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Post by tory on Nov 10, 2019 13:25:17 GMT
Roberto is a walking catastrophe.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 10, 2019 18:40:18 GMT
Huge win for Liverpool.
More problems at the back it seems for Man City.
EXCELLENT
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Post by tory on Nov 19, 2019 19:43:15 GMT
Pochettino sacked.
I must say I'm surprised.
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Post by rayge on Nov 19, 2019 19:53:04 GMT
Disastrous
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Post by DarknessFish on Nov 19, 2019 21:00:16 GMT
Mourinho in, you know it's going to happen.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 19, 2019 21:01:58 GMT
Not very Spurs that
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2019 23:05:51 GMT
That could solve Arsenal's problems in a stroke. Get Poch!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2019 23:07:12 GMT
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 20, 2019 7:23:30 GMT
Well that was quick
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Post by tory on Nov 20, 2019 7:53:14 GMT
Levy was always going to move quickly I guess.
Well, he IS a winner.
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Post by DarknessFish on Nov 20, 2019 9:44:26 GMT
I think it's a good fit for both teams, in all honesty. The pressure is less on Mourinho than at a team like Utd where winning things is demanded, rather than hoped for. And Tottenham seem like a team he can build to defend with strength and counter attack with pace and sharp finishing.
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Post by rayge on Nov 20, 2019 13:24:57 GMT
Surprised to see that on the Spurs blogs I frequent, there's a great deal of support for the appointment of JM.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 13:47:53 GMT
Surprised to see that on the Spurs blogs I frequent, there's a great deal of support for the appointment of JM. When he was being linked with us a few weeks ago, I was expecting Arsenal fans to be up in arms, there was some of that of course, but I was surprised (and quite depressed), like you, by how many were up for it. In our case part of it was older fans nostalgic for George Graham ( "he'll be a disciplinarian..rebuild the defence..I'll take a boring one-nil win...blah blah blah"), but mainly it was younger fans who had bought into the whole "special one" mythology. I guess it is this latter group that you're also seeing at Spurs. He has this reputation as this serial winner, but all evidence points to him being a manager on the decline and not half as effective as people think he's going to be.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 14:04:50 GMT
I think it's a good fit for both teams, in all honesty. The pressure is less on Mourinho than at a team like Utd where winning things is demanded, rather than hoped for. And Tottenham seem like a team he can build to defend with strength and counter attack with pace and sharp finishing. I think it's a bad fit...and as an Arsenal fan I'm more than happy to see this ( even more so because it now means he won't come to us).
With the exception of Porto early on, when has Mourinho ever rebuilt anything? He made a mess of rebuilding Utd and he was given 300 million to do that. Spurs, even more so than Utd, are in need of a major rebuild and he'll have pretty restricted funds to do it, probably a quarter of what he had at Utd.
This is a far more likely scenario: First season - new manager bounce, gets a bit of a winning run, finishes 5th or 6th, maybe wins FA Cup. Spurs fans optimistic about what he can do with a full season. Second season - Competing in and around the top four, second half of season we get the first grumblings about the ugliness of the football, one of their better players, my money is on Ali, will be inexplicably frozen out, end up finishing fifth or sixth. Third season - Mourinho moans in the close season about the clubs' lack of ambition. Slow start, they struggle for goals. Grumblings become a load chorus and the fans turn totally against him.
Sacked by Christmas.
Spurs should have appointed a young, progressive coach who had the ideas and drive for the long haul..a Ten Hag, Rose, Nagelsmann type.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 20, 2019 14:38:02 GMT
The evidence points to a manager on the slide. At Man Utd he tried to rebuild, spent a fortune and failed. He will not have 300 million to spend at Spurs and key players will need to replaced. It’s not just the man management style (the noted three year Jose cycle) but tactically where he is behind the curve. I think football has moved on and he is now someway behind Klopp and Pep.
Spurs fans want a certain kind of football too. A Spurs style, you know? Even on that level it seems a poor fit to me.
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