Re: Gareth Bale
You're talking nonsense. First time I went to watch Spurs play in Tottenham yesterday this season and I can honestly say the injuries has taken its toll out of our squad. We are lacklustre on the pitch. It is true what people say, we are one man team, at the moment anyway. It only takes one super individual brilliance from a super talented individual to get us out of Jail every time. We just don't have any decent strikers on the pitch, we have no pace in the midfield. It is not AVB's fault that our form has dipped since January. He can only do so much with a squad lacks quality in depth. He's a good bright young manager with a fantastic attitude, has a continental mentality and progressive ideas to playing football.
It's his first season in charge, he's just getting his squad together and you already want to start questioning him? Get real.
i dont quite understand what you're trying to say here mate.
before you read this can i just say i dont want to pick a fight with anyone......and i do believe that it was mainly down to nerves what we say today but to argue some of the points you made...
by this stage of the season "getting your squad together" cant possibly be a reason for a lack of game plan, lack of motivation (if the off the ball work is anything to go by) and some other glaring things
i dont think the poster you quoted is saying anything like "sack him". just saying that questions need to be asked, thats all really.
even down to the injuries, AVB through no fault of his own, does tend to play a horse till its half dead at times....possibly bringing on the recurring injury issues to some of our players? like i said it isnt his fault....we need the points and clearly the players must be showing some improvement during training etc...and the back ups are not as reliable to deputise as he would have hoped.
i also dont believe that injuries explains the lack of a game style or playing pattern. unless they are injured to the level of messi v bayern.
no pace in midfield? we had dembele , lennon and bale in there man and two athletic overlapping full backs...or at least one over lapping and one that i wish did overlap more often. pace is not the issues and quite frankly you dont need pace to move intelligently off the ball
the striker thing is an issue and i dont think defoe played as well as he did in the start of the season . i still dont see how our lakc of strikers makes the playing style from back to edge of the final third an issue...as in how to move the ball into the attacking areas
i do think joey has a point here