Greatest XI of all time - Tottenham Hotspur?

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Left: Gareth Bale

Bale had a memorable time at the White Hart Lane

Imagine if Gareth Bale was still playing at Spurs and was starring alongside Harry Kane in attack; a dreadful sight for the opponents, a wonderful one for the fans. The Welshman was just a promising prospect in Southampton, but he became a global star by the time he left Spurs for Real Madrid.

The Welshman won the Premier League Player of the Year in 2012-13, after which he moved to Real Madrid for a world record fee of £86 million. His most memorable moment in a Spurs shirt was destroying Maicon and Inter defence with his sheer pace and ruthless goal-scoring abilities – something which still defines him as a world-class player.

In this team, he would play in a position where his skills would be used best: a left-inside forward.

Right: Jimmy Greaves

Jimmy Greaves is Spurs' record goalscorer

A list like this without Jimmy Greaves would be no list at all. While Harry Kane might be shattering many goal-scoring records, he is still quite far away from Jimmy Greaves’ goal tally for Spurs which stands at 266 goals from 381 games.

Greaves was a punisher – anything inside a box, even half a chance, and he would bury it at the back of the net. He had an astute sense of where to be and when to be and used it to full effect to punish the opponents. His pace and acceleration were also a constant source of worry for the defenders as he could also dribble his way out of trouble.

Sounds familiar to someone who already plays for Spurs, doesn’t it? We are looking at you, Kane.

Who knows, if Kane decides to stay at Spurs for a long time, he might as well go on to break the great Greaves’ record.