Only a wise cracking soundbite can save us now...
Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 10:33PM Here's the match report.
We were crap.
No inspiration, no shape, no creativity and no cohesiveness. Another repeat performance, lacklustre in desire to somehow claw something, anything back. QPR value staying up more than Tottenham value top four.
Everything that continues to be wrong with us persists and festers from one game to the next with no apparent fix attempted. There's no doubt that we have to shrug and admit that lack of rotation and burn out has cost us along with avoidance to repair parts of the squad (cover wise) that so many of us predicted might come back to haunt us. Whether that's chairman or manager or both to blame for the consolidation we needed is there to be debated. But on the pitch there still isn't enough fight and there is no managerial astuteness. No leaders. No plan. No change. We've gift wrapped it for someone else to open.
Once more...Everything that continues to be wrong with us persists and festers from one game to the next with no apparent fix attempted. It's that simple. Or not so when you look at the results we've produced since late February.
I've given this match report as much energy as Spurs did during the game so apologies for its flatness.
I feel desperate for us that we've lost so much of our strength, physically and mentally.
Shameful.
If this was a magic trick we haven't disappeared a playing card. We've made the Statue of Liberty vanish. Except it hasn't vanished. It's still there, you just can't see it. It's an illusion. We are being made to look the opposite of what we've fought to become over the past several seasons. What happened at the back end of last season has repeated itself once more. Credit for what has been achieved but there has been a spectacular loss of control suggesting its just too much for some to be responsible for keeping things steady in troubled waters.
Everyone else has navigated their way through the storm, we're left sinking with the captain of our ship already sat in a rubber dinghy paddling away.
It's too much to ask a side tragically out of form to aspire and recapture that long lost tempo. Do I still believe? Of course. Football is so much better if you give it everything you've got, even if it can leave you drained in doing so. Six points from nine games will hardly lead into twelve points from four, will it?
Let's move on.
I said in the match preview that Spurs would pull the heart out of my chest and kick it about for 90 minutes. I'd like my heart back now please. What's left of it.
Love Tottenham. Hate this.
Reader Comments (85)
if they put in as much effort as you do with this blog they would have been challenging 4 the title.didn't.
Couldnt agree more, Redknapp seems to be bereft of any ideas that might stop this slide into sixth position come seasons end. Why he can't grab that Bale by the collar/throat and tell him to hug that fking touchline and send in crosses all day long is beyond me......Lennon should be doing the same on the other side when fit. They are a spent force and collectively don't seem to have any ideas. Then there's always the disaster that was the January window that was an abject failure to re-invest in the squad when it most needed it.....chickens are now coming home etc.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/9214442/Queens-Park-Rangers-1-Tottenham-Hotspur-0-match-report.html
This has been coming from before the Newcastle game, which was exception that proved the coming rule.
I don't know what annoys me more, the incompetency of the refs which only ever hinders us rather then helps us or the lack of interest from Harry and the players.
Before today for 20+ years I have always been proud to be a Spurs fan, through thick (plenty of it) and thin, but now I am embarrassed over recent performances and have no faith in the fairness of the competitions, I honestly cannot see the point of supporting anyone other than United in this country, now I would never switch to another club but I could easily switch to Rugby.
This has been coming from before the Newcastle game, which was exception that proved the coming rule. The lack of rotation, not the England manager, situation has proved crucial. Right now, Redknapp appears completely at sea. We have lost CL and I think that his position is untenable if England don't turn come calling.
I hear what you are saying Sweetsman. The Newcastle game we honestly didn't play that well, Newcastle were just inept. These problems have been brought to the fore because there is nothing covering them up.
It all started to go wrong when Harry got wind he could have a chance of the England job.That gave Levy the signal that giving him money in January would be a very bad idea so we got nothing and sold or loaned out what we could.Harrys deals did not work out,he lost the wheeler dealer touch.Levy held firm knowing that Harry wanted the England job and so money would have to come our way.But maybe it started before that.With the way Levy screwed the FA about over the failed bid for that stadium maybe they saw a chance for payback.Will Harry be offered the England job ,well if not then the FA have won because they have ruined our season and hit Levy where it hurts him most by us missing out on CL.If they take Harry then we win but at what cost.We will loose Modric for sure,maybe Bale and Walker aswell.They would be hard boots to fill and with no CL that will be even harder.
