In the same way that some players fuck off to "bigger & better things" & leave a club in the shit, other players end up as collateral damage. Some just don't settle or don't get the rub of the green (exhibit A- Roberto Soldado).Well this is still the Janssen thread, but looking at the team as a whole, you can argue that all that matters is the team scoring goals by any means, and winning points, and I wouldn't disagree with that.
However, that's perhaps a bit short sighted. It assumes we will continue to score goals and pick up points to the degree we want to, and it sees one of our players as collateral damage, or places the blame on him (perhaps erroneously). If Janssen actually is not the problem then hiring a new striker now or in the summer won't fix the root cause of the problem.
As a striker myself in my past, I can see that Janseen is not getting service, and I can see he now lacks self belief. Both are problems in my opinion, but any new striker is going to struggle likewise without adequate service even if their belief is good initially, so I see it as a problem that needs fixing.
We have to find a way to rebuild if someone leaves us. In the same way, we have to cut our losses if a player doesn't get his shit together.
We play a certain way. We need a certain type of player. For me, either Janssen trains his heart out to fit in with the system or he has to find another club that suits his style better if he can't adapt. I don't see it that Spurs has a problem. We aren't going to stop scoring goals imo & we'd be having a different conversation about how the goals weren't being shared around the pitch- which is an equal problem, if not a more acute one. You are then over reliant on your strikers & are bang in trouble when they have an off day or are marked out of games.