This summer is clearly the time in which Tottenham and Robbie Keane will finally part ways.
The Irishman has fallen out of favour amongst fans since his return from Liverpool, with minor first team appearances under Harry Redknapp and has been loaned out twice within a year.
Now the purpose/reason of why I have titled this article 'A Controversial Legend' is purely due to the fact that in my few (eleven) years of actually following football and Tottenham (COYS!), Robbie Keane to me, has been a key part in our squad make up through out the years and been by far our most successful player in terms of the contribution he has made for the team in the past ten years.
Keane had been our key striker for a good six years until the arrival of Harry Redknapp and was what I would like to call as the minimum level of expectation us fans now had of strikers playing at the club. He scored no less than fifteen goals a season and hitting twenty two and twenty three in the two seasons prior to Harry's arrival at the club. Now at the time this was great! If Keane wasn't scoring this many goals a season, our mid-table finishes would have ended even more disastrous with a possible relegation.
Now obviously we needed someone who was better than Keane and could score twenty plus goals every season alongside him to help us progress as a modern club and push for Europe. Then along came the likes of Jermaine Defoe, Fredrick Kanoute,Mido and Dimitar Berbatov who all promised to be that player complimenting Keane and suceeding in taking us higher... Only Berbatov was really good enough to do so and we sold him!( The reason why if we cant afford to lose Godric, Bale, VDV or any of our other key players)
Anyway, my point to this article is such; Robbie Keane joined our club, scored 123 goals becoming our 9th top goalscorer, won our hearts with his memorable celebration of the cart-wheel, Roley-Poley and guns, became club captain in the absense of Ledley King and set the standard in which we as fans now expect all our strikers to be(if not greater) and only due to the arrival of Crouch and Harry Redknapp's gay obsession with the lanky plank has he failed to keep his place in the side.
Yes I am well aware that he is well past his best with ten goals in thirty eight appearances for us and that NOW! is the time to move him on. But surely, as fans of this club, cant we acknowledge how he has helped the club and give him a sending off he deserves?... i think five million to Fulham would suit fine in all honesty dont you?
