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Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*
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Paul Walsh
I hope he backs his words and learns his position better because this guy gets away with so much sloppy play I begin to wonder if there is some sort of bias going on.
Hopefully RDZ is able to elect real too level performances out of him. I do like that by bringing in Senesi we don't have to rely on him even if his form is poor again.
It's all well and good blaming the manager and Frank should shoulder plenty of the responsibility for last season. But VDV still had a job to do defensively, and he was often poor with any form of defending that didn't involve using his pace. Undoubtedly RDZ's front foot football will be more suited to VDV, but he has a lot to learn defensively nonetheless....
Muttley
Justin Edinburgh
Agreed, he's no different from any young (ish) defender in that regard. I think we have to remember that these last 3 years have been in the 22-25 age bracket. He's not going to be the finished article and I've seen 2 main managers set him up for failure. That is why he's been part of a defence that's averaged over 60 goals conceded.
Now it is more on him, as you say. He's heading into his mid to late twenties and that is where I think he will shut down the boo boys. It's all set up for him now. He has midfield protection. He has a manager with a good setup and if he stays fit can have a great time.
superspurs
Vedran Corluka
His latest interview with Alastair Gold, thought I would save people the visit to that "website"...
Roberto De Zerbi declares: 'Another Tottenham transfer bomba is imminent!'
The Tottenham Hotspur head coach has made it clear that another big exciting transfer is on its way to being signed and sealed
Roberto De Zerbi has revealed that another Tottenham transfer "bomba" is on the way and has also come to terms with captain Cristian Romero wanting to leave the club.
Spurs have already splashed out £237million in the window, with Sandro Tonali becoming their first £100million player just days after they splurged £85million on Mateus Fernandes.
Now the north London club are set to add to their attacking contingent with another big signing. Tottenham are expecting to seal a deal for Emirates Marketing Project winger Savinho in the coming weeks, but De Zerbi hinted that another big signing could arrive first.
"In the transfer market when I want one player I become like a shark, No chance to say no!
"The transfer market, it's not finished for sure, but we completed 60 per cent of our project in the transfer market. Now we have another bomba!" the Italian told football.london with an excited look in his eye.
De Zerbi confirmed the new arrival would be an attacker and when asked whether the deal was close, he added: "I hope, but it's not finished for sure."
The Tottenham boss said that his list of transfer targets was compiled during his negotiations with sporting director Johan Lange before he agreed to take on the role.
"A lot of players you are watching now on the pitch started from mid-March," admitted the 47-year-old. "The plan was clear at the beginning. The big problem was to stay up and play in the Premier League again."
Players will continue to exit Tottenham this summer as part of the rebuild and De Zerbi told football.london that he will respect Romero and Guglielmo Vicario's wishes to leave north London with the duo linked with Inter Milan and Juventus respectively.
"At the beginning of my time, in April, I had, I don't know, one million individual meetings!" he said. "And [the players] told me what was their idea. I said: 'Yes, help me to stay up, and then I help you to leave'. If you don't help me to stay up, you stay underwater with me!
"But Romero with me was unbelievable. Top. In his behaviour, his respect, he suffered when he did not play the last game. It is not true that he wanted to leave for Argentina to prepare for their World Cup. It's not true.
"After the semi-final [against England] we text a message, but I never called him to convince him to stay. I respected what he told me. Like for Vicario, like for every player."
De Zerbi added: "Romero as a player is one of the best centre-backs in the world, but at the end I said I want to respect the will of the players."
Another World Cup star linked with the exit door is England full-back Djed Spence, who will battle with Pedro Porro, who De Zerbi considers the best right-back in the world, for minutes in a season without European football.
The Spurs boss hinted that Spence, like midfielder Lucas Bergvall, could look for regular football elsewhere but that he would like to keep them.
"What I say to you, is the same I said to Djed and to Lucas - 'I would like you to stay'," he explained. "Not 'I want you to stay'. 'I would like you stay if you want to stay'.
"'If you don't want to stay, if you want to leave, you have to leave'. If you want to leave, speak with Vinai [Venkatesham] and Johan, because I don't manage the price, the sale.
"I can speak with Vinai and Johan about the best strategy, but I don't decide £30m, £40m, that's not my position and I don't want to change my position. It's tough enough to be a coach and I want to stay as a coach.
