this is an excellent article @The Score. Agree with most of it.
The only issue that I thing needs to highlighted is that they have either trusted the wrong people with the footballing operations or themselves are meddling in it. You correctly point out that the squad lacks leadership and quality in key areas. What it also lacks is physicality. Adding 2-3 tall CBs does not fix physicality issue. And my whole gripe is that we have spent approx 700m in last 2 windows and everyone who follows PL knows that in this league you need technical excellence coupled with physicality. Plus everyone who follows Chelsea knew we had a lack of leaderships which further reduced with the departure of people like Azpi. So how the hell can you be a recruitment 'expert' and not address this issue while blowing away 700m... most of that on potential / project players who might not turn out to be as good. How can you spend aprrox. 300m on three short midfielders! How useless are the sporting directors to not address the leadership and physicality issue when you had the money. This is a problem that will keep rearing its head no matter who the manager is. There is a reason why City are full of physical players.... despite Pep being a coach who loves tiki taka etc etc.
Good point, have to remember we sold lots of great talent , that now lights up the various teams in Europe, just to bring in " could be's" who may never see the light of day in the Premier league.
this is an excellent article @The Score. Agree with most of it.
The only issue that I thing needs to highlighted is that they have either trusted the wrong people with the footballing operations or themselves are meddling in it. You correctly point out that the squad lacks leadership and quality in key areas. What it also lacks is physicality. Adding 2-3 tall CBs does not fix physicality issue. And my whole gripe is that we have spent approx 700m in last 2 windows and everyone who follows PL knows that in this league you need technical excellence coupled with physicality. Plus everyone who follows Chelsea knew we had a lack of leaderships which further reduced with the departure of people like Azpi. So how the hell can you be a recruitment 'expert' and not address this issue while blowing away 700m... most of that on potential / project players who might not turn out to be as good. How can you spend aprrox. 300m on three short midfielders! How useless are the sporting directors to not address the leadership and physicality issue when you had the money. This is a problem that will keep rearing its head no matter who the manager is. There is a reason why City are full of physical players.... despite Pep being a coach who loves tiki taka etc etc.
Good point, have to remember we sold lots of great talent , that now lights up the various teams in Europe, just to bring in " could be's" who may never see the light of day in the Premier league.
Very relevant again after today
Another interesting trend I've noticed is that in the 6 league fixtures we've lost, we've been drawing the game at half time.
Uninspiring half time team talk from pochettino?
Players not fit enough to last 90 minutes?
Poor game management from pochettino?
All of the above Alex..
Poch is really disappointing me.
I expected a lot more from him.
You can take the man out of Spurs, but you can't take the Spursy out of the man
I said I would give him till the end of December.
But I'm really starting to lose faith in him.
Wrong team selections
Players playing out of position
Conceding early away goals in every game.
Conceding goals from crosses for the past 6 games.
What the hell is he doing in training.
And still.. no set style of play
Yep the same mistakes seem to be repeated every game
On the money as always👍🤪