You can't do any more than Jermain Defoe is doing to warrant a place in a team's first choice starting line-up. Cynics will continue to say that Defoe is playing against inferior opposition to the likes of Roberto Soldado, but you can only score against the team put in front of you - and Jermain Defoe is doing that in every game he plays. He's now the club's top scorer in all competitions with seven goals already (and he hasn't even started every game he's played). To put that in to perspective; in six Premier League games, Spurs have only scored 6 goals. Away from the Premier League, Defoe has scored more goals than his team mates have scored as a combined unit in the Premier League. Essentially, if Defoe doesn't get a Premier League opportunity soon, Defoe will start to wonder what the hell he has to do to get one - and then he'll look to move, leaving Tottenham with only Soldado and the forgotten man Adebayor as genuine senior strikers. Unless AVB wants to lose Defoe and be put in that predicament, he needs to start thinking of ways to accommodate him. At the moment, he's essentially saying "it doesn't matter what you do, you'll never start in the league".
