Gareth Bale was another player supposedly treated unfairly by José Mourinho. Which curiously enough was the same charge levelled at the Welshman’s previous coach, Zinedine Zidane.
Marcelo Bielsa must be the guilty party this week, putting off the 31-year-old with an endless series of pitch-side crouching. Another nasty dinosaur.
When it came to our old friend total actions that were successful Bale was marginally better than the not quite half-hearted (45%) of Dele Alli, and smashed the 51% mark. Again, this isn’t good enough for a supposedly world-class player, against a mid-table opponent.
Bale’s passing was better than Alli’s and in range with his recent performances, at 75%. The caveat here of course is that Bale only had 15 good touches in his entire 68-minutes.
Bale’s dribbling was a let-down, only one good action from an attempted 5 attempts.
At the money being touted in the press for Bale, and the return Spurs are getting for it, it’s a struggle to understand how – in this climate – anyone in their right mind would continue such a deal. Maybe Mr Levy’s financial advisor at the Bank of England would have a view?
100%
Agree both of them really flatter to deceive and certainly as you say not £100million in value
If players aren’t following basic instructions (which I doubt) then that’s down to the manager not engaging with them in a way that is effective.
Ok, its an interesting comparison not helped by Bale being selected to score, and the others to defend… its fair to say Doherty has been a disastrous waste of money…but as we know sometimes signings just dont work out. The two biggest wastes of money over the last say 2 years to date have been on: lo celso & tanguy… thats 100 million combined & they consistently cant manage 90 mins of football a week.. Has Bale represented value based on goals scored/missed & defensive neglect…? Im 50-50 on that one 😏
Ok I accept that but you only get queried about your team selections if the results aren’t great. Bale has produced something of value which has increased our points tally. I accept he isn’t cheaper to run.
I only mention Docherty and Reggie to provide context. If you break out their transfer fee by year and add their salary it won’t be far off the outlay on Bale. So Bale is perhaps not the only waste of money.
Bale, Alli, Tanguy, lo no show…none of these can last 90 minutes… look at the last 6-7 games… any of those that have started have not finished… maybe if Dier has to play he should play in midfield with PEH at the expense of lo no show… I suspect in the next game Mason will start Winks…😏
Thats my point…players are either gassed or ignoring simple instructions .. I mean how many times have Spurs failed to track runners especially in the 2nd half of games…or are caught up field ambling back when possession is lost .. if you look at the sides around us… West Ham, Everton, etc. They seldom find themselves conceding the types of goals we do.
The problem with that outlook is that Mourinho wanted Reguillon & Doherty…he didn’t want Bale & wanted to sell Alli… its impossible to manage a team when the chairman undermines the manager… which is further compounded when the fans & media consistently question why Alli & Bale arent selected…
This is top flight football.
Perspective; Arsenal pay about 50+m a year more than us on wages even with Bale. I don’t care what their wages are, that’s for the club to sort out. The money is obviously there or they would not have agreed the loan in the first place would they? This is all a side show, the team as a whole is broken right now…
Bloody’l PSG are ruthless. Its too soon for poch to come back
Might even get sacked by PSG if lose title to Lille and return here?!
Mind you, I never read anything about us when I see it’s an Express headline.
I imagine there were over 60M “unknown reasons” why Levy didn’t get it done. Signing a guy like this would get us top 4 and many millions in CL money. But why do that if you can walk out and sign a much cheaper young player in Rodon (who is promising, but nowhere near top class yet)?
Poch will get another chance (backed) he’s still young
He’s still here though to put that right
Bale is costing the club £1million a month according to reports although in truth no one knows that for sure. Even if he is is how much is Docherty costing the club per month? £15million transfer fee plus wages, Reg £25million transfer plus wages, Vini wages the list goes on.
Bale ain’t cheap but you could reasonably debate he has delivered some value certainly at least on par if not better than those I’ve mentioned.
Hojbjerg has been great for us judged over the whole season. If others had his attitude and work rate we’d be better off.
What manager doesn’t require players to follow simple instructions ffs? 🤔 😂
Agree you judge players over a season, Hojbjerg has been great for us.
FCK Levy. 22 years 14 managers and one League Cup.
So the ones that train well are poor in matches and the ones that are better players but don’t train well can’t last the 90? Who can’t last the 90? Bale, Tanguy that’s it. What about all the rest and the 9 buggers he signed? 🤔
Poch was broken by Levy. In his last final season he had to endure a blank transfer window and due to the 2018 World Cup practically no pre season for his English French and Belgium players due to how far they progressed. I believe they got a two week break before returning to the club. So the dice was loaded against him.
