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Tottenham are a striker short of top four spot, claims Sherwood

mawspurs

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Former Tottenham manager Tim Sherwood believes Spurs are a striker short of challenging for the top four this season.

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YiddoInPoland

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To be fair to him its pretty reasoned. If he spoke more like this when he was in charge (and had some tactics) he would have had more of a chance to stay.

Still think he is a bit of a cad ;)
 

Japhet

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Jeez! I actually agree with Sherwood. We'll be very thin on the ground during the ACN, especially if Ade decides to take a few extra weeks coming back.
 
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This would be the same guy (asswipe) who said "no thank you Daniel", to any January transfer money saying he could get top 4 with what he had. Saggy chops mk2. Move along now sonny and let go....
 

ikan

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Thank you, Tim for the prep talk. Spurs should take this as a motivation to prove doubters wrong.
 

newbie

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Although I agree we only need one striker to stay fit and have a good season it's not like we have been far off the top 4 and had a striker score 20 league goals in ages.
 
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fedupyid

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I would say we are short the spine of a team of the top 4. Top quality cb, cm and cf. We do not have anyone we can rely on in any of these positions.
 

nightgoat

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Presumably he's talking from the same perspective he took at the end of last season, that Soldado doesn't exist.
 

Chedozie

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Sherwood has always spoken sensibly about football and seems to have an eye for a player.

But he went mad when given the top job and had to go.
 

Vwbottom

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Taking an reasoned opinion and making it your own, a classic blagger technique.
 

eddiebailey

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This would be the same guy (asswipe) who said "no thank you Daniel", to any January transfer money saying he could get top 4 with what he had.
well a) he hadn't had the chance to assess the squad then; give Poch six months and he will be demanding a new striker; and b) there was no ANC last season.
 

jezz

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well a) he hadn't had the chance to assess the squad then; give Poch six months and he will be demanding a new striker; and b) there was no ANC last season.
Wait a minute
Tim said the squad wasn't good enough.
Now we're only a striker away?
He gave Bobby a chance, he scored then dropped him.
Sorry Tim changes his mind like the wind.
I'm glad he's gone.
Half our decent player's would have been sold if he was still here.
 

eddiebailey

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Sherwood has always spoken sensibly about football and seems to have an eye for a player.

But he went mad when given the top job and had to go.
Yes, the pressure - and lack of support from Levy - got to him. And he tinkered too much, to the point of confuisng everyone, including, I suspect, himself.

But I felt he might settle down given time, and I was concerned both that losing him would be a waste of the six months he had had to assess the squad, and that his passion for youth development - which is our only realsistic strategy for breaking into the top four - would not be shared by his successor. But Poch has taken most, if not all, the decisions I would have expected Tim to take - such as ditching Sandro and Holtby and persisting with Bentaleb - and crucially seems to have more buy-in from the players, to him personally and to what he is asking of them. He has actually succeeded in getting them to do some pressing, something both AVB and Tim talked about a lot, but which never seemed to happen. The club seems happier - of course, that might be tested by a few more results like the Liverpool one, but hopefully not. The real concern is that whereas Tim groped around to find tactical solutions in individual games, with admittedly mixed results, Poch seems rather too wedded to Plan A. Plan A, is a good plan, I like it, but it does make us a bit easy to suss out.
 
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Japhet

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Yes, the pressure - and lack of support from Levy - got to him. And he tinkered too much, to the point of confuisng everyone, including, I suspect, himself.

But I felt he might settled down given time, and I was concerned both that in losing him would be a waste of the six months he had to assess the squad, and that his passion for youth development - which is our only realsistic strategy for breaking into the top four - would not be shared by his successor. But Poch has taken most, if not all, the decisions I would have expected Tim to take - such as ditching Sandro and Holtby and persisting with Bentaleb - and crucially seems to have more buy-in from the players, to him personally and to what he is asking of them. He has actually succeeded in getting them to do some pressing, something both AVB and Tim talked about a lot, but which never seemed to happen. The club seems happier - of course, that might be tested by a few more results like the Liverpool one, but hopefully not. The real concern is that whereas Tim groped around to find tactical solutions in individual games, with admittedly mixed results, Poch seems rather too wedded to Plan A. Plan A, is a good plan, I like it, but it does make us a bit easy to suss out.


Bit early to say Poch is 'rather too wedded to Plan A'. If Liverpool had played like they did v Man City we would have been able to have a pop at them. Fact is, they bounced back and gave us a bit of a seeing to. Apart from that game we've looked OK given that we can only play what's in front of us. 3 games isn't enough time to make such sweeping statements IMO.
 

eddiebailey

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Bit early to say Poch is 'rather too wedded to Plan A'. If Liverpool had played like they did v Man City we would have been able to have a pop at them. Fact is, they bounced back and gave us a bit of a seeing to. Apart from that game we've looked OK given that we can only play what's in front of us. 3 games isn't enough time to make such sweeping statements IMO.
Based more on his time at Soton, where this was a criticism fans made of him. But yes, hopefully he will show he can be adaptable.
 
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