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No more talk about not spending in 2018
Some tasty bits...
"Jose tried to sign Lucas before he went to PSG"
Lots on Dele...
"Mourinho admitted that he had wound up Alli this week in a good natured way when he spoke to him on the training pitches.
"I have already spoken with him and I asked him if he was Dele or Dele’s brother," he revealed. "He told me he was Dele. ‘Okay,’ I said. ‘Play like Dele’.
"I think he is potentially a fantastic player. Now I have to create a tactical situation he is happy with, give him the right dynamics and prepare him physically well because he has had important injuries and he is not on the top of his form.
"I cannot expect him to play on Saturday – if he plays – and go there and be man of the match, but he needs to go through a process that will bring the real Dele back because the real Dele is the one who in the last few years has impressed us all."
I'm not debating Poch, my recent posts are all about Jose. Will he do anything different regarding youth?
With the context of Mourinho as a manager, I need to see attractive, progressive football played. Without it we will not be competing for a League title or CL (the domestic stuff takes care of its self if you are playing that style of football, the history books bare this out).Ok
Time will tell
So you’d be happy with us playing attractive football and winning nothing but unhappy with us playing unattractive football but winning things?
Of course I’d like both but would be happy with the latter
No, what matters is what we will spend in January and in the summer. 2018 is history in the same way that losing the CL final is now history and as Poch gone should no longer be affecting performance.Only success will stop that. If other matters at the club were more important, more central to the long term vision of a bigger, stronger Tottenham Hotspur than kicking on and doubling down in that moment, then that is going to have to be proven out by where we go from here.
We sacrificed something enormous with that decision.
We have all had our say, although far too much for me to read it all. Now we should all rule a line on the past. No more talk about not spending in 2018 , that is history, all players start again and past problems of poor play by individuals given a chance to put it right. Clean slate we start again and we should all get behind the Manager and team and only judge on what we see. No one will be more disappointed than me if we lose Saturday but there should be no Mourinho out threads, it will take longer to know if Mourinho will be successful.
Let's all stick together and hope that it works out.
Exactly. If you’ve despised the bloke for years it’s not really on to be expected to change that view overnight just because he’s been appointed our manager. I hope he does well and improves the football, but I’ll never warm to him.I can't stand him and that view doesn't change because he's a Tottenham manager, to say anything different would make me a fake.
Yes I agree and it is ok in certain threads but has actually no bearing on our current situation.Wouldn't that be nice; but we still hear about Nelson & Zaha on a hyper-regular basis....
Don't hold your breath mate. aulinhobored:
Exactly. If you’ve despised the bloke for years it’s not really on to be expected to change that view overnight just because he’s been appointed our manager. I hope he does well and improves the football, but I’ll never warm to him.
Yes I agree and it is ok in certain threads but has actually no bearing on our current situation.
Poor fella doesn’t understand the meaning of the word I’m afraid.Apparently it's fickle for one to NOT do a 180 reversal of one's feelings overnight.
#Plastic
With the context of Mourinho as a manager, I need to see attractive, progressive football played. Without it we will not be competing for a League title or CL (the domestic stuff takes care of its self if you are playing that style of football, the history books bare this out).
Just pop into the AVB thread and let's see what people thought of his football if we need reminding of what it's like to pay £1,000 a year and sit in absolute silence whilst watching paint dry.
My dislike is genuine too, not a football rivalry thing where you grow to hate, look for things. I've felt this way when he was at Madrid, Utd and Inter.Exactly. If you’ve despised the bloke for years it’s not really on to be expected to change that view overnight just because he’s been appointed our manager. I hope he does well and improves the football, but I’ll never warm to him.
Why? Stop projecting. That’s exactly what I’d have expected Kane to say. Poch is done so why mention him? Harry is just saying business as usual.Some of our supporters will have a meltdown seeing this.
I'm not debating Poch, my recent posts are all about Jose. Will he do anything different regarding youth?
Not even talking about winning stuff (AVB had also won things) just what I had to watch. The two played the same football, as dose Karanka another of his proteges.I don’t think that you can compare José with AVB
José won things
Lots of them with every club he’s managed
You just can’t say that without playing attractive football you can’t compete in the CL or PL
Surprised at you