Former Tottenham striker Teddy Sherringham has warned Jose Mourinho that he has to also take some responsibility instead of passing the blame on to his players when things don’t go right, otherwise, he will lose the dressing room.
Mourinho was unhappy at his players’ contribution as they lost 1-0 to Everton in their first Premier League game of the season.
The Portuguese manager accused his players of being lazy in the game as he was frustrated to have started the league season on a losing note.
One telling decision that he made in that match was to remove Dele Alli from the game after the first half, but blaming his players for the loss wasn’t appropriate according to the former Man Utd star.
Sherringham claimed that sometimes players can do their best and still come short probably because of the tactics employed by the manager.
He urged Mourinho to also share the blame when things go wrong and not just put it all on the players.
“Players aren’t lazy in general. I’ve had this many times with the England team in the past when top international teams had come to Wembley and passed it around us, everyone was trying – but the tactics might have been wrong,” said Sheringham, via Goal.com.
“If you’re not all on the same wavelength about when you press, when you don’t – that’s where you end up. You look like you’re tired, you look like you’re lazy, but you’re not, it’s just the tactics are not right. That’s how Tottenham looked against Everton.
“It’s only the first game of the season, it’s hard to say as they could play at the weekend, get their tactics right and look fantastic. It could easily change.
“But from one game and the way Mourinho spoke about his players, I wasn’t overly excited about how he distanced himself from what the problem was.
“You have to be careful that you don’t lose the dressing room, we’ve seen that he’s done that in his last couple of jobs at Chelsea and Manchester United. He’s got a tough job on his hands.
“He’s got to have a good look at himself about where he is and what he’s saying to the press otherwise it could be the same again.”
All crazy with panic from levy setting the scene. Poch said let me get the players I want, not your cannot get the deal through for this one, how’s about this one I just finished, he would stay with his loyal mates for 20 years. Ended up broken and sulking, quite rightly and let levy pay him and his back-room off and has been on hoiday since. Jose does things his way, levy has buckled, if the Bale deal is finalised, might be now, but bank loans and insurance are the price factor here and insurance for a sick-note is extra expensive, though I feel Bale has plenty yet in the locker, but a confrontation will come, but levy has put a noose around his neck with the billion pound debt that CV has put in danger. I would have preferd a billion pound team, then the stadium, but levy puts money first and thought the 100 million pound sky deal would reap it’s rewards after re-investing in real estate, the Lane. COYS!
Jose is a wind up merchant, who expects players to man up and will be ruthless, love him or hate him, or both it has worked for years. In Bill Nick’s day, there were more punch ups on the training ground than at the Lane. Cannot be bothered with the amazon soap opera, but the teasers have Jose demanding they are not the nice guy. Is it Jose who engineered the Bale return, which has been further delayed, no doubt levy trying to sweeten the deal his way, if that goes arsenal woolwich, well! We do need to be tougher, then trophies are realised, yes, with style, but Roberts did add some steel as did the best, McKay! COYS!
Fair points James.
That’s what they usually do.
He does like to gob off.
Why not just say “things to work on” to the media and then in the team talk rip into them.
Certainly something was off on Sunday all this passing sideways at the back and then to ‘ugo.
Fine line to walk between accountability and simply throwing around blame. Jose threw blame at United and second stint at Chelsea. When they won he was the special one, when they lost it was the players to blame. A good manger must shoulder the blame and share the credit. End of the day, Jose should have spotted all the things be blamed the Everton loss on before the game on the training pitch.
I think there would be a possibility of this happening if Mou was to constantly blame the players. Certainly they don’t look anywhere near 100% happy to me.
We all know the identity of Guardiola or Klopp teams, but what is the identity of Mourinho’s Spurs? Damned if I know. Pochettino’s Spurs had a massive identity of course, I’d of loved to have seen Bale in one of his teams, we’d of slaughtered the opposition even more.
Perhaps it’s to become a counterattacking team that turns defence into goals? But first we need to sort out that defence. Transition from defence to attack conventionally (not breakaway) is a big problem with little creativity. Please Mou stop having character squabbles with N’Dombele and get him in the team regularly, he’s a talent that shouldn’t be wasted. I think some of the players recognise this and it bothers them. N’Dombele please work harder and you’ll be picked.
Imagine attempting a breakaway via Winks – time he’s gone round in a circle and thought about what to do next the opposition defence would be ready!
Rubbish at Stevenage he was.
To be a manager is to risk losing the dressing room!
This might be why Teddy didn’t acquire the taste for the role.
What dressing room…have you seen us play!!
Jose didn’t describe the players as being lazy, he said they applied lazy pressure in pressing to win back the ball and he was right.
He also said that some of the players had little pre season work at the club and he said the players preparation was hampered by positive Covid tests.
He mentioned Doherty went straight from a medical to an International game with the Republic of Ireland and other players were on International duty.That doesn’t sound to me like a manager hanging the players out to dry.
With the way players were playing they deserved to be shouted at and confronted yes its early but if I was a manager and my players couldn’t be bothered for the first game of season id be annoyed aswell