Following on from the shambles that was our second half capitulation against Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur have a slightly quicker turnaround in the fixture list as we now face Everton in the Friday evening television slot.
Travelling up to Goodison Park for the game, form slightly favours manager Jose Mourinho’s more pragmatic side, but Everton appear to be just as inconsistent as we are, looking very good one game and then very poor the next.
The guessing game for Spurs fans remains the same…which Tottenham turn up and do we even try ‘To Dare Is To Do?’
On an injury front, unless anyone has picked up an unannounced knock, it’s the same pack to choose from with only Ben Davies and Matt Doherty ruled out, but we knew that already.
So, onto the game and we’ll find out whether we will now end the season strongly and put an end to the circling Harry Kane rumours, or not, as the case may be.
Hi Stan
As you can see by my above comments, I’m not ringing any bells, I do think however the decision to move on is the right one, but I do think the timing was a bit off, just days before a final.
But when I look at the season as a whole, JM just hasn’t improved us as a team, I think, as some have said, there have been personality clashes behind the scenes which has left good players sidelined.
I think this has been apparent with, Bale, Dele and Tobs.
Perhaps even the demise of Dave, Doh, Dier (sounds like a 60s pop group) Aurier, Winks, Bergs, could be down to his restrictive tactics, which could sap the confidence of players.
Evem when you think on it Hoj, Regs, N’Dombers, and Sonny have seen a recent down turn in performance.
Or is it that these players simply weren’t of a good enough standard, as has been said, we haven’t won anything prior to JM arriving, so it may not have been all his fault.
Who knows time will tell.
I just know that we were a very tough watch these last few months and it has been very hard to discuss this with other teams supporters, Slagging us off, I’m just glad that the pubs weren’t open 😉
I just hope we take our time and get the right person in.
Who knows
I have to agree with Geof there. I am one of Levy’s harshest critics but at least I recognise his willingness to hold his hand up.
That shouldn’t detract from the fact that he made the mistake in the first place, however.
I fail to see how any of this improves our chances at a trophy, however. I think banking on a reaction from the players is a risky proposition. I think the turmoil this has created is more likely to be disruptive to this week’s preparations than beneficial.
As shroppie has said, it will all depend on the results going forward.
As far as potential candidates to replace JM the 2 most common names being throw around at the moment are Nagelsmann and Rodgers. Their teams play good football, but what have they won? I just recognise the potential for either of them to be MP 2.0. That wouldn’t be so bad in itself from a style point of view, but when are we going to pick a coach who can finally win something of significance for the club?
I wonder if the fact that there will be Spurs fans in the stadium (albeit only 2,000) influenced the timing of the decision. 2,000 Spurs fans screaming Jose out would have had quite an impact. The timing is odd especially as two novices at top level coaching are in charge until the end of the season.
Jose was clearly a bad fit but he looked to me a shadow of the man he once was (not just a shadow of the manager he once was).
Time will tell who comes in next – I’m not sure it will be either Brendon Rodgers or Julian Negalsmann. COYS
A pernicious ripple from the influence of Rupert Murdoch who took the matches away from those who don’t buy cable TV, wedded to an American gross marketing sensibility. Super League, indeed. The very name smacks of an NFL mentality. No more cups, but bowls that are Super, Super, Super. Money as power.
The divine right of the rich to rule our sport. Before we notice, football everywhere will become soccer and will find ways to take commercial breaks. Matches of football as soccer will be interrupted with water breaks or VAR breaks, we’ll see the tellie break away from action on the pitch to pitch soap bubbles doing their pretty bubbling in automatic dish washers, and car insurance that will save us money money money as they taken more of our money money money, and sell us big tasteless lager beers in big aluminium cans with the scent of mountain flowers. Enough to make a lover of football puke. Super League.
The very name makes one’s stomach want to up chuck. The FA Super Bowl to replace the FA Cup to make our Super Bowels growl. The Carabao Super Bowel Super Bowl for the Super Clubs of a Super Intercontinental Bowel Off. Francis Drake to finish his game of Bowels as the great Spanish Armada of Real Madrid arrives to have us watch more commercial breaks while the VAR interrupts the match.
Why hasn’t Q-anon figured out that VAR is a plot to slip adverts into televised matches? They are coming–the mandatory VAR advert break. Is it because they don’t know that football is played with a round ball? Why do they want to force football to be played with that odd shaped football from the American game that stole our name? American football is an oxymoron.
