Sarri's a pretty solid coach, but I'm just sick to death of Chelsea's leftovers, and I don't think he's a good fit for our squad.
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I finished 3rd in first season as tottenham manager on soccer manager app. Should I apply for the proper job?
Yes please
That's a fair criticism, but I think the issue is more that our midfield has been ignored under the previous manager by design. So if the purpose of a midfield is to break up play only, it's a little disengenous to say that they are hiding from the ball or not wanting to take responsibility when that hasn't been their primary responsibility for quite some time.
Midfield movement is not something to be taken for granted. It's not as a simple as "showing" for the ball. If a midfielder receives a pass, what are his passing options? Who is moving with him? Is he dropping deep? Splitting the front press? Going between the fullback and the other midfielder?
I'm one of those people that thinks Winks can be effective in certain situations, but the way that Mason deployed him yesterday did him no favors. Winks needs a system and an understanding of what he is supposed to do and when. He's not naturally press-resistant nor prone to take risks. The issue is that when we don't have a well drilled system of progression, Winks tends to retreat to the safest option. A player like Ndombele is willing to take those gambles - which often looks reckless - but in reality is the only thing that was really possible under the previous system of free-style, individual focused progression.
Agree with most of your points but hey Lucas was our only forward being courageous. Son was abysmal and should have been especially after bottling the challenge near the half way line which was 60/40 in his favour. His passing on the counter was crap as well. Kane just held onto the ball too long and basI ally let city smoother him.
My last post for this thread.
Can I just give a massive shout out to the fans. Best part of yesterday was listening to the fans sing Oh When the Spurs.
Fair play to anyone that went. Chucked £50 down the drain, had to deal with the hassle of getting to the game and getting Covid tests organised and passed beforehand. I know all of you still have to do a PCR test post match.
All that effort to watch us have 2 shots in a cup final. 1 in each half!
Can I just give a massive shout out to the fans. Best part of yesterday was listening to the fans sing Oh When the Spurs.
Fair play to anyone that went. Chucked £50 down the drain, had to deal with the hassle of getting to the game and getting Covid tests organised and passed beforehand. I know all of you still have to do a PCR test post match.
All that effort to watch us have 2 shots in a cup final. 1 in each half!
Hope he doesn’t play v SU! Even though are relegated they will play pride something our lot no f all about apart from post match interviews. Anyways he’ll get bullied off the ball anyways. If he starts I’ll give up .
He didn't seem to want to pick out Winks in particular and just slagged the entire club of with the Spursy bullshit. Winks has always played like coward, and it is on Mason for picking him. He should be nowhere near the first team. Christ knows what Poch ever saw in him, he should long since have been shipped out. Awful player and a total coward. We should have kept Skipp and sold Winks last summer.
Cowards? Or people short of confidence.
It‘s hard to be brave when you’re short of confidence.
He's not wrong, the players played like cowards, this is nothing new, it's been happening for years. However, I would argue that the Sissoko sub was also cowardly from Mason tbh.
Great analysis
If we did it all match I'd say we were dirty bastards.
We're not talking about a one off incident (which would still be calculated cheating) we're talking about a tactic employed from the first minute.
May be great analysis but how does he still have a job on sky he spat at someone and it hit a little girl. The man should have been dumped onto foreign TV analysis with all the other washed up pundits.
Has there ever been a more insipid display in any Cup final in the history of the game?
One shot on target, I still can't get my head around it.
The last 2 weeks feels to me like the club has hit absolute bottom, from the shameful ESL to the piss weak cup final performance.
Embarrassed to be a Spurs supporter, maybe its time to jack it in, all I feel for the club at the moment is shame and anger and its been that way most of this season.
One shot on target, I still can't get my head around it.
The last 2 weeks feels to me like the club has hit absolute bottom, from the shameful ESL to the piss weak cup final performance.
Embarrassed to be a Spurs supporter, maybe its time to jack it in, all I feel for the club at the moment is shame and anger and its been that way most of this season.
Why should they be that short on confidence? they had a decent 2nd half and a win against Saints in the last game.
Don't make excuses for this shower of bottle jobs
They have a weak mentality and are serial losers.
Time we got to the root of the problem at the club and changed the culture and we can't do that while people make excuses for the poor lambs.
This is a club with the best stadium and training facilities in the league, the fans who go pay among the highest prices in the world.
The excuses need to stop
What excuses we were the worse team so we lost. Man City all well and good that Pep wears a charity hoody but he then works for and supports human rights abusers. Wasn't he the man who talked out in favor of the Qatar World Cup while he was Barcelona Manager.
It's not the losing the game its the manner in which we lost it, we didn't even have a go.
In a cup final you leave it all on the pitch and go down fighting. We didn't do that. Watch it back half of them spent the game jogging about.