"But I respected the player's ideas and opinions or projects. But if they stay, they have to stay following my rules, decisions on the pitch.
"After two games, three games, if one player is not playing and he starts to be sad or not correct with the other players, the coaches, staff, the club, we would make a big, big mistake because we didn't learn from the past season."
De Zerbi also explained to football.london that the wingers he signs this summer will be chosen to fit his full-backs.
"No two players are the same. A winger can be a very wide winger, one able to come inside, a winger without a full-back, a winger able to play with the full-back," he said.
"We have four great full-backs at the moment, maybe the four most important full-backs in the world, because I think Pedro Porro is the best right-back in the world, with Udogie, Robertson, and Djed Spence can play right and left.
"Before bringing in a winger, we have to consider the full-back, because we start from the full-back, from the player we already have, no?"
He added: "And then we have to consider the number of goals. We have to increase the number of goals with the play, with the quality of the play, with the midfielders, the attackers, but we have to bring in players able to score goals. We have to think about the set pieces, increase also the height.
"But the idea in the transfer market is 24 hours per day you think what is the best player to put inside.
"I love working in the transfer market. It's not a pressure, it's one of the nicest parts of my job."
Roberto De Zerbi declares: 'Another Tottenham transfer bomba is imminent!'
The Tottenham Hotspur head coach has made it clear that another big exciting transfer is on its way to being signed and sealed
Roberto De Zerbi has revealed that another Tottenham transfer "bomba" is on the way and has also come to terms with captain Cristian Romero wanting to leave the club.
Spurs have already splashed out £237million in the window, with Sandro Tonali becoming their first £100million player just days after they splurged £85million on Mateus Fernandes.
Now the north London club are set to add to their attacking contingent with another big signing. Tottenham are expecting to seal a deal for Emirates Marketing Project winger Savinho in the coming weeks, but De Zerbi hinted that another big signing could arrive first.
"In the transfer market when I want one player I become like a shark, No chance to say no!
"The transfer market, it's not finished for sure, but we completed 60 per cent of our project in the transfer market. Now we have another bomba!" the Italian told football.london with an excited look in his eye.
De Zerbi confirmed the new arrival would be an attacker and when asked whether the deal was close, he added: "I hope, but it's not finished for sure."
The Tottenham boss said that his list of transfer targets was compiled during his negotiations with sporting director Johan Lange before he agreed to take on the role.
"A lot of players you are watching now on the pitch started from mid-March," admitted the 47-year-old. "The plan was clear at the beginning. The big problem was to stay up and play in the Premier League again."
Players will continue to exit Tottenham this summer as part of the rebuild and De Zerbi told football.london that he will respect Romero and Guglielmo Vicario's wishes to leave north London with the duo linked with Inter Milan and Juventus respectively.
"At the beginning of my time, in April, I had, I don't know, one million individual meetings!" he said. "And [the players] told me what was their idea. I said: 'Yes, help me to stay up, and then I help you to leave'. If you don't help me to stay up, you stay underwater with me!
"But Romero with me was unbelievable. Top. In his behaviour, his respect, he suffered when he did not play the last game. It is not true that he wanted to leave for Argentina to prepare for their World Cup. It's not true.
"After the semi-final [against England] we text a message, but I never called him to convince him to stay. I respected what he told me. Like for Vicario, like for every player."
De Zerbi added: "Romero as a player is one of the best centre-backs in the world, but at the end I said I want to respect the will of the players."
Another World Cup star linked with the exit door is England full-back Djed Spence, who will battle with Pedro Porro, who De Zerbi considers the best right-back in the world, for minutes in a season without European football.
The Spurs boss hinted that Spence, like midfielder Lucas Bergvall, could look for regular football elsewhere but that he would like to keep them.
"What I say to you, is the same I said to Djed and to Lucas - 'I would like you to stay'," he explained. "Not 'I want you to stay'. 'I would like you stay if you want to stay'.
"'If you don't want to stay, if you want to leave, you have to leave'. If you want to leave, speak with Vinai [Venkatesham] and Johan, because I don't manage the price, the sale.
