After the Manchester United loss, Jack Pitt-Brooke described Pierre Højbjerg as exhausted and I think Jack is not only right, but it was refreshing to get an immediate opinion, opposed to wade through 3,478 words to find it.
The Dane has only failed to feature in a handful of games for Tottenham this term, and it could well be that the miles are beginning to take their toll upon the Dane.
Against Everton, Pierre suffered from a 7th-minute card from Mariner, who is rapidly descending along the same path as Mark Clattenburg who felt the rather desperate need to let everyone know he was on the pitch. Sure Pierre had his hands around him, but it was hardly a rugby tackle and in the opening exchanges, this was a petty move by the ref.
In conclusion, this poor guy is being flogged to death, yet he achieves greatness and is the most prolific player when it comes to defensive duels in the Premier League this season.
Goals down from 71.5% to 68%
There’s a lot more to the uefa pro license than motivation.. All champions league and europa managers are far more deeply educated… Our players simply are not good enough.. Half our squad could be 100 percent motivated but look at the Zagreb line up again… Shocking… Also the CL final…… Players not good enough….. Show Winks and Davies and Dele all the motivation techniques possible and they’re not winning jack… You can only teach a chimp so much. That includes motivation…… Kids need motivating more than any. Kids and young ones learning their trade…. Proper players motivate themselves.
Son can definitely work harder.. I thought it was much better compared to recent performances.. We weren’t toothless. We showed some fight.. We do need new players though of course.
Pierre has time to recover now only one game a week…. I’ve said it a hundred times, we should never have sold Siggurdson. Very good playmaker, he’s strong, cool, composed, can pass and shoot. He was pfa player of the year straight after we sold him. He is still one of the better centre mids in the prem, man of the match again for me… This is 7 years now after we sold him… Where are the players Botch kept instead? Mason Bentaleb Tintin and Tom Caroll? We should have kept Siggurs all day.
We have 2 central midfielders who can last 90 minutes & can tackle & one of them is Sissoko… this tells you all you need to know about where the biggest problem in our sqaud is…
Looks more like Oliver to me…
I agree, however the methods of motivation are key to all managers making it work. Some players will always give 110% others need something else and no squad in the world is ever full of one type of personality. The methods Jose uses have clearly backfired…
Don’t know how Hojbjerg and Kane, Sonny can stomach giving it everything surrounded by a bunch of talentless workshy grifters.