Bellamy isn’t the ‘special’ player to break Spurs’ successful structure
The general perspective surrounding Craig Bellamy can be likened to an English summer, when the sun is shining everything is grand but we conveniently forget the imminent showers and occasional thunder storms right around the corner.
On the back of a very good season with Manchester City, Bellamy has been strongly linked with a move to Tottenham Hotspur who pipped his side to that illusive final Champions League place towards the end of last season.
Spurs boss Harry Redknapp said on Wednesday that he would like “two or three more players who can make the difference” and the Welsh forward is apparently one of them
While Bellamy has shown signs of his ability at some of his previous clubs, they are commonly in patches, eventually fading out due to loss of form or fallouts with fellow staff members, sometimes both.
In his first season at Newcastle United he won the ‘PFA Young Player of the Year’ award but left two season later after an ongoing row with manager Graeme Souness and also sent Alan Shearer a taunting text message whilst on loan at Celtic after the Magpies FA Cup Semi-Final defeat to Manchester United which sums up his fiery character to a tee. In fact, using former Liverpool team-mate John Arne Riise as a tee was a catalyst to his eventual exit from Anfield after he attacked the Norwegian with a golf club during a training session
Bellamy has been somewhat of an enigma as his electric pace and good finishing have proven too tempting for managers to reject over his bad attitude and inconsistency yet his repeated transition from ‘hot to cold’ is why he keeps moving from one club to another.
Spurs already have the qualities Bellamy possesses in abundance; for his pace and dribbling there is Gareth Bale and Aaron Lennon, for his sharpness in front of goal there is Jermain Defoe and for an impact substitute they will now welcome back World Cup star Giovani dos Santos.
Under Daniel Levy, the Lilywhites have created a trading philosophy of signing players in their early to mid-20’s who are both in their prime years and will also gain an add-on value should both club and player feel it is a suitable time for them to go their separate ways.
At 31 years of age, Bellamy is hardly that ‘special’ player to break this successful structure. If Spurs were to sign someone reaching the latter stages of their career then it should only be for a world class player of the caliber of Diego Forlan or Luis Fabiano whose undoubted quality and proven ability could take the club to an even higher level.
Written By Andrew Vou
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