I agree that the midfield duo of Mason and Bentaleb isn't sufficient, but I don't get the hate for Bentaleb from you.
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He is a decent midfielder, he's a good squad player. He's Tottenham through and through, works hard in training and gives it his all when he plays. He's not young by any means, but not old either. There's definitely room for improvement, but he's never going to be a superstar.
He's a 10 who was asked to suddenly play a new position. And he gave it his all, but naturally struggled. Unless he somehow learns to fix all his positioning issues by August, I'd rather he became Eriksen's back-up.
Funny one really. I`d rather Poch concentrate on changing the mentality and getting the best out of of our good players, rather than keep the rubbish players on the basis that they have the right attitude.. ..
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Because he isn't for sale?
So players from relegated clubs are automatically shit? You learn something new everyday I guess 
I'd like to think Pritchard (and Lamela) be the backups and contenders for that CAM position. And given that, we still need to get wingers though.
Not sure Madon is rubbish, he was played out of position all year. I would like to see him played in position before claiming he's rubbish.
As far as mentality goes, either you're professional or not. If you can't commit to the team, talent won't save you. Most of the squad had no problem with this. If some did, we don't need them.
Would rather just use Mason that way.
I agree with that, but poch rarely used lamela at this cam spot and we don't know how Pritchard is going to work out. Furthermore I would like to see Pritchard as back up for all 3 offensive positions, so another no 10 could be great.
With benji and Capoue almost gone I think poch has mason in his plans for the central midfield, otherwise we would have to buy two more players for the cdm.
It's the old schoolteacher thing do you spend half your time on one or two kids who are disruptive in class or do you improve the 15-20 willing to learn
I say fuck off the troublemakers, that was number 1 rule in fergie book no matter who they were Beckham, Keane the minute they stepped out of line that was the end of it
Not calling you out on this- genuinely curious. How do you know this?
People dissing Mason and Bentaleb, I would love to know your honest assessment of Harry Kane before last season. Mason and Bentaleb were starting several games in a premier league team that finished fifth. So they can't be that bad!
I am not saying they are world beaters but they have done extremely well compared to the utter trash we have had to deal with compared to experienced international stars like Paulinho and Capoue and Dembele.
Their main problem is consistency. Also it is a team game and unless you are as talented as Messi, your game will not stand out unless the entire team plays well. In the game against woolwich at WHL, the entire team was wonderful. Attack after attack, quick pressing and closing down and all done by a team that had Bentaleb and Mason in the middle chasing around like rabid dogs! So these same set of players are capable of giving teams like Woolwich and Chelsea the run around.
Mason and Bentaleb don't give us the wow factor that a pairing like Pogba-Vidal or Alonso-Schweinsteiger would give and it is not intimidating on paper because they are still making their way. But if they stick around and the team improves together, these guys will get more recognition.
Having said that, if we get rid of Paulinho, Capoue, Stambouli, Holtby and Dembele, we should go all out and sign 2 players who are better than Mason and Bentaleb. Schneiderlin and Bender would be the best possible scenario. That is because no matter how many talented youngsters we have, we should always strive to improve the first team.
I am not saying they are world beaters but they have done extremely well compared to the utter trash we have had to deal with compared to experienced international stars like Paulinho and Capoue and Dembele.
Their main problem is consistency. Also it is a team game and unless you are as talented as Messi, your game will not stand out unless the entire team plays well. In the game against woolwich at WHL, the entire team was wonderful. Attack after attack, quick pressing and closing down and all done by a team that had Bentaleb and Mason in the middle chasing around like rabid dogs! So these same set of players are capable of giving teams like Woolwich and Chelsea the run around.
Mason and Bentaleb don't give us the wow factor that a pairing like Pogba-Vidal or Alonso-Schweinsteiger would give and it is not intimidating on paper because they are still making their way. But if they stick around and the team improves together, these guys will get more recognition.
Having said that, if we get rid of Paulinho, Capoue, Stambouli, Holtby and Dembele, we should go all out and sign 2 players who are better than Mason and Bentaleb. Schneiderlin and Bender would be the best possible scenario. That is because no matter how many talented youngsters we have, we should always strive to improve the first team.
Charlie Austin is a quality player, being a Swindon based Spur I watched him many times playing for the Town and his awareness and all round game are top level. The only issue is his injury record as would he survive a Pochettino pre-season. Would like us to sign him as he has a nasty side and we could do with more of those players (Pritchard also has this). I'm more for buying these type of players than some of our foreign purchases - will give more.
Afraid I can't agree with selling Dembele. Think back to our best performances of last season, did he feature? Yes he did.
I think it's more of a fitness problem and his defensive workrate. Dembele won't leave us, I'm confident about that. But he needs to work on his game this summer.
How much do you want paid to fuck of out of here?
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