Tottenham Have Managed To Do An Arsenal, Better Than Arsenal
Tottenham Hotspur are going places both on and off the field. The club has been making huge strides over the past two years in England and look set to be on their way to becoming one of the best sides in England and Europe in the coming years.
They came very close to winning the Premier League title last season, only to see their dreams shatter following a run of poor results at the very end of the season. Eventually, they finished in th third in the title race, one place behind their bitter-most rivals Arsenal.
However, they look all set to improve on their finish last season, as they occupy the second spot in the league standings ten points behind leaders Chelsea. There is pressure from Manchester City and Liverpool below them, but Tottenham look good for a runner-up finish this term.
This would please the fans boundlessly, especially considering the fact that derby rivals Arsenal are struggling badly and find themselves at 6th position in the league with the hopes of Champions League football looking bleaker with each passing week.
Off the field too, Tottenham are taking huge steps in the right direction in establishing themselves as one of the best in the country. The construction of a new stadium is underway for Spurs, right next to the White Hart Lane and is expected to be ready for the 2018-19 season. The stadium will seat close to 61,000 fans and will have a single-tier stand just 5 metres away from the goal line. It has also been said that the single-tier stand will be the largest in the country with 17,000 seats.
The stadium has almost double the number of seats than the White Hart Lane and will also be slightly larger than Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium. The reported cost of construction of the stadium is believed to be in the range of £750 million.
The results on the field and the progress that is being made off of it clearly indicate a shift in power at North London, with Tottenham emerging as the new superpowers in the region.
What will be extremely disappointing for the Gunners will be the fact that, Tottenham have copied their blueprint for success. They have a bright young manager in Mauricio Pochettino, with a young and exciting side, playing an attractive brand of football, with a controlled wage bill and a brand new state of the art stadium.
This is everything that was promised to the Arsenal fans in the early years of the millennium. In Arsene Wenger, they had one of the brightest managers in the world. They had a powerful squad with a great blend of youth and experience. A switch to the Emirates from the Highbury was supposed to bring the best of the players into the team and turn the Gunners into a supreme force in the footballing world.
However, things have just gone downhill for them since then. Year after year, they lost their best players. Year after year they suffered due to Arsene Wenger’s reluctance to spend big in the transfer market. And now, they find themselves on the verge of being replaced as the biggest club in North London.
It may well be argued that Tottenham could go through a similar phase once their new stadium is ready and the funds to invest in the transfer market tighten up. But the fact that, they have tied down almost all of their first-team players with long-term contracts bodes well for the team.
Even if a player decides to leave, the contracts ensure that the club will earn a good sum of money in transfer fees and that enables them to reinvest it into the market. Also, the revenues that the club will be generating from hosting the NFL matches can be used for good purposes. Overall, things look much brighter for Tottenham.
They have been under the shadows of their neighbours for way too long. Now it is the time for Tottenham to rise and shine and brightly so.
Come On You Spurs!