I'm the REAL Hercules.
Otherwise Poch himself. As for the players crying to Levy that was here by Abby. 9 mins in or so.
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Manager Jose Mourinho
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Otherwise Poch himself. As for the players crying to Levy that was here by Abby. 9 mins in or so.
I was so hopeful when we signed Jose.
I backed him to deliver us success in his first full year, but seeing the body language of the players in the 2nd half against Manure, suggests to me he has to go.
I don't think he is alone in blame, by the way. We are carrying a few players that should go as well.
As a supporter, I haven't felt so disillusioned in many years.
I backed him to deliver us success in his first full year, but seeing the body language of the players in the 2nd half against Manure, suggests to me he has to go.
I don't think he is alone in blame, by the way. We are carrying a few players that should go as well.
As a supporter, I haven't felt so disillusioned in many years.
Emphasis what bothbus-conductor and I have said previously.
No movement and no options for the player on the ball from anyone
It has been a problem for a while and exacerbated during Mourinho’s time with us. It used to drive me made when watching us live (as it’s more noticeable than on tv) with the players just standing around in attack.
I used to put it down to players be lazy but I think it is them not wanting to take risks, which obviously isn’t allowed at all under Mourinho.
I wanna drop-kick this gooner cunt so hard out of this club, followed by Sissoko and Dier
Jose is part of the problem - rest of the blame lies with Levysnake and the ongoing lack of investment leaving us with a bloated squad of bottom-table cloggers and losers on fat contracts and zero ambition
It’s clearly an instruction to not push on!! It was exactly the same from Reggie on the other side, in fact Reg barely ventured into oppo half all game, where as Aurier did, see their heat maps for confirmation.
It’s why calling out players is pointless under the Dinosaur. He has us playing this way.
It’s an instruction by the manager not to over commit, Reggie was exactly the same (even more so and barely crossed the halfway line)! This is a managerial tactic. Not a player one.
Hahhahahaa - not to commit?
The cunt is busy strolling - have a day off!!
Maybe.
I think the absolute minimum you can expect is that players aren’t just walking when we’ve got the ball under pressure though. It’s so basic, showing for the ball - I would argue it’s just an attitude thing, nobody is coaching them to do that.
do you serious not see that the full backs have been instructed to do that?
If he's instructed to sit back where should he sprint to?
I did a mini poll on my Twitter, with 112 votes.
87% in favour of Jose out.
Then I got a message that someone had clicked IN by mistake, should be OUT.
As you say this pre-dated Jose. Under Poch we often struggled to break teams down because our movement was so poor. Very frustrating.
This is a complete reach. No manager instructs players to walk around out of position while you are trying to build from the back.
Even if he was instructed to stay in his half he should be sprinting out wide to make the pitch bigger and provide an option for PEH.
Don't let your hate of Mourinho blind you to terrible pieces of play from our players.
I remember the fans reclying Dembele's song for Sissoko away at Palace when he went from 2 left feet to a tank version of Messi for a while.
Frustrating knowing he CAN be a good player who does add to the team.
He just rarely does and now isn't even being used to the best of his very limited abilities.
From my seat at the Madrid game, Kane, Eriksen and Dele were the stand out performers. As usual with Winks, easy passes galore.
Did Poch Murder your parents or something your hate for him is weird.
Leeds United have an average squad age of 27 but if you drill down to the players they have used, their average age is 22
Spurs average age of players used is 24, which is lower than I expected but still higher than Leeds, as expected,
For us to play Bielsa ball, we would need players who can run and run and run.
Can you see TND, PEH, Kane, Son doing it for 90 minutes?
We clearly can't play 90 minutes of football as we relenetlessly throw away points in the last 10-15 minutes.
For us to get Bielsa, we would need to ditch most players over 27/28 and get kids in.
Sure those kids will be full throttle for 2-3 years and some stars will be born.
They'll win fuck all as they have no experience.
But as they get older, they won't be able to run so as they get experienced, they'll have to change their style to suit their bodies limits.
This change won't suit Bielsa ball.
We'll then need to sack Bielsa because he can't get what he wants out of the 27/28 year olds, or we'll need to sell the now superstar 27/28 year olds and buy a load of 21/22 year olds.
And those 21/22 year olds have no experience but we'll play well and win fuck all and on and on and on
I don’t hate him at all
Strange thing to say?
Other posts I’ve made on here acknowledge that under him we were the best side in the PL for over two years and I also stated that our first XV at the couldn’t be improved by any additions from other PL teams
All good but as I say you don’t get trophies for that and I’m just being honest
If you’re one of these Poch Fanbois yearning for his return and choosing to forget the last 8 months of his tenure and the disaster of the CL final then I can’t help you
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Let's be totally honest.
We got lucky that Kane was what he was.
We got lucky that Dele, at £5m was one of the best players in the world for 2 years
We got lucky that out of 5 years or so, 2 of them, Eriksen looked a good player
We got lucky that we had Rose and Walker as younger lads in a back 4 with Toby and Jan. The only one of those brought in under Poch was toby. Yes, the others got better, but who would we have brought in if we didn't already have them?
Poch oversaw the biggest period of improvement in THFC since we went down the pan in 91/92
But he hit the jackpot with some of the players he was given to work with.