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Mourinho wasn't at Spurs long enough to have more than one proper window was he?
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Mourinho wasn't at Spurs long enough to have more than one proper window was he?
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Dembele was better.
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According to this, Pochettino had a net spend of €97mil across 11 windows.
Mourinho got a net €104mil across 3 windows.
Levy pushed the boat out way more for him.
Laughable looking back. Most of those signings were looked at as Winners, leaders, champions .
The Poch number is more amazing than the Mourinho one in a way. What were we thinking?Tottenham Hotspur - All transfers
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According to this, Pochettino had a net spend of €97mil across 11 windows.
Mourinho got a net €104mil across 3 windows.
Levy pushed the boat out way more for him.
As a dribbler?
I feel that whilst Dembele was very gifted, his physicality was what made the difference . He could go around people or through them.
His application obviously more effective, but in terms of the range of stuff he could do with a football, Tanguy has way more bows to his string, in spite of how things turned out.
It was obvious why we bought Tanguy and Lo Celso, just like it was obvious why we bought, Rebrov, Postiga and others.
Lack of forward planning from 2017 eventually caught up to Poch.
I believe that he earned the right to rebuild the team, but sacking him wasn’t the big issue because he’d become increasingly frustrated, as much as I was in denial about it at the time.
No, the real mistake was hiring Mourinho and destroying everything that we’d spent 5 years building.
and under poch i belive there was also the wage limit was much smaller i believe
i could be wrong
Nope you’re bang on. Summer 2018 is when it was broken (Kane).
Thanks for mentioning that. It was another obstacle for us back then too.
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Dembele was miles better than fatso at everything, other than pie eating.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K215btYl-gE
Don't make me laugh. Dembele had at least as much talent as Tanguy, and he was a complete professional to boot.
Barely played under him. We'll never know how he would have turned out had Poch stayed.
Here's an interesting read:
Tanguy Ndombele and Tottenham: How did it come to this?
Tottenham's record signing looks like he has no way back. So what went wrong for Tanguy Ndombele? And who is to blame?
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Pretty balanced article imo. The Dembele bit is worth a read alone:
Pochettino’s expectation management should not be mistaken for a lack of faith. He was still convinced that he would turn Ndombele into the player Spurs needed, just as he had done with so many of his Tottenham charges in the past.
But a few weeks later Pochettino was sacked, providing the first and possibly most important crossroads of Ndombele’s Spurs career. There is still a feeling among those close to the situation that had Pochettino stayed, things could have been very different.
Take Ndombele’s supposed predecessor Mousa Dembele, for example. Looking at his career as a whole, the few years he excelled under Pochettino are the outliers in an otherwise fairly mediocre body of work. Dembele was often perceived as lazy behind the scenes, too, but it didn’t matter because he excelled in Pochettino’s system. The supposed lack of effort became an endearing quirk rather than a stick to beat him with, and that might have happened for Ndombele.
We all rightly get on Ndombele's back because he turned out to be the laziest fuck in the club's history. But you only have to go back to circa page 40 of this thread as proof of the excitement surrounding his appointment. Very few folk were cautious and at best saying we overpaid. Most were very excited because he looked good. I personally came across not one Nostradamus among the Spurs fans I know.
We get players in and hope they work out. Has and will always be the case.
Now Levy has a recruitment team in place who understand the importance of psychological profiling (Ange best of all thank god), but it could be argued that he had to go through this fiscally traumatic experience to achieve it. Not a dig on Levy before any defender's teeth are bared; I do understand that this was a learning experience and mistakes were made all round. But simply saying "Poch pick" is ... well, a bit simple.
I don't think he was offensively. Dembele was better at keeping it. But no way could he use it to hurt a player better than tubby. Its close but the variety of attacking tricky, drag backs, ridiculous pirouette turns. Think for ball manipulation tubby has more. It obviously goes without saying( so saying if for the brittle) he's a fraction of the footballer/ man that Moussa was. But the article
Nuts
post also highlights a curious revisionism around Dembele where he has become this infallible titan. That's not what happened, he took sometime then hit his groove in a peak Poch team surrounded by talent.Don’t give a fuck. He’s stealing a living when he can’t even get above a jog and piling on pounds. If you want to laugh at the phrase stealing then fire away. If you went on to your job and never applied yourself and done it half hearted do you think your boss would accept it. If you are your own boss and your employee who you pay fucks about would you be happy. Not a chance
In this game the bare fucking minimum is effort and dedication. You might not play well and have spells off form but you’d work hard. He’s getting found out at every team he goes to and I can’t wait for him to get to fuck one way or the other.
In saying that he’s got ridiculous talent and couldn’t be a top top player.
Dembele revisionism always annoys me. It took until his 4th season with us (or Poch’s 2nd) for him to really become the player that Spurs fans revered.
I think
Airfixx
has said it before, it’s a proper Mandela effect with him.
I think
Airfixx
has said it before, it’s a proper Mandela effect with him.Disagree on Dembele, I clocked him straight away - he was up there with Kane and Son. Ndom’s passing is superb, his slashed angled passes were something like guti did. If we had signed him a year earlier we would have won the CL and I think he would have settledI don't think he was offensively. Dembele was better at keeping it. But no way could he use it to hurt a player better than tubby. Its close but the variety of attacking tricky, drag backs, ridiculous pirouette turns. Think for ball manipulation tubby has more. It obviously goes without saying( so saying if for the brittle) he's a fraction of the footballer/ man that Moussa was. But the article
In fairness we had Steve Hitchen as the main guy so had we spent a load during the Poch period it probably would have been spent on crap.
For a club that was so frugal for so long I never understood why we didn't build a better scouting operation like we have now, it saves big money as you can buy both better and cheaper.
Where is that cunt now? Absolute fraud, looks like a referee and acted like one too
Baldy baldy cunt