Off the field, Tottenham Hotspur’s furniture will look bright new, but there will be familiarity when the London club enters the fifth season of Argentina’s Mauricio Pochettino.
After a stint at Wembley, the Spurs have returned home since 1899 when a $1 billion ($1.8 billion) stadium was installed on the site of their home in White Hart Lane.
The 62,000-seat stadium, London’s largest club stadium, will be a surprising backdrop as they try to build on the progress that has made them a fixed element among the four most sensitive in the Premier League.
Third place last season followed a moment and third position, an impressive series as the club’s net expenses were overshadowed by players such as Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal in the same period.
Once again, Tottenham was noted for its lack of market in the run-up to the new campaign.
They had not added new faces even though Pochettino at the end of last season suggested that the club’s hierarchy had to “be brave and risk” to compete for silver.
Either President Daniel Levy has something up his sleeve behind in the moving window, as has been the case in past seasons, or Pochettino’s call has fallen on deaf ears.
Liverpool, who was under the orders of the Spurs last season, has entered an expense frenzy and will look for something new when Tottenham played their first game at the new stadium on 15 September after Wembley returned to host Fulham.
While the team’s lack of reinforcement causes dismay among the hobby, the Tottenham team is still young and more than capable of enduring.
Nine Spurs players in the World Cup semi-finals, more than any other club, and Englishmen Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Eric Dier and Kieran Trippier will once again be part of Pochettino’s plans.
Belgian Jan Vertonghen remains Tottenham’s defensive stone, there are doubts about whether compatriots Toby Alderweireld and Mousa Dembele will remain at the club.
Danish Christian Eriksen will once again take on the role of game maker, while Argentina’s Erik Lamela, South Korean Son Heung-min, Brazilian Lucas Moura and Spanish striker Fernando Llorente Spurs have many attacking characteristics for all of Kane.
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