optimistic assessment, start laughing now. 

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx