Stop fluffing, Scott.....
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Stop fluffing, Scott.....
We were talking during the 90s era. Was saying how a team transformed from being ultimate losers, to ultimate winners. Spurs can’t seem to grasp that as a club.
But what transformed them was having the 2 best players in the world in the team, and another couple that were world class. They didn't compete to buy those players in a market, they were handed them in the draft and the players had no option to say no.
If we could pick the best 21 year old player in the world in each of the next 3 windows, and one of those 21 year olds turns out to be as good as Messi, another one turns out to be as good as Roy Keane and the third one is like Cannavaro then I would back us to win something.
If only we had someone like Michael Edwards...
He would rejoin Redknapp in 2009 at Tottenham, where chairman Daniel Levy trusted Edwards to reshape the performance analysis department. It coincided with Tottenham’s first top-four finish in more than 20 years.
After two years at White Hart Lane he was headhunted by Damien Comolli, then sporting director of Liverpool.
He can’t be that bad surely? I find it hard to believe Pep Guardiola would once earnmark a player with Sissoko’s footballing ability as the new Busquets
And then sold him.
Nope. He was sold in the Summer of 2016, after Pep had left for City. Ancelotti was manager when he was sold.
I stand very much corrected. To be fair, he did only play 289 minutes of Guardiola's first season, 286 of his second and then Guardiola shipped him out to Augsburg and Schalke on loan for the last 18 months of his time there though didn't he ?
Indeed. I do believe that Guardiola rated him very highly though, the fact he hasn’t quite lived up to the hype is unfortunate, but he must have had something about him.
A big appetite.
I’m not so sure, Guardiola has form for waxing lyrical about players he doesn’t really rate at all. Wasnt there a story Honigstein tells about Pep saying about some player at Bayern “He’s brilliant, I wish I had 11 like him” before selling him the next window?
Hmm I’m not sure about that.... for some reason I was under the impression that quote from him was in relation to Fernandinho, but I could be mistaken.
Phil Foden is the best player he has ever worked with. He said that, you know.
Yes, because there is nearly 0% chance of getting Jordan and Pippen at the same time with arguably the best coach without spending gazillions of money. (in the EPL)
Newsflash - this is the new toilet
One thing I got from watching the documentary was Jordan’s mindset. He refused to accept anything but 100% and the best. Apparently Kane is like this but to find a player like him in football with his level of ability is very hard. But if we could find a few more players with the same mentality as Harry I believe we’d have much more of a chance of winning things. The bulls seemed to have that in Rodman too, I’m not sure about the rest of the side but some of the others must of been of the same mindset.
This is where proper scouting comes in. Liverpool seem to have done their homework and got these players in. Robertson, Van Dijk, Henderson all seem to have that winning mentality where only the best will do. It’s all scouting, scouting, scouting. Sacrifice a bit of ability on the pitch for ability off it perhaps and they’ll raise their game on the pitch to that of others because of their level of determination to win.
I think that’s been the point ffs of us fed up Spurs fans. We feel the club need to spend lots of money to win trophies. Unfortunately our club are going to need to adopt slightly the City, Chelsea and Liverpool route by adding quality and spending money. Spurs don’t do this.
You cannot compare Harry's personality and mindset with Jordan. Jordan was the ultimate winner willing to crush anyone or anything that got in his way of success. He is more like Roy Keane. Harry is a nice guy with an ambition to win things but he doesn't have that win at all costs mentality. Imo
Compare and contrast with the likes of Marcus Edwards.
He called him the “most talented player he’s seen at his age” tbf, but still a big claim.
I suppose so. Professionalism wise, Kane is meant to be the best. That rubs off on players in a similar fashion.