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Oh look. Someone's already done the analysis.http://www.totaltottenham.com/blogs/jermain-defoe-he-shoots-when-he-wants/

The total goals per season stat needs taking with a slight pinch of salt given that Defoe has never been a 100% guaranteed starter in either spell at Spurs (either because of competition, or because of tactical inflexibility).

However, this is key:

The consequences of Defoe wasting so many opportunities to every goal he scores can be seen in his woeful number of assists, a meagre 31 assists from 352 Premier League career games. This goes far beyond his self-professed “striker’s instinct” and boils down to a selfishness which ultimately costs far more points than his one goal every 2.5 games has helped to win.

His ball retention is also awful. Not very AVB. If only Adebayor would pull his finger out we'd have a credible alternative to Soldado.