Spurs (A) | Post-Match Thread

[Sam1980]

Check your posts in the transfer forum. Nothing but negative.

And today is the reason I’m negative about outer transfer activity for a striker

 

[smallsteve]

Kinda worried if we spend 1/4 billion up-top, backed-up by a dodgy midfield and defence. hopefully the silver lining on today’s cloud will be that they realise that there are other priorities!

 

[Fordyboy46]

Mendy is an embarrassment. Get him out of this club.

Ake again showed he’s not at the required level to play for this City team.

Gundo looked like he was carrying a bit of timber.

Ferna looked his age second half.

Grealish, Torres and Sterling were OK. KDB looked sharp in his cameo.

Sterling was not ok

 

[jamesha]

Yep- Maguire and burger boy shaw were all back way before our English lads.. says something to me

Maybe the club are taking a long term view with a goal of having them fit throughout the seaon. Our lads have played a stupid amount of high stakes football in a short period of time. Many looked exhausted at the end of last season but got shipped off to the Euros straight away.

 

[MillsyTheMosher]

Yep,what did Ake do wrong today compared to a few of the others?

Showed Son on the inside instead of out wide. School boy stuff.

 

[Roachy]

Mendy is an embarrassment. Get him out of this club.

Ake again showed he’s not at the required level to play for this City team.

Gundo looked like he was carrying a bit of timber.

Ferna looked his age second half.

Grealish, Torres and Sterling were OK. KDB looked sharp in his cameo.

Torres OK? Didn't see him for the first 25 minutes, and did zero throughout. Same with Raheem, zero threat.

 

[hgblue]

It's a mystery thats for sure. Maybe Pep is so wrapped up with his possession and obsession with midfield thats he's just not seeing what's going on at left back. I'm clutching at straws here because surely he looks at re runs of the game and sees how crap Mendy is. As soon as Zinc came on we looked tonnes better down the left side.

If he carries on picking him I'm going to dust my boots off and turn up to training ;)

 

[BLUEMATT23]

For me the game was more or less lost before the start of the season
Pep gave Sterling, walker and stones and Jesus I think an extended holiday and low and behold again we get off to a sluggish start to the new season.
Sterling was hopeless today again and Stones and Walker didn't feature.
Stones and Walker play we don't lose this match today.
Rags yesterday had shaw, maguire, pogba etc all starting and they had a decent pre season And most other teams had the internationals back.
Why the fuck can't all our players be firing and ready to go?

Peps not helped us with his over cautious and arrogant approach to the new season In my opinion. We got away with it last year due to lack of crowds, we won't be so lucky this season.
I've every sympathy for fans who have been to London twice in a week and seen us have 1 fucking shot on goal.

 

[SamBlue]

For most of the game we looked completely clueless and played like it is the very end of the last season when we were pretty shit. Even very reliable Gundo looked crap. I don't know how it looked on TV, but Mahrez looked so out of sorts, to say he is not fit is such understatement.
I don't know what's Pep's excuse or justification for such a poor showing, but it doesn't bode well for his tactics that in his sixth season with us there is a clear profile of managers, teams and opposition set-ups he just fails against miserably. And this lot is by far the worst crowd, in London definitely, I fucking hate them.

 

[BlumerMooner]

I have calmed down a bit and I’m not one for bashing our players…

But

can you name a worse left back in the division than Mr Mendy? And why did pep play him with Ake, together they are a liability.

Nevertheless, no one lost the league after a game and we know we will get traction as the games go on.