Ramos, whose lack of English cannot be helpful in the dressing room, has made tactical errors and some puzzling substitutions, like his decision to take off Aaron Lennon when he looked to be the main threat against Hull City. So he and Levy have to accept a share of the blame for Tottenham's alarming start to the season. But there is a growing feeling on the terraces that the squad is not strong enough to endure a nine-month campaign and emerge with any success. As is the way in the modern game, the man responsible for ensuring the squad is strong enough is the Sporting Director. In Tottenham's case this is Comolli, once one of Arsene Wenger's European scouts and a man who claims to be a good judge of football talent. Well, I think the jury remains to be convinced on that one. How can anyone argue that Tottenham's current line-up is as strong as when Jol bowed out a year ago? After all, Robbie Keane, Dimitar Berbatov and Jermain Defoe scored 54 goals between them last season and there's little sign of any player, or combination of players, reaching that figure now. Yes, some major transfer deals collapsed in the summer, but others were concluded successfully. But expensive newcomers like David Bentley, Roman Pavlyuchenko, Luka Modric and Giovani Dos Santos cost more than £40million and are still to demonstrate anything that suggests they have what it takes to score regularly.