In the end we finished fourth, just, but did reach the Ecl final which the greatest side in our history were unable to do. He made noises about going if we won the final and in hindsight he should have gone then, whatever the result, and left Dopey Danny to sort out the mess.
Mou I think just didn’t work out for a number of reasons. Levy and him made strange bedfellows a very unlikely alliance.
As ever with ENIC the persuit of football success has taken second place to the greed and financial incompetence of the clubs management
Can’t argue with that list. The players look like they have given up (including Harry Kane yesterday). That in itself is an indictment of the mental fragility and negativity of our club from boardroom to pitch.
FCK poch and FCK José. 7 years at Tottenham to win FCK all. Bums
Mourinho relies on players to follow simple instructions…& to work hard in training…. maybe he found those who work hardest in training make mistakes in games, and those that dont do so well in training arent fit enough to last 60-70 mins let alone 90… that I believe is the biggest reason we conceded so many points from winning positions & is the fundamental reason Jose often resorted to gifting teams opposition & countering as that method requires far less energy. Ultimately the majority of Spurs fans are deluded when assessing the sqaud….
PEH was on his own yesterday in midfield often v 3 Leeds players as all too often Alli, Bale & no show were caught up the pitch…. until we find some midfielders who can work hard for 90 minutes then prepare to finish 10-15th next season…
Some perspective;
We had just lost the biggest game in our history, we hadn’t signed anyone for 12 months ahead of that match and the following summer window and the players and management were out of puff.
Pochettino didn’t get the summer window required to begin a rebuild and Verts left with no replacement, in true Levy style. Poch got Sessingnon, Gio and Tanguy after 12 months of zero signings. He wasn’t able to pick it up with all of that to contend with.
Jose arrived singing the squad’s praises (no really he did, it was close to evangelical) and subsequently signed a further NINE players. Last summer was hailed as a pragmatic but masterful transfer window, we were all good to go.
No revival took place, quite the opposite. So let’s not blame Jose for the endemic issues around ENIC/Levy but to absolve Jose of any responsibility for the team’s current malaise just isn’t rational thought…
The players started playing badly under poch, that’s why he got fired, what was the excuse then? Too much training? how many years have to pass before we stop blaming everything on mourinho?
Regulon, Aurier, Gio and even PEH stank the place out against Leeds too.Yet no mention?
The issues we have are collective, the team have been neglected in so many ways over the last couple of years. I refuse to constantly blame Bale (based on his wages) for the real problems at board and management level…
Well, I think it’s becoming clear that the team isn’t fit enough or sharp enough. Once they are up to the perquisite levels for this level of football then perhaps we can get an actual idea of where this players are.
I’ve been involved in sport myself, where (like most) fitness and sharpness is key to everything. Confidence, alertness, motivation are the basics to good performance levels an this Spurs side look the most unfit and blunt I’ve seen them for some time.
Perhaps they aren’t putting it in in training? Perhaps the training methods haven’t been effective? The fact that they look so unfit makes me wonder what Jose’s coaches had been doing over the last 18 months. Concentrating on the low-block and counter where high energy levels aren’t as required? They’re now required to press and run more under Mason and during the last couple of months under Jose after he dropped the low-block. They didn’t look like they’re trained up for it, to me…
Yesterday, the Daily Express reported that we were in talks with Ruben Dias and his advisors and had agreed personal terms but Levy withdrew for reasons unknown which allowed Man City to sign him. Over twenty years of Levy’s dithering and ineptitude in transfer business has cost us dearly, and yet it continues.
A flat track bully, if there ever was one. Not that we don’t need one, but for the wage he gets? Also, I know he can’t do it against the top teams, but he can’t do it against Leeds either. They aren’t bad, but a supposedly world-class player should do much, much more than we saw yesterday.
We need to overhaul the squad. I know it won’t happen quickly, but it must be done. A top-class CB would go a long way – after signing Toby, we conceded about 15-20 goals fewer compared to the season before his arrival. Elite defenders can do that – look at VVD at Pool and Dias at City.
However, I’ve considered the probable scope of our summer transfer activity:
Skipp comes back – we don’t need to buy a DM.
Sessegnon comes back – Davies moves to left-sided CB and we don’t need to buy a CB.
All aboard the Championship!