Weird use of logic there, we dont moan about Bentaleb starting, but starting in big games were we needed a strong midfield to protect a back 4 (that has often been frail this season ) we had experienced options on the bench. Kane , came in and scored 3 goals, made an impact, deserved more starts. Althought the contribution of bentaleb is questionable,highly inflated passing stats of him passing the ball sideways and backways in our own half, No different than livermore, however livemore gace us more posession and steel in midfield.
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Weird use of logic there, we dont moan about Bentaleb starting, but starting in big games were we needed a strong midfield to protect a back 4 (that has often been frail this season ) we had experienced options on the bench. Kane , came in and scored 3 goals, made an impact, deserved more starts. Althought the contribution of bentaleb is questionable,highly inflated passing stats of him passing the ball sideways and backways in our own half, No different than livermore, however livemore gace us more posession and steel in midfield.
We are THFC establish in 1990 and any bit if mediocrity after then is better than the lord sugar era. We should be proud we avoid relegation each season.Have a chairmen who keeps us in the league...ect
I think the major point here is appropriate usage of the youth. Yes, Bentaleb and Kane managed to do alright, but they were often (especially Bentaleb) played in poor circumstances (namely getting his first start in a two-man midfield with no CDM and at the fucking Emirates). As of that very point, people were as inevitably going to be as predisposed against him as our failure would be that day, and he unfortunately came to embody the ineptitude and desperation of Tim Sherwood to win Levy's favor. While Poch or FdB would certainly find ways to utilize the youth, I think the hope is that he'll find ways to do it to optimize their development via appropriate situations vs baptism with the beam of the Death Star.
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To be honest, I'm not exactly exhilarated by the prospect of Pochettino being our manager for however long Levy sees fit, but if he can come in and get us playing sexy football again whilst lifting the players' motivation more than Sherwood appeared to do, then he'll get my backing*.
Just hope that if he does sign some players, that they're actually ones he wants to sign, or it'll be last season all over again and I ain't got time for that shit.
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Just hope that if he does sign some players, that they're actually ones he wants to sign, or it'll be last season all over again and I ain't got time for that shit.
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Unless we lose the first game, then he can GTFO
At the moment pretty much "everyone" (Sky, papers, itks etc) are saying Pochettino, so would be hugely surprising if it suddenly turned out to be anyone else at this point. Let's get it sorted so we can can start buying left backs 
I think many people were very unfair to both Bentaleb and Sherwood, all that stuff about 'his love child' was unwarranted IMHO.
As with so many things I await how the new manager does compared to the 'clueless, dim-witted' Sherwood. You know the one who beat Poch twice in one season and whose team finished above Soton, and gave Kane a much-needed chance. Oh this is going to be fun I reckon
As with so many things I await how the new manager does compared to the 'clueless, dim-witted' Sherwood. You know the one who beat Poch twice in one season and whose team finished above Soton, and gave Kane a much-needed chance. Oh this is going to be fun I reckon
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What clubs don't have a manager right now (apart from us)?
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What clubs don't have a manager right now (apart from us)?
I think many people were very unfair to both Bentaleb and Sherwood, all that stuff about 'his love child' was unwarranted IMHO.
As with so many things I await how the new manager does compared to the 'clueless, dim-witted' Sherwood. You know the one who beat Poch twice in one season and whose team finished above Soton, and gave Kane a much-needed chance. Oh this is going to be fun I reckon
People need to stop banding about this "Sherwood beat Pochettino twice" bullshit. Spurs should have beaten Saints twice. The squads are incomparable. What people should be banding about is how clueless the approach was and how awful we fared against the bigger teams. Change was a necessity.
Found this on twitter..
Nice, certainly calms some fears. An interesting thing to note is that a significant amount of those wages at Saints went to two players who barely had an impact this season (Osvaldo and Wynalda). Not sure if that's a good or bad thing yet. While I like what he's done with Saints' developed players, I hope he does a better job of finding compatible players for his tactics here.
I think many people were very unfair to both Bentaleb and Sherwood, all that stuff about 'his love child' was unwarranted IMHO.
As with so many things I await how the new manager does compared to the 'clueless, dim-witted' Sherwood. You know the one who beat Poch twice in one season and whose team finished above Soton, and gave Kane a much-needed chance. Oh this is going to be fun I reckon
I agree people were unfair to Bentaleb. Wasn't his fault he was poorly selected for the games he was, and he did a decent job in utility. He just simply was made to be the avatar of Sherwood's desperate attempt to please Levy which in it's selfishness consequently hurt our team.
As for Sherwood, while I appreciated those entertaining comebacks, three of the four goals we yielded them this season should never have happened and were the result of stunning defensive errors (the fourth was a lovely heads up play from Lallana, couldn't even get mad about it). Therefore, I don't give much credit to Sherwood commandeering those comebacks. I'm much more inclined to chalk those up to Eriksen and his bizarre unfazability and distanced mentality for a professional athlete.
I might be thick but I don't see the relevance in the comparison of those seasons?Found this on twitter..
The year before they joined bigger clubs.
A retiring Wenger maybe?
Yea, good point actually. I could see him retiring now that he's ended his trophyless run.
for me the biggest issue with bentaleb was the blind repetitious use of him, he was OK - but not always the right choice. Personally I felt he was exposed for his skillset and experience on several occasionsI think many people were very unfair to both Bentaleb and Sherwood, all that stuff about 'his love child' was unwarranted IMHO.
As with so many things I await how the new manager does compared to the 'clueless, dim-witted' Sherwood. You know the one who beat Poch twice in one season and whose team finished above Soton, and gave Kane a much-needed chance. Oh this is going to be fun I reckon
He did show some great potential though so happy he was blooded in. All be it in a over-zealous fashion.
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said, but also for me a comparison like the above, where you compare the stats of teams of a broadly similar stature, is more relevant than saying we did the double over Southampton with Sherwood in charge. It was interesting to read.Two caveats for me: Wigan's diabolical lack of investment means Martinez deserves extra credit, and Rodgers and Martinez managed for more than just 1 season so were no flash in the pans.