I wouldn’t rule out Klinsmann coming back for a different role!
Properly breaking son because his time managing South Korea didn’t do it?
You say "fudge the Europa" but I'm thinking about a player being convinced to join. A striker say who is basically being asked to come in and rotate in the league with Richarlison and others with no Europe and then when Solanke, Johnson and Co are back he's not getting a look in. And there's not going to be any European football next season. I wouldn't see us as an attractive prospect in that situation. Unless I was desperate I'd be telling my agent to find me something else.
Who?
Yeah Bentancur, but all of Gray, Sarr and Bergvall were in the opposition half miles away from the play. So we're are trying to play that short rondo football but the other members of the midfield are miles away from the play so high risk football with very little potential reward.
I’ve just watched it back
A sandwich Poch didn’t have time to finish.
Yep
My friend you forget who you're talking to. I'm resolutely in the Levy out camp and I have been since 2011. That however does not disguise the and I'm sorry to say it ineptitude of the current coach. He's plays football he does not have the players (even when the squad is completely fit) to play. During an injury crisis you have to take stock, look at what Injuries you're carrying and adjust accordingly. He refuses to do and actually makes it worse. He plays an inexperienced 18 year DM at LB when we have a flipping LB sitting there on bench and then when desperate he brings that very same LB on.
This is where I do have a lot of sympathy. Back at the end of November he was saying in press conferences that due to the issues with injuries in the squad and the fact that we were having to put youth players on our bench to make up the numbers, we should be looking to strengthen in January with at least a couple of players. It's not like he hasn't been asking for the help. Yet here we are 2 months later and far from being prepared to act quickly in the window we have done nothing aside from Kinsky and even that looks reactive in response to Forsters injury.
Its not about fatigue. We've been doing daft stuff like that since the start of the season. It's the way we are set up. The way we are told to play. Yeah the injuries mean it's even harder to execute the plays than before and fatigue may be playing a part but we were sloppy from the start of this season. And I've said this a lot. Basically when we are "on it", Ange's high-risk, high-reward football can gain spectacular results and look spectacular. But if we are not quite on it we have a high chance of losing. There's no tactical shape or solidity to fall back on. We won't grind results out under Ange. We can't grow into games or arrest poor passages of play by taking a breather and playing it simple. But get this football wrong and at this level you're going to be punished 80% of the time. And that's the problem at this level. You dominate the ball, you're on top, then you try play a low percentage pass out from the back, because that's what the manager wants you to try and do....everyone is pushing up because if it comes off we will have an overload, again it's what the manager tells them to do, only it gets cut our and straight away they're the ones with the overload and they score.
A new guy might ask the players to not make those kinds of passes, we know Ange specifically does. A new guy would likely have his midfield much closer to the action especially if he wants to play short rondo football. I don't look at what happened today and think to myself that's its the inevitable consequence of possession football but it is what will happen under Ange at Spurs.
You explained this far more eloquently than I did, but this is exactly what I'm saying. For some reason there's this narrative that no other coach can do better but no other coach is going set us up this way and with this instructions.
It was a really really basic pass