Hugo Lloris had become “an accident waiting to happen” for Tottenham Hotspur – that’s according to Noel Whelan in an exclusive interview with Football Insider.
Now, I know what you’re thinking – what valuable insight could Noel Whelan (former Coventry City and Middlesbrough striker, for those who don’t remember) possibly offer when it comes to the fortunes of France’s World Cup-winning goalkeeper and captain?
The truth, it turns out.
Lloris has been ruled out for the remainder of 2019 because of the dislocated elbow suffered in Saturday’s shambles at Brighton & Hove Albion, and Whelan believes that could be a setback his Spurs career can’t recover from.
“Lloris may have played his last game for Tottenham,” Whelan told Football Insider. “He’s starting to look like an accident waiting to happen at the top level.
“He’s struggling with high balls, the kind of distribution [Mauricio] Pochettino wants from him. He’s making all types of errors.“
Rough translation – he can’t catch, he can’t kick and he’s a liability.
“That isn’t just this season, either, Whelan added. “It was the same last season and the one before. He’s on the downhill spiral, that’s pretty clear.
“His absence is a chance for [Paulo] Gazzaniga to become the new number one. If he does really well, then Tottenham may decide to sell Lloris and bring in a younger keeper.”
The 32-year-old’s future is no doubt tied to that of Mauricio Pochettino, with Lloris a clear favourite of the manager who stuck by his captain, in name at least, after his drink driving charge in 2018.
His reliability, as Whelan explained, has been on the wane since before that and yet pundits have not called him up on it, continuing the façade that the Frenchman is one of the best goalkeepers in the world.
We know that Pochettino won’t sell Lloris; he’ll probably bring him straight back into the team once fit, even if Gazzaniga proves himself to be as good as the Argentine thinks Lloris is. But good on Whelan for calling him out.
“Noel, who?” Asks a soft French voice from the treatment room at Hotspur Way.
I big upped Gazza after he had a few good games at the beginning of last season. But I just don’t see him coming good, I hope it happens though. Poch must of shagged his sister or something back in Murphy, since he drags him along wherever he goes.
Got a good keeper at the boro we might be able to tempt. Valery pajetat. He loves the boro though so you might find it difficult😁
Got a good keeper at the boro we might be able to tempt. Valery pajetat. He loves the boro though so you might find it difficult😁
This was taken from a poster on YouTube from a Guillem Balague video – hope you don’t mind me posting it on here……
Expectations are interesting things. Let us first educate you and other football journos about Spurs stadium finance. They have refinanced the debt so the annual repayments are £20m a year, the same that Arsenal had in 2007 but Spurs have double the revenue in 2019. The incremental stadium revenues clear of costs more than cover the debt repayment so any lies, and they are lies, saying that stadium stops Spurs spending is incompatible with the term journalism. A further lie journalists have peddled is that Arsenal stadium ‘has bern paid for’. No it has not: the annual mortgage continues fully until 2026 and to a lesser degree until 2031. There is still around £180m of stadium associated debt.
So I advise you very carefully to learn basic facts before preaching as if you know what you are talking about.
The reality is that Spurs should have more to spend in upcoming years as commercial sponsorship increases, a stadium naming deal emerges etc. Their current issues are about paying their current staff properly. They did need tight purse strings during stadium construction but now they should be able to raise wages to £250m over a 3-4 year period. Assuming that they grow revenues as a Champions League club.
What you do not discuss are parasites who want to drive purchase price of the club down through organised criminal match-fixing. You should study American mafias carefully and the MSM outlets that peddle their propaganda.
Arsenal got a parasite in 2009 who think LBOs and pushing debt onto clubs for fans to pay is merely good business, not criminal grand larceny. How do you fancy paying Florentino Perez’ mortgage as a middle class citizen and he is a billionaire? Got the cojones to tell him to pay his own way??
Parasites would like to get their hands on Spurs. There will be PR bullshit, then leveraged debt and lack of investment and a billionaire saying they will never sell so fans cannot ever be rid of them.
Fans are a credulous, fickle bunch…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWYc3-OsUto
Levy has pulled all the stops out here….1m alone just on beer….do you think he should make the same effort for the poor old broken Poch team….🤨
Mention the words near post to Hugo, he shakes and reaches for the bottle ….
Game over for our Capt I’m afraid. Your club thanks you for your service.
Rough translation – he can’t catch, he can’t kick and he’s a liability. Classic.
Think he is the best in world at reaction saves. But once he has a few seconds to think………………oh dear.
Since he arrived hugo has never commanded his area properly. He has always struggled with corners, crosses and catching.. His kicking and distribution is also infamously shaky… But then he usually more than makes up for his errors with wordly pat jennings cat like saves that he has no right to get to.. he has saved us points more often than not.. Hope he recovers well.. Big chance for gazzanigga to step up and prove himself though
Personally I feel Loris will be tough to replace. We’ll see how Gazzaniga does but generally number 2 keepers have arrived at that point in their career for a reason.
Over a season Loris still overall performs among the best in the league. Not sure how much you’d need to spend to replace that…