OMT Mighty Spurs at the bindippers

[markysimmo]

Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: "We are all disappointed but at the same time we have to be happy with our second half performance.

"We were a little bit unlucky to concede the second goal when we should have been ahead because we dominated Liverpool, who are a very good team.

"No one wants to lose but it's a different defeat than the ones we suffered against Southampton or Burnley. We cannot say it's positive but now we start from zero and we can achieve what we want.

"I was telling the players in the changing room we have seven games and we are in top four and we need to compete. It's a mini league and, playing the way we played today, I think we can achieve the top four."

 

[Danishfurniturelover]

Lighten up. If we can’t laugh at ourselves after losing a game we should have won in such a comical fashion then when can we?

I hate to mention it Because people might be a bit raw but I have a betting account especially for matches against top sides and cup semi finals. Another 10 years of this if I live that long and my son will have his own house.

 

[DeanoAustin]

If you can’t at the end of games like today’s have a ‘quick’ cuss then suck it up and move on to the next game.
Then give up following the game.

I’m going to sulk like a 5 year old until about Tuesday evening. Anyone mentions football and they’ll get a grunt or worse. By Wednesday I’ll be back on the horse but today I’m having a tantrum and getting brick faced.

 

[Jurgen the German]

I've been in it for a long time. Don't know if it's longer than you, but not going to bother checking.

I'll be here. I don't need validation or advice on that from you, or anyone

You're right, mate - sorry about that, I went too far. I've deleted it.

Why delete it? It was funny?

 

[We are Tottenham]

No sorry we scared the crap out of them and we did very well!

Oh yeah...just like we always do...but end up losing!

 

[Danishfurniturelover]

Have been banging the winning meteorology drum for ages. We certainly don’t have it - and I am not sure how we get it. Buy proven winners/ leaders perhaps in key positions? Youth is great but a sprinkling of experience would not go amiss imo.

We need to find an Edgar David's type and a Naybet in defence.

I quite like cook at Bournemouth a real Yorkshire cnut.

 

[Daisuk]

fudging annoying. Liverpool with that bit of luck title winning sides seem to have, and us with that bit of brick luck/poor finishing symptomatic of a team out of form. Didn't expect much from this game in the first place, so have to take some heart from the fact that we didn't deserve to lose this.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

It’s not just about the own goal, it’s what preceded it. Just another typical performance where we create enough chances to win a game, don’t put them away and go onto lose. That’s nothing to do with luck, it’s proven time and time again in football if you don’t take advantage when you are on top nine times out of ten you will pay. And we did again for the umpteenth time....

The luck is the bounce though onto Toby

The howlers their keeper made didn’t cost them

That was luck too

 

[DeanoAustin]

He has full control over the squad and is part of the recruitment team.

The state of the squad is poor.

If Levy is offering Grealish and Poch doesn’t rate him, what does he do?

Pochs judgement on players has not been backed and it could cost us CL football. Then the decision not to spend an additional 40-50mill will look penny wise pound foolish.

 

[StephenH]

winning mentality

Has monetary value.
Give Pochettino £300m he will give us this so called “winning mentality”.

 

[DubaiSpur]

This summer is a big rebuilding job for Poch, because there needs to be a shake up. I’m confident we will do it, and we will enter a new and better phase with a new stadium and a better wage budget. But something has gone in this particular group of players. Complacency, end of their cycle together, whatever it is, it is laughable to look at from the outside, and it needs to change. We are at the end of the road for this group. They can take heart from the fact that for 2 or 3 seasons they could reasonably claim to be the consistently best team in the county. But it’s over.

It didn't have to be this way, though.

It really didn't.

Teams need refreshing - Sir Alex stayed on top doing exactly this. He moved some players on, brought new, better players in, and thus what he was saying never got old.

We decided that we were smarter than all of football, and spent absolutely nothing for 18 months. The same, stale team, listening to the same talk from Poch, week in, week out.

It got old. Add to that the fact that our squad already wasn't strong enough compared to our rivals, that our rivals all strengthened while we stood still, and injuries showed us how inadequate our backups were...

...this was coming. Complacency on the part of the team, yes. But does that excuse the derelictions of duty that the summer and January transfer windows were?

Especially since, in January, we even sold another central midfielder just to eke some cash out of him while we could, and signed *no one* to replace the new hole in our team? That we had just made?

This team, this era, didn't need to end this way. We didn't need to face up to losing our best players this summer, or slumping like this.

But it did end this way. And while the team has to take some blame, the fact is that the chairman, owner and board ignored on-pitch problems to focus on off-field infrastructure, which is now coming home to roost.

And the past two transfer windows have done damage to our team that will be felt for years to come.

• We need more transfers this summer to replace more players, because we put it off. 5 or more.
• That will mean more bedding in, more time to build a cohesive team. Another couple of seasons of transition.
• That might mean that Alli and Kane leave, because they're tired of waiting for us to get our sh*t together.
• Meaning, another few transfers to replace them, and the loss of a childhood Spurs icon, one of our own, the type that comes around once every fudging *50 years*.

And so on, and so forth.

So yes, it didn't have to be this way. We have wasted this team, and wasted this generation. And that hurts more than almost anything else.

 

[ringo]

What was with the panic on the goal line - we should have cleared the ball there with three players within reach. Someone (Toby) should have just cleared it and anything else in the way into row Z. It looked like he hesitated because he thought Loris was going for it. Just clear out Loris as well.

