Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v RB Leipzig

That's true but I would be amazed if Levy was involved in selecting players or valuing them. I am absolutely sure he sets the budget and leads the negotiations.
I always take the view that everyone at the Club is doing their best. Every single person at the Club is way better qualified to do their job than anyone on here is to criticise them. What people need to do is to try to discuss and understand why decisions are made and why they go wrong, not pour vitriol against individuals.

 

Perhaps @Dier Hard is Tanganga's user name....

 

Levy's certainly been a mover and shaker in the past, arranging the van der Vaart deal and then putting it to Harry Redknapp, and he was certainly keen on bringing in Arshavin

 

That may be true but the current structure is different according to the latest THST minutes, at least nominally.

 

So much for the theory that Jack Clarke was a Levy signing...

 

Hes just gone even further up in my estimation. Seems like he's worked out a few things already.

 

No comment.

 

The way BMJ was treated at the end was ruthless by Levy, BMJ deserved much better than that.

 

Apparently Hugo has been approached by the WHO to be a Global Ambassador on COVID19 as they have heard he can't catch anything.....

 

Well you are generating profits of like 100m and thats before your new stadium which we keep being told is worth at least another 80m alone so the funds should be there

 

Was at that match v Getafe with the girls...they were 10 and 5 at the time...my eldest cried on the way home!
The fans were magnificent...we sang his name throughout the game so at least he got a proper send off from us.

 

Levy be like

‘No CL, no spending money’

which goes a long way to explaining why we spent **** all in 2 windows whilst we were in it

ENIC swings and sways the faithful as they wish

 

I'm sure the pundits will be slating Adrian as much as they have Hugo...

 

There has been a net spend already of £100M in the last 6 months on N'Dombele, Sessegnon, Bergwijn and the Lo Celso deal so Levy might gthink he's done his spending unless there are outgoings to fund more buys.

 

I think that’s exactly what he will say.

But hopefully he remembers the zero spend in the two windows before that.

 

A belated, serious two-penn'orth about the game the other night.
The main difference between the two teams as I saw it was that the Leipzig players repeatedly passed to their own players at high speed, without having to look to know where they were. A real sign of a team that is working toegther, and has trained to do so. The Spurs players, unfortunately, seemed unable most of the evening to locate another player in a white shirt. That seemed to indicate that they had not practised in the formation which they were in for the actual match. Perhaps not even the same players? This is the price we pay for changing the personnel all the time, over and above the changes caused by injuries, and then also playing players in a variety of positions (Dier, Tangangy, Alli, Moura.... etc) so they don't know who to expect to be where. And that really showed - and made a difference. Possibly the crucial difference. Part of that is down to players' incompetence; part to the manager's interventions. And it pains me to be writing this.

 

Unfortunately too often they did locate the white shirt of a Leipzig player and not the blue/purple of a fellow Spurs player.

 

I think that my main takeaway from this is Winks playing the midfield on his own, again.
Aurier and Sessegnon isolated on the wings and a disorganised mess playing up top.
Keeping things simple and reverting to something resembling a 4-4-2 or some variant of it is probably the way to go.

 

433 makes so much sense and it's the option we never seem to consider

We simply can't play a two-man pivot, because every option we have has at least one weakness that is easily exploited and we've seen it happen consistently, and we'd negate that somewhat if there was a third man there to cover and mop up

Poch knew this, but the problem was he addressed it the wrong way with THAT BASTARD DIAMOND that killed any width in the team and left our FBs exposed

 

4-3-3 requires attacking fullbacks that don't leave the defence vulnerable when they attack, though. We don't have that option.
I'd like to see us playing a back four of centre-halves, a holding midfielder and sticking Sessegnon on the left as a winger, which is what he's good at.