- Jun 4, 2017
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I really do fully appreciate the enormous marketing demands a premiership club has to satisfy regarding overseas supporters but I do sometimes question these overseas 'friendly' tournaments they enter. To travel all the way to the USA and play Manchester City seems slightly 'off the wall' and serves no purpose whatsoever other than to possibly give the winning team some sort of psychological edge before the season starts. The managers are obviously unable to directly involve themselves in proposed transfer deals whilst abroad and presumably rely on mobile phones and text messages to be kept up to date with developments....hardly ideal.
Would it not be better if we took a week off somewhere and played some local teams as a marketing ploy instead....? not as physically demanding, a chance to relax and 'showboat' a little and still fly the Spurs flag. In a sense a light training session followed by some friendly banter ?
I realise we would probably lose a lot of money with TV broadcasting rights but if it gave us 1) An opportunity to perhaps sign players earlier on in the window. 2) Give them a gentler introduction to the club and squad. 3) Allow them to integrate in a more relaxed match atmosphere and 4) Remove us from any sort of pre-season mind games by not playing fellow title contenders.
Do we really need the 'hassle' of travelling thousands and thousands of miles to play teams that are normally just a couple of hours drive away .... and other foreign sides who we will never actually meet in European competition ?.
Imagine Tottenham coming to play your local team and the excitement that would generate, or even better your team invited to Wembley for a game against Kane, Alli and friends.
Just a thought......there must be some 'middle ground' to be found on this as the current 'friendly tours' seem to be more of an unnecessary mental and physical exertion rather than chance to "stretch the legs" before the season begins.
Would it not be better if we took a week off somewhere and played some local teams as a marketing ploy instead....? not as physically demanding, a chance to relax and 'showboat' a little and still fly the Spurs flag. In a sense a light training session followed by some friendly banter ?
I realise we would probably lose a lot of money with TV broadcasting rights but if it gave us 1) An opportunity to perhaps sign players earlier on in the window. 2) Give them a gentler introduction to the club and squad. 3) Allow them to integrate in a more relaxed match atmosphere and 4) Remove us from any sort of pre-season mind games by not playing fellow title contenders.
Do we really need the 'hassle' of travelling thousands and thousands of miles to play teams that are normally just a couple of hours drive away .... and other foreign sides who we will never actually meet in European competition ?.
Imagine Tottenham coming to play your local team and the excitement that would generate, or even better your team invited to Wembley for a game against Kane, Alli and friends.
Just a thought......there must be some 'middle ground' to be found on this as the current 'friendly tours' seem to be more of an unnecessary mental and physical exertion rather than chance to "stretch the legs" before the season begins.
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