I was sat here watching MOTD tonight, and realised I recognised a lot of ex spurs players playing for other teams. I decided to work out who, and where they played.
The results I found surprising. Only 7 of the top flight teams do not have ex Spurs players playing regularly for them. I always assumed West Ham, and Portsmouth took our rejects but top are Sunderland and Fulham who have 5 ex players each. Of the top 4 Man Utd have 2 and Villa have 1, Chelsea and Arsenal have 0. Is this unusual for EPL teams? Is this the Arneson legacy of buying so many players and selling on?
Out of all of them who was I sorry to see go? Well only the 2 to Man Utd if I’m honest, although I always liked Davies, Malbranque and Etherington. Barmby was always a favourite as he was in the Spurs team I first started supporting.
Below is the full list, what do you think? Any favourites, comments, memories?
Chelsea: 0
Man Utd: 2 Carrick; Berbatov
Arsenal: 0
Villa: 1 Young
Man City: 0
Liverpool: 0
Sunderland: 5 Fulop; Reid; Malbranque; Bent; Campbell;
Burnley: 0
Stoke: 1 Etherington
Fulham: 5 Kelly; Konchesky; Murphy; Davies; Zamora
Birmingham: 2 Carr; Tiaino
Everton: 0
Wigan: 1 Edman
Blackburn: 2 Robinson; Chimbonda
Hull: 3 Gardner; Barmby; Marney;
West Ham: 1 Davenport
Bolton: 1 Davis
Wolves: 0
Portsmouth: 4 Kaboul; O’hara; Brown; Boateng;
Lets see if this works for Premier league teams: Ok out of these who would win, and add in our current team:
(Best 11)
Robinson
Kelly Kaboul Chimbonda Young
Davies Tianio Carrick Malbranque
Bent Berbatov
(Worst 11)
Fulop
Carr Gardner Davenport Konchesky
Barmby Murphy Davis Etherington
Campbell Zomora
Gomez
Charlie King Woodgate Disco Benny
Lennon JJ Palacios Modric
Defoe Keane
I hope our current team would beat both teams, although the top one looks quite strong. Looking from these teams which I have ranked as the best and worst available, I think the top (best team) would be top 6 easily, and the worst Easily bottom 6
The results I found surprising. Only 7 of the top flight teams do not have ex Spurs players playing regularly for them. I always assumed West Ham, and Portsmouth took our rejects but top are Sunderland and Fulham who have 5 ex players each. Of the top 4 Man Utd have 2 and Villa have 1, Chelsea and Arsenal have 0. Is this unusual for EPL teams? Is this the Arneson legacy of buying so many players and selling on?
Out of all of them who was I sorry to see go? Well only the 2 to Man Utd if I’m honest, although I always liked Davies, Malbranque and Etherington. Barmby was always a favourite as he was in the Spurs team I first started supporting.
Below is the full list, what do you think? Any favourites, comments, memories?
Chelsea: 0
Man Utd: 2 Carrick; Berbatov
Arsenal: 0
Villa: 1 Young
Man City: 0
Liverpool: 0
Sunderland: 5 Fulop; Reid; Malbranque; Bent; Campbell;
Burnley: 0
Stoke: 1 Etherington
Fulham: 5 Kelly; Konchesky; Murphy; Davies; Zamora
Birmingham: 2 Carr; Tiaino
Everton: 0
Wigan: 1 Edman
Blackburn: 2 Robinson; Chimbonda
Hull: 3 Gardner; Barmby; Marney;
West Ham: 1 Davenport
Bolton: 1 Davis
Wolves: 0
Portsmouth: 4 Kaboul; O’hara; Brown; Boateng;
Lets see if this works for Premier league teams: Ok out of these who would win, and add in our current team:
(Best 11)
Robinson
Kelly Kaboul Chimbonda Young
Davies Tianio Carrick Malbranque
Bent Berbatov
(Worst 11)
Fulop
Carr Gardner Davenport Konchesky
Barmby Murphy Davis Etherington
Campbell Zomora
Gomez
Charlie King Woodgate Disco Benny
Lennon JJ Palacios Modric
Defoe Keane
I hope our current team would beat both teams, although the top one looks quite strong. Looking from these teams which I have ranked as the best and worst available, I think the top (best team) would be top 6 easily, and the worst Easily bottom 6