Succinct, collating all the points SC - especially - is aware of. As it’s on bbc website it left me considering whether this was a form of Spurs PR dept at work...Informative enough piece but only a rehash of everything we already know.
Even now I'm not sure how much of the decay is down to Levy, as is suggested in the article. Sure, the team should've been refreshed more and some players should've been moved on, but we still have an excellent squad on paper and should be doing far better in the league than we have over the past 8/9 months.Hindsight is 20-20. At the beginning of the season, just about every pundit and newspapers predicted we'd be 3rd, behind City and Liverpool. No where were the words "crisis" or "decay" mentioned; not once. To come out with this article after we were trounced by Munich and Brighton is no great jounalistic endeavour; but a testimony to the lack of creativity and foresight on the part of so-called football writers.
Even now I'm not sure how much of the decay is down to Levy, as is suggested in the article. Sure, the team should've been refreshed more and some players should've been moved on, but we still have an excellent squad on paper and should be doing far better in the league than we have over the past 8/9 months.
The pundits have largely bought into this 'squad refesh' narrative when in reality I think the problems are more complicated and a lot of them come down to Poch's tactical intransigence and inability to get through to the players as he did at the start of his Spurs career.
Absolutely, Poch is not without blame. But the biggest blame, in my humble opinion, was his statement about wanting to quit if we had won the CL. That could possibly have led players to think likewise, which might have contributed to the present state of unrest within some of our playing staff. This is of course, a conjecture.Top post sir. I have to agree. Not in anyway saying “Poch out” but it would not be objective to say that he is not without blame.