The Tottenham Thread 13/14 (continued)

[Deleted member 58678]

Spurs have been the most gutless team I've seen this season.

No leaders, currently no manager (the one who is acting as one reminds me of a PE teacher taking the school footy team), team full of overrated arseholes.

Villas Boas was right to moan about the transfer policy and shouldn't have been sacked.

Still, they're not as bad as the Rags, eh?!

 

[IH8MUFC]

Spurs have been the most gutless team I've seen this season.

No leaders, currently no manager (the one who is acting as one reminds me of a PE teacher taking the school footy team), team full of overrated arseholes.

Villas Boas was right to moan about the transfer policy and shouldn't have been sacked.

Still, they're not as bad as the Rags, eh?!

Irony is the p.e teacher has done a better job than avb this season.

 

[Blue Is the Opposite of Blue]

Spurs have been the most gutless team I've seen this season.

No leaders, currently no manager (the one who is acting as one reminds me of a PE teacher taking the school footy team), team full of overrated arseholes.

Villas Boas was right to moan about the transfer policy and shouldn't have been sacked.

Still, they're not as bad as the Rags, eh?!

Irony is the p.e teacher has done a better job than avb this season.

 

[BigOscar]

At least under AVB it was clear what their tctics were, bt they just didn't have the right players for it so it went wrong in the big games. Under Sherwood, I honestly don't know that there are any tactics? I've not seen a group of players look less up for a fight either, so his much praised "character" and "mentality" clearly aren't up to the job of motivating or inspiring them either.

He's gotten exactly what he deserves though. Undermined and schemed to get AVB fired in order to steal a job that he hadn't put the hard work in to deserve, then came in talking the talk like Timmy big balls, but now is just being humiliated by his ineptitude. Every workplace has dickheads like Sherwood, who are more interested in backbiting, workplace politics and the quickest way to the top than actually learning their trade and earning their way up. But in football, once you get to the top, your lack of ability and experience will leave you ruthlessly exposed (unlike most business, where managers get away with sitting on their arse doing fuck all!). I'd be surprised if any chairman will be particularly interested in hiring him after this, at any level.

 

[NipHolmes]

Some news/gossip for anybody interested in the fall out at Spurs, it is indeed worse than many would think.

I have been told that Levy is too involved and is blamed by players for Spurs demise. The loss of Modric and Bale is seen as avoidable and Levy has lost the faith of the better players within the team.

Lamela, Paulinho, Vertonghen, Lloris and Sandro have all apparently asked for moves this summer.

Sherwood was called out for his comments about the team over the last few weeks and lost the dressing room, it came to a head yesterday when an unnamed player fronted up to Sherwood and Sherwood allegedly struck him in the face.

Only telling you what I was told. I have asked Castles, Honingstein and Di Marzio (the latter being the best ITK in football) to check out with their sauces what I was told.

Sherwood will be leaving Spurs in the summer, along with a few stars whom have grown disillusioned at Spurs. The presence of a Van Gaal is seen as Levy's final chance at making this work. They have a good squad and need a good captain to get the crew and ship on course again.

Jol,
Ramos,
Redkapp,
AVB,
Sherwood,

All the above have been hired to take over from the other by Levy, chopping and changing all the time. When will people realise that the guy is out his depth at footballing matters and just leave him to the business side of things. Jol and Redknapp are the two managers that should never have been sacked. AVB bettered Harry's totals and was trying to gel a system with a squad that had new players in it, he too should not have been sacked and all the blame for this season must lay at the door of Daniel Levy. He's parted with the best players and the best managers, he is the one holding the club back.

 

[NipHolmes]

Spurs have been the most gutless team I've seen this season.

No leaders, currently no manager (the one who is acting as one reminds me of a PE teacher taking the school footy team), team full of overrated arseholes.

Villas Boas was right to moan about the transfer policy and shouldn't have been sacked.

Still, they're not as bad as the Rags, eh?!

Irony is the p.e teacher has done a better job than avb this season.

