Listening to José Mourinho’s pre-Fulham press conference – in relation to Gareth Bale – it sounds like the 31-year-old is being seriously indulged by the Physio Dept. at Hotspur Way. I’ve made the point repeatedly in this place about Spurs having form for buying players with back-stories that clutter their integration and value. It now looks like Bale could be the biggest carrier of emotional baggage yet.
Mourinho referring to Bale as being scarred certainly makes sense when one is looking for answers as to why it has taken him so many months to even begin to play at the expected levels.
I’m struggling to understand how we got here with Bale. We live in an age of sports psychologists and incredibly high-tech private medical services, would none of this have come out if some basic due diligence had been undertaken. Instead, we appear to have signed a player on a rather wild emotional whim, whom we knew would need some love and affection, but not month upon month of full-blown rehabilitation.
Emotional scars. Treated like a mug at Madrid. Hes a shy quiet lad. It affected him I believe. Everyone handles depression differently. I still believe in him. Hes got it all to prove now.
Agreed H!
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If Milgram had used experimental vaccines, rather than electric shocks, the analogy would have been even more apropos!
For sure, the ‘war on cash’ is already here. Eradicate cash and you extinguish all financial privacy and subject all personal financial transactions to full and permanent governmental oversight.
Remember the Warner Bros cartoons? ACME A company that makes everything. Amazon have set up cashless supermarkets now….once we sleepwalk into that that’s game over.
That’s about the size of it. This last year has been a giant Milgrim experiment and the majority of this country have failed miserably.
I think this is exactly what Jose’s been doing – using him intelligently. Bale hasn’t played much for two years, so he’s been easing him in with a few minutes here and there – but he still managed to get injured!
You make it sound a bit like JM only turned to him due to the pressure of bad results – I think he was just planning ahead to get the best of him.
Hopefully he can now truly go on and make a difference.
A reflection of the ongoing war against men in general, especially white, heterosexual males, waged by militant feminists and other cultural Marxist subversives in the media, characterised by the widespread prevailing equation of masculinity with toxicity. All part of a calculated broader imperative by the globalist elite to indoctrinate and subjugate the masses into a state of docile subservience. As evidenced by the abject totalitarian response of the establishment and their gutless array of political invertebrates to a glorified flu virus!
Maybe if we send Bale back to Real in good nick at the end of the season, we can keep Reguilon for the long term.
The manner in which Bale picked up those injuries that have possibly left mental scars, were sickening, with the likes of Charlie Adam who tried more than once to end his career . Therefore when it gets to the point where the only way to stop a player is to intentionally physically damage him, then I imagine it could have a lasting effect on that individual.
We can only speculate on the condition Bale arrived in, but it could be the expectations of him from Mourinho were too demanding early on, which he could not accept and is the main reason why we have not seen much of the player until recently.
Probably through pressure and a bad run of results Mourinho has now turned to the man who has shown in no uncertain terms what he is still capable of in recent games as well as previous ones.
Taking everything into account then I firmly believe Gareth will make the difference to the team from now until the season end, but will have to be used intelligently.
Haha!
Agree!
This is all part of our special relationship with Real. Bale to spend the season rehabilitating in Spurs world class training facilities, game time to get his mojo back before we send him back to RM firing on all cylinders.
He may score in the Carabao cup final and get a couple of goals in april, but it’s a failure whatever for me. Bale was the trumpet call signing, alot of cash for a year, to push us on to CL places etc…..it’s march now and he’s just turned up…..against wolfsberger and Burnley I might add….
It’s just too little too late.
*double hernia
Those boys were fit back then make no mistake despite booze etc. Heart and character in abundance.
That’s it. They’re not footballers, more like sprinters.
*8 injections.
They’re athletes now though – not Merson and Mabbutt!
Its BECAUSE of the sports psychologists and all the new age pampering that players are like this. It’s frightening how imasculated and fragile males are now. You ask players from 20 years plus ago and playing through injury’s was just part and parcel of the sport. They were rarely 100%.’
Remember Gazza in the FA cup game v Notts County 1991? He needed a hernia op, he couldn’t move and had about 6 pain killing injections in his stomach and abdomen so he could play…..scored the winner…..went and had the operation……scars?? Back in 3 months for the Arsenal semi final and we alllll know what happened then. Within 10 minutes he’d smashed one in the stantion from 30 odd yards. What’s happened to football??
He has to go and be replaced by a warrior CB who DOESN’T shoot himself in the foot every 2 games.
IF we win silverware with his help, it will have been worth it.
He’s done, in my book
Dier was dropped. Sanchez’ last game was sound. Toby?
The problem is, we don’t see the training sessions.
If I see Diers name in the starting Eleven I will Vomit , on the Spot.
Only time will tell if the loan signing of Bale has been a success.The occasional good goal and sparkling run may be all well and good,but the final league position and any silverware will show whether he has made the difference.
Certainly the time taken to achieve any meaningful contribution is very worrying.I wanted him to succeed,but he has to be consistent over a longer time period.
I am still of the mind that this was a Levy vanity move with huge shirt sales being the main objective.I would suggest that part has failed miserably,not withstanding the current climate.
Dier, Sanchez and even Toby have also consistently made mistakes which have cost us goals though H.
He’s never going to be value for money.
DD, have you ever considered that JM is a hugely experienced coach and might be doing his utmost to pick the right players?
Rodon is a Championship player who has made a couple of individual errors when he’s played in the first team. Is it possible that if he is doing that in training, that this is what’s keeping him back?
Just a wild thought.
Pleased to notice your campaign to get Toby who’s 32 in a few days has slowed down 👍
Incidentally good news Rodon has not been forgotten by Jose other than he should be at the heart of our defence this eve instead of a likely recalled Dier??
at least he doesn’t have to worry about paying the next shopping bill or over priced council tax like most do…