Tottenham have become just the second team in Premier League history to win their opening three matches and then lose the following three.
See below for this bizarre stat from Opta, who state that this kind of start hasn’t happened in the English top flight since Everton did it all the way back in 1993/94, when, rather worryingly, they ended up finishing 17th in the table…
Tottenham were poor at Arsenal yesterday, going 3-0 down before half time as goals from Emile Smith Rowe, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Bukayo Saka more or less put the game beyond Nuno Espirito Santo’s side after just 34 minutes on the clock.
It’s quite something that Spurs have matched Everton’s unwanted record, with all the good feeling from those first three victories quickly evaporating after this shocking collapse.
Spurs initially looked solid as they ground out victories like that 1-0 win over reigning champions Manchester City, but they’ve now conceded a shocking nine goals in their last three matches to Crystal Palace, Chelsea, and Arsenal.
Things surely need to change quickly or new manager Nuno will already find himself under pressure.
Agreed. But then in Nuno’s defence I guess you would have to ask who wouldn’t struggle with this band of reprobates. I think he’s probably a decent enough guy but he comes across as someone who seems terrified of saying the wrong thing and so choses to say virtually nothing bar platitudes, which doesn’t leave me with a good impression as a public figure.
Absolutely spot on Justin, the only point is Nuno is out of his depth in my opinion
The result yesterday will help us in the long term. As a manager who need to know who you can rely on and who you can’t. Who will try and who won’t. Then try to make a team only out of those players who actually care. I would rather see the youth team out there than players who don’t track back and don’t want to be there.
No players until far too late and not getting manager in place early enough this season.
1, 2 and 4 alone caused the situation on the pitch. It’s utterly shocking how when you have the best manager in the premier league you don’t back him and then sack him for trying to get the potatoes to play like top quality players. Who cares if we won a pony cup and qualified for the Europa – we are better off out of it and building up for the future. There is no quick fix for our problems. Any one of those mistakes would ruin most clubs, all three of them are causing us to implode.
Anyone who didn’t realise just how good Poch was surely sees it now. Imagine trying to win games with Ali, Winks, Ben Davis, and Dier? Imagine being such a good manager you make Ali look like he is worth 80m? He isn’t even good enough to play in the premier league.
No point in sacking the manager. We need to get rid of deadwood first and start the rebuild. Bringing in another manager to polish these turds is pointless.
I really do find 9 amazing – imagine having the afront to try and get 40m for Winks? I remember him going on about him in the Amazon documentary and wondering what he was going on about then – the guy was bad long before Poch went.
It’s hard to believe that Nuno is actually fulfilling his contractual obligations when he gives yet another evasive interview like the one above. I mean, come on what is the point of interviewing him, what does he offer that we haven’t already seen with our own tear filled eyes? Agree with comments below that basically the chickens are aligned and coming home to roost. So many poor decisions made by Levy in the last couple of years including just these 10. [1] not investing in squad when the team was actually doing very well. [2] sacking the best manager we have had for a very long time after failing to back him with new and decent players. [3] sacking his successor a few days before getting the team to a cup final-where he might actually have won something. [4] taking 72 days to replace that manager with someone who is clearly not fit for purpose.[5] furlough debacle during pandemic. [6] the ESL fiasco. [6] overspend on stadium [7] failing to obtain naming rights for same project. [8] overseeing the purchase of a plethora of distinctively average players who were overpriced, are over paid and painfully embarrassing [9] valuing Winks at £40m and the entire business at £3.5b demonstrates to me that he is simply deluded. [10] perhaps the most unforgiveable was failing to let Kane go. This is the perfect example of where Levy’s ego is slowly but surely crushing the life out of the football team. Didn’t anyone on the “Board” suggest that there might be negative consequences to this stubborn intransigence? Well, it’s surely showing now!
I’m not sure you can describe decades of underachievement as “a great football club”
Levy and enic are an absolute disgrace. They have lined their wallets whilst sacrificing the football club. Anyone who still supports these parasites needs a lobotomy or a trip to Specsavers.
Levy needs to resign because the buck stops at the top. What we are seeing now is the result of transfer windows where no players were bought in, along with others where the cheapest bang average players were purchased. Levy has bought so many bang average players we are now bang average. Then he adds a bang average manager too!
The man has destroyed a great football club just to save pennies.
Somebody needs to drag him out of his cosy office, rip the arsenal shirt off his back, tar and feather him and drag him down the High Road.
He’s made us toxic, no manager in their right mind will want to work for Levy. Poch led us to the promised land and now Levy is leading us to the C-Ship. Well done you little monster.
The next day, and I now actually feel a bit sorry for Nuno. If the players went out thee and didn’t execute the plan… well he’s not the first manager in the last year to accuse them of that.
Basically, the “bad decisions” he talked about in his presser, were starting with Dier and Sanchez and expecting NDombele and Dele to come good.
I don’t think you can fully blame Nuno here, when a Championship side could have put up more of a fight than these numpties did yesterday.
This is a team in crisis and a club in crisis and the possibility now looms of relegation in the 2022/23 season, if we avoid it this year. There is so much wrong it is hard to see where to seat fixing it. We can start by letting Kane go next transfer window and accepting highest bidders for Winks, Davies, Sessignon, Dier, Lo Celso, Ndombele, for starters. Levy and Paratici have to realise that no top flight players or managers are going to want to come to a club with no prospects for the foreseeable future so the rebuild will be hampered by lack of interest in joining the club. It will also be hampered by lack of money as supporters stay away from the stadium in droves and financial crisis bites. Nuno is unlikely to last much beyond Christmas but who replaces him is the problem.
Wrong man to start with. First 3 games papered over the cracks. He has no idea of his best team or what to do when things go wrong. He will get sacked this season, so the sooner the better. Like Everton that year, we may be relieved to finish 17th!
dead man walking while Levy hides in his Bat Cave…