I mean, not to poke the collective bear in here but I have been cold on Dele for 2 seasons now so fine by me. I have been saying for a while now that he should be moved on.
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Don't disagree with all of this, there was obviously a period under Poch - I'd say from about 2016 'til about late 2018 - when we were genuinely excellent: both more functional and considerably more entertaining than we are now.
But I remember Poch's final full season in the league when the amazing run to the CL final papered over some very bad cracks, and by the time he went we had been weak in the league for a very long time. Honest feeling is this league season will pan out better than Poch's final full season but not as good as his best league seasons either, though it's difficult to gainsay. A trophy in any competition would make it an excellent season.
And now with Poch managing PSG, who were already linked with Dele? He may play for Spurs again but I'd be shocked if he's not gone in January at this point with Levy looking to get £40m for him in the summer.
Like Aurier should have done better with his brainfart against Leicester? Like Lloris should have done better against Crystal Palace?
He defended both of them and they led directly to a goal.
Don’t get me wrong, Dele could have done better but I don’t believe that he was entirely at fault for the goal and probably played the best he has done in a while. Then Mourinho pulls him off and throws him under the bus to the media, that will do his confidence the world of good
I actually thought he added a nice bit of flair last night.
Don’t get me wrong, he has a hell of a long way to get back into Jose ,s good books.
Don’t get me wrong, he has a hell of a long way to get back into Jose ,s good books.
I'd say our form in 18/19 was very similar to our form now in that we were winning a lot of tight, quite dull games with the odd exception (then Chelsea 3-1, Everton 6-2, now United 6-1 and Southampton 5-2) . People forget we were up with City and Liverpool who were flying until early March, we then lost at Burnley and it fell to bits. Don't think this season to date is any better than 18/19 performance or stats wise. It may improve, lets hope so.
You know I love a good basketball analogy.
Alli is like a basketballer that has immense talent, say like Allen Iverson, but he loves the flashy side of the game more than winning so he finds himself at odds with a winning manager. Reason is because the manager wants him to try no-look passes less and keep it simple as he keeps losing the ball and causing turnovers.
The players that win championships excel at the simplest things.
Alli is like a basketballer that has immense talent, say like Allen Iverson, but he loves the flashy side of the game more than winning so he finds himself at odds with a winning manager. Reason is because the manager wants him to try no-look passes less and keep it simple as he keeps losing the ball and causing turnovers.
The players that win championships excel at the simplest things.
Poch to PSG. Ali to PSG. 100% happening.
He's a midtable level player that believes should be playing for Real Madrid. His overinflated ego and is struggling to come to terms with reality
It makes things even worse having a clueless, clown of a chairman that thinks Dele is a 100 millions quid player.
Hope there's a club out there stupid enough to offer silly money for him so we can invest back on midfielders that do midfielders things like Gio and Tanguy. Same goes for Winks, Sissoko etc.
It makes things even worse having a clueless, clown of a chairman that thinks Dele is a 100 millions quid player.
Hope there's a club out there stupid enough to offer silly money for him so we can invest back on midfielders that do midfielders things like Gio and Tanguy. Same goes for Winks, Sissoko etc.
More like Stephon Marbury.
Very highly rated as a youngster. Had a few good seasons with a talented side playing excited basketball. Made All Star twice but never lived up to potential.
Might need to move to a different country to really find that love again.
nah, you are in the minority no doubt about it. Thank fuck most of us want it to change at Spurs. You carry on with your love for fancy football and winning fuck all because nobody agrees with you
If it was inside the area he might have a case. He was next to the centre circle.
Most likely outcome run 10 yards and give the ball away.
(Was the pass to play though. Pretty sure dele didn’t realise the other Stoke player was behind him. Which still isn’t good.)
Great shout. Just mentioned Iverson because he truly had the ability to be mentioned amongst the likes of Kobe, Jordan etc. But he just didn’t win championships like the others. But boy could he play. Alli reminds me of him a little.
Please back that assertion up with those little meaningless things called err facts.
Fucking horrible. This was when Jose really started to turn ...... basically Barca were footballing wise unstoppable.... Jose went full full shithouse. He got them over the line but it wasn’t sustainable
for me he was never the same after Real
Leeds have a Championship defence right now with Koch & Llorente out and without an actual left back.
Leeds play very similar to Liverpool with Bamford’s role being similar to Firmino’s and Phillips’ role being similar to Fabinho’s. Even their full backs push high up in possession - just like TAA and Robinson.
The only difference is, Liverpool have better quality than Leeds. So his point about playing like Leeds a valid. Spurs could play that same style and be better than Leeds at it but just a little behind Liverpool.
The first part of your post is extremely disingenuous.
Yes, we finished 6th last year, but Jose took us from 14th to 6th, which is a pretty impressive improvement. The points total he achieved when he was here I think was 3rd or 4th, which would have made for a good season.
We were knocked out of the EFL Cup before he took over and while we did lose out in the FA Cup, he didn't have Harry or Sonny then.
The reality is Poch's performance over the last 18 months barring the CL final run was quite poor and Jose has improved us from that level. It remains to be seen if he will take us where he wants to go, but let's not be disingenuous about where we were last year.
Agree harsh as fuck on dele but he’s his own worst enemy
even if the flick comes off... the receiving player is in a worse position than if dele just pushes it out of his feet and attacks the space
I like dele. I want him to come good
but his detractors have a reasoned point