Soldado is the problem with Spurs midweek team
Tim Vickery is referred to as a South American football expert which basically means he is a journalist, not a football expert, who writes about football in South America. I would call any journalist writing for a daily paper over here a Premier League expert, they are simply football fans who are journalists.
However the South American expert suggested to BBC World Football Phone-in that Roberto Soldado is the problem at Tottenham and that affects everyone else. The South American player is innocent of course.
So the Brazilian has had a year to form a 'relationship' with Roberto Soldado and he hasn't done it, how long should he have to do it? Over a year is hardly an instant judgement and takes no account of the fact that Champions League football is at stake, which basically is the be all and end all of football in many peoples eyes.
Waiting for people to come good while it costs you a Champions League place is not an option. When you are playing badly, as Paulinho is, then at least you can put in some effort, but he isn't even doing that. He should have been better able to adapt his game in over a year, even the Brazilians said he was rubbish during the World Cup which suggest it'snot Tottenham but it's him.
I said before the start of the season that Soldado didn't fit the Pochettino system, that he's the wrong type of player. At the moment he is better outside the box than in it, not touching the ball a single time in the penalty area against Besiktas is unacceptable.
He is a player where the team have got to play for him, give him the chances and he'll put them away but Tottenham play so that any one of the front four can have chances. He like Paulinho will no doubt thrive at another club where the system suits them better but it's highly unlikely they are going to thrive at Tottenham, they haven't improved one iota in over a year, why are they suddenly going to do so now.
However the South American expert suggested to BBC World Football Phone-in that Roberto Soldado is the problem at Tottenham and that affects everyone else. The South American player is innocent of course.
"I think he’d probably thrive in a number of places [if he left]. Chelsea are reported to be interested in him.
"I was at White Hart Lane last Wednesday [for the 3-1 League Cup win over Nottingham Forest], where he didn’t do particularly well, but I don’t think he did badly either.
"The problem wasn’t him; the problem was Roberto Soldado, who doesn’t show or get behind the line.
"There are two wingers there playing on the wrong foot, who are looking to cut inside without the full-backs overlapping on the outside to give the option, and the whole collective context was wrong.
"I think Paulinho is a player who needs the collective context to be right because he’s not going to conjure something from nothing.
"What he does do is make that run into the box well. He needs that relationship with the centre-forward.
"I wouldn’t right him off yet. I’m always astonished these days in England how much people want to make instant judgements.
"Far, far better and wiser judges than myself rate him extremely highly. Corinthians won the Brazilian League, the Liberatadores and the Club World title and he was the best in all of those, and once he came out of the side they were never the same."
So the Brazilian has had a year to form a 'relationship' with Roberto Soldado and he hasn't done it, how long should he have to do it? Over a year is hardly an instant judgement and takes no account of the fact that Champions League football is at stake, which basically is the be all and end all of football in many peoples eyes.
Waiting for people to come good while it costs you a Champions League place is not an option. When you are playing badly, as Paulinho is, then at least you can put in some effort, but he isn't even doing that. He should have been better able to adapt his game in over a year, even the Brazilians said he was rubbish during the World Cup which suggest it'snot Tottenham but it's him.
I said before the start of the season that Soldado didn't fit the Pochettino system, that he's the wrong type of player. At the moment he is better outside the box than in it, not touching the ball a single time in the penalty area against Besiktas is unacceptable.
He is a player where the team have got to play for him, give him the chances and he'll put them away but Tottenham play so that any one of the front four can have chances. He like Paulinho will no doubt thrive at another club where the system suits them better but it's highly unlikely they are going to thrive at Tottenham, they haven't improved one iota in over a year, why are they suddenly going to do so now.
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