Was genuinely shocked by lennon being dropped...he played 60 mins last sunday and about the same on wed so how he could not start today is beyond me. It was a poor decision by MP and it concerns me that he perseveres with starting lamela in matches where we need to work hard in order to earn the space to play...lamela is a sub at best imo
Sounds like I made the right choice in going to see Interstellar at the cinema... only just got in - glad I missed all this!
The biggest thing that is starting to really get my goat about MP of late (and this is the first time I've honestly bitched about him) is his ability to change things just when the signs are that certain players or performances looked to be showing us exactly what's needed. We can all see clear as day that Lennon's introduction recently made a huge difference and yet, he gets a derisory ten minutes when he finally realised that Lamela is a donkey. I would even go to suggest that I prefer Chiriches instead of Dier at right back as I still think the young lad has a lot to learn. But only when Lennon is playing on the right who gives us much needed width and added cover. A fully fit Kyle Walker can't come back sooner. The only thing I can agree with is the omission of Kaboul lately as he's been so wobbly, he had to go. But why he was made club captain is beyond me. That was a stroke of genius on his part for sure!
To be fair to Pochettino on the right-back situation, Dier was probably his only possible selection today. Walker's not fit enough to play yet, Yedlin's not in yet, Naughton and Vertonghen both had knocks and couldn't play and Fredericks is out on loan at Boro and injured.
Get your point pnp but his persistence with lamela, his persistence with adebayor over kane until the stoke match, his persistence with playing with no width, his persistence with kaboul until 2 weeks ago kind of makes me less sympathetic to injury issues...I was and still am unsure of him...and his decisions aint helping to instill trust in him.
I agree rcl the last couple of games I thought he was getting a team together that played at speed with some width and then we get today's sorry mess. OK let's give him the benefit that tiredness is a factor but that, as I said earlier, has to be some bad planning because he knew these fixtures were coming up.Maybe Lennon was too tired to play 90 minutes but if he was on the bench he could presumably manage more than 10 minutes. Right now it is hard to see around what look to be very poor decisions by Pochettino.
The Lane was a cold place to be this afternoon for us Spurs fans. Cold weather and cold performance. Poch is not up to this level, he is an uninspiring manager/coach and today was another balls up of a team selection. Full marks to Warnock and his players, with a bit more finesse in front of goal and with a slice of luck, then they would have won this game by two goals. Thankfully, Hugo Lloris continued his fine form by making several excellent stops. Not sure anyone else in our team comes out of this with much credit. Poch has blamed the recent heavy schedule and certainly several players did look jaded, particularly Harry Kane, but in reality this is a cheap excuse and the manager really does need to start showing that he is better than merely taking Southampton to the dizzy heights of 8th place in the Premier League.
European centre-half that's comfortable on the ball, likes to make forward runs and ****s it up at the back fairly regularly, yet still gets linked with big money moves to Champions League clubs? Check!
I know that this subject has been brought up by me, and others, many times, but is it not time for somebody at the club to be held responsible for the awful mess that has been made of the selection of both management material, and playing personnel?
without doubt the worse signing any club has ever made, words cannot describe how poor he is. Just think Paulinho/Lamela/Soldado cost nearly £70 million, embarassing
Qpr have a better home record than us... We have only scored 9 goals in 8 home games, 4 came against a very poor qpr team, only hull, burnley, palace, sunderland (who got 2 of their 8 home goals against us), villa and liverpool have less. Only chelsea and city have got more away points than us (these being the only teams to be us away from home) In the cups we have play 6 home games ... winning 5, drawing 1... scoring 15 conceding just 3 We are unexplainably inconsistent
Levy in his latest attempts to dodge a bullet, just hired that man. He's called Paul Mitchell. Give it a couple of years and when the wheels have well and truly fallen off, he'll be the latest fall guy, even though most Spurs fans will know undoubtedly that the damage was done way before his time. That in the eyes of our esteemed Chairman will be irrelevant though, of course.
