Spend or weep: AVB urges summer splurge or Tottenham will suffer heartbreak again
Spend or weep: AVB urges summer splurge or Tottenham will suffer heartbreak again
Andre Villas-Boas says the bar keeps being raised.... But what's spending target number one? KEEP Gareth Bale!!
Get a grip: Tottenham must keep Gareth Bale says Tottenham Hotspur manager Andre Villas-Boas=
Ian Walton
Andre Villas-Boas has told Spurs to buy big this summer to prevent a repeat of Tottenham’s Champions League heartbreak. Gareth Bale hit his 21st Premier League goal of the season - the highest tally from a Spurs player since Teddy Sheringham 19 years ago - to rescue the club yet again.
But
Jermain
Defoe and Emmanuel Adebayor have managed just five Premier League goals
between them since the turn of the year. And AVB wants Barcelona
striker David Villa and Aston Villa marksman Christian Benteke
as replacements.
The Spurs boss said afterwards: “I said before
this game that whether we made it into the Champions League or not we
would have to raise the bar again because our competitors will do the
same.
“We
got ever so close. But they will do their job in window, and we will do
ours the Tottenham way, scouting properly and looking for good grabs in
summer window to make it a stronger squad.” Youth policy? Manager Andre Villas-Boas salutes the fans with his daughter
Jan Kruger
Sunderland
boss Paolo Di Canio added: “They need big, big quality. Another top top
striker because Defoe and Adebayor they can guarantee goals but they need a top top striker up front in my opinion.
“If
they
do get one they are in contention for the league because Man City and
Chelsea are going to reinforce their team and Jose Mourinho will
probably come back. But the job that they have done already this year is
amazing.”
Tottenham’s 72-point Premier League tally is their
highest ever. The club already plan to scrap their usual policy of
waiting until Deadline Day to move for their top transfer targets this
summer.
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With
Arsenal and Chelsea linked with Wayne Rooney and both Manchester clubs
looking to back their new bosses with top-line signings, Villas Boas
believes Spurs must spend big to match them.
He
added: “Getting 72 points and not making it means that next season to
compete at this level we have to make probably more than that.
“The other teams have great great squads and will continue to add quality.
Next
year
we’ll have to be extremely competitive. We have given it a good run in
the end - the difference between teams is very very short. We will make
that a lesson to take into the future.
“Its difficult for me. Obviously we would ideally have achieved that fourth spot. We certainly did enough to deserve it.
“But we didn’t in the end and, moving forward, it is where we want to be so we will try next season.
“I
see
how fans feel regarding the Champions League and I think we’ve all
shown the determination and character this season but the others have
done ever so well.”
With Tottenham’s top-four fate decided, Real
Madrid and Manchester United are
now set to make their move for the four-time Player of the Year Bale,
who picked up two more club awards on the pitch after the match.
But Spurs believe Bale will sign a new deal next month. Villas Boas said:
“It will be very, very difficult to lure a player of this dimension away. You have to hold onto your best assets.”
The
Spurs
boss also insisted Bale is not too big a star to play in the Europa
League again. He went on: “The Europa League is a wonderful competition
won by Chelsea, the European Champions.”
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