To sum up i am not sure who is to blame but Harry looks a good bet.I don't blame Levy for not giving him the money in January and maybe the FA are getting a eye opener as to the real Harry and i wonder what they will do.For me i can't wait now for the season to be over and see what will happen which is very sad.To find wanting to know who will be the next manager and what players will leave and who will come in before a season is even over says a lot for the one we are having now.
Levy is the problem..we need the right person at the top of the spurs tree. Levy needs to take responsibility.Failure to launch this season. No wonder our top players want to leave. It's that simple!!!
Part of me would love to see Harry sacked tomorrow, he deserves it, but we may as well hang on for another four games and hope that he goes to England so we can at least get some compensation. CL is now gone and we will most likely finish 6th, I can see us maybe winning one and losing three of our final games. This has been the most depressing season I can remember, so much hope and expectation now flushed down the pan, I hope Harry is feeling as bad as the fans but I doubt it.
Harry doesn't care about us. His comments about the two league cups wins and we are above where we are supposed to be. He doesn't have a true winning mentality and would never listen to us "idoits" of fans anyway. What the hell would we know about Bale's performances on the left wing, having an aged defence and the need for a real striker.
I sat looking at my season ticket renewal form after the game.
Another price hike, the third most expensive on the league, after the two scums. They at least have offered regular champions league football, not the Europa league dog shit that we face yet again next season.
Fuck you, Levy. Two years of free transfers and loans. All you care about is making as much money as you can before selling up.
I have little or no confidence in what Spurs will achieve any more. Love of Spurs? Yes. Running through my veins. Belief? No, unfortunately not. I don't think you're serious about challenging for the top levels Mr Levy.
It's clear that the current mental and physical morale of the team is on the floor. They are exhausted. Clearly. They just want the season to end. Like I do now.
Last season I was absolutely gutted that we folded when we did and so missed out on CL. Seriously gutted. To have been doing so well and then dump it so near the finish line was hard to swallow. But I reassured myself that we had learned lessons last season. That we had learned that the transfer windows are 100% neccessary more than they are potentially useful for a little flutter. That to be reliant on older players with injury problems probably won't be sufficient in a team that apparently wants to seriously challenge for some titles. I mean, what happens when they're starting to slow down as we near season end (again) and then get injured (again) and we have no Top 4 Class replacement (again) and this obviously contributes to a general shutdown in the team? Unfortunately, we learned nothing. Same problems this year as last year. Same old players, same old injuries, still no decent replacements, same old team shutdown (again).
So, no trophies again. But the pain is not about lack of trophies. The pain is about the fact that we learn nothing and then throw away a 10 point lead on 4th thereby throwing away our best chance yet of automatic CL qualification for the same reasons we threw it away last time.
On top of this, the diving and cheating of the team that will very probably win the Premier League this season (again), together with the number of wrong decisions, goals, offsides, bookings, play acting etc and the complete denial of the FA to even consider that video evidence (that works perfectly well in Rugby and Cricket) can be used in foootball....i start asking myself if I can really be arsed to spend so much heartm head, time and money on a pastime that is so fundamentally flawed.
Actually, it's not about the money for me, or even so much the lack of trophies. It's about the heartbreak, frustration and embarrassment.
Not serious Mr Levy.
Scotty Parker for President. COYS.
Yes, a lot is fucked, but we'll still finish fourth, an how amazing will that be?
Redknapp has utterly screwed it, no doubt. Complete failure to use the squad, so dos Santos plays cameos now, i mean serious, WTF? And several players appear to be looking toward new pastures (I have a nagging feeling Modric wants us to be 5th or lower to make his PR job to leave us easier for him).
But despite all that, we'll still be fourth next month. 4 games, 4 wins and it's ours. Newcastle have bluescum and skybluescum, so write them off, and with 12 points, it doesn't matter what bluescum do.
