I’d be careful of that too soon. The way they’ve downed tools or suddenly bothered to find them manager after manager shows they can’t be trusted yet as a group. It needs splitting up and the grifters moved on. Fortunately with DZ being here a couple of months to observe them all then hopefully he’s worked out who needs to go because they can’t be trusted.
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I’d be careful of that too soon. The way they’ve downed tools or suddenly bothered to find them manager after manager shows they can’t be trusted yet as a group. It needs splitting up and the grifters moved on. Fortunately with DZ being here a couple of months to observe them all then hopefully he’s worked out who needs to go because they can’t be trusted.
Over the last 3 years we have had our worst managers of all time in Frank (who showed no confidence in his players and gave us no identity), and Ange (who threw away the basics, made every player worse, whilst pretending he was the greatest manager in history). I don’t blame Tudor for what happened there, it was a hospital pass to a scrum half running at the Bok’s front row.
RDZ is getting us back to doing the basics right. We should judge Solanke (and our young players) in a team that plays proper football. Not on the mess of the last few years.
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Toby Alderweireld gives honest verdict on Vuskovic, Van Hecke, Senesi and Romero
The former Tottenham Hotspur centre-back has been speaking to football.london about what is going on at the north London club this summerwww.football.london
"They both know the Premier League. That's good, because I think Spurs now need stability," Alderweireld said in part one of his interview with football.london. "They need to know the players can perform every week, week in, week out. They perform on a good level. Of course, a transfer to a new club, it's always a bit different, but they know the Premier League and that's very important.
"Because next season, it's impossible that we go back to this [awful] period. So I think it's understanding they are looking for players who are proven in the Premier League. That's something they should do. They should have a little bit more security in that.
"I want players that the desire is there to improve. The best example is PSG. They had the biggest players. They won the French league, but never in the Champions League. They went back, sold their best players and went with people that have a fire in them.
"I can only speak from my own experience. We had people that wanted to improve - Harry Kane, Sonny, Eric Dier, Wanyama. There were players that want to improve and put the team as number one."
"So you might say 'Spurs need to become better so we need to pay for big players'. We don't need big players. We need players with big hearts who can improve and that's something I really want to see. The team, the club, comes number one and that's very important.
"I think with, for example, those two (Senesi and Van Hecke), they're on the right direction to do the good transfers. To buy some players with a lot of potential from abroad, they need time and we don't have the time now. We need to be there very quick to be ready and to get directly into the new season with points.
"Directly is not top three again. I understand that's not easy, but it's not like two points or something from [the first] five games. Then you get in the same thing as last season."
Hearing how Toby still talks and then comparing that to the actions of Romero sure is night and day.
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If we are signing Senesi and Van Hecke then there's no room for him. De Zerbi clearly wants experienced players ready to compete at the top end rather than more raw youngsters of the type we've relied on in recent years (and paid the price for).
Vuskovic had a great loan but the Bundesliga is a very weak level, Wirtz and Simons looked amazing in the Bundesliga but they struggled badly in the PL. I can see him signing a big new contract then going back out on loan. If we keep Vuskovic then he will expect to play and I don't think De Zerbi wants to trust a youngster to replace Romero.
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Toby and Jan need to get their coaching badges and come back and manage the team sometime in the future. Smart guys who still love the club
I get that bit of it, but with our injury record we may as well keep Luka. I would hate to see the situation where he goes to a PL rival and tears up the league.
Jan is apparently taking the courses required to be a licensed sporting director.Toby and Jan need to get their coaching badges and come back and manage the team sometime in the future. Smart guys who still love the club
If he could have a season on loan in the PL at a team like Palace/Bournemouth and play like he did at Hamburg, that would be best for everyone probably. Assuming he signs a new contract before heading out.
I don't think RDZ will be pushing to sell him, just to continue his development on loan. That's absolutely normal, the boy is only 19. I'm sure the club will be watching the WC very closely to see how he performs. He's going to miss most of pre-season so we won't be able to look at him much before we make a decision.
And people still have the gall to debate who’s better out of the two. Romero doesn’t even belong in the same sentence as Toby.
We should definitely get Toby and Jan on the coaching team
Yep and IMHO he’s also shown enough to be number 1 with maybe an experienced veteran back up as his number 2.
The circumstances of his run in the team couldn’t really have been much worse, especially after the Madrid debacle.
I think we should bring him back along with a few others in different roles. Dump the carpetbaggers and get some proper Spurs about the place.'We'
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Totally agree. Eriksen and van der vaart should join the club in some capacity as well.
I love how much they still seem to care about the club. Fully COYS
Right , sporting director. If he or Jan became manager we'd eventually be calling them useless cunts and souring the relationship
What a beautiful man.Toby Alderweireld gives honest verdict on Vuskovic, Van Hecke, Senesi and Romero
The former Tottenham Hotspur centre-back has been speaking to football.london about what is going on at the north London club this summer
"They both know the Premier League. That's good, because I think Spurs now need stability," Alderweireld said in part one of his interview with football.london. "They need to know the players can perform every week, week in, week out. They perform on a good level. Of course, a transfer to a new club, it's always a bit different, but they know the Premier League and that's very important.
"Because next season, it's impossible that we go back to this [awful] period. So I think it's understanding they are looking for players who are proven in the Premier League. That's something they should do. They should have a little bit more security in that.
"I want players that the desire is there to improve. The best example is PSG. They had the biggest players. They won the French league, but never in the Champions League. They went back, sold their best players and went with people that have a fire in them.
"I can only speak from my own experience. We had people that wanted to improve - Harry Kane, Sonny, Eric Dier, Wanyama. There were players that want to improve and put the team as number one."
"So you might say 'Spurs need to become better so we need to pay for big players'. We don't need big players. We need players with big hearts who can improve and that's something I really want to see. The team, the club, comes number one and that's very important.
"I think with, for example, those two (Senesi and Van Hecke), they're on the right direction to do the good transfers. To buy some players with a lot of potential from abroad, they need time and we don't have the time now. We need to be there very quick to be ready and to get directly into the new season with points.
"Directly is not top three again. I understand that's not easy, but it's not like two points or something from [the first] five games. Then you get in the same thing as last season."