Jose Mourinho

[RikkiRocket]

Seems like Jose is really trying to focus on leaders. It’s what we’ve said for years, lots of good signs:
-Dier & Toby new contracts (both leaders)
-Hoyjbjerg , former saints captain aged 33
-Joe Hart - experienced winner
-Leadly King ? being added to our coaching staff, leader and former captain ?‍
? this is what you need to win things. ?

pierre is 25.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

pierre is 25.

Meant to say 23*

 

[Air Jordan 3]

It does feel like Mourinho is getting the club organised this summer.

-Sensible transfer approach addressing squad balance
-Using loan system to get most promising youngsters experience
-Ledley in
-New academy set up although appreciate this is probably Levy

Just need to see the playing side to improve although post lockdown you could see there is a plan.

 

[Shadydan]

He's signing some intelligent ****s

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

It does feel like Mourinho is getting the club organised this summer.

-Sensible transfer approach addressing squad balance
-Using loan system to get most promising youngsters experience
-Ledley in
-New academy set up although appreciate this is probably Levy

Just need to see the playing side to improve although post lockdown you could see there is a plan.

spot t f on.

 

[jay2040]

It does feel like Mourinho is getting the club organised this summer.

-Sensible transfer approach addressing squad balance
-Using loan system to get most promising youngsters experience
-Ledley in
-New academy set up although appreciate this is probably Levy

Just need to see the playing side to improve although post lockdown you could see there is a plan.

Agree and its stuff for the club he is doing and not necessarily for his own benefit, he has adapted to the framework given!

 

[spids]

I have been impressed with Jose's pragmatism, he really is being a great 'team' player in Levy's club management team. I also like the fact Jose is seemingly after players who are in their peak years (25-30) and will deliver what he wants from day one. It is all about being the best we can be this season with the resources we have, with the intention to win something. I like that as if you are always looking at next year it gives excuses for not achieving this year. For example, I do not see the point buying Aarons when we have just sold KWP and Sessegnon cannot get a game on the other flank. I'd rather get an experienced, gnarly, first team ready full back who will make us better this season. If he is 6'+ even better as that makes us stronger at set pieces at both ends of the pitch. Going after Doherty from Wolves makes a lot more sense given the way we play and the need to get more experience into the team.

 

[Havre]

I think that is too early to tell - what kind of players Mourinho would be after. Bergwijn and Gedson are very much the same kind of transfers we have "always" gone for. Højbjerg is not that different either.

I highly doubt Levy will change his overall "strategy", but then again we have never been exclusively buying players for development - Llorente as an example. Sissoko another (even if he obviously had many years left in him when we bought him).

I think we kind of got it right. Focus on below 25, but allow yourself to bring in the odd older player when that makes sense.

 

[Marantz]

I am really starting to enjoy this transfer window. Looks like the club is actually making signings base on the teams needs.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

I am really starting to enjoy this transfer window. Looks like the club is actually making signings base on the teams needs.

I genuinely can't remember the last time we did that, have we ever done that lol? Serious question?

 

[spursfan77]

I genuinely can't remember the last time we did that, have we ever done that lol? Serious question?

Under Redknapp was probably the last time

 

[RichieS]

I genuinely can't remember the last time we did that, have we ever done that lol? Serious question?

Last summer! CM reinforcements needed and acquired. One of the two turning out to be of no use doesn't detract from the fact that there was an attempt to address the needs.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Under Redknapp was probably the last time

Yea good shout.

 

[dagraham]

I genuinely can't remember the last time we did that, have we ever done that lol? Serious question?

Probably when we signed Friedal, Parker and Adebayor under Redknapp.

 

[dagraham]

Last summer! CM reinforcements needed and acquired. One of the two turning out to be of no use doesn't detract from the fact that there was an attempt to address the needs.

Far too little too late though, considering we also left ourselves with one RB who isn’t very good and no back up to Harry ( yet again).

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Last summer! CM reinforcements needed and acquired. One of the two turning out to be of no use doesn't detract from the fact that there was an attempt to address the needs.

Hmm yea kind of although I'd argue a few of the signings weren't exactly quite what we needed and we failed to address 2-3 massive issues which we are still having to address now:
1. No back-up striker for Kane (cost us massively this season)
2. No upgrade at RB
3. No direct replacement for Eriksen who we knew was going (and for those than say Lo Celso, he's a very different type of player)
4. No DM replacement for Wanyama who clearly couldn't run anymore

Sessengon sure good young english talent but could that £20m have been spent instead on an upgrade at RB or a back-up striker? Same of the Jack Clarke money, i'm all for those types of signings but we only addressed 1 or at best 2 of the squad issues and arguably didn't address our biggest issue of having someone else to step in and play with or instead of Kane when he inevitably gets injured or burnout from play every game.

This window isn't over by a long stretch but the early signs are that we are being far more pragmatic about actually signing round pegs for round holes that we NEED.

 

[RichieS]

Far too little too late though, considering we also left ourselves with one RB who isn’t very good and no back up to Harry ( yet again).

No, not "yet again". At the end of the previous season, the team's glaring weakness was in CM. We went out and bought not one but two of Europe's most highly rated CM prospects. We had a perfectly servicable backup to Kane and a better right back than the one we've relied upon this season. We addressed the team's needs but then decided to create extra ones for oursleves and, hard though it may be to accept, that seemed to be done at the manager's behest (particularly the bombing out of Trippier).

 

[dagraham]

No, not "yet again". At the end of the previous season, the team's glaring weakness was in CM. We went out and bought not one but two of Europe's most highly rated CM prospects. We had a perfectly servicable backup to Kane and a better right back than the one we've relied upon this season. We addressed the team's needs but then decided to create extra ones for oursleves and, hard though it may be to accept, that seemed to be done at the manager's behest (particularly the bombing out of Trippier).

So we addressed some weaknesses, and then proceeded to create some new ones by the end of the window.

Sounds like a typical Spurs transfer window whoever you choose to blame for it.

 

[RichieS]

So we addressed some weaknesses, and then proceeded to create some new ones by the end of the window.

Sounds like a typical Spurs transfer window whoever you choose to blame for it.

Sorry, my thoughts are a bit garbled as I've not long since got back from an early afternoon pub visit.

The point I'm trying to make is that, to my mind at least, there weren't glaring weaknesses as far as Pochettino was concerned. With hindsight we know that there were but, to him, Foyth was the right back, Winks was the DM and Son was Kane's backup. He was spectacularly wrong and it cost him his job. Should the club have bought more players for him to not use? Would that have been "backing the manager"?

 

[Shadydan]

Last summer! CM reinforcements needed and acquired. One of the two turning out to be of no use doesn't detract from the fact that there was an attempt to address the needs.

Last summer still felt like there were holes in the squad and I couldn't see the strategy as clear as I'm seeing now for example.