COYMFS
England will not pick Redknapp as manager as they can bloody see what he 'did' do with Spurs during this period. If he doesn't have what it takes to turn the game around for Spurs, can he still do it for England? If he's not pick, then we'll be stuck with him for another few seasons. Guess Levy's only option is to wait for England to choose another manager besides Harry, then sack him to totally screw him in his career.
being a life long and committed spurs fan..cheers dad! As for rednapp and this bunch of wan" players and complete gobshi** and waste of space manager can all fuc8 off till next season.. this mob have to get the same treatment ive given the national team and that is the sahrp point of my elbow. U can't spend good money and time on that ffs ! Na ..playing the back gtound for a minute for me, just about heard enouhh rhetoric drom rednap tp keep me at bay..
Levy needs to take a shot gun and stick it in his mouth, chances are that still wouldn't shit the cun* up
Mark hughes before the game was sked one of those cliched classic pointless irrelevant questions about the oposition he faced today and he duely noted, I , we don't comment or care about other teams with have our own issues to talk about and deal with.. categorically confirming what an utter cheap copy and impersonator rednapp really is....disgusted!!!!!!!!
*deflated uncommitted spurs man
SPURSINCE82
With your Harry shotgun comment I really laughed.
But with your Hughes quote, that is the dignity EVERY Spurs fan wishes Harry had.
Anyone who thinks that this bunch of old players and players who are waiting to get away will stretch every sinew to ensure 4 wins from 4 and ensure CL qualification need their heads seeing to. When Spurs lost to Portsmouth in the FA Cup semi's a few seasons ago they came back, beat Man C away and qualified for 4th spot. That's because they were interested and so was Harry, but it won't happen this season. Why, because Harry doesn't give a fuck. Why, because Modric, Sandro, Bale, Lennon, VDV or Defoe don't give a fuck. Because Gallas, King, Nelsen, Saha and Friedel are past their 'sell by date' and are playing out their time. All of this is down to Redknapp for allowing good young players like Carroll, Kane, Townsend, Caulker, Naughton and Pienaar to go on loan. Then he complains about us being too thin of a squad. Does he think we are fucking blind ideots. I would also like to spread some of the blame on to Daniel Levy because he is running this show. Surely he's responsible for allowing all loan agreements. He's a Spurs supporter and a football man 'by all accounts', so why would he allow such useful players to disappear for a whole season when we all know that, in order to rotate the squad, you need a fucking squad to rotate. It's time Levy started running this club like a business and stop allowing a chancer to decide when to slacken his grip on what he's supposed to be delivering.
The notion that Redknapp would be side-tracked by the England job becoming available is laughable. Surely if he's such a good mature and experienced manager (and at 65 years old) he wouldn't get all wobbly and lose concentration on the job in hand. Well he did, because he's a useless turd who doesn't give a fuck about anyone but No.1 and got all excited like a fucking school boy.
Levy needs to have already chosen his next manager (David Noyes please Mr Levy) and clear the riff-raff and the pensioners out of the club. Root out the ‘prima donnas’ and sell them to the highest bidders and allow the new manager to replenish his squad with players who want to play for the manager and the club.
Harry is history and its not exactly a huge fall from grace - his CV is pretty bloody average in comparison with most top managers. I doubt whether Levy will want to put up with him for another season. The brains trust at the FA should realise that he's been massively over-hyped as well.
Agree that Harry has been massively overhyped. Ironically, and with hindsight, Levy may be wishing that the FA had paid to take Harry from us when Capello quit. The FA may not even want him now and Levy will have to pay to sack the bastard.
Levy should have pulled the trigger on redcunt last season. All the hard work that was put in over the last 6 season has added up to nothing really. This should have been the season Spurs were finally taken seriously as title challengers. But we fucked it up good.
To the delusional redcunt, we were punching well above our weight. Are you fucking serious harry? It was you who was overachieving, all because you had/have fucking world class talents at your disposal you money grubbing twat. The jig is up cunt, we can see the team is as clueless as you are. What do you do to fix it? On yeah, get your muppet kevin bond to call up tim sherwood on his cell for some tactical advise! hahaha!
Mark my words fellow spurs, Its going to be tough summer for the club and levy. If he can hold on to our current key players for another year, all is not lost, only if he can identify and bring in a proper football manager. Otherwise, its back to mid-table mediocrity.
COYS.