Today was surely the low point so far for Pochettino. Because this was absolutely 100% his fault. Not that average-to-**** players shouldn't take some blame too but my God it is so obvious. Whilst there are myriad problems with this team three obvious ones are: - lack of attacking pace - lack of width - make-shift right back not helping the overall fragility of the defence Well guess which one player fixes all three of those problems? Bonus points if you can guess which player absolutely, positively does not help any of these problems? Our very own Poundland Ronaldo. It's not that I even think Lennon is that amazing. He was probably our weakest midfielder/forward for a while back when we were decent. But that just shows how far we've fallen and how absolute dogshit some of the players around him are. And, as I said at half-time of the Hull game, all this money spent and we have ONE option for width in the entire squad. Many, many players who can look absolute **** bumbling the ball back and forth with a CB from an inverted "winger" position though. So Poch got the team wrong (and it's worth stating that I only think he got it wrong by ONE player but the difference between this team with Lennon and without seems huge), the substitutes were ****ing shocking too. I know he's scored goals and I've even said (in the depth of despair) that he should be one of the first names on the team sheet but Chadli looked his inept, ponderous, ineffectual self today. And Paulinho for Mason?! Yeah! Let's get Paulinho on! Cos he can ...er, I mean... we've all seen him...er...well he's good at...ummm. Absolutely terrible decisions today from Pochettino. Palace could have easily won and I'm sure many of their fans feel upset that they didn't. Fair play to them. Once again Poch had his arse handed to him by a work-a-day but solid, experienced manager. Now where's the next young foreign coach who wants to press high up the pitch (what happened to that idea again?), play inverted wingers, bore us all to death and has one or less seasons being underwhelming with a talented group of players? The players we have right now might contain a lot of **** but really I'm stating to get fed up with even how poorly this bunch of dross is being organised. If Neil Warnock managed Spurs and Poch managed Palace we would have beaten them comfortably today. Do you think any experienced Premier League manager would still be picking Lamela? Do you think they would stick Eriksen out on the wing? Oh and I'm finally, properly, running out of patience with Soldado. I can defend many things about him but from day one his finishing has been totally ****. And unless I feel very differently by December 31st I would absolutely urge Spurs to put a line under his time at Spurs and move him on. It's just not worked.
Actually, now I think about it again maybe it's a bit much to say we should get rid of Soldado in Jan unless we see a big improvement in the next three weeks or so. I mean I still think it's getting to be unlikely that we'll see him click but frankly he just can't become a terrible finisher overnight*. Adebayor looks like he's not getting on with another manager or something and really we probably can't lose both in one transfer window. Looks like Ade might be off. Shame in a way cos I still think he's actually one of our best players but it looks like Pochettino, like AVB, can't get out of him what Sherwood and Harry seemed to be able to. * Although actually how good a finisher was he at Valencia? I mean I know he scored a lot of goals but the YouTube clips don't show his missed chances, do they? Did he need three or four chances to get one goal? And did he keep getting lots of chances? I dunno - it's just that I could imagine a few Prem strikers whose goalscoring record might look good on paper but actually aren't that great finishers.
The thing that concerns me about all this "sell the lot" talk is who in their right mind would want to come to Spurs who's any better than what we've got? Anyone from the outside looking in can see we're a shambles of a team that has clearly gone backwards over the past four years. We had a big purse to spend a couple of years back to make that big leap forward and we blew it big time. To me, our only chances of finding and signing the quality we desperately need is through two avenues: 1) our scouting team: might find the next young starlet who could develop over the next two to three years. Yes, we've been there before but with the appointment of Mitchell, this to me seems like our thinking. Clearly, we can't attract top talent due to our wage cap, our stature, lack of CL football and the sheer bloody shambles we appear to be. So what option do we have? To try to unearth some of the next generation before our rivals find them. It doesn't bode well frankly. 2) players not getting game time elsewhere: there may, must may be one or two Van Der Vaart types who are at fairly big clubs who simply can't break into their teams, are nearing the end of their careers and have a burning desire to get back on the pitch. The type of players who will inspire the rest and give us a backbone. We need quality and leadership in our team desperately. Where we're going to find that in a January transfer window is beyond me but hopefully, we can pull it off. I get the feeling Poch is trying to just get by with the crud we have right now.
I can't be alone in thinking that Paulinho gets his cameos from the bench solely to try and drum up interest for the January window, can I?
no your not alone in thinking that, problem is who on earth would be stupid enough to buy him.....oh yeah I forgot he was brilliant for Brazil in the confederations cup. I think he's the first footballer I've ever seen that has no strengths
We have few players that anyone would pay good money for...paulinio would bring in at best 7m, lamela maybe 10m and spldado maybe 10m...may the 3 might bring in 30m if we were lucky...they cost around 75m just 18 months ago...there is no way they will be sold at such a loss so we is gonna be stuck with them
