Lucas Moura was a man operating in the main very much on his own against Crystal Palace, and I’m slowly beginning to wonder if the Brazilian is getting as much respect from Tottenham as perhaps he ought. Binned off in the Champions League Final for an obviously out of sorts Harry Kane, and he’s yet to be given a nailed-on starting XI berth. Yet, he routinely works his socks off.
Against Palace, we saw him win 54% of his duels, up from his mean average of 43.4%.
As well as achieving an excellent rate of success in respect of his dribbling.
More, please.
This is the exact reason why I wanted us to sign Traore.If you look at the space he makes,he gave united and us such a hard time ,with better players to move around the space he creates it will be worthwhile. Lots of winning clubs around the years players with no end product,it was the other part of their game they bring to a side. Rememebr Lennon destroying Evra all those years back ?sure with players like Traore you wont win the league ,but it will help to achieve 4th or 5th,which currently we are looking years away from. No creativity ,no players will to use common footballing brains to close down opposing players. Every time we have the ball it seems like we dont know what to do. It has been like this from the end of Poch reign. 3 managers and the same issues. The common denominator here is the players and maybe some of the coaching staff that are directly employed by spurs.Get rid of them all.Levy that muda fukr is also to blame. He is bringing this club to its knees. I wonder if we start a GoFundMe and try to buy the club from this jackals if we get anywhere. I believe we wont. Because for most fans having a new stadium is like winning the treble 15 years in a row
The only big match I can remember him turning up in was the Ajax semi. He tries and seems like a nice bloke but not enough end product and too inconsistent to be big time.
Love Lucas. When the whole team look like a bunch of wet fish flapping, or heads start to go down, Moura is the man who comes out fighting… Big match player too as he proved against Ajax…. Lucas said he’ll be spending ten years in Europe before he goes back home to play for Sao Paulo. His contract runs out in 2022, thats his 10 year mark…. So we only got the man for this and next season then he’ll be gone.
Oh well… at least we’ve got a ‘world class’ herb garden eh? 😂
Marketed on some kind of wokey animal compassion basis, to go with the f*cking cabbage patch at Hotspur Way… 😆
And rejected by Arteta
The hype around the stadium was a complete con. Kane doesn’t sign a six year deal if he ever envisaged wanting to leave three years into it. He was conned too, ENIC and Levy are snakes, con-men and lying toads.
The hilarious part of it is that Levy actually ‘wants’ Champion’s League football yet won’t pay to get it. Probably why he went back to Poch in the hope he could work his magic again on Levy’s pathetic budget.
He has no shame, I reckon he’d f*ck a sheep on a pay per view live stream, if it looked good on the balance sheet… 😂
Another chilling fact, yet typical of our transfer activity. Sessingnon Bergwjin, Rodon, Doherty, how do any of these players improve the team? Fernandez was such a poor fit that he didn’t even stay.
I would question the general quality of three quarters of what we have been bringing in over the last 3 years or more. I’m not sure what the profile is but an agreement of a small deposit with add ons is probably the deal breaker, mediocrity continues reign in Levy Land.
’World Class facilities’ though…
We’re not really a small club considering the size of our fan base, you may say. Alas, our stadium debt is such that we can no longer spend like a big club when it comes to player acquisitions. Why is this club always run by pillocks?
So we’re not going to win the league then! Not really surprised by the Palace result. I certainly wasn’t getting carried away by the rather fortunate three one nils and was actually rather expecting us to get a bit of a thumping in our next fixture, duly delivered!
Top Four? Forget it, barring a fixture pile up or a covid outbreak or some other similar misfortune, the Top Four is pretty much nailed on: the two Manchester clubs, Liverpool and Chelsea. I see seventh as about the best we can achieve with our current personnel and even that seems a tad optimistic to me.
It’s quite possible we’ll never return to the CL under Enic without the number of English entrants being increased. Sadly,I believe that we have almost certainly had our best days under this lot and that we ultimately missed out on the big titles, when the opportunity was there, as our owners, instead of adding one or two quality purchases that might have got us over the winning line, enhanced their property portfolio and maximised their already considerable wealth. It’s enough to make any Spurs fan cry the lost chances to win the league and CL that probably won’t come around again. We can expect years of stagnation and should get ourselves resigned to being a small club with a big stadium.
“everyone else ran for the ills when the call came”. Exactly!
