While the football press is full of rumours and suggestions, I think we can make a case for Ryan Mason to be moved on as soon as possible. One game’s experience may sound like a rather hasty decision, but we need to look at the picture of a whole. One does not build a billion-pound stadium and then hire someone with zero managerial experience. We’re supposed to be a blue-chip operation, not a youth opportunity scheme.
Worse yet, the performance against Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final was indiscernible from any other naff performance this season. Where was the new manager bounce? Where was the Tottenham DNA that Mason was teasing us with?
What we got was a mediocre performance, expressly without heart – one that had Jamie Carragher heaping on the criticism, and deservedly so.
Mason even told Express Online after the game that he believed his players had given their all. This is wishful thinking at its very worst.
I believe that many of this squad desperately need moving on, but equally a coach needs to be brought in who has less of a competition winner look about him.