In the post-COVID-19 environment the realistic chances of Tottenham making ant blockbuster signings are virtually zero. Daniel Levy recently took advantage of the extremely tempting low interest rates that the Bank of England was offering elite businesses, that money was not for transfer activity!
So what would be really helpful, is if certain Spurs’ squad players were able to do their business – or get off the pot. Under Mauricio Pochettino it emerged that we had a good number of ‘versatile’ players, which always sent a shiver down my spine as I prefer specialists
Eric Dier has been reinvented as a central defender by Jose Mourinho, and his performances against Manchester United and West Ham United were both stand out gigs, and we will cover them in detail a little later on today.
Based upon these two games, the versatility of Dier appears to have thankfully settled, and he is very much doing the business.
All we need now is for Mourinho to achieve the same metamorphosis with Dele Alli, whose specialism is inconsistency.
Isn’t that a 180….just saying
I think the defensive tactics, safety in numbers, has helped Dier. Being more compact has definitely helped him rather than when he was given more space to look after. Pogba fell like a sack of spuds but Dier was naive. West Ham only had Antonio up top so it was hardly a test. If I was a Hammers fan I would have been embarrassed by that performance against us.The Dier situation is similar to when Michael Keane was at Burnley, where he was a world beater, but as soon as he didn’t get the defensive support at Everton, he looked all over the place. Now, under Ancellotti, Keane is back to looking like a centre half. I am sure I read Poch saw CB as Dier’s best position, but Dier wanted to be a DCM more (or have I made that up?). I hope Dier continues to do well, I liked him from day 1, but he gave the impression he had made it and stopped working as hard as he should have. That’s where being best mates with Dele gets you!
I’ve done a 360 on Dier. I thiught he was useless and looked like a player that could do with reboot somewhere else. To be fair he probably wasnt helped by health issues and fritting between 2/3 positions under Poch. Mourinho knows a CB when he sees one so things are looking good for Dier.
U mean whereas dier has done alright at cb he hasnt been anywhere near as good as we need to be to do anything in the league. We have gone from announcing big contract extensions every season to watching levy destroy every aspect that made spurs