RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Tottenham have handled Harry Kane’s exit awfully well, but Ange Postecoglou’s thin squad will be challenged when the Africa Cup of Nations and Asian Cup come around

    [ad_1] Dejan Kulusevski is certain that Tottenham’s place at the top of the Premier League has been assisted by missing out on European football. Trickier to ascertain is whether they have been helped by what they lost to the continent. It remains a sporting sacrilege to suggest Spurs are a better side without Harry Kane….

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    RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: What would Paul Pogba give to be where Jude Bellingham is now? Even as a World Cup winner, his career reeks of entitlement and delusion

    [ad_1] Is there anything more uplifting in sport than the glorious explosions of a new talent? Is there anything quite so depressing as one that offers so much and grows so large, only to implode under its own weight? They are sensations that prefer to live apart, but not this week. Not when one remarkable…

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