 

[StephenH]

Oh yeah...just like we always do...but end up losing!

 

[nayenezgani]

Chill out. If you have ridiculous expectations you’re only going to be disappointed. We should be able to poke fun at ourselves when we contrive to lose a game in such a comical fashion when we had chances to win it.

Pathetic excuse to stick the boots in. We played well and deserved more, fudge off with the sell everyone, bottlers nonsense.

Bagging the brick out of the team and constantly leaping at the chance to moan is self-perpetuating. I won't buy into it.

 

[StephenH]

Night all

Better performance than I was expecting today!
Which is an enormous plus for me!
COYS

 

[DeanoAustin]

It didn't have to be this way, though.

It really didn't.

Teams need refreshing - Sir Alex stayed on top doing exactly this. He moved some players on, bought new, better players in, and thus what he was saying never got old.

We decided that we were smarter than all of football, and spent absolutely nothing for 18 months. The same, stale team, listening to the same talk from Poch, week in, week out.

It got old. Add to that the fact that our squad already wasn't strong enough compared to our rivals, that our rivals all strengthened while we stood still, and injuries showed us how inadequate our backups were...

...this was coming. Complacency on the part of the team, yes. But does that excuse the derelictions of duty that the summer and January transfer windows were?

Especially since, in January, we even sold another central midfielder just to eke some cash out of him while we could, and signed *no one* to replace the new hole in our team? That we had just made?

This team, this era, didn't need to end this way. We didn't need to face up to losing our best players this summer, or slumping like this.

But it did end this way. And while the team has to take some blame, the fact is that the chairman, owner and board ignored on-pitch problems to focus on off-field infrastructure, which is now coming home to roost.

And the past two transfer windows have done damage to our team that will be felt for years to come.

• We need more transfers this summer to replace more players, because we put it off. 5 or more.
• That will mean more bedding in, more time to build a cohesive team. Another couple of seasons of transition.
• That might mean that Alli and Kane leave, because they're tired of waiting for us to get our sh*t together.
• Meaning, another few transfers to replace them, and the loss of a childhood Spurs icon, one of our own, the type that comes around once every fudging *50 years*.

And so on, and so forth.

So yes, it didn't have to be this way. We have wasted this team, and wasted this generation. And that hurts more than almost anything else.

Agree with all of this except the inference that we should not have focused on long term infrastructure (which may not have been what you meant).

Long term planning is great but Levy put too little value on the short term.

 

[paxtonwolf]

Not sure if it was a joke but Neville said that it was a Liverpool fan who grabbed the mike and not Carragher.

Oh it was a Liverpool fan.......Jamie Carragher

 

[nayenezgani]

It didn't have to be this way, though.

It really didn't.

Teams need refreshing - Sir Alex stayed on top doing exactly this. He moved some players on, bought new, better players in, and thus what he was saying never got old.

We decided that we were smarter than all of football, and spent absolutely nothing for 18 months. The same, stale team, listening to the same talk from Poch, week in, week out.

It got old. Add to that the fact that our squad already wasn't strong enough compared to our rivals, that our rivals all strengthened while we stood still, and injuries showed us how inadequate our backups were...

...this was coming. Complacency on the part of the team, yes. But does that excuse the derelictions of duty that the summer and January transfer windows were?

Especially since, in January, we even sold another central midfielder just to eke some cash out of him while we could, and signed *no one* to replace the new hole in our team? That we had just made?

This team, this era, didn't need to end this way. We didn't need to face up to losing our best players this summer, or slumping like this.

But it did end this way. And while the team has to take some blame, the fact is that the chairman, owner and board ignored on-pitch problems to focus on off-field infrastructure, which is now coming home to roost.

And the past two transfer windows have done damage to our team that will be felt for years to come.

• We need more transfers this summer to replace more players, because we put it off. 5 or more.
• That will mean more bedding in, more time to build a cohesive team. Another couple of seasons of transition.
• That might mean that Alli and Kane leave, because they're tired of waiting for us to get our sh*t together.
• Meaning, another few transfers to replace them, and the loss of a childhood Spurs icon, one of our own, the type that comes around once every fudging *50 years*.

And so on, and so forth.

So yes, it didn't have to be this way. We have wasted this team, and wasted this generation. And that hurts more than almost anything else.

How have we wasted this team or generation? We have a new stadium to move into with a young group of players who regularly grace the champions league.

If we can't kick on and really push forward from this platform then I might see some validity in your point.

But you're being way premature and typically hyperbolic.

 

[markysimmo]

Oh it was a Liverpool fan.......Jamie Carragher

It 100% was the Gobber !!

 

[Jurgen the German]

Pathetic excuse to stick the boots in. We played well and deserved more, fudge off with the sell everyone, bottlers nonsense.

Bagging the brick out of the team and constantly leaping at the chance to moan is self-perpetuating. I won't buy into it.

We are bottlers whether you want to admit it or not. Losing countless semi finals and big games where we should have win is all the evidence you need.

The squad needs to be refreshed. Lloris and Trippier aren’t good enough and make too many costly mistakes. Eriksen doesn’t want to be here and Lamela whilst a hard worker doesn’t offer enough end product.

I realise the idea of signing players is controversial to some on here but we don’t need wholesale changes. Just 1-2 high level players and replacements for Lloris and Trippier which shouldn’t be difficult.