I was hiding from the ignominy of the second half result today..(whilst trying to convince myself that the problem with spurs, is me and that somehow my over expectations and uncompromising love was the problem, suffocating the process with too much hope)..it then dawned on me that, u should always go with your gut feeling, it never lets u down.. but a club with thi skind of set up will. So with the release of that responsibility, I spoke with an arsenal mate and mentioned that we could still be the team on the up and that with a few tweaks ( not twitches ) the future was still lilly white. THen it took fo rhim to remind me of the type of players that keep shit clubs like his and great clubs like ours a metre or so away from being the 'top boys' again...that was players with no identity , no true ability and no real distinction. I concluded that even in the dark days compared to the false economies of modric we had Hoddle gazza..ginola teddy-jurgen all great at something, dare i say world class..just what does modric do? Gasoine was a top dribbler ( excuse alcoholic pun) great goal scorer (modric is like a kid in a park shooting over the jackets and school bags) great passer thinker game changer free kick taker...
bale is none of these and what chance he has showed he has blown by pre meditating his own shrine to himself having never won anything or been truly tested at any level..we need to keep rafa and sandro ( they have graded qualitites) wlkaer as real potential BAe has played more games than i have had glasses of wine this year and that is it for me, lennon has ost that spark and we have nothing else that really works..
roll on next season
Redknapp has managed 4 Premiur League teams.........."Where are the other 3 now?
Beware Mr. Levy of the Redknapp legacy.....be very aware. The signs are ominous........very ominous.
BEWARE MR. LEVY BEWARE
We keep trying the same things over and over. No intelligence. We go into each game always with the same plan. No intelligence. I want us to get rid of Hairy Redflapps. The bad results, I'm used to them, I love Spurs. The SHIT excuses. Enough.
lol i had to laugh at coymfs, write newcastle off lol, its ok mate everyone has been waiting ofr the bubble to burst all season and guss what ??? we,re flying 6 wins on the belt , only 1 goal conceded in those 6 games, you keep writing us off lmao , wake up lad, and as for ARRY i hope he stays with you,s next season, i,d hate to see him as england manager, i,d rather see pearce get it, its good to see your team running out of gas at this stage of the season,
come on the toon
Get a grip
Yes we were shamefully poor no fight and out for the count before the goal... but we always flattered to deceive (after all this is Tottenham)
Start of the season the pundits predicted 6th place and that's where we're going to end up
No leaders... We've got both current footballers of the year
No it's Harry's pretence that we've being playing well but losing is a lie and smokescreen for the truth
Just not got what it takes
Does anybody think that there is something else affecting HR? Something we don't know about.
To recap....the trial & his wife ill as a result, minor heart surgery, the England job have all conspired to distract him from his day job but he should be somewhat recovered by now surely?
I can't help thinking there is another issue lurking beneath the surface.
After all if he carries on like this there is every likelihood that he will have no job at all at the end of the season & to me that doesn't make sense.
Harry Redknapp is back in court this week charged with assisting the suicide of a season.
As explained in the comments, bad form I am used to but the litany of excuses and spurious claims that we "have played well" are just driving me to drink.... well more drink than usual. As for the crowing of the gooners around my way, it is just getting louder by the day.
Newcastle needed goals in Jan,so they buy a quality goalscorer,what do we get to sure us up until the end of season,Nelson,already injured ,so with the old boy and hoppalong basically standing around trying to protect the other old boy between the posts,we are basically trying to compete in the grand prix with uncle Harrys austin princess.
Its not eh England job so much as them being tired IMO. In fairness to Harry he pretty much wrote off the two crapper cups, which a lot of managers would not have had the balls to do, but that isnt enough. Needs to rotate more [even at the cost of some results] otherwise you fall short at the end. All of the clubs playing well now are reliant on different players to those they relied on at the beginning of the season [Ba-> Cisse+Ben Arfa, nobody>drogba, Van Persie > a few others actually playing football(ok so maybe this one doesnt work)]
The other major cause is tactics. First half of the season teams did not set out to frustrate us and hit us on the break, now that is all they do, from man utd down. And we have not adapted to this, there is no plan for this.
