Ange Postecoglou is slowly building up his Tottenham Hotspur squad for the new Premier League season.
In Postecoglou’s debut campaign, he guided Spurs to fifth in the Premier League table, even though they lost Harry Kane, but they weren’t in Europe.
After ten Premier League matches, Tottenham were flying high, sitting top of the table and playing the best football in the country.
But then the injuries hit and things went south. Darren Bent told James Maddison two players ‘derailed’ their season.
That’s a warning to Postecoglou that he needs to bulk up his squad even more than before, or else things might get worse.
That’s why Tottenham have secured the transfer of Archie Gray and brought back Timo Werner on a season-long loan deal.
Pre-season is underway and Tottenham fans are all saying the same thing about Gray’s pre-season performance, with the 18-year-old looking like he is here to start pretty much straightaway.
Darren Ambrose can see Gray starting in the middle of the park when the London club open their Premier League campaign away at newly-promoted Leicester City on August 19.
With Pape Matar Sarr and Yves Bissouma alongside, it would mean a place on the bench for the experienced, Rodrigo Bentancur.
As a result, Ambrose can’t believe Bentancur would be on the bench by adding ‘what a substitution’, as he told talkSPORT (21/07/24 at 4:15 pm).
Rodrigo Bentancur as a Tottenham Hotspur substitute
“Bentancur, where does he play,” asked Scott Minto. To which Ambrose responded: “I don’t think he does. I think Sarr, Bissouma and Archie Gray are the three.
“Bentancur, what a substitution to have as well. But having these players as squad players, you can rotate, which is what big clubs do and Spurs never had that big squad. That’s why they have fallen off it a lot of times.”
Don’t sleep on Rodrigo Bentancur
The 27-year-old missed the start of the previous campaign because he was returning from a long-term injury and then he suffered a setback against Aston Villa in November.
As a result, he didn’t have any rhythm or sharpness to his game, which meant that he was in and out of the XI.
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What also didn’t help matters was the fact that Tottenham were starting to falter.
But now, Bentancur will have a pre-season under his belt, that sharpness back and he will be quickly proving that he is one of Tottenham’s best players.
When he was last fully fit and starting regularly, he was outstanding under Antonio Conte and helped the team to the Champions League.
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