"I can speak with Vinai and Johan about the best strategy, but I don't decide £30m, £40m, that's not my position and I don't want to change my position. It's tough enough to be a coach and I want to stay as a coach.
"But I respected the player's ideas and opinions or projects. But if they stay, they have to stay following my rules, decisions on the pitch.
"After two games, three games, if one player is not playing and he starts to be sad or not correct with the other players, the coaches, staff, the club, we would make a big, big mistake because we didn't learn from the past season."
De Zerbi also explained to football.london that the wingers he signs this summer will be chosen to fit his full-backs.
"No two players are the same. A winger can be a very wide winger, one able to come inside, a winger without a full-back, a winger able to play with the full-back," he said.
"We have four great full-backs at the moment, maybe the four most important full-backs in the world, because I think Pedro Porro is the best right-back in the world, with Udogie, Robertson, and Djed Spence can play right and left.
"Before bringing in a winger, we have to consider the full-back, because we start from the full-back, from the player we already have, no?"
He added: "And then we have to consider the number of goals. We have to increase the number of goals with the play, with the quality of the play, with the midfielders, the attackers, but we have to bring in players able to score goals. We have to think about the set pieces, increase also the height.
"But the idea in the transfer market is 24 hours per day you think what is the best player to put inside.
"I love working in the transfer market. It's not a pressure, it's one of the nicest parts of my job."
JerusalemMan
Les Ferdinand
I like the way he speaks!
"Yes, help me to stay up, and then I help you to leave. If you don't help me to stay up, you stay underwater with me"
"I don't love working with plan A, plan B, plan C. It is plan A, full stop, because all players are not the same. We have to increase the number of goals."
"Yes, help me to stay up, and then I help you to leave. If you don't help me to stay up, you stay underwater with me"
"I don't love working with plan A, plan B, plan C. It is plan A, full stop, because all players are not the same. We have to increase the number of goals."
revlis
Nick Barmby
clownfoot
Niko Kranjcar
Never seen a manager speak so openly about players leaving before. We don’t know the context of the conversation or if he just got ahead of himself, but saying that players asked to leave whilst they are still here and trying to leave seems refreshingly honest.
Wonder how the board feel about this? Can’t imagine Levy ever allowed such freedom with the press whilst on the record
Wonder how the board feel about this? Can’t imagine Levy ever allowed such freedom with the press whilst on the record
JerusalemMan
Les Ferdinand
Transfers
Muttley
Justin Edinburgh
What I like about this is the due diligence RDZ was doing whilst in France. He runs a club in Ligue 1 but runs his own small database on players that he believes can work in his system, agnostic of his employers. He doesn't walk into our club and then get Lange to sit down and explain the club targets. He walks in and sits down with Lange and gets our DoF to pull up a narrow set of players on the club's database that are on his list. He then helps Johan to shape our club's data based on his philosophy and within a few months they are wearing our shirt.
I've said this a million times, but this is what a DoF needs from a manager. We can all be anti-Lange, which has happened a lot, but at the same time we can also understand how difficult his job is if we keep chopping and changing managers and employing ones that don't fit the philosophy. I bet we've even hired ones who don't have the level of professionalism we see from RDZ.
I've said this a million times, but this is what a DoF needs from a manager. We can all be anti-Lange, which has happened a lot, but at the same time we can also understand how difficult his job is if we keep chopping and changing managers and employing ones that don't fit the philosophy. I bet we've even hired ones who don't have the level of professionalism we see from RDZ.
Yiddo
Nayim
Could Roberto De Zerbi finally be the manager who changes the entire culture at Tottenham?
With Levy gone and the club having hit rock bottom without actually being relegated, it feels like De Zerbi has come in with one clear message: it’s my way or no way.
Is this the strong, uncompromising approach that managers like Poch, José and Conte were never truly given the freedom to implement?
With Levy gone and the club having hit rock bottom without actually being relegated, it feels like De Zerbi has come in with one clear message: it’s my way or no way.
Is this the strong, uncompromising approach that managers like Poch, José and Conte were never truly given the freedom to implement?
clownfoot
Niko Kranjcar
Suppose it ties into a wider question (for another thread) of was the culture of Levy and ENIC overriding the culture of Tottenham.
As with every manager we get I hope De Zerbi is the guy to change things and spearhead us into a period of sustained success