What will our new signings do for the club ?

Yesterday Spurs announced their second signing of the summer, Nacer Chadli. I was thinking "well why is AVB bringing in a midfielder and a winger even though we desperately need a striker ?" Then I realised why he has and this is what the two will do for us.

Paulinho is a great midfielder who can push forward and score many goals however as long as scoring goals he also provides something else. Last year Dembele was forced to restrict himself from going forward due to him not having anyone behind him to cover however with Paulinho it gives Dembele more freedom to attack and vice versa which means that Spurs will have more attacking options therefore more goals will be scored.

Chadli on the other hand is a completely different player to Paulinho but in effect will have the same sort of job next year. With AVB preferring Bale through the middle we had no one out wide on the left. With Sigurdsson or Dempsey there was no real pace and therefore all of Tottenham's play last year was down the left or through the middle. But with Chadli it gives another option. His pace will mean that defenders will find it harder to stick three players on Bale but also it gives Spurs another attacking option and balances the pace through the pitch. Not only does the signing of Chadli mean that Bale will score more it also means that we have another goalscorer. Chadli is able to create plenty of goals but also able to score them with last year him scoring 27 goals all competitions.

These signings do not mean we don't need a striker which is why Franco Baldini is in Valencia now to have talks over the possible signing of Roberto Soldado. Hopefully we can wrap up the signing of him quick and then for sure we will be able to score tons of goals without having to rely solely on Gareth Bale.