The White Cafu has had a fair bit to say about his time at Spurs in the run up to today's game against QPR, for some reason, claiming that he was frozen out of the side after one bad performance and forced to train with the kids towards the end of his time at WHL. Does he have a point or is he just trying to divert criticism after being given plenty of chances?
Is this the intelligent Mr. Hutton who belted his own father? He didn't want to leave Rangers in the first place. He was right there! probably realised his own limitations. He could make effective contributions during a match but he wasn't ever good enough for the starring role he craved. A classic big fish in a small pond who was found wanting when he reached the river.
I for one am getting fed up with all these ex players mouthing off about all the injustice at their last clubs.
Hutton might think he was crap for one game, but us fans will tell him different. It's easier to count his good games for us.
He made 26 appearances for us last season in all competitions, so I can't see how he thinks that he didn't get a chance. His moan about being made to train with the kids is vaguely intriguing, though. I know that it was him and Bentley, as Luongo Tweeted it before being told to take it down by Mason (I think), but I'd be interested to know why.
Sounds like a classic `now I`ve left I`ll have a dig` moment from The White Cafu, he was never good enough for Spurs and an average premier league performer at best.
Seems to have incurable Terrible Boot Syndrome! http://www.avfc.co.uk/javaImages/21/26/0,,10265~9971233,00.jpg No improvement on what he wore with us! http://www.soccerbible.com/cfs-file...0.october.181010/bootspotting_5F00_hutton.jpg
They are shocking. Lucky not to have been sent off or concede a penalty today, apparently. Haven't seen it yet myself, mind.
He was bought by Comolli, which should tell you all you need to know LDL. He knows full well why he was made to train with the kids, both he and Bentley failed to turn up to a training session in preseason and went to V festival instead. My only regret is that Bentley isn't gone permanently too. I was at the Wolves game when he "scored" and I said straight away to my mate that I hope it didn't lead to a run in the side. It was fitting that Wolves, wo were responsible for the revival of his Spurs career then killed it off at their place, Charlie is the real white Cafu anyway.
I really wanted Alan Hutton to succeed at Spurs, and there were times during his stay with us when he looked like a fantastic player. But unfortunately, they were few and far between and the simple truth was that he wasn't good enough or consistant enough to be our regular choice right back.
At least he wasn't using his hand to divert criticism on two seperate occasions within the space of ten minutes...
I thought that the first one was pretty blatant and possibly even a straight red, as it blocked a goal-bound shot, but the second was accidental.
If anything, I'd say it was the other way 'round - the first one he was trying to pull his hand away, but the second he stuck it out.
To be fair Hutton's point about the crazy amount of right-backs we had is a good one. We had Chimbo, then bought Hutton for £8m, then bought Corluka next transfer window, then bought Walker and Naughton the next window after that (I think that's the order of how it happened). There was a period where every transfer window we seemed to buy a right back. Watching the Scotland v Italy game when they nearly qualified out of their WC group (or was it Euros), Hutton was clearly their outstanding player and I was delighted when we signed him. I'm afraid that Scotland v Italy game remains the best I've seen of him. He was an absolute monster in that game as I recall, though. Corluka over Hutton every time, though. Corluka's the right-back version of Berbatov.
We brought Chimbonda in as temporary cover for the whole back line though Lenny and the two Kyles were brought for the future. Hutton only really had to compete with Corluka for most of his time at the club, though he even managed to lose his place to Kaboul, who's not a right-back.
Yeah but still - when a club buys you for £9m in the same window that we'd bought Gunter and then the very next transfer window pay £8.5 for Corluka then the next window we buy Chimbo back again and then the next window we buy TWO right-backs (for a fee of £8m)!* I know that, at any one time, he really only had Corluka and maybe one other as competition but that's still something like five right-backs into the club since you signed a year and a half ago. *Bear in mind, too that at the time we paid £9m for Hutton Liverpool had just broken their record fee for a defender by paying...£6.5m for Skrtel. Amazing, really.
PS - after a quick think again about how amazing that Liverpool record transfer fee for a defender is (considering the number of rubbish defenders Spurs have paid more than £6.5m for over the years)I realised how they then broke their record fee for a defender. £18m man Glen Johnson!
