da blaze casino： When Robbie Keane returned to Tottenham from Liverpool in 2009 it was supposed to be a hero’s return. His mission was to help keep Tottenham in the Premier League, which they did, but Keane was never the same player and he didn’t really win over the White Hart Lane faithful.
da esport bet： Many Spurs fans never quite forgave the Irishman when he left for Liverpool in the summer of 2008. Despite saying that he would stay at Spurs for as long as he was happy and as long as the club wanted him he sealed his move away on the 28th July. It was his departure, followed by that of Dimitar Berbatov, which signalled Tottenham’s sudden decline at the start of the 2008/09 season.
Originally many Spurs fans hailed his return as a great piece of business by new manager Harry Redknapp, but many were also unimpressed that Tottenham were prepared to offer the struggling striker an olive branch just months after he’d been so desperate to leave. Keane’s first game back for Spurs was at home against Arsenal – the perfect opportunity to regain his hero status. Even though he played fairly well and Tottenham got a creditable draw Keane missed a glorious chance to get the winner, and the remainder of his Tottenham career panned out in much the same way.
If you take away Keane’s four goal showing against Burnley he only managed to score two league goals in the 09/10 season before he was allowed to go to Celtic on loan. By this point Keane had fallen sharply down the strikers’ pecking order and his performances had become lazy and aimless, a shadow of the player he once was. His temporary move to Celtic, one of his boyhood clubs, was a resounding success but raised the question among Spurs fans as to why it took a move north of the border for Keane to refind his form.
Keane has only featured sporadically in the Tottenham first XI this season and his appearance against FC Twente seemed to be Harry Redknapp allowing him a last hurrah as much as anything else. Redknapp said earlier in the week that Keane could be sold to the highest bidder with Wolves reportedly in the frame for the player.
It is worth remembering that Keane is still only 30 years old so potentially has another five or six years of top flight football left in him, however his poor second spell at Tottenham has left people thinking that he is already over the hill.
When Keane does depart I don’t think that Spurs fans will lose much sleep. However I also feel that while a move is the right deal for all concerned, his departure will trigger feelings of ‘if only’ for a man whose return has tarnished his previously untouchable reputation at White Hart Lane.
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