Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur Pre-season Thread

All that matters in pre season is players getting to be match fit and used to new tactics and new team mates...and avoiding injuries

 

And we're doing great in that regard

Solanke and Takai picked up knocks in training, while Bentancur picked up a bug

 

I think also this is a new manager looking in detail at his stock of players. Perhaps more thourally than managers have in the past. That's good, isn't it?

 

Darren Bent once scored about 20 goals one pre-season and tore it up. We went on to start with 2 points from the first 8 games.

Perspective needed in pre-season!

 

I didn't watch either game, but the lineups don't make much sense, to me.
Missing a number of players, of course, but the balance is off.
We've clearly got a lot of work to do on transfers.

Striker and left-back seem like a real issue.
If Richarlison's on the way out, then I don't see why Scarlett's not playing.
Perhaps not in the Wycombe match, but playing Tel there isn't the solution.

 

The interesting thing is the setups suggested two tactical approaches: against Wycombe the attacks were very right-sided with Porro pushing up while Davies tucked in, but against Luton it was a little more fluid

 

I think Daren Bent use to stand by the goalie reading his comics until the ball reached him and he'd put it in the net.Lazy buggar but it seemed to work!?

 

Asian tour squad confirmed

George Abbott
Brandon Austin
Rodrigo Bentancur
Lucas Bergvall
Yves Bissouma
Jun'ai Byfield
Kevin Danso
Ben Davies
Jamie Donley
Archie Gray
Luca Gunter
Brennan Johnson
Antonin Kinsky
Mohammed Kudus
Will Lankshear
James Maddison
Wilson Odobert
Pedro Porro
Richarlison
Cristian Romero
Pape Matar Sarr
Dominic Solanke
Heung-Min Son
Djed Spence
Mathys Tel
Micky van de Ven
Guglielmo Vicario
Luka Vuskovic
Yang Min-Hyeok

The interesting part is the suffix: Dejan Kulusevski, Destiny Udogie, Kota Takai, Radu Dragusin, Bryan Gil and and Manor Solomon are staying behind for treatment/rehabilitation - while Mikey Moore, Alfie Devine and Dane Scarlett are staying behind to explore potential loan moves

 

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What a load of bollocks!
Kick-off's 12.30pm for the UK, by the way.

 

****ing lunchtime kickoffs...

 

Space ship to Mars? Bye Arsenal!

 

The Standard are reporting that Udogie has a knee injury, looks like the "Tottenham knock" injury strikes again , the usual goes along the lines of treatment for 4 to6 weeks and then 3 to 4 months post operation

 

Ange ball to blame

 

Of course

 

Long time before Ange

 

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