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Absolutely....Voice of experience?
Absolutely....Voice of experience?
So, I guess you know what's required of a "number 10"?Absolutely....
We really need to stop giving Alli this free no.10 role. I don't know what his best position is, but it's not as a no.10.
In which case it’s mid-table for the foreseeable future. Because Levy won’t change his style either. It’s also confirms where the problem lies.Think people suggesting that Jose is letting Levy see how shit it is in the hope he will spend big are either hugely optimistic or haven't been paying attention - the same was said of Poch.
Jose will have to fix this with largely what he has, as it has ever been under Levy.
Take a break everyone, go do something else for a few days. Tottenham will drive you insane if you let it.
I think that the key is that he has not been here that long. Personally I've written this season off. If he gets to make some signings and has a pre-season and is still struggling to instill an identity in the team then I'll be worried. Putting aside the ability of the individual players, they have not being playing cohesively on a consistent basis for a long time. Whatever is causing it, be it an imbalance in the side or something psychological or both, it's clearly going to take a while to fix.I think we are all being slightly blighted by the name.
If this football was being served up under Tim Sherwood we would be all losing our shit.
We are tactically all over the place, with our only game plan seemingly to be hit it long up to Kane and hope for a lucky knock on.
I had reservations when we first appointed Jose due to the fact I expected defensive displays with little to no attacking ingenuity.
What I'd have never expected in a million years is this unidentifiable brand of football which results in our defence being constantly exposed and little to no sustained ball control.
Obviously he has not been here long and our problems run deeper than who is our manager... Yet I can't help feeling slightly bemused when I see far less acclaimed managers getting a much finer tune out of far less talented squads.
Very puzzling.
We're just not very good. It's been a year in the making. The mentality of this team and the players playing in it have to be questioned as well.Earlier in the Christmas period Mourinho said he could make us better defensively but we would suffer attacking wise. Well, I think it’s now time he worked on that especially with Kane out for a while. Train on that ahead of the Liverpool game (surely there’s no better opposition to try that against?) and forget about the attack for a couple of weeks. The amount of goals we are shipping and the lack of structure defensively in our team is terrible. More people will moan about performances but maybe it’s necessary in the short term to get us sorted for the rest of the season.
Yet when he does play we're (generally) getting the same sort of results and performances. I think those players who look 'bad' aren't going to look any better for his presence in the team.As long as Ndombele isn't playing, we're not breaking the opposition press, and this is what we're getting. And every player will be looking bad.
Yet when he does play we're (generally) getting the same sort of results and performances. I think those players who look 'bad' aren't going to look any better for his presence in the team.
And seeing as we're repeating ourselves I'll say this again. We can put whoever we like wherever we like, we can bring in this player for that player and it won't (and it hasn't) made a blind bit of difference. The solution isn't playing someone else or a different formation. There is no magic solution. We need different players. For a variety of reasons, some of those who were easily good enough no longer are. Previously, we could put in a Foyth or a Winks or whoever and the quality of the rest would carry them through, but now that is no longer the case, they are all much more under the microscope and have been coming up short.
And anyone who's STILL getting annoyed, angry or waiting for their knees to land needs to have a world with themselves before they give themselves a nervous breakdown. It isn't going to improve until we make some signings.
Get used to it for now and relax a little, your mental health demands it