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  1. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Igor the Departed

    On Ten Hag I remember it being one of Levy’s better decisions of the last 7-8 years, in that he judged him to be completely lacking in charisma and that the club needed a leader that everyone could rally around. And if that’s true I think he got it spot on. The really annoying thing about...
  2. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    I know what you mean. It seems like they’re willing to print anything right now. The ‘some of the players are going around saying they don’t care about relegation because they’ll be gone anyway’ story just seemed way too juvenile to print. Obviously VDV refuted it. And maybe someone did actually...
  3. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    What was the trigger in our downward trend?

    I beg for the day you don’t insist I am being emotional or too in my feelings about this subject. Romero I will grant can do well in a mid block. He can also help shut up shop when he is locked in and the team on the whole is cohesive. But as a pairing with VDV, his end of that partnership in...
  4. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Would relegation be that bad?

    Are we ‘too big to fail’ (be relegated?). Perhaps it’s so existential that we can finish 18th but have to remain in the PL.
  5. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    Agreed! I will be gagging for a proper book. And in the meantime I at least hope The Athletic have a long long read ready to drop a couple of days after this season ends. I want anonymous quotes from inside the club explaining how this season ended up going to badly badly wrong. I want all the...
  6. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Would relegation be that bad?

    Posted before reading to the end of the thread !
  7. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    What was the trigger in our downward trend?

    Yeah I just don’t know whether VDV’s minutes available improved because he’s playing deeper or because we got a specialist to change his running gait over the course of the last year. If he had them more, I’m confident we would have gotten better results. They are aggressive high line...
  8. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Interim manager thread 2.0

    Totally fair. I will find it quite ironic if they decide to sound out the players on what they need for the final 7 games. I feel like all Levy did for nigh on 20 years was sound out the players, then clearly at some point they wanted to put a stop to that, and now we’re in the worst position...
  9. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Interim manager thread 2.0

    It might be mad but in a weird way I can see Sherwood working. The sheer simplicity of how he thinks might be exactly what is needed. And also enough famous people who operate in high pressure environments talk about how laughter is the thing that gets them to relax. I think we need someone who...
  10. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Interim manager thread 2.0

    I can almost see the logic in De Zerbi with a release clause because maybe having the next ‘permanent’ guy be in charge puts these players in enough of a focussed mode to get over the line where it matters this season, rather than willing it to end. In theory what they do would matter. I just...
  11. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Interim manager thread 2.0

    I mean, he did actually win the league games he needed to ensure our survival.
  12. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    What was the trigger in our downward trend?

    Just wanted to come back on this to say I agree wit your point that good players should be able to play for different styles and different managers. In an ideal world, that would happen. But I think Tottenham as a club is in this weird position of aspiring to challenge for the biggest titles...
  13. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ***OMT Tottenham Hotspur Football Club v Nottingham Forest***

    I think this is something that can only come from the players at this point. To have 6 players in the box and not one of them picking up MGW is not a failure of tactics. It’s responsibility, accountability, and also feeling confident enough communicating with each other. There needs to be some...
  14. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    What was the trigger in our downward trend?

    Yeah. It’s one of those things where like if you squint you can see the theory of it, like so many of the decisions that have been made since 2019, but it just falls apart in practice. Like, I totally get the idea that if you keep Kane happy, he’ll perform, he’ll probably win us games etc. But...
  15. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    What was the trigger in our downward trend?

    Yeah…in some ways it baffles me that our players wouldn’t have the self reflection to say ‘maybe if Harry Kane, undoubtedly our best player with the highest standards likes these managers, maybe we should too’. At the same time, chasing after a short term boost to keep Kane happy while not...
  16. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    What was the trigger in our downward trend?

    This is actually a fascinating question. To what extent was our ‘football strategy’ built around what would make Kane happy? And if the answer is ‘quite a lot’, was it right to do that?
  17. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    What was the trigger in our downward trend?

    Agreed, and even it can be argued that Poch eeked out every last bit from that squad to even make the CL final. What was then needed was a refresh. Not to blame Poch for going as far as he could go and expecting Jose to work further miracles. I do wonder whether the squad, beyond Kane, ever...
  18. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    What was the trigger in our downward trend?

    You’ve cut out the rest of my admittedly extremely long post where I think I go in more to what to what you are getting at. Anyway you slice it, poor squad quality is not the reason we are 1 point off relegation with 7 games left. It just isn’t, it is not that bad. I think what explains it is...
  19. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    What was the trigger in our downward trend?

    I totally respect your point of view on this. Clearly the decision Ange made was not the right one for a lot of people. I accept that. My personal view is, once the season became a write off in the league, I completely understood that the way to bring some success to the club was to win the...
  20. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ***OMT Tottenham Hotspur Football Club v Nottingham Forest***

    As you’ve alluded to elsewhere, I think a lot is going to come out about this season that will ‘explain’ a lot of the weirdness we’re seeing. It won’t justify it all, but it will start to make more sense. Like dropping Vicario looked questionable and they didn’t say it was because he was playing...
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