"The first half was good." - Mancini. It's only a friendly and I get what he means, but their leaky defence must be worrying him. 10 goals conceded in 2 games isn't great, no matter what they are.
They competed well in the 1st half. But similar to a few teams last season, they got caught in a 10-15 min period in the 2nd half when Spurs ran riot.
Could be an Inter-Roma thing. My guess, though, is that it's Lamela taking on more of a leadership role, as if he's trying to say, "No f*ucking around this year."
Thanks for uploading the goals @Spurs or Sex? The amount of power Kane can generate in his shots with minimal backlift is frightening. The last player I saw in a Spurs shirt who could do that was a certain Jermain Defoe.
Lots of rumours are suggesting that Mancini's about to be replaced by De Boer. The season hasn't even started yet and it looks like we've got a manager sacked!
Some clueless tosspot has decided to motivate us ahead of the season... please log in to view this image
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NARRATIVE ALERT In the last 24 hours, both Graeme Souness and Danny Murphy have both voiced misgivings about Janssen, and both of them follow the exact same "Eredivisie strikers FAIL" structure, with Murphy mentioning the £10m Fulham paid Twente for Bryan Ruiz while Souness mentions the £25m Man Utd paid for Mephis Depay. Naturally, both of them miss the point entirely, as in both those cases the players were signed to go straight into the first team while Jansson has been signed as competition for Kane. That's not the only point-missing the two have both conspired to make, as Souness seems to believe you can make like-for-like comparisons between a striker and an attacking midfielder while missing out on the obvious issue that countless players signed by Man Utd in the last couple of seasons looked ill-suited to the Premier League, almost as if the team were managed by an arrogant klutz who couldn't comprehend that his tactics were as counter-productive as they were counter-intuitive, while Murphy overlooks the fact that between 2011-14 Fulham were being kept afloat by the goals of Dempsey, Berbatov and (to a lesser extent) Andy Johnson - and when those players left, the club promptly fell out of the Premier League. It's also worth bringing up the fact that Ruud van Nistelrooy, Robin van Persie and Luis Suarez are all examples of strikers who moved from the Eredivisie to the Premier League and did alright for themselves...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36962933 <McNulty> Tottenham This season: 5th Last season: 3rd Tough call this one as Mauricio Pochettino's side were excellent last season and were right in the title shake-up for so long. In reality, you could throw a blanket over the likes of Chelsea, Spurs, Liverpool and Arsenal in the battle for top-four places. But when you think about Spurs, will a hangover from England's Euro 2016 fiasco in France effect the likes of Harry Kane, Eric Dier and Dele Alli? </McNulty> Wrote that last sentence before the game against Inter did he ??
I wonder if McNumpty can inform the readers of his article whether or not he believes that a team will be affected ahead of this season based on the sliding scale of how many players they had in the England team. How does this work, exactly? Spurs had five players in the England team, and England's failures will transfer to their club season Liverpool had five players in the England team, but since they didn't start every game the effect is negligible So is he also saying that City will win the league because they only had two players in the England team while Man Utd had three?
Tbf though, regardless of how England performed, I do wonder whether the players - Kane in particular - got 'enough' rest since the end of the season. Let's face it, he was ****ed by May.
Mauricio Pochettino admits he is "very disappointed" Tottenham'shead of recruitment Paul Mitchell has chosen to quit the club. "I feel very disappointed with his decision. It's his personal choice," Pochettino said. "You know that we have a relationship from Southampton. I'm very disappointed but when someone takes a decision and it's personal, what can I do? "He's still working with us and we still need to finish the three weeks working together and do the best business for the club." Not an ideal way to start the season in all honesty. In a way it would've been better for Mitchell to have just handed in his notice at the end of last season and been done with it. I hope this doesn't distract the players and coaching staff.