I have been a big Redknapp apologist, he is the most successful manager we've had for years, and some of his tactics have been spot on, but this is our weak point. This is why we can play brilliantly against a Liverpool or a Newcastle but get beat by a Wolves. We can only beat teams when they play football (at least a little). This means it is score first or struggle for us, and if the other team is happy with a draw then it becomes very difficult.
Allied to that fact is Redknapps tactics. 4-4-2 with Modders and Livermore in the middle? do me a favour, you could see that loss a mile off. Ok so his hand was forced yesterday with defoe up to [I bet we wish we still had crouch now], but Lennon seemed to play in the middle when he came on....v.v.strange.,
I would like to see:
The formation and game plan given preference over players (I think Harry is moving in this direction but its 3 games too late). If there's no Lennon, a player who can play wide right should start.
Some fresh blood. Its not working at the moment, Dos Santos more game time?
No more Gallas, he looks awful, just terrible.
Balance. We do not have enough cover from midfield for the defence. Scotty should sit (he looks knacked anyway) and let modric go forward. At the moment we expose King and Gallas with every attack (recipe for the disaster we have been watching).
Style. If teams won't come out and play, keep the ball, just keep popping it around in the middle third. You tire them out and you frustrate them, and you wait for the opportunity to release bale / lennon. The players seem frustrated v.v.fast when they face a defensive side, we need to be more pragmatic. If we cannot get the ball forward quickly effectively, then do it slowly: Middle does not work (pick out defoe surrounded by CBs after the break is no longer on...repeat).
Shape. What formation do we play now? 4-1-1-4? with everyone through the middle? We looked most dangerous for that 2 minutes where lennon stayed out wide and we put (a) through balls into the box. Do that more.
"I can't help thinking there is another issue lurking beneath the surface. After all if he carries on like this there is every likelihood that he will have no job at all at the end of the season & to me that doesn't make sense."
Apr 22, 2012 at 8:44 AM | Nick Hibbert
@Nick. To a man approaching retiring age having no job is eminently sensible. And receiving a golden parachute to boot is jam on the cake. In Harry's case he's also just had a few horror trips in his personal life which have burnt him badly. Ergo. He's had it. He is finished, full stop.
As explained in the comments, bad form I am used to but the litany of excuses and spurious claims that we "have played well" are just driving me to drink.... well more drink than usual. As for the crowing of the gooners around my way, it is just getting louder by the day.
Apr 22, 2012 at 9:03 AM | Jack
@Jack. "more drink than usual".... there you go, in every cloud there's a silver lining!!
Time to get 'old skool' Spooky on Levy's arse. Yet another almighty fuck up over a manager.
Bad old morning. Redknapp still in a job. Spurs going to finish 6th, having been third with 14 games to go and an easy run-in. He's a big mess at this moment and so are Spurs. When a team cannot cope with one injury and regroup, theyre not a good team. That is current Spurs. I fucking give up.
Hilarious stuff! keep up the good work! From the Arse across the road..
This is rocket science stuff = ageing players equals plenty of niggling injuries!!
This has been the biggest balls up in the last 15 years. From the backroom staff through to Levy. A complete and total failure at the club! There is no recovery from this and it will be with us for a long time!!
All in all Harry acheived getting us into the CL for one season and staving off relegation when he arrived. He hasn't signed any players of note, all the good players (now awaiting their exit) were there when he arrived. As soon as the fans wanted (demanded) more success he attacked them and belittled the club as being a mid-table club that should be grateful for any success, like avoiding relegation. I'm just so, so glad Levy didn't allow him near the 'purse strings' he would have had a hey day. If England give him the job, then they deserve all they get. If England don't give him the job and Levy retains his services, then I will stay away and monitor what is happening from the distance. He has demoralised me and a lot of fans at Spurs. He has actually been a massive failure as we are back where we were when Berbatov left. In limbo. We need to get a new manager now, not next week, now. I would let Sherwood manage the last four games and see if he can motivate them. Harry has had his day and Levy should act now, today.
That was dire yesterday. Crab like 5 touch football at walking pace. The players stopped listening to Harry and more to the noises coming from their agents as soon as this Capello/England debacle started. Harry's project have downed tools and gone on a work to rule. Too many players on last big paycheck deals and other using us as a stepping stone. A relegation threatened start awaits the next incumbent to take the hot seat i guarantee. The powershift has run out of gas again. typical Tottenham, typical Levy, typical Harry.. just f**king typical!!!
