Zero. Six games in, still zero.
Tottenham have not scored a goal this season. Two points, 17th in the Premier League, and a scoring column that has yet to be opened.
Set that against the summer and it stings. Roughly 370 million euros went out the door in the transfer market, on top of back-to-back campaigns that also ended in 17th. The money has changed precisely nothing so far.
Roberto De Zerbi chose defiance after the 0-0 with Everton. Two clean sheets on the bounce, he pointed out. “In Italy, with 2 clean sheets in the last 2 matches, I would be the best coach in the world,” the Italian said, then reminded the room what state he inherited the club in last season.
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Dugarry heard that and lost it
The line did not go down well in France. Christophe Dugarry went at it on RMC Sport with no interest in diplomacy, starting with the contract: five years, signed at Tottenham. A robbery, was his framing, and one carried out without a mask.
Then came the bigger question, whether De Zerbi belongs at a club this size at all. Dugarry walked through Brighton, then Sassuolo, and landed on his verdict: not, in his eyes, “an absolute benchmark for coaching big clubs”.
What really set the 1998 world champion off was the talking. “It is staggering to have so little awareness of what you are saying,” he said, adding that he cannot understand why nobody around the manager has told him to stop.
The defence holds. Nobody scores.
De Zerbi is not wrong about one thing. Two matches without conceding, in this league, is genuine work. It is the other penalty box that is killing him.
Teams that do not score do not win, and Tottenham have not won. Zero goals several rounds in is the kind of number that gets managers sacked, whatever the clean sheets say.
Behind the scenes the club is still hunting a sporting director and the rebuild grinds on. On the pitch, the scoreboard has not moved.
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