Apps: 9 (including 4 Starts)
Goals: 0
Highlight: Getting the nod for the CC visit of the Goons
Lowlight: A properly shocking performance away at Notlob
Average We Are Tottenham Match Rating: 5.67/10

Sandro took what seemed like an age to arrive at White Hart Lane. Originally the subject of a bid in August 2009, the deal was concluded in March 2010 with the player released by Internacional following the conclusion of their Copa Libertadores campaign - which they won - on 18th August 2010. There is no doubt that the protatcted nature of the deal and the prestige earned by the player having been part of the winning team in the South-american equivalent of the Champions' League led to many expecting a fair amount.

It was over a month before Sandro was handed his first-team debut - against none other than the Auld Enemy themselves, albeit at home in the Worthless Cup. Despite a decent showing, the team was eventually overpowered by the three-dozen fourteen year-olds that M. Wenger put out that night. Next action was as a sub fourteen seconds from the end of normal time of the 2-1 home win against Villa, this was followed swiftly by the first half against Fulham and some weeks later the second-half against Everton. A win, draw and loss out of those three and some glimpses of the ability that convinced Harry to shell out an undisclosed amount (in the region of £8million) for the player though.

So...away at Bolton and while the defeat was attributable to a poor showing all-round, the lad was some way off the pace still. Since then, opportunities in the league have been restricted to substitute appearances totalling just three minutes, before a full run-out in the FA Cup against Charlton, where he was effectively depolyed to do the same job as Palacios but did not let himself down.

Sandro has some way to go before Spurs (management and fans) see the finished article.

Grade: D

Apps: 15
Goals: 0
Highlight: Pulling on the famous lilywhite shirt for the first time.
Lowlight: Looking decidedly off the pace in Milan.
Average We Are Tottenham Match Rating: 6.60/10

William Gallas has come out of a challenging beginning to his Spurs career with quite some credit. Formerly a pupil at both the Death Star and Second-hand Fridge, it seemed that William could have been excluded for the 2010/11 campaign until Headmaster Redknapp saw fit to give him one more chance at Tottenham Hotspur.

Following on from an excursion to South Africa with his countrymen in the Summer, William looked somewhat tired and perhaps a little unfit for his early outings, though he showed touches of the ability that saw him do well elsewhere. Alongside Younes Kaboul, William has formed the most-deployed central defence partnership for Tottenham thus far, with 9 out of 26 outings. Clearly William has much he can do to bring the likes of Younes along and they still have some work to do between them to avoid the kind of communications breakdown that inexplicably occurred when Sunderland visited.

An admirable start to his time at White Hart Lane that will need to be maintained but William is certainly capable of doing very well over the course of the season.

Grade: B