Van der Vaart

I still maintain that

Lennon is our saviour.

If Aaron Lennon is our saviour then I despair

Even I would

comment by lanespurs3 (U11398)
posted 7 hours, 1 minute ago
A modern Spurs great. A big game player, he took games by the scruff of the neck and became our Lampard, Gerrard, Fabregas, Van Persie, Drogba, Suarez, etc - a man who could win us games on his own through sheer force of will. He never hid, he always wanted the ball, and he was always trying to make things happen.

Fitness, work-rate going towards his own goal and defensive capabilities could all be called into question, but going the other way he was an absolute gem. One of the best attacking players I've ever seen in a Spurs shirt. His finishing was exemplary, his whipped in free-kicks were always dangerous, and he was great at leading from the front in a way we haven't had too often in recent years - Berba, Keane, King, Bale and, last season, Harry Kane aside.

Also, he nearly always scored against Arsenal and you could tell what scoring meant to him. He never saw coming to Spurs as a step down after leaving Real Madrid, he embraced it fully and will be forever remembered as a legend by the Tottenham faithful.

I think we let VDV go at the right time. He wasn't the same player at the beginning of that third season - towards the end of his second season he was struggling with injuries and always had to be taken off around the 60-70 minute mark. He left at the right time, with the fans still holding him in extremely high regard, rather than playing on for another year or two and not being the majestic player we'd seen in the previous two years. VDV didn't fit AVB's style, in the same way he wouldn't really fit Poch's, but for that two year spell he was mostly an absolute joy to watch.
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This pretty much sums it up perfectly.

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From the horses mouth!

Tottenham set a points and victories record in my first season, and missed out on the Champions League by one point and had a great run in the Europa League. In the second season, at the time I left we had more points than in the previous season. I ended up leaving by mutual agreement - it wasn't a sacking - because I gave full support to the football director Franco Baldini who meanwhile had other ambitions, meaning that I ended up with players that did not fit the profile I wanted.

"The chairman proposed a challenge to increase Tottenham's competitive level, but immediately Modric left and we didn't get any of the targets I had identified, such as João Moutinho, Willian, Óscar or Leandro Damião. These were promises that were not kept. I had a group of players I had not chosen. In two years I lost Van der Vaart, Modric, Bale, and all the promises made were unfulfilled. In any event I don't look at my time at Tottenham as a negative experience. It was an experience I needed to have."

Saying that under AVB. The paint was watching us dry! How VDV could've maybe changed that! Always loved the guys passion on the pitch! Who knows what could've been!

Also notice VDV was the first player to come out of his mouth about losing! So he obviously rated him!

That's a fine moral stance he took there....

Right after being thumped 5-0 at home by Liverpool

Why not on Sept 1st? Once we had signed all these players he suposedly didn't want?