Jose Mourinho

[dagraham]

It does not help that Poch signed.
Ndombele brilliant but soft as butter and loses the ball in the area between our penalties area and the halfway line too often the worst area to lose possession.i must say for all his ability he comes across as a bit of a wimp.
Sessegnon has proved nothing and has not put his stamp on left back or left wing the jury is out.
Le Celso looks neat but as of yet has produced nothing of note .How long do we wait for him to be productive?
These players may come good but right now we need players that are good to go .
If we do sign anybody they must be proven premier league players or players of sufficient quality that they will produce from the off.

That’s why I wasn’t one of those creaming my pants over our summer transfer business.

The only one I was genuinely excited about was N’Dombele. Little did we know he would have all the fitness issues, but I still think he has all the tools and long term will be a great signing.

Lo Celso I knew nothing about and the little I had seen looked promising ( albeit totally one footed), but couldn’t really understand why he was being touted as some kind of midfield creative saviour.

And Sess although I was by no means against the signing, he was in no way going to come straight in and tear it up. It felt more like one of our “one for the future” signings. Nothing wrong with that at all, but we didn’t do enough business for the here and now that we needed.

We still had a broken Wanyama and a not up to it Dier in DM, still had the clusterfuck of a RB situation and still needed another striker imo.

 

[Rob]

It's going to go one of two ways:

1) We get Campos in who helps refresh the squad with exciting young talent, we win trophies and Jose grooms Sacrmento to take over building a legacy for the next decade.

2) We don't sign anyone, our top players leave, Jose has a breakdown and we go back to mid-table obscurity a la Everton.

 

[Deleted member 27995]

It's going to go one of two ways:

1) We get Campos in who helps refresh the squad with exciting young talent, we win trophies and Jose grooms Sacrmento to take over building a legacy for the next decade.

2) We don't sign anyone, our top players leave, Jose has a breakdown and we go back to mid-table obscurity a la Everton.

Option 2 sounds far to plausible. That Amazon docu. is the death knell for us ... ?

 

[rez9000]

It's going to go one of two ways:

1) We get Campos in who helps refresh the squad with exciting young talent, we win trophies and Jose grooms Sacrmento to take over building a legacy for the next decade.

2) We don't sign anyone, our top players leave, Jose has a breakdown and we go back to mid-table obscurity a la Everton.

Or 3) This is limbo and we'll go on like this...

 

[DeeJay_Yid]

I’m pretty sure we all know how Jose works. Levy will have to open up his chequebook. Jose will have his typical siege mentality. This season is a write off, hopefully we get into CL spots.

Once he has his summer of training and gets rid of the deadwood, bring his mentality into the team. Next season is going to be amazing.

 

[Marauder]

Welcome to Tottenham Mr Mourinho. You are about to witness 3 months without Kane and an empty transfer policy in January........

Gooooooood luck..... ?

He is already looking a bit fucked off, reluctantly repeating the party line in interviews about no transfers and working with existing players etc etc. Worryingly though, for the first time I heard him today say in a press interview that we have a small squad!

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

I have to say I do like his pressers at least, mabye 10m a year for decent pressers is worth it regardless of the football and results served up haha?

 

[spursfan77]

He is already looking a bit fucked off, reluctantly repeating the party line in interviews about no transfers and working with existing players etc etc. Worryingly though, for the first time I heard him today say in a press interview that we have a small squad!

I think by that he means players he can rely on. Sounds familiar.

 

[JimmyG2]

I meant to ask this before.
The 2 subs against Southampton
were in response to injuries.
in the 25th/ 75th minutes.

Jose is usually pro-active
but he didn't even use the 3rd. sub
and we were losing from the 17th minute.

Any theories?
trolling Levy perhaps?

 

[Wheeler Dealer]

He is already looking a bit fucked off, reluctantly repeating the party line in interviews about no transfers and working with existing players etc etc. Worryingly though, for the first time I heard him today say in a press interview that we have a small squad!

Mourinho is a master at throwing other people under the bus..

 

[Metalhead]

Mourinho is a master at throwing other people under the bus..

I'm certain that this comment has been posted at least 50 times on this thread or it's just deja vu.

 

[wrd]

I meant to ask this before.
The 2 subs against Southampton
were in response to injuries.
in the 25th/ 75th minutes.

Jose is usually pro-active
but he didn't even use the 3rd. sub
and we were losing from the 17th minute.

Any theories?
trolling Levy perhaps?

Unfortunately we've seen a few of the pet peeves I also had with Poch which is slow subs and also players who seem manager favourites not being dropped or subbed no matter their performances.

 

[Gb160]

Unfortunately we've seen a few of the pet peeves I also had with Poch which is slow subs and also players who seem manager favourites not being dropped or subbed no matter their performances.

It's almost like elite level managers who've spent their entire adult lives working professionally in the sport sometimes make decisions that don't make sense to some fan on the internet.
It's very odd.

 

[allatsea]

It's almost like elite level managers who've spent their entire adult lives working professionally in the sport somehow make decisions that don't make sense to some fan on the internet.
It's all very odd.

You have to wonder why those fans are on the internet and not doing the managers job ?

 

[Gb160]

You have to wonder why those fans are on the internet and not doing the managers job ?

It's one of life's mysteries mate.

 

[TwanYid]

You miss my point entirely.I also did not say we are not ambitious . I am not saying Levy has not done a good job with the infrastructure of the club. I am saying just as Man City or Chelsea have owners who are prepared to pay insane amounts of money for players we do not operate that way. Should Joe Lewis decide to act that way he could and it would not be to the financial detriment of the club as he can afford to do it.

Now he won’t do that as we don’t operate that way and I am ok with that as he owns the club and can operate as he sees fit.My post was merely stating he could change the way he operates should he choose to and I would be cool with that also

Thank you. Thank you thank you thank you.

It’s not as if we’re owned by some guy worth 25 mil who borrowed a wedge from his grandparents to buy the club. Joe Lewis is a billionaire, wealthy beyond belief.

He could invest in some big-time players- maybe even (gasp!) taking a loss on said players- and we still would be fine. He just maybe would have to cut the seasonal staff on one of his yachts or something.

People act like we’re owned by a group of pensioners We’re not. We choose to run the club as if we are, however.

 

[Gb160]

People act like we’re owned by a group of pensioners We’re not. We choose to run the club as if we are, however.

Not really.
People act like we are owned by an investment company...because the owners run the club like an investment company.
What you're asking for is like asking a cat to start woofing...investment companies aren't huge fans of the term 'loss'.

 

[TwanYid]

Not really.
People act like we are owned by an investment company...because the owners run the club like an investment company.
What you're asking for is like asking a cat to start woofing...investment companies aren't huge fans of the term 'loss'.

Nope- what I'm asking for is for the investment company to invest in players that will- in all likelihood- add greatly to our team- and by "greatly" I mean creating EPL title winning and/or Champions League winning squads.

Do you think Fenway Sports Group wants to lose money? No, right? And does every big-time money-spending gamble they take pay off? Well, no, of course not. And yet, their investment in both the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool have created multiple-time World Champions and, in the process, has hugely raised the profiles of two once-great teams, both of whose collective successes were- until fairly recently- relatively modest.

What I'm proposing is that ENIC act like an investment company that's prepared to gamble, as in: buying players like Virgil Van Dyke and Alison Becker; targeted gambles (as opposed to Leeds-type, "Let's bet money that we don't even have yet; indeed, the whole the whole wedge- on us making the Champions League" gambles, or as I like to refer to it: being criminally stupid) in order to get us over the top.

Chelsea gambles. Roman gambles. Sometimes his gambles pay off, sometimes they don't. But think how much the profile of that once-dogshit, horrible, scum-sucking, bottom-feeding troglodyte club has grown- to the point where little kids in Brooklyn, NY, USA wear Chelsea shirts with "Hazard" on the back. If he sold the club today he'd probably triple his original investment, an investment built on- sorry, but: gamble, after gamble, after gamble, after gamble...

