Hugo Lloris as usual has been straight talking after the Monaco debacle.
“It makes for a lot of frustration, I can’t hide that. We will talk between ourselves and try to find solution. Maybe we are not ready to manage Premier League and Champions League campaigns at the same time, but we need to question ourselves about that.
“Everyone at the club was excited to play this competition, and all the players too, but we failed all together. We had bigger expectations in this group stage
We will not go through, we are still fighting for a Europa League but it’s not enough for a club like Spurs. It’s a big disappointment. We need to digest this and look forward to the game at Chelsea on Saturday.”
The business of not being capable of competing in two competitions at once is key here.
In the Europa League, we could get away with playing a diluted team against Eurotrash. As soon as we played anyone decent though, we got beaten.
Add to this when we then returned to league action after a Europa League game, we looked as if we had just returned from a bicycle race across the Sahara.
This is a fundamental coaching flaw that needs to be rectified. Spurs cannot keep mindlessly entering into a competitions, hollering about how many tournaments they are in, then flopping out of them all, one by one.
It’s embarrassing.
Poch needs to sit Levy down and ask him what he actually wants from him.
Heh, if Levy was a real Football CEO, he’d have sat Poch down before Black Friday and asked, ‘what do you want from me?’
