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Spurs Hubris Could Keep Berbatov at Tottenham
Tottenham Hotspur many not have been able to prove themselves a big club this summer, having hit the end of the transfer window with few of their many rumored targets hit, but on the home-front they can at least show themselves capable of acting like a big-boy. That could be the resolution of the Dimitar Berbatov saga: Tottenham sitting on their best player, putting him on the bench or relegating him to the reserves, and implicitly telling him that nobody does this to Tottenham.
Of course, the irony is that in trying to act as if they already have the stature of a big club, they are looking ridiculous. They are not a big club, and their play on the pitch without Berbatov shows they need to deal with the situation, one way or another. If he doesn’t want to play for them, they should have sold him to Barcelona earlier this summer, because now he has the advantage. They sold Robbie Keane, they have got off to a poor league start, and while they seem to have acquired Roman Pavlyuchenko, nobody is confusing that acquisition with an immediate cure. They either need Berbatov or the money he would bring in. A big club would realize this.
Rather than capitulate and salvage the situation, Tottenham is willing to hold on to Berbatov to prove a point. It’s difficult to see how that’s in their long term interests, even if it does give them short-term satisfaction.
That short-term satisfaction might prove impotent after a trip to Stamford Bridge this weekend. Playing Chelsea as a way of making preexisting problems worse.
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