*** SPURS v BIRMINGHAM *** Official Match Thread

[yanno]

I am a Ramos fan. if I was a Sevilla fan I would be too pissed off to be posting here :razz:.
I don't think he'll go for any Sevilla players. Firstly because he didn't leave in good terms, and secondly because Del Nido, Sevilla chairman, would rip Spurs off. Del Nido success has been built on two premises: buying very cheap and well, and selling very expensively.
If there is a cheap buyout clause in Poulsen's contract like some suggest then Ramos may go for him but otherwise he'll get his players from other teams. I wouldn't be surprised if he goes for some la liga players first, the ones he knows best, although he watches a lot of international football and may have seen a player from somewhere else who could improve the team. Kanoute's signing was his for instance.

Very interesting. So you think it was Ramos who wanted Kanoute, rather than Sevilla DoF Monchi? That suggests Ramos is both a good judge of a player as well as a coach who knows how to best utilize a player's strengths. Because Fredi has been a much more consistently outstanding player for Sevilla than he was for Spurs.

As for Sevilla, I watched them play Real Madrid off the park a fortnight or so ago, and was hugely impressed. But they seem to have hardly got a result this season apart from that win over Real - even though Luis Fabiano has finally hit a hot goalscoring streak and can't stop scoring. Football really is a funny old game..

 

[Juande_Ramos]

Very interesting. So you think it was Ramos who wanted Kanoute, rather than Sevilla DoF Monchi? That suggests Ramos is both a good judge of a player as well as a coach who knows how to best utilize a player's strengths. Because Fredi has been a much more consistently outstanding player for Sevilla than he was for Spurs.

As for Sevilla, I watched them play Real Madrid off the park a fortnight or so ago, and was hugely impressed. But they seem to have hardly got a result this season apart from that win over Real - even though Luis Fabiano has finally hit a hot goalscoring streak and can't stop scoring. Football really is a funny old game..

http://www.worldsoccer.com/interviews/sevilla_coach_juande_ramos_interview_107105.html

 

[yanno]

http://www.worldsoccer.com/interviews/sevilla_coach_juande_ramos_interview_107105.html

Thanks for that link to an interview with Ramos when he was coach of Sevilla. It's a good insight into Juande's footballing philosophy, and how he works with a DoF.

Ramos does seem very confident in his methods, and appears to want to ensure his players share that confidence. I've already noticed that emphasis on the mental side with some of his comments since joining Spurs.

Returning to Juande's 4-3-1-2 (roughly) formation against Birmingham, I'm now more convinced than ever that it was a case of Ramos being positive, rather than negative. In other words, it was a case of playing to our strengths, rather than panicking about our all too obvious defensive weaknesses.

Against the Spammers and Aalborg, he'd started with only two strikers, and had to switch to three strikers after we'd gone behind. We'd then come storming back. So why not start on the front foot with Bent, Berba and Keano all playing centrally, and try to get an early goal or two?

I respect Ramos for having the cojones to play to our attacking strengths and go for it, rather than being negative and packing our side with (not very good) defensive players. And I'm sure he'll switch back to a more orthodox formation once we get a fit squad and, hopefully, a CB and a CM in January.

 

[Wellspurs]

Robbies appeal rejected- The Tossers at the FA

 

[41john]

Robbies appeal rejected- The Tossers at the FA

Bastards! 3 games without him.

Time for bent and berbatov to show us what they can do!

 

[Dibby]

Bent is injured John.

 

[Juande_Ramos]

So how long have you been watching Spurs in particular and the EPL in general?

Only since its creation :grin: