ItalianSpurs
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The fact is that you can lose or win but you 've got to fight, to demonstrate your devotion to the cause. We have had worst roster, also in early days, but they never play with this lack of passion
Tottenham afraid to play at home - Emmanuel Adebayor
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scottlag10
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Right message but imo delivered by the wrong person, and is going to be subject to more abuse than say if Lloris had come out and said it
Japhet
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Afraid of being booed! I've heard it all now. Spineless f***ers need to man up and show a bit of fight. They want to experience parting with a large part of their weekly income to watch a bunch of spoiled millionaires show minimal commitment, application and effort, then listen to them moan that they don't get the levels of adulation they expect.
Jenko
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And i'm afraid to watch...........................
I'm going through one of Ade's 'sad moments'
Jenko
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I'm going through one of Ade's 'sad moments'
Just realized I am now also afraid to go home to my family.... What if they don't make it all better? Maybe I should call in sick tomorrow....
Jadon Benjamin
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the ball is round lolYes yes yes, the pitch is too small, the fans are scary, the climate is cold.
slartibartfast
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WE'RE DOOMED.
DOOMED I TELL YOU
DOOMED I TELL YOU
Dennism
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There are footballers with character who are winners. There are gutless footballers who are losers. The former work hard and look at themselves when things go wrong. The latter look for excuses when things go wrong and blame everything but themselves. It does not need a genius to work out which category this gutless Spurs team fall into.
First they blame the pitch and now us. They are pathetic. God help us.
First they blame the pitch and now us. They are pathetic. God help us.
Jordan paladini
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Not to be funny ade but no one cares you are a huge let down this season you need to leave I just hope the board stick with the manager and back him in the market for his players because that squad is so far apart it is unreal the lot of them need to have a good look at themselves
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davidmatzdorf
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Only a few people are reading the headline instead of the quotes, which is a small mercy.
It's one of the frankest and harshest interviews with a Spurs player I've ever seen. Once you allow for English being his second or third language, it's positively eloquent. Adebayor deserves some credit for apportioning responsibility where it belongs - to everyone.
The players are good. The team isn't working. As someone who thinks Mr Harry Redknapp is the biggest bullshit artist in English football, I'd propose that what we are pining for is someone who can get good players to play like brilliant players. Someone like Harry.
There are a lot of people here who insist that Redknapp only did well because of the players he had at his disposal. Bollocks. He knew how to get those players playing together, at a level higher than each individual's talent.
Now we have a manager who, in 10-20 years, might well have those skills - everyone who works with him gives his personal-management skills a glowing testimonial - but he isn't there yet. He's taken on a task to inculcate his style into players who are not well suited to it, unlike the more impressionable Southampton squad.
As I keep posting, over and over: it's going to take awhile. We'll have to grit our teeth. But I thought the football would at least be entertaining while we were adjusting, not a cross between AVB's sterile unadventurousness and Sherwood's chaos.
It's one of the frankest and harshest interviews with a Spurs player I've ever seen. Once you allow for English being his second or third language, it's positively eloquent. Adebayor deserves some credit for apportioning responsibility where it belongs - to everyone.
The players are good. The team isn't working. As someone who thinks Mr Harry Redknapp is the biggest bullshit artist in English football, I'd propose that what we are pining for is someone who can get good players to play like brilliant players. Someone like Harry.
There are a lot of people here who insist that Redknapp only did well because of the players he had at his disposal. Bollocks. He knew how to get those players playing together, at a level higher than each individual's talent.
Now we have a manager who, in 10-20 years, might well have those skills - everyone who works with him gives his personal-management skills a glowing testimonial - but he isn't there yet. He's taken on a task to inculcate his style into players who are not well suited to it, unlike the more impressionable Southampton squad.
As I keep posting, over and over: it's going to take awhile. We'll have to grit our teeth. But I thought the football would at least be entertaining while we were adjusting, not a cross between AVB's sterile unadventurousness and Sherwood's chaos.
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Ledley's Right Foot
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Takes guts to say what he said. All in all a balanced assessment. Can see why poch made him vice captain.
Redknapp knows how to put a team together, but got tactically found out sometimes and also had two consecutive downturns in form in the second half of the season. There was a manager who could put a team together and was tactically astute: Rafa Benitez was my first choice, but he wasn't Levy's choice, bizarrely despite the good jobs he's done in the EPL. However, MP is a good manager and none of our competitors is doing well. The end of the season is when it matters, so if he gets his style then it will be fine. He has improved players who were thought to be beyond the pale, eg Naughton and Rose.
I think Rednapp is the problem, he built a team which was so bloody good with a couple of players or some more belief it could have challenged for the league. The football was great we had some world class players, King, Vdv, Modric, bale. It had grit in Parker and placious, width, pace, flare great just missed a world class striker. Ever since we have been on a downward spiral. Expectations are really high I think the best thing we can do is keep Poch and let him build something, I know I have said this before but my mate speaks to brad a lot and he recons MoPo is the best thing to happen to spurs.
It might be a few steps back before we can go foward we need to have stability let the players settle and give the manager time. The Europa league is probably a massive pain it does not give us time on the training pitch before a game
Too many similar players, I think Eriksen and Lemela are a problem ideally you would build a team around one player and then we can add more balance I don't think we are good enough or have found a balance to play both at home, away not such a problem as we can counter attack. I think going back to basics with wingers at home 4-4-2 might help and 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 away or against the big teams at home.
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spurs-r-us
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I don't disagree.
But Adebayor can shut the fuck up.
Lazy bastard on 100k a year.
But Adebayor can shut the fuck up.
Lazy bastard on 100k a year.
bigspurs
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You try going to watch that fucking disgrace of a team then. They deserve a fucking slap, let alone a bit of halftime/fulltime booing!! That first half on Sunday was the worst performance I've seen at The Lane in twenty years, no bullshit.
It all sounds and looks like a bad case of low confidence, irrespective of wages and so forth. Things will turn (as at Newcastle) and for no apparent reason. Booing won't help, it's basic psychology.
Always Offside
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I really think we need to place more emphasis on intelligence when signing players. These players couldn't understand what AVB wanted & now they're struggling to understand what Poch expects. They did well under Harry, who kept it simple & gave them quite a bit of freedom. Mind you Harry did have VDV, Modric & Bale to provide the x factor ....
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