Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Why would he do that though? A mid-table team would pay him a lot more in wages if he was a free agent, than if he had just signed a new 1 or 2 year deal
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Mauricio Pochettino - Sacked
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Why would he do that though? A mid-table team would pay him a lot more in wages if he was a free agent, than if he had just signed a new 1 or 2 year deal
Baleforce
Ron Henry
why would a young local lad who's worked his way through the youth system want to be under contract at Tottenham Hotspur FC?
one word, ambition
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Why so hard on the midfield that turned our fortunes around last season? Both of whom have had major injury setbacks this year.
Our 3rd and 4th choices proved (in their first adult/competitive seasons) that they could haul our team into the top 5. It's actually an embarrassment of riches.
Vega
Neil Sullivan
Personally, and its merely an opinion, I would remove Carroll and one of Bentaleb & Mason (it looks like it will be Bentaleb as things stand) and replace with one midfielder of proven quality.
But Poch doesnt work like that, so its largely irrelevant.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Of course. Townsend-esque loyalty is to be commended. But if he gets wind that we're only do it to get a fee for him, I doubt he'd play ball. He'd do a Timmeh and demand a 5 year deal.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
I wanted Cambiasso to come to mentor Bentaleb last summer (a Davids to Bentaleb's Carrick). But Poch went for Dier instead and has been proved very right
Vega
Neil Sullivan
Next season Carroll will become the new Xavi.
braineclipse
Willie Hall
Even at the end of the season we won't actually know that much.
Those that would have liked to see Pochettino rotate more can claim that we would have done better in the league if he rotated more in cup games.
Those that would have liked to see Pochettino rotate less can claim that we could have done just as well in the league and done better in the cups if he rotated less in cup games.
We won't actually know any more than we do now:
1. Pochettino demands a lot from his players and works them as hard as can be expected from anyone in training and games.
2. We're getting results above our expectations.
If that's not enough to accept that Pochettino's decisions based on more information than we have and more knowledge than what we have are well reasoned then I don't think anything will..
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
4 years ago he was the new Modric.
7percent
Pascal Chimbonda
He knows it's a curse..
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
I think people are massively over estimating the impact Davids had here. He wasn't popular with the players and wasn't overly effective on the pitch by his previous years standards
And of the midfielders mentioned here it looks like an order of Mason - Carroll - Bentlelab now but none of them have displayed the defensive characteristics that suit this seasons spurs team
glorygloryeze
Ian Walker
Tell me more about this please
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
He got knocked out by Robbie Keane after training for the ay he treated there with arrogance and contempt - thats quite well known
He didn't get the humour the player had and wasn't involved in any of the social aspects either
I know a place at the club at the time and he was really complimentary about lot of players but very negative about Edgar the Great
glorygloryeze
Ian Walker
Erm, i think i can work out what you're saying, but a translation into English would help many others...
Thanks btw
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Davids may have been unpopular with the players but he was exactly what the club needed at the time. He showed leadership, drive and ambition on the pitch as well as adding much-needed grit to an otherwise flaky midfield and helped take us to the next level.
Since when - apart from the odd glitch (2pts/8 games) - we have not looked back.
Since when - apart from the odd glitch (2pts/8 games) - we have not looked back.
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
Or maybe just maybe the younger players got better at a time when he joined as they were progressing through better coaching and natural development
glorygloryeze
Ian Walker
You really don't like Davids do you
Tbf, he probably WAS a bit of a cnunt - and that was probably what we've needed for years. We've been too nice and happy to 'plod along' and we haven't had the real guts and fight (and perhaps cnuntishness) to really make sure our season's didn't end in February.
We probably have to thank the likes of Davids, Naybet, VDV for pushing ourselves onwards mentally..hopefully this year will be a culmination!
Daisuk
Les Medley
Very off-topic now - but I thought Davids was massively overrated during his time with us. Also, and this is like swearing in church, was David Ginola really that good? Didn't he just look like Hod The GHod because all of our other players were brick? I mean, of course he was good, but legend-good? Really? 13 goals in 100 matches for us according to Wikipedia.
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
You really don't like Davids do you
Tbf, he probably WAS a bit of a cnunt - and that was probably what we've needed for years. We've been too nice and happy to 'plod along' and we haven't had the real guts and fight (and perhaps cnuntishness) to really make sure our season's didn't end in February.
We probably have to thank the likes of Davids, Naybet, VDV for pushing ourselves onwards mentally..hopefully this year will be a culmination!
Honestly thought he was ok - no more and no less
I think people have over rated his contribution in relation to the team getting better over the fact the players improved themselves
Carrick became a £20m midfielder Not because of David's but because he was a bloody good player