‘Don’t cha wish you’re left back was B-A-E’ should be echoed around White Hart Lane until the Cameroonian international retires from football. Admittedly, I got this from Dear Mr Levy (thanks Spooky) but, I wonder how many teams and fans wish they had a player like Benoit Assou-Ekotto?
As the old adage goes, a week is a long time in football, and if that is the case, then seven years must be a whole lifetime, such is the scope for things to alter in the blink of an eye. Teams can speed to success at an impressive rate of knots, or can decline to lowly existence with equal haste, yet falls from grace do not come much sharper than that of AS Monaco, who seven years after meeting Porto in a Champions League Final, find themselves rock bottom of the French second division.
Manchester United have made Benfica midfielder Nicolas Gaitan a target for the January transfer window but will have to meet a £40m release clause to capture the Argentine international.
In the last few weeks there have been two very high profile incidents involving premier league players: Luis Suarez & Patrice Evra and John Terry & Anton Ferdinand. The latter incident occurred last Sunday during the West London derby
So part one of Mancini v McCarthy is over with Mancini the victor however, this weekends tie at the Etihad Stadium will be a completely different proposition.
Having looked at two potential incomings already, To the Lane and Back will now take the opportunity to focus on the players that face a potential January exit as part of the Tottenham shake-up.
Manchester United of course travel to Merseyside to face Everton on Saturday, so with that in mind it’s worth taking a look at these three players who we should be wary of going into the game:
A crazy Sunday of football has meant the bookmakers have changed their odds of who will win the Premier League.