Simply not true as pointed out. Bar a few goals from the hot and cold, cancer in the dressing room that is Adebayor, then Spurs are far worse. AVB had them trying to win games, he went in with a system and philosophy but lacked a scorer. He wanted a top striker in summer to compensate for Bale's goals, he got Soldado and half a dozen midfielders even though they already were quite strong.

AVB was failed by Levy, Levy has failed Spurs.

 

[Blue_Rossy]

how much did spurs spend in the summer? lol they are the worst team I've seen apart from the west ham games. How they are up in 6th is a miracle.

 

[aguero93:20]

how much did spurs spend in the summer? lol they are the worst team I've seen apart from the west ham games. How they are up in 6th is a miracle.

£110.5 million according to the guardian, although their transfers out funded it.
£310.9 million in the last 5 seasons.

 

[foxy]

Some news/gossip for anybody interested in the fall out at Spurs, it is indeed worse than many would think.

I have been told that Levy is too involved and is blamed by players for Spurs demise. The loss of Modric and Bale is seen as avoidable and Levy has lost the faith of the better players within the team.

Lamela, Paulinho, Vertonghen, Lloris and Sandro have all apparently asked for moves this summer.

Sherwood was called out for his comments about the team over the last few weeks and lost the dressing room, it came to a head yesterday when an unnamed player fronted up to Sherwood and Sherwood allegedly struck him in the face.

Only telling you what I was told. I have asked Castles, Honingstein and Di Marzio (the latter being the best ITK in football) to check out with their sauces what I was told.

Sherwood will be leaving Spurs in the summer, along with a few stars whom have grown disillusioned at Spurs. The presence of a Van Gaal is seen as Levy's final chance at making this work. They have a good squad and need a good captain to get the crew and ship on course again.

Jol,
Ramos,
Redkapp,
AVB,
Sherwood,

All the above have been hired to take over from the other by Levy, chopping and changing all the time. When will people realise that the guy is out his depth at footballing matters and just leave him to the business side of things. Jol and Redknapp are the two managers that should never have been sacked. AVB bettered Harry's totals and was trying to gel a system with a squad that had new players in it, he too should not have been sacked and all the blame for this season must lay at the door of Daniel Levy. He's parted with the best players and the best managers, he is the one holding the club back.

Perfect example why chairmen should leave football to football people. Levy hasn't a fucking clue, gets too involved with the football side of things, turns up to games in his Spurs coat thinking he's the fucking don and convinces himself he knows the insides and outs of the game.

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

Last summer as Spurs used the "Bale money" (before they'd got it!) many, including some on here, were arguing that Spurs were a good outsider for the title and a cert for the top 4. Lamela was a far better buy than Navas, City had wasted money on Fernandinho when Paulinho was still available and Soldado was a much better player than Negredo. Since those heady days all 3 Spurs players have failed to make themselves first choice regulars. The manager appears to be an irrelevance: AVB went down 1-0 at the Emirates and 1-0 at WHL to Arsenal, AVB got a draw at home where Sherwood went down 4-0 away to Chelsea, AVB shipped 5 to Liverpool at home while Sherwood limited Liverpool to 4 at "the lane" and, finally, AVB lost 6-0 at the Etihad while Sherwood only shipped 5 and actually scored 1 at home to City. In summary, 8 games against the real top 4, 24 points to play for but only one point taken, only two goals scored and a whopping 27 conceded! Even for the infamous "first season in the PL" that is quite some disaster. Yesterday, Sherwood looked as though he knows his time is up and looked relieved about it. He seemed resigned even before the first Liverpool goal. His players seemed as though they never realised they were supposed to play football and gave the most spineless performance I have ever seen; they had no need of AVB's mixture of a suicidally high line and a total lack of pace to get this thumping.

Yet, leaving the top 4 out of it, Spurs results against top half teams are good; 4 points from Everton and United, 6 from Southampton, 3 from Newcastle (and the home defeat came on the Sunday after a Europa league game) and 3 fro the home game against Stoke. Spurs appear to have found that the top 6 is about their ceiling - the top 4 is at least a class too far.