Julian Brandt is a Perfect Signing for Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur are rumored to be chasing Bayer Leverkusen’s Julian Brandt.
Tottenham Hotspur should have one goal and one goal only in their summer spending. Add creativity and class. Julian Brandt is a perfect signing in both terms. One of the Bundesliga’s assist kings this past season the german midfielder has shown just how strong he can be when it comes to creating attacking opportunities for his teammates and it is precisely that which Tottenham Hotspur need him to do.
In all fairness it would be a sizeable victory this summer for Tottenham to simply keep Christian Eriksen in the side with Real Madrid interested and his contract situation defining precarious. The Danish midfielder is one of the best players in Europe and is only discounted most likey because of his time in England with the North London club. If the club were by nature a more glamourous place he would be listed higher in the world’s football talent pecking order.
If Tottenham can find a way to pair Eriksen with Brandt they will create more chances than their strikers have the ability to score. One of the failures of this season, and their have not been many, has been the misuse of and (though no one can be blamed for it) year of Harry Kane. Too often this season Kane has carried too much of a load only to tragically injure himself and not be able to take part in the clubs most historic match to date.
While some critics have found a way to turn this into an argument for why Tottenham need Harry Kane I will assure you that they’re not only wrong, but perhaps possibly not really all that knowledgeable on footballing matters. If the best striker in world football was playing more of the season perhaps Spurs would not now be finishing the season in 4thdespite the fact that they were once in contention to win the division.
If Harry Kane hadn’t spent a large part of the year playing as a 9, 10, 6 and most of the other single digit numbers at one point perhaps he wouldn’t be out with yet another ankle injury. Tottenham have the best striker in Europe and he’s homegrown, a leader, wants to be there and a serious professional. He’s not troubled by any of the issues that trouble the likes of Mauro Icardi or Luis Suarez and they’re wasting him by not creating enough chances.
Signing a player like Julian Brandt fixes that issue. It also improves their other creative players because it makes Tottenham harder to defend against. Sir Alex Ferguson once said that the inherent advantage of being the attacker is that you are the protagonist in every situation. The defender at best must be reactionary. The attacker chooses how they move, what they do and how the story might go and the defender must react to it. By becoming predictable however the match is handed over to the defender who no longer needs to be on the back foot but the front and that is a failing on a fundamental level for a team like Tottenham.
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Too often the creative impetus is put on Eriksen to simply create some type of magic. He often does to his credit but wouldn’t he make more if he was handed the ability to do so more easily? Yes. Wouldn’t that then resolve in more goals and less work for Harry Kane? Yes. Would that not result in more wins for Tottenham Hotspur? Yes, it would.
Julian Brandt is a classy and creative player who is young enough to keep with Spurs’ general ethos. It is a perfect move and should be done as soon as is humanly possible. Not just because of him and what he brings but because of what he represents and brings to the side in general.