I watched a fair amount of the England vs San Marino game last night and naturally enough, being of sound mind, failed to arrive at any rash conclusions because England was in truth playing a side of people who don’t play football for a living. San Marino has a population of 30,000 according to the commentator. If you want perspective on that number, that’s about the same size as St Neots in Cambridgeshire.
What did stand out, however, was the sight of Atlético Madrid’s Kieran Trippier. The former Tottenham man looked fitter, younger, and twice as alert as he did when he quit Spurs. The secret it would appear was a change of coaching methods.
When Trippier 1st came over to Spain he spent every training session with Germán Burgos working on his defending, holding the line and movement with and without the ball, he has definitely benefited from it, and playing in a team that compliments your positional play also helps
— Sevilla Spurs 🇪🇸 🏴 (@sfcbdlm2) March 25, 2021
I took a view that Tripps’ movement was different, that he was clearly thinking differently. That he’d been rewired basically…
Makes one wonder what might’ve been.
Not many if any football people own football clubs
Power serge has improved
Our facilities ain’t a myth. You’ll have to find something else to knock us with
We may have world-class facilities but we have not had world-class coaching or scouting for many many seasons with basic schoolboy errors that are repeated week after week. Throw-ins, corners, defending corners, crossing the ball, attacking corners, transitional play. The list goes on. Once again all down to having non-football club owners owning the club and not recognising what is needed outside of planning applications and creaming the wallets of the client reference numbers.
Trippier was crap I never forget when he scored against us that game against Chelsea with nobody was around him no pressure yet he back passed without any brain and scored own goal and gave a gift Chelsea to go through may be he could be Maldini if he is playing with Dier.
I think Martin O’Neill is someone who delegates the coaching to others. I don’t think he had his team, John Robertson etc., with him at Sunderland, which may explain why, after a bright start, he failed at Sunderland….apart from the fact that every manager fails hopelessly at Sunderland, it would seem. In more than half a century I think the six times champions have only finished in the top half of the first tier once; certainly, seventh has been their best effort.
ie a manager should understand the game sufficiently to be able to coach both attack and defence and in the past this was expected of them. Don’t managers often earn coaching badges before becoming managers?
Spurs fans have always had a reputation for being critical which makes it even more of a wonder that our esteemed chairman can do little wrong where so many of them are concerned. Would it need us to go into administration to wake some of these dopes up?!
Liverpool even have a throw in coach, I believe. Football these days is so self indulgent and up its own arse. Remember when past managerial greats like Bill Nich used to do just about everything themselves and even had to do some paperwork! The manager would coach the players and act as a psychologist; no need to bring in outsiders like sports psychologists etc The trainer, though, was largely responsible for the fitness of the players. I sometimes wonder what managers actually do these days with their army of helpers.
I think Trippier had played too much football and then lost favour when he wasn’t at his best physically.
Poch’s training at Spurs was mindless
Another one in the eye for the “facilities” myth.
You need stuff inside. Good stuff.
Walker had physical presence & great catch up speed… no defender following his departure has had either… maybe Japhet is the closest based on limited playing time.., having said that he isnt at present the offensive threat Walker was, but is better defensively.
After a long season with Spurs Trippier went to the World Cup with England where he did really well and then was pretty much immediately thrust back into action with Spurs. He had very little time to recharge his batteries and basic errors crept into his game. I think we were too quick to get rid but then again we had a club offering £20m for a player we paid £3.5m for and even if Tripps was playing like Maldini, Levy was never going to look that gift horse in the mouth.
I can’t see Aurier or Doherty improving defensively at their age, they’re both wingback being asked to play fullback, which is why they mess up so often defensively…
Trippier was outstanding the season or so leading to the World Cup, after that he was never the same player. In fact after the tournament so many players dropped off quite alarmingly. Sanchez, Dier Dele etc…
I think football may need to consdier the NFL approach to coaching. Where you have a defensive coach, an offensive coach, a fitness coach and a head coach. The head coach actually has very little input at training. Poch was a fitness coach for sure. for an ex defender, we were very badly organised on set pieces and returning to position when the ball was lost. Jose is more a defensive coach, but with the lack of someone helping with fitness, and offence, it is making an average team look worse.
The standard has dropped massively since walker left and even he got a fair amount of grief.
We are a tough crowd it seems.
Many players improve after leaving Spurs, many don’t. C’est la vie.
very Interesting, something our current RB’s could do with learning, instead of constantly losing their opposite player and seemingly having no positional awareness whatsoever…