There was some chatter over the weekend in the Tottenham vs. Stoke City Highlights post about Clint Dempsey’s season with Tottenham.  While Dempsey doesn’t have the flashy goal total like he did in 2010-11, he has been involved in the offense and has provided some assists.  In fact, he has 12 goals and seven assists in 42 games across all competitions this season.  If you go back to last year and just look at Premier League games, he has 24 goals and 11 assists.

So that got me thinking, how many guys have recorded at least 20 goals and 10 assists in Premier League play since the beginning of the 2010-11 season?  And here is your answer.

Again, Dempsey is among some good players.

Also of note, I went with Transfermarkt’s assists totals, although they seem to give out a lot more assists than other sites like WhoScored.com.  That all said, Dempsey had 11 assists with Transfermarkt and 10 assists with WhoScored.  But it was way different for other players.

Howie’s Pick – Clint Dempsey (Tottenham Hotspur – English Premier League)

In a critical match for Tottenham’s pursuit of the Champions League, Clint Dempsey came up big with a goal and an assist in a 2-1 come-from-behind victory over Stoke City.

Matt’s Pick – Clint Dempsey (Tottenham Hotspur – English Premier League)

Clint Dempsey has not had the flashy season like he did in 2011-12, but with a goal and an assist over the weekend, Dempsey now has 12 goals and seven assists on the season across all competitions.

Clint Dempsey got the start, scored the tying goal and assisted on the winning goal in Tottenham’s 2-1 win over Geoff Cameron and Stoke City.  Here are the highlights.

Clint Dempsey came off the bench and played 20 minutes in Tottenham’s 2-2 draw to Chelsea.  Here are the highlights.

Haven’t done one of these in a while, but here are few updates of things with Clint Dempsey scoring his 56th career Premier League goal over the weekend.  With the goal, he now has six goals on the season, becoming the sixth player to score 6+ goals in each of the last six seasons.

His goal on Sunday was also his fourth against Manchester City in his career.  Manchester City is one of six teams that Dempsey has scored at least four Premier League goals against in his career.

The goal on Sunday was also his fourth in his career at White Hart Lane, the most of any stadium not named Craven Cottage.

As for some other little nuggets.

* From what I can find (I have seen a couple different lists, but mixing and matching has led me to this answer), Dempsey’s 56 career Premier League goals are tied for the 62nd most in the Premier League era (since 1992-93) and the 18th most among current players.

* Dempsey didn’t make his Premier League debut until January 20, 2007.  His 56 goals are the 12th most in the Premier League since that date.

* All four of Dempsey’s goals against Manchester City have come since 2008-09.  Dempsey is one six players with 4+ goals against Man City since 2008-09 (also Wayne Rooney, Darren Bent, Jermain Defoe, Frank Lampard and Andy Carroll).

* And Dempsey has scored 10 combined goals against Manchester City (four), Chelsea (four) and Manchester United (two), tied for the second most since 2008-09.  Darren Bent leads the way with 11 goals against those three teams, while Dempsey is tied with Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie and Fernando Torres.

So yeah, Clint Dempsey is pretty good.

Down 1-0 to Manchester City, Clint Dempsey found the back of the net as Tottenham came back to win 3-1.  Here are the highlights, including Dempsey’ goal.

Howie’s Pick – Clint Dempsey (Tottenham Hotspur – English Premier League)

This week’s honor goes to Clint Dempsey, who did everything he could to rescue Tottenham’s series against Basel with his two-goal performance.

Matt’s Pick – Jozy Altidore (AZ Alkmaar – Dutch Eredivisie)

I don’t care what league you are in, there are good odds that you are my pick for POTW honors if you record a hat trick.

Tottenham were knocked out of Europa League in penalty kicks (4-1) after being tied up 2-2 today.  Clint Dempsey scored both goals for Tottenham (giving him seven in his career in Europa League play), while Brad Friedel was the goalkeeper for the Spurs.  Here are Dempsey’s goals.

Brad Friedel got the start while Clint Dempsey came off the bench in Tottenham’s 2-2 draw to Basel.  Tottenham fell behind 2-0, but scored two goals to earn a 2-2 draw in this first leg.  Here are the goals.

Jurgen Klinsmann took over US Soccer’s twitter account yesterday and while he didn’t answer any of Howie’s questions, he did give us some good news on Clint Dempsey, Fabian Johnson and Steve Cherundolo.

Spoke with Clint. Back in training & hopes to play v Inter. All good for WCQs RT: ‏@mrhoffman02 When will we know if Dempsey is able to play

— U.S. Soccer (@ussoccer) March 11, 2013

Yes. He should be good to join us in Denver. RT @chieffif Heard that Fabian Johnson is returning to training. Option for the next 2 games?

— U.S. Soccer (@ussoccer) March 11, 2013

Happy he is back in training. Hopefully he can catch up as soon as possible. @elchosenjuan94how is cherundolo doing? #AskJK

— U.S. Soccer (@ussoccer) March 11, 2013

And while it has been mentioned before, Bruce Arena gave an update on Landon Donovan and he should return to the Galaxy the last week in March.

Costa Rica released their roster for the qualifiers.  Good news for USMNT fans, and most Red Bulls fans can confirm this, Roy Miller made their roster.  Also, I just noticed tonight that the US is winless in its last five games (3L, 2D) against Costa Rica and haven’t won a game since a qualifier in 2005.

The US U-20 team will be playing in the Toulon Tournament in late May/early June.

One of those players, Juan Ocegueda, is still going to play for Chivas Guadalajara despite playing for the US.  Chivas have a policy of “Mexican only” players, but they are apparently going to look the other way with Ocegueda.

It looks like Villyan Bijev finally got his work permit and made Liverpool’s U-21 bench this past weekend.

Conor O’Brien got the start and went he full 90 minutes in Nordsjaelland’s 1-1 draw to FC Midtjylland yesterday.

I haven’t heard Charles Renken’s name since he returned to the US last year, but he and fellow American Aubrey Perry are in Sweden on trial at Umeå FC at the moment.

And finally, Etchu Tabe has returned to Finland with KuPS again.