Phil Vickery said the other day that Emerson was a ‘work in progress’. Tomiyasu looked really good for Arsenal.
Well, I expect to finish v the chavs with 11 players, that has to count for at least 1 goal surely… probably 2.. as 10 men v Chelsea for 30 minutes would be devastating.
The problem with the transfer window was that all our signings arguably bar Romero are for the future where as we need players to improve us immediately. It is rather Spursy that Romero arrived injured 😂
I said at the time we should have got Benitez in… he has a respectable cv, can work under Levy, and gets more than most out of average players. We’ll be bottom half by Xmas…
Basically we hired him because nobody else would join Levy’s penny pinching circus. Nuno already being dumped by Wolves had nothing to lose. Anyway lets see how we look when the players return. Remember we thrashed Utd at their place last season but they bounced back.
What do we already know.
Nuno was never a choice. He became available and said yes to the first job offered to him. He became Levy’s only choice because everyone else ran for the hills when the call came.
Paratici is operating on strict instruction from Levy. All he is, is Levy’s fall guy for when it goes wrong. He just doesn’t realise it yet.
Levy likes to think of himself as a master of all this he football. He’s nothing even close. He’s a pretender. Many of our players are in his image. They think they’re great. They’re not.
Why did we hire Nuno? He left Wolves by mutual consent which means that they didn’t want him anymore. The Wolves fans were bored by the football he played as I already am. Levy trotted out the disingenuous line that we wanted a manager who played football in the “Spurs way”. My feeling is that he is the wrong choice. How can you send out to a midfield threesome of Winks, Skipp and Hjojberg? Another unsuccessful appointment by Levy. Paratici will prove to be little better as the results of his ” masterclass transfer window” are shown to be a mirage .Plus ca change at Tottenham Towers with Levy in charge.
I like the way you managing the outcome of next game why 2-0 when you lost 3-0 to Palace, the game is against the European champions league winner+ Lukaku let’s hope for the best.
It was obvious how fragile this squad is 3 years ago. Nothing new.
He was bought for £8M in June by Barca 😑
Bale sixteen goals, Vinicius ten goals. Who is scoring those goals this season?
Will our defensive mids or defenders weigh in?
Maybe Gil, N’Dombele, Bergwign, Lo Celso or Lucas might but I’m not holding my breath.
Agree
As I say I’ll give Nuno till February… I would happily take a 2-0 loss next week v the Chavs… Lukaku is a mare for most defenders but him v Ben Davies… well…..
Give the guy a break… there will be plenty of full backs who have a hard time against Zaha….. much easier debuts than that…the match was a lot like many last season… struggle to break down the opposition, physically knackered last 20 minutes by not tracking runners.. net result late goals conceded…in fairness thats been the way for much of the past 3 years… poor ball retention & inability to move the ball through midfield.
Who the hell scouted Emerson? he looks like a poor Aurier.
The +3 goals nullified in just one game. lose next 2 games and the 9 points will be nullified as well the next thing you know is minus goals and we will end up in the relegation zone.then comes another international break then you will have again players travelling and light weight players left to play again and lose badly again and again the circle goes on only in Spurs what do I know? Levy the Master who will be his next victim Nuno or Paratici? Enic/Levy series continues.
Shame we didn’t get Traore now it’s becoming obvious how fragile this squad is. With Moura and Traore playing yesterday I feel the ball would have at least stuck up front a bit longer. Alli and half hearted Kane weren’t making it stick.
Great work rate, just lacks quality and composure in front of goal. Not sure how old he is but I doubt that’s gonna improve. A decent squad player but another Ligue 1 punt by Levy and was surplus to PSG.
Well we did get rid of Sissoko but tend to agree there are too many hangers-on. But Lucas is not the first to point a finger at imho. Better a “trier” with no end product (except a Champions League semi-final hattrick) than a “non-trier” with no end product? Winks and Dele would be higher on my “please vanish” list.
Lucas is a ‘trier’ but with no end product, still playing schoolboy football down blind alleys. Someone playing in his position must be productive – 10-15 goals and a similar number of assists. If not then why is he in the team.? He is an example of the Peter Principle, like many in the Spurs squad. Promoted to reach a level of incompetence, but never bad enough to be sacked, so hang around the company for years and become part of the furniture. In fact most of the Spurs squad fit that scenario and we are finding them very difficult to get rid of. The new recruits look like more of the same (unfortunately).