Tottenham are learning the harsh truth about their attack

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Tottenham Hotspur dropped more points over the weekend in the Premier League, this time losing out on all three points in what should have been a relatively easy win over an Aston Villa side that, to that point in the campaign, were even more disappointing than Manchester United.

Spurs barely had a better share of the position and totaled just one more shot than a team with less talent than theirs, losing 2-1 as Villa took their chances while Spurs, in all reality, failed to create many meaningful opportunities of their own.

What Tottenham fans are starting to realize - and what they should have already known as early as the first game of the entire campaign - is that there is a dire lack of star quality in the attack that still remains despite a pretty active summer transfer window.

Mathys Tel has shown flashes, but nobody should pretend that he is ready yet or praise him as such. The other strikers are abysmal or not healthy, meaning, no matter how you spin it, they aren't moving the needle for Tottenham and have one percent of the quality Harry Kane did.

It's Kudus or bust for Spurs

Only Mohammed Kudus is living up to his billing and looking like a legitimate starter for a club with Champions League qualification aspirations like Tottenham. The rest are either inconsistent, like Tel, or not even worth considering as starters.

Even Xavi Simons has been pedantic in an attacking sense, and if it were any other player without his name or price tag, they would have been binned. Now, Simons is still adjusting and should be afforded some grace, but, at some point, you have to call a spade a spade when the results aren't going the club's way.

Nobody is worthy of praise at this point besides Kudus. This isn't the time for participation trophies, and while there should be an acknowledgement that Simons will likely come good and that Wilson Odobert and Mathys Tel are legitiamte talents of the future, the reality is that none of these three players are performing in the here and now.

And that doesn't even begin to get into the depth of the issue at striker. If Tottenham can't find someone who can even get 15 goals, let alone 20, in a Premier League season, they can kiss the top five goodbye with the competition honestly only getting better. The time for blind optimism must end, and the time for constructive criticism must heighten for Spurs.

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