Perhaps Levy, Lewis and co. should enter the casino as well, seeing as the way we're going guarantees only one thing- that we won't be relegated- and nothing else. We are now perennially "solid," which is fine, and a damn sight better than the alternative- and Daniel, Joe and co. are to be commended for this.

But you know what I want? I want some hateful gooner/scouser/Manc/blue vermin-dickhead to have to say the words "Fuck me, but here we are in 2023 and those North London cockney bastards are actually winning things! It's like we're living in some horrible, parallel universe! Bloody Totten-fucking-ham are bagging trophies! Goddamn Spuds- I feel sick to my stomach..." as he leaves the pub in abject horror having watched Timo Werner, Harry Kane, Heung-Min Son and Ryan Sessegnon lift our second consecutive Champions League Trophy. I want that piece of shit, scum-supporting wanker filth (and others of his ilk) to suffer greatly- to feel the pain of the new Spurs- a team which is no longer a bridesmaid but is now the fucking beautiful bride.

I mean, is it only other non-"investment-company-owned"-clubs that will ever get to feel that joy?

So yeah, we can get riskier, we can change our ways a bit, we can "level-up" so to speak without "doing a Leeds" and/or hemorrhaging money. I know this because I've watched other teams do just that, year after year after year. Dortmund (FFS) won/win major trophies. Atletico Madrid (in some ways the "us" of Spain) won- and continue to appear in (and occasionally win)- major trophies, Liverpool- a comparatively tiny English city with absolutely nothing going for it except for the football team (one managed- for a time- by an owl with a lisp and, later, featuring Loris Karius in goal) have far, FAR surpassed us, to the point of embarrassment if we're being honest...

YOLO, Joe, Danny and co; now's the time to get a little nuts, to go for it and end our collective misery- and even if it somehow, someway it doesn't go as planned, something tells me it'll all be fine. Methinks that even in that worst case scenario, none of the ENIC guys would have to miss a meal.

 

[Gb160]

Nope- what I'm asking for is for the investment company to invest in players that will- in all likelihood- add greatly to our team- and by "greatly" I mean creating EPL Title winning and/or Champions League winning squads.

Do you think Fenway Sports Group wants to lose money? No, right? And does every big-time gamble they take pay off? Well, no as well- correct? And yet, their investment in both the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool have created multiple-time World Champions.

So what I'm proposing is that ENIC act like an investment company that's prepared to gamble, as in: buying players like Virgil Van Dyke and Alison Becker--type gambles (as opposed to "bet the whole wedge on us making the Champions League, like Leeds did"-type gambles) in order to get us over the top.

Chelsea gambles. Roman gambles. Sometimes the gambles pay off, sometimes they don't. But think how much the profile of that once-dogshit, horrible, scum-sucking, bottom-feeding troglodyte club has grown- to the point where little kids in Brooklyn "support Chelsea." If he sold the club today he'd probably triple his original investment, an investment built on- sorry- but: gamble, after gamble, after gamble, after gamble...

Perhaps Levy, Lewis and co. should enter the casino as well, seeing as the way we're going guarantees one thing- we won't be relegated- and nothing else. We are perennially "solid," which is fine (better than the alternative. But you know what I want? I want some hateful gooner/scouser/Manc/blue vermin-dickhead to have to say the words "Fuck me, but here we are in 2023 and now, sometimes, those North London cockney bastards are actually winning things! It's like we're living in some horrible, parallel universe, it is. Goddamn Spuds..." as he it all- and as he leaves the pub in abject horror watching Timo Werner, Harry Kane, Heung-Min Son and and Ryan Sessegnon lift our second consecutive Champions League Trophy. I want that wanker to feel the pain of the new Spurs- no longer the bridesmaids, now the fucking bride. Or is it only other, non-"investment-company-owned"-clubs that will ever get to feel that joy?

