There appears to be a problem amongst some Spurs fans, whereby they have yet to quite grasp that you don’t go back. Whatever the specific reasons are don’t really matter, the point is, there will always be a reason. The lunacy of loaning back Gareth Bale has passed lots of people by. A million pounds a month, the club unable to let fans in either the stadium or the bricks and mortar stores to buy merchandise, yet the boy isn’t fit enough to deliver a solid 90-minutes anyway. There were some fans so overwrought with emotion, that they wanted Pochettino back, only weeks into Mourinho’s reign, despite the Argentine having served up some truly unmemorable football – including none other than a truly humiliating Champions League final performance.
The latest former player to have somehow waved that red pen from Men In Black before a good few eyes in our support is Christian Eriksen. I bet his agent is working to find a solution! After a dismal end to his Tottenham career, spent in Half-hearted Mode for fear of injury, there followed an unsatisfactory spell at Inter, where the Dane appeared incapable of snapping out of his hibernation setting.
Eriksen, who was once imperious, has for some good time been well off the boil and if I ever have the misfortune to see him fail to beat the first man on a corner kick, I pray that the former Spurs man isn’t wearing a Tottenham shirt whilst he does so.
There are bigger issues, namely his style of play for a Mourinho side. I may be doing him a terrible disservice, but tracking back and defending as a team isn’t something I would readily associate with the player.
What Tottenham need is to scrap these convoluted pipe dreams to resurrect the elderly and the effeminate, and concentrate getting players like Lo Celso and Ndombele to a point whereby they can play for 90-minutes at least once a week.
A side with the 31-year-old Gareth Bale, the interminably mysterious Dele Alli and some doe-eyed 29-year-old (come next month) is not a side I’ve much if any interest in watching, thanks very much.
Did Mourinho attract this level of nonsense at his other sides, or are we deliberately making life difficult for ourselves? You do not go back.
Forget about Eriksen. Sell Ali, send Gareth Manbun back to RM and buy Maddison, a similar player to Eriksen but younger, getting better and probably half the wages that Eriksen is on.
Eriksen ain’t done. I don’t want him up the road there
A happy eriksen in your squad is a eriksen worth having. With Verts gone everyting bless🌚 Think him&Ndom linking serving our attacker man dem. I want him back but it won’t happen probably.
Yes we do, because the last few weeks there’s been a recurring theme from me. Teaching readers how to think critically.
I look online and many daft people wanted Poch back, it was trending.
I look online and many people are mumbling about Eriksen.
My job is to publish what I think, and I think the aforementioned people are nuts.
Not sure how much I can help if you pull two quotes out of a body of work spanning 16 years.
The players have remained largely unchanged under both managers – Harry Hotspur 16th Jan
I like H the point is more “did he really need to bring in Poch to a discussion about CE”.
Most I know dont want him back but opinions vary in life.
Harry Hotspur – 14th Jan: The Portuguese Pulis was the man responsible! Let me posit a wild theory, with you. Maybe some of our players weren’t great, last night? Allow me to substantiate that argument by highlighting how miserable some of our players’ performances were, last night.
Harry Hotspur – 16th Jan: There were some fans so overwrought with emotion, that they wanted Pochettino back, only weeks into Mourinho’s reign, despite the Argentine having served up some truly unmemorable football – including none other than a truly humiliating Champions League final performance.
So, let me get this right, Aitch; when we fail under Maureen it’s because the players were rubbish, but failure under Podge was served up by the manager.
Hmmmmm………. I’m struggling to process that effectively. Not sure if that’s your fault or mine but I’m sure you’ll clear that up for me, hopefully with just the single standard.