With an embarrassing performance in the defeat to Leeds United in our last match, Tottenham Hotspur now have three more chances to try and end, what has ultimately been a disappointing 2020/21 campaign, on a high as we welcome Wolverhampton Wanderers to White Hart Lane.
After so much early promise when we were challenging well on all fronts, the wheels well and truly fell off after the turn of the year, and even the relative high points have still been tinged with disappointments given our inconsistent, pragmatic approach to attacking.
It’s going to be a difficult, but big and important summer, for Spurs – the main question for fans will be answered by the next managerial appointment. Get that right and there will be renewed hope of the type of player turnover most seem to want, get that wrong and many will take it as a sign that nothing has changed and certainly, that nothing has been learned.
Wolves first, Aston Villa next and then Leicester City for the curtain closer.
To Dare Is To Do, so will we do just that?
Players we need to move on or they need to move on for the sake of their careers:
Aurier, Docherty, Davinson, Dier, Winks, Sisokko, Bergjwin, Lamela, Vinicius, Regluion, Bale, Moura.
Players who will want to leave
Kane, Son, N’dombele.
Any potential new manager will be considering the above before taking the job which is why we will probably end up with number 18 on the shortlist.
I wonder how the season ticket sales are going.
That list is a drastic and painful rebuild of 3/4 squad players. Im not sure if Joe / levy / board is upto buying the replacements as £150M + will be needed.
I may not renew my season ticket… after 15 yrs…that tells you what I am thinking about the way spurs have been playing and club management over last 3 years…
Regards re-newing season tickets all, 16 no, my oppo’s are going to/will, when the time comes, they reckon they do not want to go back on the waiting list, because many will replace them, think they might have a good point there. COYS
Doncaster…sadly your list is spot. All these players will soon be forgotten(Bale excepted). I would also add Lo Celso…far too lightweight, can’t shoot, can’t pass, very one footed. We have made some really bad signings.
Just noticed our Under 23’s and Under 18’s have been well beaten. Where is our young talent. We have fantastic facilities but an average Prem squad and no top youngsters coming through. Maybe Skipp and Scarlett if they are given a chance.
Something is not right about our club.Let’s see what happens in the transfer window. Massive clearout needed and some decent signings needed as well as an inspirational coach. A very big ask and I don’t think Levy is up to it.
There are many common names here, I think we could see between 10 and 20 mil for em if we do sell 6 for say 12 mil that would give us 70+ war chest for transfers I think it could be more.
But as some have said Levy will want top dollar for mediocre players and waste time on sales for a couple of mil mean while will also waste time getting new players in thus leaving the new manager little or no time to work with a new squad.
Sound familiar, let’s get those we want out pronto and work fast to get our targets in.
Seventh place gets us into the new European Conference League which will involve playing teams at an even worse level than the Europa League and travel to far flung places of Europe. No entry into the following season’s Champions League either if we win it. I suspect this is not what Mr Levy had in mind when the new stadium was built.
Mr. Levy’s package tour from the CL to the European Conference League. Well done, DL.
What Mr. Levy had in mind when the the stadium opened was an NFL franchise in London.
I am reminded of an expression in Cantonese about someone arriving expecting a banquet but finding only a banana to eat. Mr. Levy has THFC poised to slip on the peel.
If your in the top4, you spend money to stay their.
Plus you get to4 revenue
Spurs didn’t invest to stay ine the top4, took a chance and now back fired.
Now you have to spend to get back into the top4 with less revenue.
Either way you are spending money.
Big clearcut needed unless the new manager can work wonders with this squad.
How can a club that was in a CL final only two years ago be playing over the latter part of this season as though it were a team flirting with relegation? An astonishing drop in form. Disgraceful, really.
It will be interesting to see if Mason has the cahoonas to drop Dier and play Rodon in this game.
Apparently Dele has been spotted at a rooftop bar in London with Pep’s 20 year old daughter Maria, do you think he might be working under cover to try to persuade her dad to come and manage us? 🙂
Well it’s been a disastrous 18 months of appointments ( Mourinho..probably the worst coach/manager we have ever had) and signings/loans ( Bergweijn, Vinicius, Lo Celso, Doherty etc.) some of the worst signings we have made. Who was responsible for all this? Can we trust who will make the next critical appointment and then be savvy enough to invest in some decent signings?
Interesting times.
WW….that’s a question I’ve been asking for some time, I think our scouting and recruitment has been letting us down for some time now. You only have to look at some of the successes at other clubs (and I’m not talking about the money no object ones) where they have identified some amazing players and brought them in at very conservative fees.
I can’t see there being wholesale squad changes. Levy will expect a new coach to reinvigorate what he believes are good players. And maybe Sanchez and Rodon can do OK if the FB liabilities can be sorted and and the right balance found between midfield and attack. I just don’t think NDombele is the answer, I’d rather have Eriksen back.
Unfortunately, tomorrow’s match Spurs v Wolves will be shown on television where I am. lol.
I just cannot find within any optimism these days for things Spurs. Ouch!
But, the gods be willing, I cannot not watch.(I’m reduced to double-negative positivity.)
Okay, some optimism:
Doherty might improve greatly next season if our new manager plays a system that emphasizes wide wing play and he’s move up the pitch. Don’t see him succeeded as a real FB, but he might have some real worth if he’s up the pitch in a more attacking right wing role. Of course, that’s not why he was signed, as we already have some competition for such a role, but that seems where Doherty could fit and produce. FB he is not.
Dele will come back as a creative force. It will be like a new signing, and when he was good, he was good. Away from the pernicious JM, he could be the biggest “new signing.”
Kane will decide to stay for the rest of his career when the new boss convinces him that we will be winning lots of competitions in an attack minded formation that will be solid at the back.
Son gets some backup, so he can rest more and his slight build can stand up for a complete season.
Dier will go back to midfield to alternate with Hojbjorg and the two provide a solid defensive midfield anchor. This will save both from burnout. Dier won’t make the same bone headed space misplacements in that role.
JM will overpay to have Rabona Man return to Roma. We will benefit because the yellow and red cards will be cut.
One huge new signing of a world class CB that will anchor everything. That will turn out to be the signing of the decade that turns it all around.
Ryan Sessegnon will turn out to be a sensation on his return. Not as a LFB, but as an attacking wing on the left to balance the other new sensational wing on the right, that Doherty chap. (I know, I know, I’m really reaching.)
Skipp, Scarlett, white, and someone totally unexpected, all will play positive roles on return to WHL.
okay. Now I feel I can turn on the tellie tomorrow morning without tears in my eyes.
WW, TQ, LT afternoon folks,
Some good posts, indeed many of us have been saying again and again that there is something wrong with our recruitment, this above all needs to change, as I said earlier, Mr Levy needs to stop this hard nosed dealing to get what we want early enough to be of use.
Leeds very impressive again today, lost only 1 of last nine. Maybe we are being a bit harsh when criticising our performance against them, our loss was largely down to individual errors.
Marcelo Bielsa? Could he get Spurs playing the way Leeds are playing now?
He would suit Levy as I think he only tends to take 1 year rolling contracts. :- )
We’ve done well with managers from Argentina. Poch. Ardiles. Bielsa? I like the look of his current team. They served us up as done and dusted.