monkeybarry
Dimitar Berbatov
The thing is, what even are the qualifications needed for the Spurs game?!
I'm not sure it's the brag he thinks it is
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Igor the Interim
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I'm not sure it's the brag he thinks it is
ricky2tricky4city
Barry Daines
Without doubt there's plenty of people in the queue with you who don't like Sherwood.
So given the issue we appear to have with the current chap....pivoting to a fella who is largely unliked as a person would be the doofus move of the year.
Legohamster
Dimitar Berbatov
Fairly impressive achievement to make us look worse
Indeed, and again I’m not saying “let’s get Sherwood back”. It’s more that it’s quite shocking that even he seems to make sense in what he is saying we need at the moment.
He simply pointed out that what we really need at the moment is to realise that we have to work with what we have, realise that we have injuries and therefore can’t rely on players coming back and saving us and making the best of what we have. Talking to players, getting them on side and working out where they are happiest and most comfortable playing, putting them in their favoured positions and using them in a more simple, standard and organised way.
Not doing odd things like swapping Porro and Gray, playing left footers on the left (where available) and getting some balance in the side. Not playing three at the back when we don’t have the players to do it. Again, all absolute basics, but the thing that struck me was that he was sitting there listing these things out, and yet no one at the club seems to be currently coaching us in a way that just allows us to play in the most basic and effective way for the players we do have available. Actually trying to find a way of giving some of these players the confidence and making them realise the situation they are in and trying to pull them together to actually work as a unit to get themselves out of it.
It feels like currently, we just want to coach the players that they’re hopeless and hope this somehow inspires them to be brilliant overnight. I don’t personally think much of the quality of this squad, but they need to work together and be better than the sum of their parts, we aren’t doing that currently, not even close. If the current manager has already lost the dressing room, I don’t get how we stand any chance of staying up.
The guy who has one of the highest win percentages as manager for us? Surely he couldn't be talking some sense? The hate he gets from many Spurs fans considering he has never done anything outrageous and no one really knows him on a personal level is quite weird and pretty sad tbh....
parj
John Gorman
Have they downed tools or is there just no plan?
BrentwoodSpur
Jonathan Woodgate
Was the Spence handshake as it’s being reported? I.e having a dig at Tudor? I’d gone to bed at that point and can’t seem to find a clip anywhere. Speaks volumes if was a pop
90sSpursBook
Steven Caulker
From what I've picked up over many years some managers appeal to some sections of the squad but are despised by others. Sherwood got a tune out of the young players (who knew him from U21 and for overseeing their development into first team) but the more experienced foreign players (Eriksen, Vertonghen) weren't having him. Although he talks about the importance of being calm I'm pretty sure he'd lose his brick with them pretty quickly.
We don't have a core of young academy graduates in the squad right now - our changing room appears to be run by the existing leadership group of Romero, VdV, Porro, Vicario - I don't think he'd have any credibility with them at all.
Mikey10
Les Ferdinand
Put Romero and VDV in charge; it seems to de facto be the case anyhow. No escape from responsibility for the players then.
Mr Gogolak
Peter Taylor
We should sign the best sports psychologist money can buy, put him/her in charge of the team and let Mason take charge of the actual training. If anything, Tudor's failure proves that we won't get out of this mess with tactical sophistication. Either we get the few players we have left to focus on the fight and forget about the rest, or we might as well start looking at life in the Championship.
In Tudor's defence, you can't even isolate the more toxic elements of the dressing room the way Pochettino did, because we wouldn't be able to put out a team on weekends. It sounds like a joke but I think under normal circumstances, you'd look at the squad, identify those who have mentally checked out and send them training with the reserves.
In Tudor's defence, you can't even isolate the more toxic elements of the dressing room the way Pochettino did, because we wouldn't be able to put out a team on weekends. It sounds like a joke but I think under normal circumstances, you'd look at the squad, identify those who have mentally checked out and send them training with the reserves.
tommysvr
Pat van den Hauwe
I think there’s some similarities in the reasons certain managers are hated — it’s far beyond results.
Mikey10
Les Ferdinand
10.00am or 7.00pm: 'tis the Spurs sacking times...!
NoLimits01
Pascal Chimbonda
First you need to give them all time to wake up this morning, read the socials, check the markets and finally have a look at the sports pages.
DeanoAustin
Ian Walker
Didn’t Levy fire Stellini 3 games after appointing him as interim?
Can’t believe Tudor hasn't been fired yet. He’s not responsible for the current brickshow but he is responsible for taking us over at our lowest ebb in a generation and dragging us even further into the abyss. That’s taken some level of incompetence.
Fired him after an embarrassment at Saudi Sportswashing Machine, not sure how many games in but 3 sounds about right.