Is it the players or the coach? You’ve had one torturous analogy today and I think that’s enough, but I will remind you very briefly of the wedding cake challenge I set a few readers a while back. No chef can bake and decorate a sophisticated cake with bad ingredients.
Enter stage left Jamie Redknapp telling us how AMAZING the Tottenham first team is. The reality is all that good (and there is plenty of good) comes tumbling down when you pair Moussa Sissoko and Harry Winks in midfield. Add Dele Alli to the equation, and you get a big chunk of the pitch where Harry Kane gets no service and the defence is left to fend for itself.
Hojbjerg was on the pitch against the goons.
He has to go be an English international somewhere else.
When Dier gets picked for England despite playing the worst football of his less than illustrious career, he must think, “you know what, I play sh*t, I’m an international, I play well, I’m an international”. Why bother playing well?
It’s easier to say “f-ck off Jose, you’re ruining our club” than to understand the rot began under Poch, and that a similar thing happened under Harry. Backing a manager will show the players he’s here to stay and they will be moved on if they don’t perform. That would motivate them, I imagine. If Dier saw that half a season of mistakes would put him in training with the Under-18s and then shunted off to Huddersfield, he would probably try to work on them.
But those who have been letting us down for two or three years now are still at the club, pocketing large amounts of cash. So they can kick back, sometimes play well, often lose, and what happens to them? Nothing. Why should they then work hard? The manager has to face the music, while the players play netball, discuss chocolate bars and earn tens of thousands pounds per week.
Danny Rose is still being paid by Spurs, ffs. If you see that you can steal a living like that, even if you completely fall out with the manager, you can be complacent all you like. Why bother?
Some people think this is still a peak Poch team. It’s not and hasn’t been for a long time.
A lot of the players don’t fear any consequences, they’re dropped, so what they’ll be back shortly because Mourinho has no choice, its plain Kane, Son, Hojbjerg, N’Dombele have been run into the ground.
Sitting on the bench doesn’t bother them, the pound notes pour like an avalanche into the bank account each month.
The only thing they might fear is the fans getting onto them but that can’t happen. If there were fans in the stadium I dread to think what the atmosphere would be like.
The good news Spurs Official will post a hilarious video soon about the players doing a quiz, a prank or playing netball
We will then get the usual sound bites about the team are together, behind the manager, they have pride in the shirt.
Come Sunday we will sit down and watch another insipid horrible performance.
We will then hear the Manager after the game saying the players didnt listen, we totally outplayed then in the 4 minutes of injury time when we got a corner and forced a throw in.
Then everyone will blame Potch, the players, the wind, Daniel Levy, the referee.
And repeat….
Last night was squarely on the players. No leaders on the pitch and the loss of Hojbjerg was palpably noticeable. However, that doesn’t excuse that god awful bunch of miscreants masquerading as football players.
Every time Harry Redknapp opens his mouth about Spurs its like he’s issuing a come and get me plea to Levy. Everybody is triffic, full of internationals with 2 layers for every position blah blah.
A Cake a wedding the cheap dentist what next a funeral. Add in a redsnaps this is one crazy party. A moouse, a donkey and a hole lot of chickens. Can only be spurs no other club gives so little fun for so much money.
Redknapp Sr and Jr talking up the quality of the players…. embarrassing.
Tottenhams problems are deeply rooted but there are some tangible issues that could potentially be addressed despite the lack of quality in the squad.
Jose should know by now that winks and sissoko are an awful pairing. Why put them together again? Was there literally no other option?
Dier and Sanchez are combustible together. Why were they played together? Sanchez next to aurier hmm?
These decisions are on Jose and learnings should have been taken from our atrocious form over winter and prior with these combinations
Players went missing, it looked Kane lacked composure when he had some opportunity to get us through at the end. It’s the moments the players don’t make the decisions in and some do it repeatedly in a match like Winks or Sissoko and others do it once a game but often it costs us harder.