The morning after the night before

My brain is a dichotomy, as is everything to do with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. And 'Arry's happy go lucky persona is starting to wear a little thin.

I don't want to be reminded of how lucky we are to have tasted CL football and what an amazing run we've been on. I want consistency. We should have upped our game from last season and its patently obvious that we haven't. Yes, we've had some great moments but by and large the only consistency we have shown is in our ability to mess things up at home in the league.

What we need to do this summer is what we failed to do last summer and again in the January transfer window - clear out the deadwood and get quality in.

So, 'Arry I know you don't like the epithet 'wheeler dealer', but isn't that what you're supposed to do best? Stop resting on your laurels and get to it man!

At present, the squad is massive and there's a huge gulf between the real quality and the dead average. So the average need to be sold on, retired or shipped out

As I see it the squad can be neatly divided into four chunks;

The Deadwood

David Bentley
Giovani Dos Santos
Robbie Keane
Jermaine Jenas
Jonathan Woodgate
Ledley King (there I've said it!)
Alan Hutton
Jermaine Jenas
Jake Livermore
Ben Alnwick
Stipe Pletokosa

The ordinary - squad players who can 'do a job'

Vedran Corluka
Wilson Palacios
Peter Crouch
Jermain Defoe
Roman Pavlyuchenko
Steven Pienaar
Jamie O'Hara
Sebasteien Bassong
Carlo Cudicini

The promising

Younes Kaboul
Kyle Naughton
Kyle Walker
Bongani Khumalo
Danny Rose

The quality

Michael Dawson
William Gallas
Gareth Bale
Benoit Assou-Ekotto
Tom Huddlestone
Aaron Lennon
Luka Modric
Rafael Van der Vaart
Sandro
Niko Kranjcar - why doesn't 'Arry utilise him more often?
Luka Modric

and then there is the conundrum that is Heurelho Gomes. In equal terms brilliant and absolutely hopeless. To be honest I'd rather have Cudicini fill the number one spot and get in a promising youngster from one of the lower leagues as cover, because, lets face it we never going to buy Manuel Neuer from Schalke, are we?