Harry Redknapp has proved to be one of the English finest managers as he led Tottenham to qualify for Champion League first time in their club history as they finally broke into Premiership top 4. Over the years, Tottenham has been an inconsistent team in that they can be brilliant in certain games especially against some top teams but only fall right down to earth swiftly in the following games when they could easily lose silly points against bottom teams. Throughout their premiership history, Tottenham has been one of the most dangerous attacking teams in the country with the likes of Lineker, Gazza, Klinsmann, Ginola, Sheringham, Bebertov and Keane. Yet, they never have a stable defense and a hardworking defensive midfield. To address these weaknesses, Redknapp has signed Honduras DMF Palacio, the key X-factor in the team's revival. In defense, Tottenham has been relying on Ledley King and Woodgate, two of the highest quality English CB. Unfortunately, both are also the most frequently injured players. To Redknapp's credit, he was able to bring out the best of English CB Michael Dawson, Brazilian GK Gomes and Wales LWB Bale to tiden up the defense, as all have shown steady improvement. With improvment in defense, Tottenham still carry on their tradition with great quality in attack with Croatian AMF Modric and Kranjcar provide creativity to the attack that already includes domestic talents such as WG Lennon, RMB Bentley, CF Crouch, FW Defoe along with Irish FW Robbie Keane and Russia CF Pavlyuchenko. There are different attacking options providing variety of attaking threats: speed (Lennon), skills and flair (Modric), finishing (Defoe) and ariel threat (Crouch). Although the team has not made any squad improvment so far during this summer, Tottenham already has a deep and balanced team with two good players in every position. The only missing piece may be they still don't have a superstar in their team like Torres, Ronney, Drogba and Fabegars to edge out top teams in important encounters. Yet, Tottenham will certainly be challenging for top 4 again. However, with the team invlove in Champion League this season, they may find it harder to focus on the league. With Liverpool and Manchester City both improving without the Champion League distraction, Tottenham could miss out the 4th spot eventually.
Strongest line-up: <4-4-2>
Strongest line-up: <4-4-2>
Gomes
Corluka Dawson King Bale
Lennon Palacios Modric Kranjcar
Defoe Pavlyuchenko
Prediction: 6th
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