Pressed further on whether too many players became “comfortable” at Spurs after securing their own high-profile moves, and what De Zerbi can do to alter that trendRedknapp added: “They have bought players in and I don’t even know who half of them are, to be honest – 60 million here, 50 million there, 70 million there. Average players who haven’t performed.
“Two years finishing 17th in the Premier League. They were so lucky not to go down this year. They got the biggest break of all when they went to Villa and Villa put a very average team out, mostly reserves, and probably the worst performance I’ve seen from a Premier League team that day was Aston Villa against Tottenham. So they caught Villa on the right day, just before they were due to play Forest in the semi final of the European competition, and that win really kept them up.
“But overall this year, they’ve been shocking Tottenham, absolutely shocking and they got away with it. But I do think this fella will push them on and I think next year they’ll finish in the top six.”
