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Jimmy Cantrell
Until Xmas last year we played okay? Granted since we have not looked a great team.
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Mauricio Pochettino - Sacked
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Until Xmas last year we played okay? Granted since we have not looked a great team.
Baleforce
Ron Henry
I don’t think torpedo’d as I think he’s their mate, which is probably a lot of the problem.
For a long time now, there have been no consequences to being brick. Hugo, Toby, Eriksen, Alli, Kane, they’ve all had periods of dogbrick performances yet still been back in the starting eleven as soon as they could stand up straight.
Baleforce
Ron Henry
until that point performance were logical, excusable even
SylDave
Jason Dozzell
I thought dropping Lamela on Saturday sent out all the wrong signals, he has probably been our best player this season, to not have started him tonight makes that decision look even worse.
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Baleforce
Ron Henry
He’s been our best player since we signed him, there was a huge celebration of relief in the Bayern dressing room when they saw the starting line up I’m sure.
glasgowspur
Dimitar Berbatov
I would hate to see him go, but some of this is starting to look and feel all to familiar.
No lamela in our last two starting line ups? Especially in that abomination of a line up tonight, wtf was that poch?
It can't be easy with at least three of the core of the team (eriksen, Toby and rose) wanting out and question marks of various types over Jan, dier, aurier and wanyama but surely we can do better than this.
I don't care who the manager is no one is going to sort that out quickly.
No lamela in our last two starting line ups? Especially in that abomination of a line up tonight, wtf was that poch?
It can't be easy with at least three of the core of the team (eriksen, Toby and rose) wanting out and question marks of various types over Jan, dier, aurier and wanyama but surely we can do better than this.
I don't care who the manager is no one is going to sort that out quickly.
Baleforce
Ron Henry
If they want out they are no longer core
glasgowspur
Dimitar Berbatov
Ok, the of our successful team. Take two of the best players in your team , eriksen and Toby, out of it along with our other player issues and see where it gets you.
Liverpool without Salah and Vvd for instance.
Baleforce
Ron Henry
Imo, it’s a failure of management not to either keep them motivated or to have replaced them
monkeybarry
Ian Walker
Rose is easily fixed - Davies.
Eriksen - keep him dropped and build the MKII (pochs own words - yet I see no sign of it)
Toby is harder. Now might be the time for Tanganga.
Baleforce
Ron Henry
Toby is the easiest, we have Sanchez, who has proven to have a good partnership with Verts.
tanganga looks very promising though I agree
glasgowspur
Dimitar Berbatov
If they want away how do you motivate them?
ideally replace them, not that easy though is it.
glasgowspur
Dimitar Berbatov
Baleforce
Ron Henry
My point is that you’ve failed to motivate them if they want away
Craig_J
Eidur Gudjohnsen
They want away because as individuals nearly everyone of them could contribute towards winning things elsewhere whilst earning a fat pay packet for it.
Here I'm afraid we have to conclude that as great as this team was for us - the best in my lifetime without question - there's always been that little bit lacking guaranteeing they will end trophyless as a group. Aside from Kane, and even he lately has had (quite forgivably) games where he goes missing we don't have any true world beaters.
A few years ago we had an exciting team with the best stats in the league in terms of both goals scored and goals conceded. Now that promising core are older everything has gone stale, we're consistently found out taticlly, we're failing to do the simple and we have one hell of a rebuilding process to go through.
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
Pack yer bags and fcuk off lad.
I went off him just before the champs league final with his comments about leaving and doing us a favour by hanging around.
As a person he is reaching Sherwood levels of clamness.
I went off him just before the champs league final with his comments about leaving and doing us a favour by hanging around.
As a person he is reaching Sherwood levels of clamness.
DeanoAustin
Christian Ziege
Yeah I've had enough of him now. Hes looking like a one trick pony to me , in his interviews and tactics. He doesn't know what to do. And then all this talk about feelings, emotions, lemons and auras. I mean its like Glenn Hoddle on steroids. Id be for giving him time but he hasn't respected our club over the last 5 months and he genuinely doesnt look like he wants to be here or knows what to do.
For sure, Levy's transfer policy last season didn't help and maybe chickens are coming home to roost a bit but I still have faith in Levy's long term plan. Sadly, he's got to deliver that vision without Poch as far as I'm concerned.
braineclipse
Willie Hall
I think we saw last night what we can do with the diamond. Relentless pressing and we looked alright, once our energy dropped we looked very vulnerable.
I can get using the diamond for periods of games. Starting that way last night, accepting an open game, end to end stuff, try to shock them and roll the dice. I can't understand continuing in that formation after our energy levels entirely predictably drops and the gaps in the diamond start opening up. Particularly when the roll of the dice had paid off, we got the lead, we had them where we wanted. Change it to something more solid, we had the players to do it.
One might say Pochettino got beat in the tactical, thinking, management aspect of the game. I think reality is he defeated himself. Kovac did basic stuff and Pochettino watched as the predictable became inevitable.
I can get using the diamond for periods of games. Starting that way last night, accepting an open game, end to end stuff, try to shock them and roll the dice. I can't understand continuing in that formation after our energy levels entirely predictably drops and the gaps in the diamond start opening up. Particularly when the roll of the dice had paid off, we got the lead, we had them where we wanted. Change it to something more solid, we had the players to do it.
One might say Pochettino got beat in the tactical, thinking, management aspect of the game. I think reality is he defeated himself. Kovac did basic stuff and Pochettino watched as the predictable became inevitable.
glasgowspur
Dimitar Berbatov
Eriksen has always said he would leave, has he not been motivated for the last 6 years?