The world is gone mad. You cannot go around a world that is shaped like an American football playing for a Super Bowl in a Super League. “They” have got us used to VAR breaks and water gulping breaks in the middle of matches that were meant to flow. Next are the adverts during the breaks during matches on paid cable TV during the matches of the Super League.
Lol. That should attract some conspiracy theorists.
It seems that Mourinho has indeed been sacked. Wow! The sun will rise tomorrow.
Ryan Mason and Chris Powell?
It seems Ryan Mason has plans to play lots of Bale in the end stages of the season. Says he looks brilliant in training every day. We may see lots of shaking things up in the late stages of this season. Could we have reason to watch again?
And the season of speculation over the new full time manager begins. But thanks to the gods we’ve seen the end of Mourinho with our beloved club.
Well if Daniel has decided to indeed sign Spurs up for the ESL how does he expect us to compete on the same level with the richest clubs in Europe, Clubs who can afford to buy players well above Levy’s enforced price cap ? Surely after 20 years of ENIC and 1 Trophy isn’t that enough time for Levy and Lewis and ENIC to get the message ….. it just ain’t working fellas! sell up and give the fans a chance to see Harry Kane lift a friggin’ Trophy!
‘Will JM be in charge when we visit Wembley next week? It’s looking doubtful.’
That’s my quote from two days ago on this thread. Who needs hindsight! : – )
Geof….you forget, you are ahead of us timewise, so get to hear things before we do! 😉
TQ … That would explain how I read your next comment yesterday! : – )
Today’s events must surely we worth a bit of verse from one of you wordsmiths?
Do we really want someone with no PL experience or just starting their career? It’s all very well appointing a top foreign coach if you give them a bundle of cash to spend but not if you rely on their ability to grow a team within the PL context. I like what I see in Scottie Parker. He knows our club, our style, and works with players to develop them.
LT….I said a few day back that I would rather have Scottie than continue with Jose, that said I do believe we already have a decent squad of players who haven’t been performing due to poor coaching, lack of motivation, and negative game plans. I’m confident almnost anyone could come in right now and get a better tune out of these players.
Whatever happens next. And whatever result we get in the cup final. I’m so very happy that Jose will not be leading THFC out onto the Wembley pitch on Sunday.
And, if Ryan Mason gets that honour, I will be very happy for him.
Ryan almost died playing football and his career was cut short with him not yet in his prime. He is a Tottenham lad trough and through, so imagine his pride right now, even though his time in charge maybe brief. It may in fact be for just a day or two. And it could well be the new full-time boss we see leading them out to play City.
As, I have the feeling that our new manager will quite possibly be named very soon. Particularly if that man is to be Nagelsmann. If not, then maybe Ryan will get his day in the Wembley sun… ?
Whatever happens, I’m pleased that we can now start afresh. And hopefully our players can show their real worth to us, and shine, shine, shine for the rest of this season and beyond…
Top 4 and a cup is still on the cards, after all… And I think we are good enough for this, no matter how unlikely it seems right now… . We’ll see….
Up the Spurs!
Couldn’t help but smile at this headline from NewsNow:
Mourinho at Spurs: Jose’s best bits in two minutes.
Did they need that long? :- )
What a perfect form of poetic irony it would be if we can now beat the Saints and then City, without a full-time man in charge.
Our first trophy won for a long time, and without a boss!
Not long ago on here, I wrote that if we were to fire Jose today, that the team would become instantaneously better tomorrow. Now we’ll get the chance to see if this will be so………..
Bye bye Mourinho!
Hello ???
at the beckoning of TQ2 purrs:
Burst forth thee bright light of a new day
now you’ve chased the dark away
The spring flowers open now their bloom
after 17 months of darkest gloom
ride astride your horse
have faith in our audacious way
spurring on a course
that dares to play
the Tottenham way
now the doom has gone away
Oh well, very pedestrian, but it’s still early morning in my beclouded head.
there will be not a drop of surprise if our team plays much better in the next few matches now that a heavy weight has been lifted.
I’m curious to see whether the players who have been banished will be playing again. If Bale scores a hat trick against Citeh I’ll publically eat crow, but with a huge smile on my face while doing the munching.
Don’t get too excited about the rest of the season. The chances are we will end up with nothing and you won’t even have the pleasure of blaming you know who, although no doubt some of you will find a way.
I’ve been reflecting on the possibility that Bale was simply the first to start to work-to-rule as a way of ridding the team of the Miserable and Malevolent One.
I wonder will all the miss placed passes stop in the next game. Bale and dele to start ?.