Simon Jordan is talking rubbish. What match did he watch? But for Cucurella twice slipping there wouldn't have even been an early lead to talk about. The midfield was wide open all match. What exactly is Jordan advocating? How much additional time does it take to see that Levy is a good businessman who doesn't prioritize football and Postecoglou is a manager who has risen to a level where his theories don't and won't work. Spurs are rudderless.
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It baffles me that people actually think Simon Jordan has anything interesting to say.
Explain how his system and tactics are working?
Nah Jay you're just justifiably mad. I've watched the exact same crap from Porro. Out of position ambling back.. not even trying to block. This is coaching. Because coaching isn't all about telling a player what you want from him.
Ange admits he does not belive particularly in the utility of defending, he is not bothered about conceding five goals if we score seven this is his admitted ETHOS. This is why you're getting half assed defence because if Ange does not see it as vital or treat it as such, why would Udogie who is what 21, or Mickey or Sarr. He sets the temperature for these kids, Ange has to change or no matter how many new players you give him it will not change.
He’s an idiots idea of what an intelligent person sounds like.
He cleaned Levy's pants the other day without using any detergent
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Well summed up
We do often spend it badly, but it's still a mischaracterization to try and blame this all on ENIC.
Bissouma might not be a CL midfielder. He also might be. I don't know because at Spurs he's only ever played for a charlatan manager. But he was such a standout performer for Brighton that we bought him - and now Brighton are above us.
Brennan Johnson was such a standout performer for Forest that we paid £50M for him. Now Forest are above us.
Solanke was so good at Bournemouth that we paid £65M for him. Now Bournemouth are above us.
In 3 successive summers we've bought the most promising talent on 3 bottom table or yoyo clubs, and now we've seen them all pass us up. That's not on the board, that's on the manager and the players.
The evidence that Ange cannot manage at this level - that his system will not work at this level and that he is too tactically inflexible to succeed here - has piled up now. The only evidence that he could succeed is buried in his first 2 months, where we piled up enough points to paper over the cracks of the disaster that last season was.
We have been shit, truly shit, for 13 calendar months now. If we don't move on from him now, we're headed for our worst season since Ramos.
There's too many managers in the PL doing more with less for us to persist with this failed experiment.
Lol, what a load of complete rubbish. This is the problem with preconceived notions, and fabricating opinions/analysis to fit them.
The brief on Levy has always been that he's a tight git and ball-buster to negotiate with who has often tanked transfer deals because he was too inflexible and demanded low fees.
Now you're saying that man is spending more than necessary on 2nd rate players so that it looks on paper like the club is spending a responsible amount on the playing squad?
Utter nonsense, and even if it were true what would be the fucking point? That would be beyond not being overly interested in the results. The only motive behind doing such a thing would be to intentionally hamper the football club.
We've spent poorly, for reasons related to the grain of truth sand in your post - we prioritize signing cheaper and younger players with high potential over chasing the signature of players who are already Tier 1.
You correctly point out that this is largely related to our spending plan which limits our wage bill to ±50% of revenue. We need to hike this up to ±60% of revenue to be seriously competitive.
But, even with increased spending in fees and wages, we'll struggle to sign Tier 1 players. Liverpool and Woolwich, for example, generally prioritize similar philosophies as we have. They focus on signing quality young players with high potential, but generally beat us to the best signings because of slightly higher wages and demonstrated success on the pitch and in player development.
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"Pay and they will come" ALWAYS ignores this very real factor.
I wouldn’t say Cucarella’s 2nd slip was responsible as there was a hell of a lot to do before the goal was scored and he was well back in defence by then.
A paper thin squad is certainly not helping things, you look at players other teams have to bring on and then look at ours and it's like an u16 team.
Every coach that comes here has to operate with one hand tied behind their back, 14 managers in 25 yrs says it all, about 18 months life time, but yeah it's always the manager that's blamed.
Depends on the level of player. Established top level players will generally go where the highest wage is. Winning is nice, but it's not something they're generally going to "pay out of their own pocket" (i.e. take significantly lower wages) for.
Early career developing players (at least the smart ones), on the other hand, realize the contract they sign at 20-22 is not the one they'll live off the rest of their life. Picking a club at 20-22 is about picking the club that can take you from a promising talent to hopefully World Class - not just by developing you properly but also by showcasing you.
We used to excell at that, which is why we got players like Modric and Eriksen. We've done a poor job of that recently, and since then manager post turned into a revolving door circus it's hard to blame players for not signing up to put their career in our hands.
Johnson, Odobert, and Bergvall will set the tone for the next generation - if the next manager can make them elite players we'll have a lot better success courting young talents. And maybe we'll take care of the winning trophies bit too.
Absolutely spot on. There's a few proper cownshoe's who regularly peddle this nonsense in the ENIC thread after every abysmal performance and defeat.
But he’s got a posh voice and whenever he can he uses long words which impress some people
Did well at Palace didn’t he so not that clever doing a morning radio show!
lol thought he was t interested in those also ran places. He made it clear last he wasn’t interested in 4th or whatever. The guy is delusional and tries to come out as if his prime fergie , shanks , paisley etc.
Who approved the signing of those coaches? Theyned to go as well! Did they conclude the jedinek and sacked jobs coaches or whatever had the necessary experience and skill set to be coaches for a top 6 PL club?