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Spurs under ENIC are a joke. This is this is a consequence of running with a suicidally light squad and a complete fucking clown in charge.
If the quote from Tomo Tomo above is true, how do you really plan for thirteen absences? Clubs can only have a certain number in their squad.
 
The business with VDV and Romero is a joke, a sacking offence in itself. Even though he had Dragusin available he panicked and risked both of them from the start, hurt both of them and has probably doubled the length of their absence.

Taking a risk on one of them might have been defensible. To risk both was utterly childish.
Why doesn’t any of the press take him up on this one? Everyone here said it was a risk and such an unnecessary one. Keep saying drag had been playing well he didnt deserve to be dropped. Even both were fully fit surely whole point of competition for places means you keep your spot if playing well. It’s not like cuti has been good this season.
 
He risked them did he?

Forced his will to override the medical team into clearing them to play. Then forced Romero to go down with a completely new injury.
Oh ffs regardless of what the medical team said or not. No one forced him to pick both in the sane game when he had a perfectly good player who was fit and playing well he could have selected. What do you think then? No one risks two faulty tyres if you have at least one good one. Heard of IT resiliency in IT?
 
23 Nov 2024:

Ange Postecoglou hopes Cristian Romero is nearly over the toe and hamstring problems which have hampered the Argentine in recent weeks but says Tottenham will give the defender time to return to 100 per cent fitness.

"With us, he hasn’t been fully fit for probably two or three weeks," Postecoglou said. "He’s kind of soldiered on through it because that is the kind of character [he is] … and we kind of needed him but I think when he went away, he kind of realised, this is not healing the way we want it to.

"It’s a couple of separate issues. And I spoke to him and said: ‘Look, just have a break. We need you 100 per cent fit.’ As much as we’d love to have him out there, I think it’s best for him he gets totally over everything. He had the birth of his daughter this week as well which is also a significant event in his life.

"One was obviously the knock on his toe which has been a bit troublesome and prior to that he had a bit of a tight hamstring," Postecoglou added.



Here Ange literally admits that he selected him knowing he wasn’t fit which made the problems worse.
Strange two weeks later he picks v chavs.
Didn’t really give him much of a break to get 100% fit.
 
Ange Postecoglou on did he need a bigger squad at the start of the season:

"Look, some of it, but some of it's just circumstances. I know we always want a head on a stick and we want somebody to blame, and there's always somebody at fault, but some of it's just life, mate, you know, football is like life and you know how sometimes in life you get one thing go wrong and you get another thing later on, and you're doing nothing different, you're just going 'why is it always me at the moment?'


"And you know what, it's all temporary, you get through it, and for us, some of it we understand is a consequence of the situation we're in in terms of fixtures, the way we play, but some of it's just the way, you know.


"We lost Djed with a red card and he was supposed to start over Destiny. Destiny starts doesn't get the rest, and then...it's like that's just life and sometimes no one's at blame, no-one's at fault, you know, it's just, we're going through a bad trot, but it is temporary, we'll get through it. We'll analyse areas we can improve in and move forward from there."
 
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