Yes, but he needs to want it.
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Match AS Monaco vs Tottenham Hotspur. Wednesday the 22nd of October 2025 UCL
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Yes, but he needs to want it.
Play through the centre a bit more. We go wide, wide, wide. Get the other midfielders closer so he can pass it and move.
We go long a lot which with richie and tel is a waste of time
Muani and simons though could be a good combo
Since Pochettino was sacked the only time I thought the team was good, and flowing, clicking, balanced, looking good, was that handful of games under Conte when we beat Woolwich to 4th place. Apart from that it's bean a strain watching.
Tonight was comparable to Gala away last year. And Gala have far more weapons than Monaco.
We comfortably accounted for Bodo 6 months ago. We barely scraped a draw against them a few weeks ago.
It doesn't help anyone to pretend we aren't struggling big time at the moment. We are so reliant on our starting back 5 playing. We simply have no one forward of our defence who can win games for us any more.
When we thought we had gone 2-0 up against Chelsea two years ago almost to the day - that was the most thrilling 10 weeks of PL football at spurs since 2016.
Then VAR chalked off his goal and Cuti got sent off, Mickey and Madders got injured and Udogie got two yellows and it's been bad ever since.
Oh... except for this:
You’re missing out!
I sat through the last series with my daughter as she’s a fan.
Bunch of geeky adults cosplaying!
He's a better player than any one we have..He seems a bit distant hopefully he'll settle in. Because my God we need him.
Everything's a strawman with you isn't it?
No-one's said "better than 17th = success".....
No-one's tried to convince you this is the end-game.
No-one's said they "enjoyed" tonight.
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Agree with a few others who are saying that it hasn’t been fun watching Spurs for a long time now.
It’s really hard to get enthusiastic about the club right now and it seems like we are going through the motions.
Not many players to get excited about either. We seem to lack an identity.
When I watched Newcastle versus Benfica they had so much energy and just properly went for it. We never see us play like that and haven’t in years.
It feels like we are waiting for the next generation of Spurs stars to come through and deliver and spark the club like what happened with Poch, or even with Modric and Bale before then.
At the moment it’s all meh. The football has been largely so poor for a long time now. Even winning the Europa final was done in an anti football kind of way.
Our attacking players Kudus aside are all bang average and Kudus isn’t ever going to get enough goals so that’s not great either.
I don’t know, maybe it will all click and this is the dark before the dawn but maybe it’ll never happen, that’s a possibility too.
It’s really hard to get enthusiastic about the club right now and it seems like we are going through the motions.
Not many players to get excited about either. We seem to lack an identity.
When I watched Newcastle versus Benfica they had so much energy and just properly went for it. We never see us play like that and haven’t in years.
It feels like we are waiting for the next generation of Spurs stars to come through and deliver and spark the club like what happened with Poch, or even with Modric and Bale before then.
At the moment it’s all meh. The football has been largely so poor for a long time now. Even winning the Europa final was done in an anti football kind of way.
Our attacking players Kudus aside are all bang average and Kudus isn’t ever going to get enough goals so that’s not great either.
I don’t know, maybe it will all click and this is the dark before the dawn but maybe it’ll never happen, that’s a possibility too.
I’m trying to be kind… and also the scars from last season are still raw and bleeding. We’re not quite that bad.
I think the truth is a combo of 1) we're over hyping him and 2) we're too reliant upon him.
Definitely. Apart from Kulu.
Bodo were just as shit as we were.... Monaco were genuinely decent.
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The *ONLY* reason we’ve come away with a point and you’re highlight Vic. Awful timing.
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