We can get riskier, we can change our ways a bit, we can "level-up" so to speak without "doing a Leeds" and/or hemorrhaging money. I know this because I've watched other teams do just that, year after year after year. Dortmund (FFS) won/win major trophies. Atletico Madrid (in some ways the "us" of Spain) won- and continues to appear in and occasionally win- major trophies, Liverpool- a comparatively tiny English city with absolutely nothing going for it except for the football team (one managed- for a time- by an owl with a lisp and, later, featuring Loris Karius in goal) have far, FAR surpassed us, to the point of embarrassment if we're being honest...

YOLO, Joe, Danny and co.; now's the time to get a little nuts, to go for it and end our collective misery- and even if it somehow, someway it doesn't go as planned, something tells me it'll be fine.

Look I'd bloody love if old Joe went nuts and spunked his fortune on us.
I just don't see that sort of approach ever happening under Enic...it goes completely against everything they've done whilst they've owned us.
To be clear, In an ideal world I'd like new owners who are prepared to approach things differently.

 

[McFlash]

Nope- what I'm asking for is for the investment company to invest in players that will- in all likelihood- add greatly to our team- and by "greatly" I mean creating EPL Title winning and/or Champions League winning squads.

Do you think Fenway Sports Group wants to lose money? No, right? And does every big-time money-spending gamble they take pay off? Well, no, of course not. And yet, their investment in both the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool have created multiple-time World Champions and, in the process, has hugely raised the profiles of two once-great teams, both of whose collective successes were- until fairly recently- relatively modest.

What I'm proposing is that ENIC act like an investment company that's prepared to gamble, as in: buying players like Virgil Van Dyke and Alison Becker--type gambles (as opposed to "bet the whole wedge on us making the Champions League, like Leeds did"-type gambles) in order to get us over the top.

Chelsea gambles. Roman gambles. Sometimes the gambles pay off, sometimes they don't. But think how much the profile of that once-dogshit, horrible, scum-sucking, bottom-feeding troglodyte club has grown- to the point where little kids in Brooklyn "support Chelsea." If he sold the club today he'd probably triple his original investment, an investment built on- sorry- but: gamble, after gamble, after gamble, after gamble...

Perhaps Levy, Lewis and co. should enter the casino as well, seeing as the way we're going guarantees one thing- we won't be relegated- and nothing else. We are perennially "solid," which is fine (better than the alternative. But you know what I want? I want some hateful gooner/scouser/Manc/blue vermin-dickhead to have to say the words "Fuck me, but here we are in 2023 and now, sometimes, those North London cockney bastards are actually winning things! It's like we're living in some horrible, parallel universe, it is. Goddamn Spuds..." as he it all- and as he leaves the pub in abject horror watching Timo Werner, Harry Kane, Heung-Min Son and and Ryan Sessegnon lift our second consecutive Champions League Trophy. I want that wanker to feel the pain of the new Spurs- no longer the bridesmaids, now the fucking bride. Or is it only other, non-"investment-company-owned"-clubs that will ever get to feel that joy?

We can get riskier, we can change our ways a bit, we can "level-up" so to speak without "doing a Leeds" and/or hemorrhaging money. I know this because I've watched other teams do just that, year after year after year. Dortmund (FFS) won/win major trophies. Atletico Madrid (in some ways the "us" of Spain) won- and continues to appear in and occasionally win- major trophies, Liverpool- a comparatively tiny English city with absolutely nothing going for it except for the football team (one managed- for a time- by an owl with a lisp and, later, featuring Loris Karius in goal) have far, FAR surpassed us, to the point of embarrassment if we're being honest...

YOLO, Joe, Danny and co.; now's the time to get a little nuts, to go for it and end our collective misery- and even if it somehow, someway it doesn't go as planned, something tells me it'll be fine.

You never know though, maybe, just maybe, now that all of the groundwork is in place, Levy (and ENIC) will start actually acting like the big boys that they supposedly want to be.
I mean, I'm not gonna hold my breath but being a Spurs fan, I'm ever optimistic!