I’m not sure who it was who came up with the term “known unknowns” but it’s very definitely where football and Tottenham Hotspur are at, at the moment.
Writer: Jod
We have cancelled matches across Europe with no clue whether or not they will eventually be played. We have talk of the Euros being moved to next year but aren’t sure whether that will actually happen. Even without the public health problems, we don’t even know whether fourth or fifth will be needed for the Champions League.
The strange thing is from our perspective, the situation was already so bad it couldn’t get much worse. Depending on how it plays out the situation could actually work in our favour.
Ideally, we want a nice long delay before football resumes with the Euros moved so that the various leagues can finish their seasons in the summer. This would have a number of pluses for us. First, of course, we would have time to get players fit. How different would the remainder of the season be if Kane and Son were available?
Second, it would give Jose a period to work full time with the players on the training ground. There’s a difference between a manager telling the players what he wants and drilling it into them with practice after practice. It’s hard to to get enough training in when you are playing twice a week, it’s dead easy if you aren’t playing at all. If the Euros are moved there’s a further bonus.
The World Cup really hurt us with players starting the season already tired from having no summer break. If we have no summer tournament we have the possibility of starting with an injury-free, fresh squad next season which would make a nice change.
Of course, like everyone else, the club would take much less of a financial hit if the season was eventually finished. In our case there are also the various events that may or may not take place at the stadium. So we want a break that lets us get our players fit, but still lets us stage as many of the concerts etc as possible, not sure how long that would be.
I’m also not sure how significant the loss of income would actually be. If every club ends up losing money this season then every club will have less to spend on players, the laws of supply and demand say that will mean prices go down. Theoretically, the financial impact may not be that great. Its all ifs, buts and maybes.
But we could end up looking back on this strangest of seasons and think we got out of jail.
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