As many others on here I was willing to give TS a chance (didn't have a choice, really), but yesterday was a disastrous managing performance. When we desperately needed creativity, Eriksen remains on the bench. We were **** for 60-70 minutes - absolute dog**** - before he even made a change, when everyone could see that the 11 men on the pitch had been going nowhere for the entire game.
Two strikers worked well for about three minutes; unfortunately Soldado's shooting boots are still in Spain, otherwise we could have gotten lucky and held the mighty Norwich to a draw. But he missed, and we kept on banging our collective and clueless head into Norwich's defensive wall. We were DESPERATELY in need of creativity - not Townsend, a good player on his day, but more likely to shoot from 50 yards than to play the killer pass inbetween the defenders that we were so sorely missing.
Bentaleb - I like the kid, and he's done well for us overall - but he's not the Messiah that Timmeh seems to think. At least not yet. I'm happy to see youngsters playing, but not for the sake of them being youngsters. Time for a rest.
Lloris and Vertonghen - thanks and good luck wherever you go next seson. The shaking of heads...I fully understand. How frustrating must it be to see the shower of ****e in front of them, with a bunch of relatively talented players running around like headless chickens with no structure, no system and no game plan. It's a ****ing shame that we will lose these to great players (I'm certain they will move on), and can only hope Levy will shift them abroad.
As for Levy...what a massive, massive mistake sacking AVB in the middle of the season was. He had his faults, and things were certainly not going as well as we expected, but at least he seemed to have some sort of plan and system to how we were playing. Boring to watch? Yes. But not shockingly devoid of any form of tactics like yesterday. Not giving AVB until the end of the season, and then replacing him with a proper manager (or even kept him, had the results picked up), is the stupidest mistake Levy has made as a chairman of this club.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, of course, but you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that getting rid of a manager that was average at the very worst, and replacing him with a former player with no - zero - top level managing experience, was a hell of a gamble. Right now our only hope is that Adebayor somehow fires us into the CL (highly unlikely!), which allows us to keep our best players and attract a proper manager with a vision, a system and a game plant to take us further again.
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