Well, then he is under the wrong manager.
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Funny how no one has asked Maddison what he thinks lately.
Terry was a cunt all right and was complimented by the team he played for!
Still there as an Academy coach
I agree, but what a cunty question to ask a young player!
Media are a bunch of snakes!
Spot on. sometimes I do wonder what these people actually watch at games.
Just like Daniel Levy, some people just don't get football. They watch it, but they don't understand what they are watching. We are an apallingly coached side, it is there clear as day every game. We are apallinglyt set up tactically, and the in game management is horrendous.
And if you still don't get it, just look at the results over a very long period of time.
I love Aaron Lennon, truthfully, but some of this stuff just doesn't hold up to examination.
Brennan Johnson would have been adored under Harry, because as supporters we weren't so jaded, cynical, and entitled.
Most stats weren't being kept back then the way they are now, but in goals and assists Johnson at 23 blows away Lennon's peak at Spurs, much less Lennon at 23.
They were different kind of players, and Lennon did the dribbly things that get supporters all trembly. But in terms of how winners and lovers are actually determined, Johnson is far, far more effective.
But, like I said earlier, as supporters we're more jaded, cynical, and entitled. So relative to our expectations, Lennon fulfilled expectations more than Johnson did. Even though in the league he never hit double digits in goals or assists, and only 3 times hit double digits combined. Johnson has already done that 1/1 and either a goal or assist before the end of the season to make it 2/2.
We have been for years. We haven't seen a well drilled or coached side since about 2018, ever since Pochettino got his title promotion from Head Coach to Manager.
We've only seen brief glimpses that the first team are organized and affecting an actual plan, and we haven't seen a start-to-finish quality performance more than maybe once or twice a season for the past 5-6 years, oddly enough most of them being against Manchester City.
We’ve done this so many times before man, I wasn’t a big Lennon fan but there are so many ways you can be effective as a footballer than don’t involve goals or assists.
Hazard was an incredibly effective footballer for example, but apart from 1-2 seasons not all that productive. Especially compared to some ‘wingers’ that are actually glorified strikers.
You’re comparing two players in similar positions but very different roles. Traditional winger to poacher on the wing.
Funny that, everyone said the same thing about Porro last week.
What, when he had a club mandated interview with Ali fucking Gold?
Shoooooock.
Means fuck all. Kulu could keep saying that as we slide into the championship. What do we do then? "Oh it's alright we got relegated, Kulu was right behind him until the end so that is all that matters. " Whilst Kulu has a relegation release clause and fucks off to Woolwich.
I mean the Ange inners are getting desperate now, The only place they have left to turn, is that the players are saying all the right things, whilst their fraudulent manager sits next to them in a press conference.
How about fuck that. Let's appoint a manager who knows how to win PL games consistently.
We're not talking about splitting hairs here. Like I said, I really liked Lennon - but he's fondly remembered by supporters because we had low expectations at the time and he met or exceeded them.
Johnson is not fondly thought of by supporters because we have much higher expectations and he's just meeting or failing them generally.
Yes, there's other ways to be an effective footballer, but by the end of this season Johnson will have contributed more league goals and assists in 2 seasons at Spurs than Lennon's 3 best seasons combined. The other stuff isn't so important for an attacking player that the above reality is overcome. Spurs pay/paid both of them predominately to score and assist goals.
I've always said that, this century, the best and most enjoyable time to be a Spurs supporters was under Redknapp. But that doesn't mean the players were better then, or even that the football was better then. A lot of it had to do with the fact that we just enjoyed the football and didn't moan constantly about not winning trophies or competing at the top of the table. Supporters, themselves, bear some blame for robbing ourselves of our own enjoyment.
Eh, there's a difference between executing to a specific and defined set of tactics versus those tactics being good or effective.
Under both Conte and Ange there is an obvious set of patterns and principles that are being drilled into the team, regardless of whether any of it actually works.
Very distinct from Late Poch or Harry eras when it was all very "choose your own adventure".
Levy is getting desperate now.
Kulu being wheeled out to the press and now Dawson blaming the fans.
I take it back Rabbi
Levy is a spineless little weasel who hides behind his staff.
Next up will be footballing Goddess Don Cullen to explain how it will all be good in 2027
Kulu being wheeled out to the press and now Dawson blaming the fans.
I take it back Rabbi
Levy is a spineless little weasel who hides behind his staff.
Next up will be footballing Goddess Don Cullen to explain how it will all be good in 2027
This. Said it when we were top under Jose, raised the question after Chelsea and united . Pochettino 2018, Conte had us very disciplined with terrible players like Doherty Nuno never allowed to coach and set up as he wanted. I'm not joking I long for an end to the nonsense that is Angeball. I hope that bloke I met wasn't bullshiting when he said we approached two coaches about the job.
deki blink twice if you need help
I often wonder if where people sit affects their opinion.
I sit high up looking down at the whole pitch.
I can see where every player is at the same time. I can't always tell which is which at the far end, but I can see them all.
I can see the space we leave. I can see the space we don't attack. I can see the ridiculous amount of running players have to do to "press" the opposition. Son 40 yards only for a pass, Solanke 50 yards only for a pass to bypass. Over and over.
If you're in the bottom half of the stadium I bet you can't see any of that. Even on TV you only really see half the pitch
Big time. Remember hold the back page on sky on sunday. All weasels and snakes stirring the shit. Remember under redknapp on that show one of the snakes said Tottenham wont get top 4 and fall away. We got top 4.
Media arent as bad as graham taylor days but still a bunch of vultures who cant kick a ball straight themselves.