Jose Mourinho

[mrunderwear]

I’m refusing to judge Mourinho because our team is fucking wank. We have injuries to key players, gaping holes in our squad that need filling, ’senior’ players that consistently go missing and ‘top’ players like Ndombele putting in zero effort (watch Carragher’s MOTD analysis on him and you’ll feel sick).

Reserve judgement until this time next year when he’s had a Summer transfer window and a full pre-season to instil whatever vision he has into the team. Of course, it all depends on Levy unclenching his arsehole and stumping up a reasonable amount of cash to allow improvements to the squad (which we all know won’t happen).

Is the same reason why alexis became lost at man utd.

Ndombele has the absolute talent, I'll pay to bring dembele back and play along him.

Give jonjo shelvey a shot along with demerai gray

Harvey Barnes a real talent by the way but no way Leicester letting go, I'll take Haller /kostic /

 

[Reidy]

I’m refusing to judge Mourinho because our team is fucking wank. We have injuries to key players, gaping holes in our squad that need filling, ’senior’ players that consistently go missing and ‘top’ players like Ndombele putting in zero effort (watch Carragher’s MOTD analysis on him and you’ll feel sick).

Reserve judgement until this time next year when he’s had a Summer transfer window and a full pre-season to instil whatever vision he has into the team. Of course, it all depends on Levy unclenching his arsehole and stumping up a reasonable amount of cash to allow improvements to the squad (which we all know won’t happen).

And none of that Jose's fault?

Thought Jose was a top motivator, a top coach, fantastic at setting up his defence??

And yet, none of this has happened, and the style of football and the meekness shown is that to your liking?

 

[Gareth]

How do you figure that?

Levy can get rid of Mourinho but who will get rid of Levy?

Lewis? That's not going to happen.

Logically speaking, if Levy pulls the trigger in the next 12 months it would expose what a massive fuck up the last three seasons have been and make his position untenable.

I'm not suggesting it will happen, because of course it wont, so keep calm.

But Levy has backed himself into a corner. He can't not get behind Jose now and will have to double down on his decision or he might actually have to accept responsibility for once.

 

[Gareth]

Logically speaking, if Levy pulls the trigger in the next 12 months it would expose what a massive fuck up the last three seasons have been and make his position untenable.

I'm not suggesting it will happen, because of course it wont, so keep calm.

But Levy has backed himself into a corner. He can't not get behind Jose now and will have to double down on his decision or he might actually have to accept responsibility for once.

I'm pretty much #EveryoneOut at the moment.

 

[Blanchflower]

In your opinion did we already do that regarding Poch?

Yes

 

[Airfixx]

Yes

Me too.... Troubling times, but also why the calls to "bring back Poch" aren't viable.

 

[jrober38]

I have to say, I keep seeing this opinion/position posted (let’s ditch Europa and win the league or whatever) it’s a total pipe dream imho. We are so far from being a winning team that I cannot see how missing our on Europe is going to help.

it’ll likely be our best shot back into CL for the following season, so I really don’t want to miss out personally. I could see the spiral back into mediocrity accelerating if we fail even to achieve that.

I disagree.

We're missing our best players. Bring Kane and Son back for 35 league games to bang in 30 goals collectively and we'll be a hell of a lot better off than we are now.

Europa has proven to be a massive detriment to teams in the past. The scheduling is brutal with games on Thursdays and Prem games on Sunday. Often the teams you're playing in Europa are in Eastern Europe and a 2-3 hour time change away.

We need to get back to basics. Focus all our attention on the Prem, reduce the number of injuries due to fatigue and we've got a solid shot at top 4 next season.

 

[jrober38]

We have had Mourinho out, Levy out, ENIC out, pretty much every player out, I am just waiting for relegation would do us good to complete the set.

I find it hilarious how everything about the club can be so bad but some people expect the Manager to make up for shortcomings both on and off the pitch.

It doesn't make any sense.

 

[TeamSpirit™]

How can any spurs fan be happy with us losing games?

Short term pain, long term gain.

I

 

[rhenkt]

I'm still supporting Jose, but the lack of any improvement on the pitch has been staggering.

Without Kane/Son/Sissoko, if you look at our squad it's about Everton level. So ask yourself, if Jose took over Everton five months ago, would we start seeing improvements in their football? Yes, probably. We've seen no improvement whatsoever, and that has been really disappointing.

 

[Reidy]

I find it hilarious how everything about the club can be so bad but some people expect the Manager to make up for shortcomings both on and off the pitch.

It doesn't make any sense.

And yet we sacked Poch when it was clearly everybody's fault but his....weird world.

 

[ILSpur]

Mou's post-game

“All the players on the Leipzig bench would play at this moment in my team.”

This is pretty shocking, and I can't imagine why he would say this.

He went from praising his players that they are leaving it all on the pitch and sacrificing so much to play, and then says this??

Craziness.

 

[FightingIllini]

I really believe in giving a manager time, and I think we'd just invite more chaos looking elsewhere at any point before the end of next season.

But at the same time it sure seems like we're just waiting for the end of this misbegotten experiment.

 

[DSanditon]

Logically speaking, if Levy pulls the trigger in the next 12 months it would expose what a massive fuck up the last three seasons have been and make his position untenable.

I'm not suggesting it will happen, because of course it wont, so keep calm.

But Levy has backed himself into a corner. He can't not get behind Jose now and will have to double down on his decision or he might actually have to accept responsibility for once.

Levy's position will only become untenable when Lewis decides he has to go and that's not going to happen anytime soon.

 

[ArtyB]

Levy's position will only become untenable when Lewis decides he has to go and that's not going to happen anytime soon.

It's not going to stop idiots moaning about it though...

 

[Airfixx]

I'm still supporting Jose, but the lack of any improvement on the pitch has been staggering.

Without Kane/Son/Sissoko, if you look at our squad it's about Everton level. So ask yourself, if Jose took over Everton five months ago, would we start seeing improvements in their football? Yes, probably. We've seen no improvement whatsoever, and that has been really disappointing.

EH?

 

[TeamSpirit™]

I find it hilarious how everything about the club can be so bad but some people expect the Manager to make up for shortcomings both on and off the pitch.

It doesn't make any sense.

The situation he is in is not ideal at all.

However he is exacerbating it and making it worse.

£300k a week remember.

 

[TeamSpirit™]

Levy's position will only become untenable when Lewis decides he has to go and that's not going to happen anytime soon.

Lewis sets the financial agenda btw. Levy is just the bouncer at the door.

 

[jrober38]

And yet we sacked Poch when it was clearly everybody's fault but his....weird world.

Exactly.

I don't think it's the manager's fault. Doesn't matter if we're talking about Poch or Mourinho.

Poch warned 10 months ago that the squad needed refreshing and that we were looking at a "painful" rebuild.

He knew exactly what he was talking about, and this is what it looks like. The fact that Kane and Son are hurt has just emphasized how bad the rest of the squad is right now.

 

[FightingIllini]

Lewis sets the financial agenda btw. Levy is just the bouncer at the door.

Lewis ultimately has control, but Levy is a substantial shareholder in ENIC himself, something like 30%, a divorce would not be as simple as just sacking Levy.