I agree with that. There are some very good players still in there, just been managed poorly. Some deadwood but on the whole this team should be in top 4 with the squad as a whole, with a progressive coach.
Oh bloody hell, somebody on r/coys has set us up for four games of hell... Run of "easier" games coming up. Wolfsberger, Burnley, Palace at home and Fulham away. I think Jose is a goner if we don't have at least 7 points out of the league games.
I'm not sure they had to though and it could've cost them. Our defence was all over the place and I think that they should've taken advantage of that. It paid off today, but another side won't be as wasteful.
I'm inclined to agree with you that things have to get much worse before Levy sacks him, but you must have a view on the job he's done so far, surely?
Enjoy it whilst it lasts, it happens every now again on average once every 5 years so the 13 years since the last time is a long time
The squad we have is more than enough for top 4 but the tactics as displayed clearly in the first half of this game are clearly not. Once we finally get the line up that most of us thought we should have started with we start moving the football in a far faster way. Guess what happens then! we create chances. I have had it with Portugese football I would rather have Alladyce than this.
He's done a poor job, made poor team selections fairly frequently and got his tactics wrong far too often. We're a much better side when we're on the front foot and we've not been anywhere near attacking enough.
He’s too pragmatic which we all knew. I’m not quite sure what Levy was expecting when he appointed him.
I gradually stopped going to games under Jose. In the lockdown reprieve of Autumn I decided with a few friends that we'd go to some lower league games instead. It's not just about Jose, it's about the way elite football has headed over the years, it's just getting less and less likeable. Poch masked a lot of that as we fought against the odds and outplayed sides I never thought we'd play, let alone beat. When we're allowed to go back, I'm going to follow up on that but I'm going to do my best to see one last game at WHL. I'll still watch us on the TV when I can but it'll be nice to say goodbye to Spurs in person and it'll be worth every penny to go there and boo the **** out of Mourinho.
I think I'll sum up our current malaise with two questions Remember how Matt Doherty was really good at crossing at Wolves? What the **** happened?
The definition of a wasted substitution. Had 3 or 4 excellent opportunities to deliver a decent cross and failed every time. Unless Tanganga took that blow to the unmentionables worse than we thought, there was no reason to sub him off.
Tanganga wasn't playing as a right-back. He was just another centre-half. I don't know what he'd been instructed to do, but he was way, way too deep and barely crossed the halfway line. Wasn't doing much defensively, either. Not his best game, by a long shot.
Harry must surely want to be off this summer. Not going to win anything and it’s clear a complete rebuild/transition/project incoming between 2022-2025 once Jose finally ****s off (and waste some more money this summer). Wasting his time now.
I know you've got issues with the squad but I'm honestly baffled that anyone thinks that gives him an excuse. Surely a managers job is to get the best out of what they have, like Moyes is doing for example?
I didn't see the match today and I thank everyone for the commentary and opinions, however it is quite interesting that whilst every Spurs fan here has dismissed our performance as terrible, the 2 West Ham fans I work with (both decent blokes, aside from being spammers) who did watch, thought that they were very lucky and that we really deserved something from the match - Opinions eh! Maybe they were just being nice to me lol, but they were certainly relieved when the final whistle went.
When they fell back and we had no choice but to go for it, the game changed and we could have equalised. What the first hour was about, who knows?
What gets me about playing 3ATB is that we always seem to have one CB playing deeper than the other two, which makes no sense to me as surely that's the best way for us to **** up our own offside trap. The fact it's usually Sanchez playing deepest, when surely Dier is the better choice to play sweeper, also looks off