Harry Quote; "I have only seen one bad performance and that was against Norwich," I couldn't sit here and say we have been playing badly. "We have four games to go and I'm confident we can win four games.
I don't know what that man is on, but if you consider we have won one in nine and now he thinks we can win four in four, it must be strong stuff.
Get him out today.
I am alarmed by Redknapp's comments about the bench, esp as he turned to Dos Santos at the end of the game. I am not convinced by all the criticism of Levy. What did you expect him to do? He knows that Redknapp will be leaving and so cannot agree to long term contracts for players. The next appointment will be critical, obviously, but we must remember that despite the huge injection of money success at Man City has not been instant. I think Redknapp has earned himself the right to complete the season and he needs to stop the panic that is spreading through the ranks.
Personally, I really wonder what the 'atmosphere' is like between H and our Chairman when they meet, assumming they
do of course.As regards the Spurs players motivation, they knew when Capello quit and the England job bandwagon started to roll, that H might be gone and they played thair hearts out to empatically defeat the toon-and they were magificent that day.
H then refuses to draw a line under it and so our season implodes. Ask yourself this- if you knew your boss in your everyday
9 to 5, was off to pastures new, would you really from that point on, give 100 % in your job? And if he is not committing his future to the cause, you would perhaps naturally think, well why should I? So we can moan at the players lack of committment,
but the manager must surely lead by example and if his head is being turned, why would'nt Bale consider jumping ship to join
Barcelona, for example? That does not excuse Defoe, who should be playing for an England place, but then where is the service
from midfield at the moment? Lots of questions need to be asked of the Manager and his 'extended' backroom staff, whether we get any answers is something else..........
Fair enough, Redknapp might be shit and needs to leave pronto, but who do you replace him with? I can't see many promising options on the horizon, other than a Moyes or a Coyle and I'm not convinced they have what it takes to get us that top four place. Especially not after a summer where it's looking like Modric, Adebayor and (possibly) Bale will all follow Harry out of the door.
I can't ever remember feeling quite this despondent over Spurs. It feels like we've missed the boat big time. With the so called star players set to walk and the likelihood that Chelsea and Liverpool will spunk even more cash to get back into the Champions League spots, I think the majority will be happy if we even get Europa League next season.
Thank god for DML, TehTrunk and the Fighting Cock, the only benefits of being a Spur right about now
The fact that knap is about to leave us the way he founds us... Yes there's the argument about being tired and that, but honestly the team doesn't even look like they know each other any more, the passing is getting rather atrocious at times and in the final 3rd there's no creativity happening. We've been carried forward only to be hurled back 4 or 5 years...wonderful, fuckin wonderful. I'd like to say the customary "Redknap out" but I guess that's already his plan...
4 games to win, can we...please?
Next season - looks like no champions league, and a new manager - would prefer not in dreaded europa league - give new manager clear focus on premier league progress.
Once again I heard Harry say of yesterdays game that "we battered them" but couldn't score. That comment reflests his interview following the 10 matches since the Newcastle match during which time we scored 8 goals!!!!! Harry that excuse is hiding the fact that that the system or the strikers is incorrect.
Yesrdays team included one of the three poor goalkeepers we have (and for all Brad didn't have to do, he made a mess of the limited activity he was called upon to use). Does he not realise that a cap can overcome being blinded by sunnshine? Defensively BAE was away with the fairies, Messrs King and Gallas were both unfit, and Kyle Walker gave 100%.
Midfield was again a jumble. Sandro played well but was penalised by another of our favourite imcompetents Mark Clattenberg which led to the soft goal. How to they survive? Modric's mind seems to be in a different place, Scottie Parker weaved his possession around in circles and Gareth Bale was shut out by 3 defenders every time he got possesion. Add to that VDV's regular appearnce behind the mid field and the resultant isolation of his fellow striker JD. Why does VDV have to take every corner and free kick. Lennons introduction was treated exactly the same as the control that QPR exercised over Bale.
With all this confusion in the side, little wonder is it that we can't score goals.
