Lucky for him that isn't a remotely true statistic, given he hasn't been red carded a single time this season On a side note, Bentancur is our most-carded player this season with 11 bookings, but when is he called a "liability"?
yep. And we’ll do that again. Sack the manager, keep most of the same players, and be here again in a year or so once the initial honeymoon period has worn off. Probably with our 5th/6th ex Chelsea manager, wondering why we haven’t learnt from our mistakes
Ultimately the last few years have shown that you can’t buy a winning mentality just by buying a manager. Spurs have tried twice now with Mourinho and Conte and it’s not working. That mentality doesn’t have to come with dour football but that’s been how we’ve attempted to do it, and that, along with continuing to squeeze the last vestiges of life out of what remains of the Pochettino era, surely have to end with this season and, surely, Conte and likely a few of the players’ times at Spurs. Part of the frustration is the mental approach to games. These players can play high tempo football and with a couple of additions in midfield it might even be effective. But to some out so slow and contained, so much of the time, is just awful. It surely has to be time to move for a coach who is going to play a more high tempo, progressive, dare I say modern style of play, and just see how it goes. Sometimes you develop that steel from within, with the addition of an experienced head or two along the way. Sure, you’ll chuck a few ties like Juventus away, but you also get the Amsterdams. With the right man and the ability to keep the back room and playing staff fresh along the way, it’s doable to break the ceiling and win. But the quick fix is no longer going to work at Spurs and we have to be done flogging a dead horse.
Hernandez looking to break with Romero the only player in a position to intercept did put him in a position to try and put the ball into the stands The issue with doing that is, even if it was the cleanest clearance in the history of football, putting the ball out to allow us to regroup also allows Milan to run down the clock even more
Tonigyt wasn't a red, it was a second yellow Big difference - and still means less bookings than Bentancur
Speaking of Bentancur, he’s probably gonna win our player of the season and he’ll have missed half of it.
Romero - International break coming up but must be to thick to realise a champions league sending off won’t get him banned for league games.
I really think we were closest to doing this under Harry. Expansive, 'express yourself' football with young talent emerging all over the pitch and then we started adding the likes of VDV, Gallas, Parker and Freidel to add experience and in the case of the first two glittering medal collections to a talented group. It's a huge shame Harry took his eye off the ball thanks to the Ingerland vacancy and that we became the first and last team to finish 4th and not qualify for the CL, as I think we were on to something there with a manager who really 'got' the value of experience and the nous it brings. Poch imo never got that and defaulted to youth, which is what leads to debacles like the 2-2 against Chelsea in the Leicester season.
Embarrassing spurs result bingo: 1. Conte/stellini says we dominated the game and happy with the performance 2. Spurs social media post pictures of the guys having a whale of a time in training 3. Conte pre Match conferende looking miserable but asking fans to be on their side. 4. Spurs lose their latest game and the cycle starts again.
BBC reporting that the players are still in the dressing room. Hopefully Antonio is saying goodbye to everyone.
“I heard recently Daniel Levy say the signings haven’t been great, it’s bizarre that because I’m sure I said something like that 6 years ago and got fined 2 weeks wages”. Never change, Danny, never change.
At least we can now focus on a top 4 finish then rest players for the competitions we may actually win to get back into a competition we have no intention of wining but apparently the prestige and £30/£40 million pound we get for being in it can bring more of the likes of richarlison.
Not read anybody else's posts just got on the train home and wondered did we look as bad on TV as it looked in the stadium? So lacklustre for almost the whole game. A masterclass from Milan in how to see a game out. Time-wasting, feigning injury, diving, accommodating officials it was all there. As for Spurs only Skipp and Lenglet will I give credit to, the rest of them really offered nothing and Romero was a prick and Perisic and Son were awol yet again. Season over
