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Dele and Kane were the two "big" players who were confident enough to come out and publicly thank Poch for what he had done for them (the rest had either come to dislike Poch, or still liked him, but were scared to antagonise Jose)
Since he came back in this season (under Poch), he has showed signs of recovering his old form, but it has been patchy, as he gets his touch and fitness back. He sees a pass or move as well as ever, but he still missh*ts it too often for his/our liking. This occurred today again a few times, even in the middle of some (typically) sublime play from him. But overall, he's definitely playing his way back into form. By the New Year, he should be tearing up the division again, fingers crossed. |
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Hans Moleman
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I think Pochetino is a superb manager. I also believe that Alli and Kane and plenty more were gutted to see him go. That doesn't change the fact that Alli has been completely misused the past 12-18 months. Spurs had left themselves completely short in central midfield in that time, and Alli filled in on lots of occasions to bolster a feeble midfield. It did Alli no favours whatsoever and led to this nonsense about Alli not trying and swannying about the place having lost his hunger.
A consistent run of games in a high attacking position and Alli will be one of the best players in the PL imo.
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"I called him an embarrassment to FIFA and to himself," .... He said 'No-one speaks to me like that'.... and I said, "well I do' and that was that."
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Bob Hoskins
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And the Spursy One keeps up the good start. Not long till Terri is singing Jose's name
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Territorial
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Nope, I'll tolerate him (just), only so long as he keeps winning. And in the meantime, I remind myself that every day he's at The Lane is another day closer to his leaving. [Btw, I'm not fooled by his 3 wins so far any more than he will be - WHU are sh*t, Olympiakos were an insult to sh*t, and Bournemouth are game, well-organised and hard-working, but still mediocre when you take those qualities away. And we conceded 6 goals ro that lot. ]
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Trap junior
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Don't worry he will have Harry Kane playing just in front of the right back to shore up that defence. Failing that he will bring in a defensive coach. And park it in front of the goal.
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Toby has signed a 3 year contract so he’s staying.
Eriksen is definitely gone. Should get rid of him in Jan. Terrible performance today. Had a great opportunity to get back into top 4 but Chelsea were much better on the day. For once VAR (correctly) overruled the ref for a peno. |
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Will Sons sending off bump Parrott up the pecking order?
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More racism incidents?
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Son has the most red cards in the league this year
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True. All together now: "Fcuk off Mourinho, fcuk off Mourinho, fcuk off Mourinho, fcuk off Mourinho...."
Yep, like a prisoner chalking up another mark on his cell wall, today is one day closer to our release from our sentence.
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Was a very strange decision picking The Poison One. He is not a manager who plays the 'beautiful game'. He is finished as a manager as well. His dour tactics are redundant at the highest level. If he had the Brazil 1970 team he would have them park the bus with Pele covering the back 4.
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Terri, Terri gives us a wave
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I wonder is it coincidental that Spurs appointed JM one week before Man City sold 10% of their shares for £389m, thereby valuing the club at £3.73bn - a good 20% more than most analysts would have said, and which immediately boosted the share value of all PL clubs by a similar percentage? Might Levy have got an inkling that this deal was in the offing? After all, he owns 25% of the club, with 82 y.o. Joe Lewis owning the other 75%. It is well known that Lewis has no interest in football other than as an investment and he may be thinking of selling his stake, either in part or in full, if he feels that PL club valuations have peaked for now. If so, that might explain why Levy has suddenly gone from a long term manager in Poch, to a short term one in Mourinho? For if Mourinho can add trophies to go with the star players/shiny new stadium/fancy training ground etc, then that might be the final step towards persuading some Arab sheikh or Texan billionaire to pay top dollar for Spurs? Of course, this might be a load of balls (probably is, in fact ), but I am at a loss for any other rational explanation.
Comprehensively out-thought by a rookie manager today. And it all stems from picking the same team and formation from that which was lucky to steal a win at Molineux the other week. Basically because all his best players are strikers and he doesn't trust half his midfielders and defenders, he's actually picking a 4-2-1-3, if not an old style 4-2-4 when the "1" (Dele) gets caught forward. His two midfielders (Dier and Sissoko) have to be the defensive sort and he dare not let them get overrun, so he requires the whole team to play very narrow, with the front players tracking back to help out Dier & Sissoko. Which has a logic to it, I suppose, except that Lampard clearly watched the Wolves video and guessed (correctly) that JM was going to repeat his selection/tactics. Consequently he played 3 CB's to crowd out Kane (esp), Son and Moura, and told his Wing Backs to push foward down the flanks. In particular, he identified Aurier as a real weak point at RB, so he had Willian push up as (effectively) a Left Winger, with Alonso right up behind in support. This meant that Aurier was often outnumbered down the Spurs right, yet Sissoko dare not get drawn out wide to cover him, since that would leave Spurs with just one midfielder (Dier) and a fcuking great hole down the centre. So with Spurs players all sticking to their instructions, Chelsea absolutely murdered us on the flanks, and it was just a question of how many they scored. All of which was bad enough, but come H-T, with Spurs just about still in it at 2-0 down, JM still refused to abandon his tactics and re-organise. Fair enough, he brought on a (creative) midfielder in Eriksen, but it was to replace another midfielder, Dier, meaning we still only had two in the centre, which was why Eriksen was forced to spend half his time helping out his defence. Mourinho then waited until there was only 15 minutes left before using his other two subs. One of these was a LB (Rose) for another LB (Vertonghen) - wtf was that going to achieve? The other was the extra midfielder we were all craving (Ndombele), for a forward (Moura) and in that last quarter of an hour, Ndombele provided more of a creative influence than the entire rest of the team in the preceding 75 minutes, but it was far too little, far too late. Shocking.
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Bob Hoskins
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Good summation of the game Terri.
I still think the Spursey One will be a success
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Romario 2016: And the ticket mafia gets caught! Well, four years ago I had already told the government.
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Roberto Baggio
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You're overthinking things there Terri with that logic on why Spurs appointed Mourinho, in my opinion.
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You're probably right, it is mere speculation on my part, with no evidence toback it up. But can you or anyone else think of a good reason why Levy should suddenly go for a short-term, defensively minded manager aged 56, who normally demands big money for players and never stays anywhere beyond 3 years? Esp when he's replacing a long-term, attacking manager, who manages on a small budget, develops young players and is nine years younger? I mean, after nearly 6 years without winning a trophy, Spurs fans had bought into the idea of building an entire club for the future, rather than the same short-sighted dash for silverware that most owners employ.
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Roberto Baggio
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He wins a trophy at every club
Maybe that’s the thinking, even if I don’t think that’s guaranteed at Spurs The players had stopped playing for Poch
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