Top 4 or Europa league. If not he should be fired on the spot after the last kick of the season.
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Manager Jose Mourinho
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I didn't say I was expecting him to play them, I was pointing out the countless fans that were. I knew his talk about developing young players is just hot air that he blows up our arses.
I mean just look at all those mins he handed to the lads pre-last 16:
He didn't play any against Shkendija
None against Plovdiv
None against Royal Antwerp (A)
None against Lask (H)
None against Maccabi Haifa
Against Ludogorets (H) Tanganga played 90mins, Clarke 22mins, White, Scarlet and Whiteman 8 mins each.
None against Ludogorets (A)
Royal Antwerp (H) Tanganga played 90mins
Lask (A) only Tanganga 90mins
RZ Pellets WAC (H) - Lavinier 16mins, John 9mins, Scarlet 9mins
RZ Pellets WAC (A) - None
Dinamo Zagreb (H) - None
What bit do you not get?
What players would you have played? And in what games?
What's the point of that question?
I didn't expect Jose to play our kids, he doesn't do this, never really has despite his claim he doses in his press confs. So MY expectation was he wouldn't play our kids. BUT Spurs fans up and down the country were looking forward to seeing our kids make a breakthrough this year because they believed playing against muck in the EL that this would happen (as it doesn't in the CL).
If I was manager, I'd have played fucking loads of them. Rested the Snr players, rotated the Snr Players in the league and other comps, played attacking, entertaining football and won every game 10-0 in the process. That's what I would have done.
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Very simple point. You complained that JM has not played academy players enough.
I asked which players you think he should have played and in what games.
I've given you the answer to your question.
I wasn't complaining, as I never ever thought he would give significant mins to our academy lads, he's done exactly what I thought he would do.
I asked which players and in what games so you didn't give me an answer but no worries.
Your point.
If you think I'm going to waste my time doing that you are having a laugh! Again, what for? What is the purpose of knowing what team I would have picked for each game? To make it easy for you, I would have played every game with the entire outfield 11 made up of academy players. There fascinating ain't it?
No worries.
Does this help: People were expecting him to play some of our academy players this year because we were in the EL. This has failed to materialise.
Group stage? Yes! At this phase nope. We only won 2-0. Best team will play tomorrow.
They are not Spurs fans if Jose success at Chelsea is heralded, they are clearly Jose fans
You mean the 16 months that started after the "summer of nothing"? The summer during which Poch was begging for players and we got none to reinforce our MF and he tried to salvage by going over the MF amongst other tactical choices?
So if that is a "yes" to my previous questions then would you say a fair assessment of that time would be to say there was a 'regression of play' or that the team was shit and he was doing the best that he could after being hung out to dry by Levy after publicly acknowledging that the team needed to be "painfully rebuilt"?
And I would go as far as saying the signs began back in Jan 2018. Team played much harder in the CL than they did in the league. That disparity in effort needs to be addressed with competition...we he never got.
And refused Coutinho.
That is all true, but that doesn't deny the fact that the product shifted and Poch was the manager at the time and was losing all control of the "project". No one should deny the ineptitude of the board over that stretch, but Poch still had responsibility on his hands.