Weirdly, I think Levy should have stepped in about our academy recruitment at some point Long story short, there was a period where we seemed to stop signing players to our academy, which is plain weird. To illustrate this, here's a list of players signed to our academy since the totally arbitrary year of 2011 2011: Milos Veljkovic, Souleymane Coulibaly, Ruben Lameiras, Cristian Ceballos 2012: Nabil Bentaleb 2013: Anthony Georgiou 2014: Ismael Azzaoui 2016: Jonathan De Bie, Shilow Tracey 2017: Troy Parrott 2019: Yago Santiago, Isak Solberg, Kion Etete I can't help but wonder if this coincides with Alex Inglethorpe leaving a few months into AVB's tenure
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54116459 Last season the club featured in the documentary 'All or Nothing', with cameras following Mourinho throughout the campaign. "Tottenham did it for the right reasons," he said when asked about the experience. "At that level would I do it again? Yes I would. Did I love it? No! I hated it. Did I watch it? No, and I'm not going to. I believe it is very interesting for people." Are we not doing it again this season, then? Quite surprised at that, given the reception it's got.
Yeah, you ****ing tell him, Hugo! 100% right. Looks like it was handled well by everyone though, including Son, who could've let it fester and get in his head.
Looking forward to watching this. I've been holding off waiting until all episodes are available because I wouldn't be able to wait until the following week for the next episode!
Look how Jose leaves clubs, the whole atmosphere on/off the pitch becomes poisonous every single time.
So I’ve finished the last 3 episodes. A few specific points. Jose seems to be a Winks fan, he talks about how he’s become more direct rather than just passing laterally. I’m not sure when he’s seeing this change, tbh, but he thinks it’s there. He also praises his work rate. It looks like GLC is Jose’s man, he commits on camera to play through injury for the team and we know Jose loves that. I think we need him back ASAP. As we saw from previews, Jose was a fan of the various in-squad arguments like Lloris/Son. I think he’s right in a way because it shows the team taking ownership for their actions and responsibility for fixing them. The manager needs to make sure it doesn’t descend into a poisonous atmosphere though. Overall I think it’s a really good insight into how a new manager tries to deal with things going wrong on the pitch, while everything goes to hell off it. It’s a far more interesting watch than the City one. The major, major theme is the mental side of the game and it’s clear from the footage we see at any rate that the issues we face on the pitch are as much about mentality as they are physical (squad balance, injuries etc). I also think in some ways it’s a damning verdict on the latter end of the Poch era at Spurs. The body language in the dressing room at half time at the start of the year is abject, and it’s clear how far the team have fallen since finishing 3rd then 2nd in the league. This group didn’t reach the CL final because of mentality or because they’re winners who eventually get unlucky, it wasn’t the sign of progress many of us thought it was. It was a knockout competition fluke from a team of talented players who were riding a wave but couldn’t sustain that over the course of a league season. Speculating, I think what we didn’t see in the doc was Jose and team behind the scenes probably commenting about how the task they are facing is much bigger than they thought. I think the doc makes me vaguely optimistic about the coming season IF Jose can keep developing the mentality of the team without it becoming toxic, as well as obviously fill in the remaining holes in the squad. It’s clear that when he came into the club there was a mountain to climb. Hopefully he can keep pushing this group to the summit.
Alfie Whiteman has two small parts in the doc and he’s immediately become the MVP of the whole show. Speaking at the time, he says the season should be restarted so that we can go back into the Champions League. Then says how he’s happy/ lucky he just bought a PS4 right before lockdown.
Did anyone see the interview on MOTD , Jose was asked about the doc series and he said he was glad its over now he can manage the team without the intrusion of cameras. Classy
He's watched it you know https://www.football.london/tottenh...icio-pochettino-mourinho-amazon-levy-18946061
Currently watching episode 7/8 I’m glad I had a giant bar of Galaxy to get through it ffs painful period of the season
I've just finished the series,overall I thought it was a Good insight to our club and not the car crash that I expected, highlights were the "we're ****ed"when Jose found out about Harry's injury and the realisation of what a player we had in GLC and the low was the run of 4 losses on the bounce and the injury list Pilling up , goes to show I had washed the pain away with lockdown Merlot and cheddar ,interesting to see Jose's approach to management and he liked to see players speaking out in the dressing room , so sad to see Super Jan go and hopefully we will get a chance to thank him in the stadium one day
Does it explain Vertonghen's release? Did he want to go or did we bin him? I heard that he wanted a longer contract than we would offer.
