***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v The Garibaldis (will Marinakis eat his own club with a cuppa?), Sat Sept 5th, City Ground, 3pm***

[Muttley]

The one thing I have liked about today is that we've only made one change to the defence / midfield shield. The rest have been attack minded players.

Very bad day at the office for Glasner. Apparently we're easy to beat and he only got a nil nil. He should be thoroughly ashamed.

 

[robp135]

In a months time we win that game. Keep patient lads.

 

[SpurMeUp]

Got our first point. Manager has to be calm, and instil some confidence. A team without identity and any rhythm. Only Bentancur and Poro settled players. So a point isn't too bad.

How does RDZ get a settled team without a year of settling in? Maybe hypnosis. You can see there isn't any fluency in the side.

 

[Legohamster]

Point is something to build on.

But till Kudus is ready to start , we are playing short up top

 

[Mrs Vert]

90min gone, not a shot on target...

Sounds familiar

 

[JerusalemMan]

We can in Jan..........this lot look massively displaced

I expect steady improvement over the coming weeks

 

[Zavod 311]

£300m...... cant score a goal

 

[Benny_Lad]

You can't degrade a player like Solanke, basically manage him out the club and expect him to be firing on all cylinders.....the basic levels of logic as a club here are pathetic

Agree. Muddled thinking all through the summer is now playing out. My firm belief as I’ve always posted is Lange, VV and the owners are clueless.

 

[JerusalemMan]

I think simply having Maddison or Kulusevski would have significantly swung that game

 

[GlennGoddle]

Sounds familiar

So does back up to 17th.

 

[MartyFunkhouser]

It becoming increasingly evident that we have gone all in on an idealistic idea and not thought about certain areas.

Its all well and good binning everyone off and claiming they are "17th fodder" or "bad eggs" but you need some of them and its clear that we don't have the right ingredients based on the new guys alone, even with all fit there is ALOT missing and will be.

The lack of presence up top is clear as day, I think we have likely backed the wrong horses with the back 4 or the formula is not right, both Vans are not great defensively and it nearly killed up today (I get Tonali fcuked it).

Its early days but its clear you don't get the same for your money anymore, I am not expecting the moon but for 75-100m players you want impact ....................... yet to see it

 

[Mrs Vert]

3-0, 2-0, 0-0

Progress

Next week we may feel what its like to celebrate a goal.
How we went an entire summer not sorting our strike force is amazing to me. I think that should have been the first thing to sort.

I cannot take seeing much more of Tel

 

[Benny_Lad]

I think simply having Maddison or Kulusevski would have significantly swung that game

A striker is an important thing in football.

 

[Mikey10]

I think simply having Maddison or Kulusevski would have significantly swung that game

I’m not sure we can throw all our eggs in those rather unreliable baskets, unfortunately.

 

[SirPercyHotspur]

Point is something to build on.

But till Kudus is ready to start , we are playing short up top

As long as we don't allow Kudus to take throw ons

 

[Robspur12]

Really pleased that we have kept a clean sheet- that is so important. But would have
liked the Solanke sub much sooner.

 

[Gazza Dazzla]

That was an improvement on the shambles of the first 2 weeks. Gradually getting our best team on the pitch, maybe next week we’ll finally be able to do that… one month into the season.

 

[ShipOfTheseus]

A striker is an important thing in football.

And if you can’t buy one in the window, register the one you have left afterwards.

 

[MartyFunkhouser]

Really pleased that we have kept a clean sheet- that is so important. But would have
liked the Solanke sub much sooner.

Solanke is going to be key with this side

 

[Nexus1967]

As mentioned above it all seems a bit pre season still. Games always seem to get a bit disjointed when both sides make multiple substitutions