3 months? Franks been in for 6 months and in that time we've not seen anything to get behind?
At this point in his first season under Ange we were doing extremely well.
No way is Frank getting 5th, even with this bigger squad of players.
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At this point in his first season under Ange we were doing extremely well.
No way is Frank getting 5th, even with this bigger squad of players.
I wouldn't say West Ham are worse. We are certainly no better.
What we do have are very wealthy owners who will spend.
It's the how that is the big question.
Yeah, because Ange only existed before he joined us
Ange did what was NEEDED. Like all true GREAT men. Like ALL winners do.
You just aren't used to seeing that at Tottenham.
Yep - we need to fix the engine room first.
Our defence is adequate when VdV and (when he is not being a petulant idiot) Romero play. Our attack is limited skills-wise but is badly hamstrung by the fact that we are not getting quick and penetrating balls through the centre - we are always forced wide making us predictable and easy for opposition defences.
But we are presently not good enough in midfield. Bencantor and Paulhina are too defensively minded and don't have the presence, confidence or skills to do what a competent PL midfield needs to do. Bergvall and (when he gets more confidence) Gray have potential but it is expecting too much of them at the moment to think that they are the answer.
Moreover, as we know from last season, Maddison has skills but goes missing in the tough matches and Kulu is probably more effective as a right winger than he is as a true attacking midfielder. So we should not rely on those two.
Yeah, good point, Ange was given time, but the shouts started after that chavs game. And, to be fair, it starting sloping downhill from there.
I think we'll beat palace and go on a little run, but he definitely needs to show an uptick.
I wouldn’t even give him the credit of replacing Dembele with Sissoko mate.Mate;
The miser replaced Dembele and Wanyama with Winks and Sissoko.
Pochettino made his thoughts clear regarding the Sissoko signing in his book.
Are you covering for Steve Hitchen or someone else?
Pochettino moulded Sissoko into a serviceable CM through sheer coaching, patience and persistence.
Sissoko was signed in a panic by Levy as a right sided attacker in the summer of ‘16, as he had failed to sign all other targets in that position, the main one being Sadio Mane.
As you quite rightly point out, Pochettino had no input in signing Sissoko, and in his own words “Daniel thought he was a player I could maybe get something from.”
Sissoko was a mostly awful player that was not only forced on Pochettino, but ended up having to be our main man in central midfield for a number of season due to the gross incompetence of ENIC and the recruitment team.
Oh ffsYeah, because Ange only existed before he joined us
Ange did what was NEEDED. Like all true GREAT men. Like ALL winners do.
You just aren't used to seeing that at Tottenham.
No context though14th at Christmas
We scored three goals away at PSG
Totally agree. Given we've already played Burnley and Wolves at home (and couldn't even win both), what fixture, home or away, could we feel confident about? Beyond West Ham, I'm not seeing any. Even Leeds worries me given how they dismantled Palace (who, thankfully, appear to be having a wobble).
Exactly. And no Elite club, or any club with serious ambition to become elite, would have appointed Thomas Frank.
They. Just. Wouldn't
It was a sham appointment. The fans were scammed yet again.
Welcome back to the forum, btw
Dunno mate tbh
Frank wasn’t my choice but he’d earned his chance. Potter got a chance at Chelsea as well.Chelsea were 8th at Christmas in the Potter season and he survived until April.
Frank is struggling a lot more than Potter was tbh.
I can see us getting an ugly result at Palace too. If we lose, I can’t see how he survives. It’s on a knife edge already tbh
Haven't looked at the table for ages, so close this season, apart from Wolves (who we couldn't beat!). It's quite scary really, don't know if we have the minerals to make a fight of it.
I wouldn't feel too confident above finishing above the spam, I think Nuno will turn them around.
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Yep. I don't think he's taking them down so someone's replacing them in the bottom three
Mostly true.
But you can’t say that Sissoko was a replacement for Dembele and a positional target at RW. Dembele wasn’t a right winger.
No.
Sissoko was a pretty versatile player. A jack of all trades. He was a box-to-box midfielder before he went to Newcastle. He wasn’t a converted winger — although I remember a couple of outstanding performances for Newcastle at RW.
No.
While he wasn’t very technical, he was an outstanding athlete and very powerful. He could be a more than serviceable player if used correctly.
Awful players don’t win 71 caps for arguably the best side in Europe over a decade.
And now we are 13th below Fulham !!
Leeds are clearly worse than us.
We won’t go down.
We weren’t in a relegation fight last year.
We won’t be this year.
Make that 14th
Yea...he went to forest and did what?Yeah, because Ange only existed before he joined us
Ange did what was NEEDED. Like all true GREAT men. Like ALL winners do.
You just aren't used to seeing that at Tottenham.