Rice should have been sent off. The foul was an obvious booking but he then deliberately ran his foot over Simon's
I said earlier men against boys. Some in white appear to have given up.... Gonna be a long week ahead.
4-1 FT. Awful result, awful performance, awful officials. 5-2-3 is not it and I've no idea why Frank went with it, to be honest. Need to improve dramatically.
Disastrous game: questionable set up, but the tactics were totally ****ed from the start. The negativity played into their hands and then the defensive inadequacies left us with a mountain to climb. A few, including Frank, need to hold their heads in shame after their performances and only Palinha and Vicario come out with any credit. God knows how we are going to survive a Wednesday annihilation against PSG!!
I have zero professional footballing pedigree and even I knew within half a second that this formation was going to be ****ed
I was glad to see Frank react. We all expected to lose so not going to be surprised by that. In hindsight, which is always easy, we started the game wrong, but Frank changed things and if we had started in the same vain we might have had a more respectable scoreline. As RCL has said, we are not far along in our development BECAUSE we keep changing managers, and we have to realise that and give Frank time.
Need to be realistic about when the club is. Losing 4-1 to them hurts but it wasn’t completely unexpected. There’s a massive lack of quality in the Spurs squad, especially up top. I know some think the club had a very good transfer window in the summer, I didn’t and there is still gaping holes in the squad that need to be addressed. My first aim is to see the club stop wasting money on players like Tel, Odobert and Simons. Expensive players with potential but nowhere near ready to coerce with the best in the Premier league. As I said earlier, top half finish is a decent season for the league this year
I seriously disagree with you on Simons who will IMHO become a great player. We need fully formed players for sure but signing youngsters is still a good strategy for Spurs atm. I don't mean we should sign more youngsters now. Right now we badly need mature players who can make a difference straight away.
Signing youngsters isn't a good strategy if the average amount we're paying for them is hovering around £40-50m. Nothing wrong with the odd £10-20m flutter, but risking the bulk of our annual budget on gambles is a desperately poor strategy imo. Much better off saving the money for someone of genuine quality and playing the academy lads instead. No idea what Odobert or Tel have shown that Mikey Moore hasn't, but they cost a combined £48m and he was free.
5 at the back worked very well against PSG in the summer but we haven't used it at all since then, so suddenly bringing it back in after a three month absence was a very naive decision imo.
Can’t blame Levy anymore either so let’s see if this strategy changes regarding the manner of spending not sure who was in charge of the window gone but yeah it’s just been a bitz n bobz kind of summer kind of talent purchased a chancer might invest in