My final comment is that is that Harry bought in in January Louis Saha and Ryan Nelson. What a waste - they are either injured or not used. Why was not Caulker brought back?
Next Sunday Blackburn visit - what the betting they get the points? AVilla Bolton and Fulham follow. Has Harry thought of the laugh that Martin Jol will have when his team turn over ours?
You can go through all the tactics and the poor individual showings all you want. Once a manager is on his way out the players agents are the only people they wlll listen to.
C'mon Harry is infuriating but what happening now is out of his control. There is no way the RDM is a better manager than Harry or AVB or Mark Hughes who with remember blew £200 odd million to finish below us (well Mancini did but it was Marks Team). . When Mark Hughes was on his way out Adebayor, Santa Cruz, Robinho, all played like c*nts more interested in their next move than the club and there it is. Levy should have got rid of Harry in the Summer but that costs money. The cheaper option would be to let this disaster happen and maybe screw the FA for some compensation (laughs).
Levy short termist high turnover quick profit mindest is the underlining theme in all this. This "we're keeping Modric because we are trying to build a team to challenge" has been shown up for the complete pack of B$s that it was then and will be this summer. What are we gonna sign Saha & Nelsen on a perm, "oh joy"!!, Extend Adeybarndoor's loan whoopee can't wait.
You can sum up all of this in one question really......Which of the other teams in the top 6 would have signed Saha & Nelson?....hmmm.
Have Spurs ever put 4 past Man U at Old Trafford, as the built on a shoestring Everton have today? Certainly not in modern times.
Splashing out big money does not guarantee success, it is the players attitude and how the manager moulds that into a winning,
we fear nowone mentality, which the Toffees carried into their game today. After all, what did Moyes men have to play for?
I read today that there is a wall of silence between the Spurs players and the hierarchy regarding the 'elephant in the room' that is the England vacancy -why not everyone be more open with them? And us.
Didn't Nelson have only 1 arm, leg and eye whereas our Nelsen has 2 of everything, a veritable bargain.
ENIC and Levy have had 12 years to create a consistent football team and I think it's fair to say they have succeeded...we are consistently crap in the League every year.
Those urging Levy "to sort this out" in the Summer may want to go into cryogenic suspension and ask to be woken-up when Levy and ENIC have vanished. Levy understands nothing about what is needed to create a successful football team, but does know about crafting balance sheets. As such, he should be relegated to chief bean-counter and let one of his office boys be Chairman as he will probably understand the basics so much better, know for himself who would be a good manager instead of listening to loads of hooray henry's for advice. He would probably also know the value of a good coaching and football injury staff to back-up the manager.
I've written this season off now but I cannot see how next season will be any different. Whoever the manager is, Levy will short-change him (or Her...equal opportunities lads) using the phantom new stadium project as a reason.
Everyone quick to condemn Harry, but he has had only 4 years whereas Levy has had 12. How many more chances does he deserve?
Spooky, i told you guys that dembele was as good as modric but you wouldn't listen, modric does not score goals neither does he assist, so what the fcuk does he do? Not withstanding, if you want to see the best of luka play him as an attacking midfielder in a three man midfield and shoot van der vaart in the ass with a tranquilizer.
Not like anyone's going to read this, but for my two cents I would have started with Livermore and Parker/Sandro in the middle Lennon right, Bale left, VdV up front with Ade/Saha/Defoe. Livermore has been the most consistent performer as a DM and is a solid fighter, and highly underrated by the fighting cock crew.
And for heavens sake, bench Modric! He clearly doesn't care anymore because he'll be in the champions league no matter what next year. In fact, it's probably easier for Modric to leave if Spurs are not in the CL. At this point I'd even go with Kuhmalo at the back over King. King has lost the plot and needs to be shepherded (nicely) out to pasture.
But of course, if you're not a Redschnapp's favorite you don't play. We sure could use Bassong and Corluka right now, and dare I say, even Pavlyuchenko? If I recall, Pav could pull a goal or two out of his backside now and again.
Does any one recall levy 5yr plan?I never liked redcrap as a player so iam not jumping on the band wagon.How many former teams would welcome him back? Levy and redcrap must be held to account.The last consistant manager was burkinshaw,and we got rid of him.