Despite reaching the Champions League Final and securing our top four spot once again in the 2018/19 campaign, Tottenham Hotspur’s form did slowly fall off a cliff in 2019 and that has continued into the 2019/20 season and as fans know, Daniel Levy recently made the change from Mauricio Pochettino to Jose Mourinho.
Both gaffers have their supporters and their detractors and although Mourinho’s arrival didn’t suddenly see that much of an uptick in performances, results did edge in our favour and we worked our way back up the Premier League table.
In more recent times, papering over the cracks has ceased to be the solution and we’ve had notably disappointing results against the likes of Norwich City, Southampton and Middlesbrough and few feel our form will turn again any time soon.
Former manager Harry Redknapp was speaking to Sky Sports this week and he defended Mourinho as not being the problem – and there will be those who apply the same logic to our former gaffer.
“Tottenham, they’re going through a funny little, well quite a long, spell when you look at it. The last 25 games with Poch in charge the form was for whatever reason, they were going along so well and then suddenly that big run of bad form. And the form at the moment has been up and down too really. Jose has gone in there, we know his record, it’s incredible, but no-one’s got a magic wand and at the moment it seems the team just doesn’t look right. Bad result the other day at Southampton, a couple of iffy performances, lucky to get away with it at Norwich.”
There’s nothing earth-shattering in his words and it’s pretty clear he’s focusing on the squad, despite also saying in the interview Spurs shouldn’t be written off against Liverpool because we’ve ‘got outstanding players’, and plenty will acknowledge that with the growth in age and our lack of transfer dealings to freshen the group up, it’s now the group of players that needs to be changed.
They haven’t become bad overnight, but you can certainly argue they’ve become stale and the magic has gone.
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