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Being horribly cynical - can anyone imagine Daniel Levy being that fucked off with being out of the league cup? The manner of the defeat, of course, but I wouldn't be shocked (in fact, I probably think this is the case) if Levy and Pochettino have discussed this previously and have an 'understanding' as to what we're prioritising here.
The strategy that has gotten us to 6 FA Cup Semi-Finals since we last won it. That strategy that has gotten us to 2 Kangaroo cup semi-finals and FIVE Finals winning two of them in the same period. Have a word with yourself.
We also shouldn't forget that we need to build the team/earnings/profile of the club up to a point where we can be going for everything in sight. We're fucking great, but still on that improvement curve where league placement is absolutely essential. Champions League is an interesting one because we'd be a looooooong shot to win the damn thing, but an impressive European campaign is a great way to get the eyes of the world on Spurs and be taken seriously. We got complacent in our group last season, but have clearly rectified that this year.
Absolutely. Considering how vague/guarded Poch can be in press conferences, it was a big-ass hint in terms of the way he described last night's fixture in the pre-match press conference. Dare I say it, I think the 'maybe Kane was injured' was a bit of misdirect to avoid a backlash for deciding to omit him from the squad.
It wasn't a gamble mate. He put out a far stronger team than anyone on here even expected, I've never seen us so comfortable in a game (first half). I don't know what happened 2nd half other than we thought we got it won and thought we could win whilst in 2nd gear to conserve energy.
A gamble, perhaps, in not including Kane at all (maybe he had a knock, or maybe it was because of flying around to go to that awards do, I don't know), starting Foyth, and starting (and giving the armband to) Vorm. But I appreciate what you mean in terms of strength vs. the strength we all anticipated as fans.
IMO all things completely irrelevant to the result. We've won many games without Kane, (didn't need him in first half). BTW Kane was tired and was cramping, so rested, completely understandable given the two monumental shifts he put in in Madrid and Liverpool, in fact would have been stupid to play him. Foyth was absolute quality last night best player on the pitch. Don't get the armband relevance and how that contributed to losing and even with Lamela and Wanyama returning wouldn't have changed the difference from first half to second half performances, by the same token we had Rose returning and Dembele.
Astra Goo Goo rubbing their hands together at the thought.
Completely irrelevant? If we'd started Lloris, for example, I believe we'd have been more cohesive at the back and not crumbled to concede those three goals. But we started Vorm, which we've come to expect when rotating for a cup we don't prioritise.
No evidence whatsoever to support this mate. Vorm is an excellent keeper. Adrian, who is hated by the majority of West Ham (and has openly been stating he doesn't want to be at their club) pulled off 3 fine saves, go figure???? What is totally irrelevant is suggesting if a different player was fielded it would have meant a different result. Only time there is any justification to this is if said player was dogshit, i.e. had played dogshit in the past, never played well for us. Everyone that was selected to play has proven themselves to be worthy of selection with the exception of Foyth.
Europa League yes, but not the League Cup.
To each their own. I thought the players looked tired - though of course we'll never have an actual quantifiable metric to prove if this was the case or not.
Fair. Though I put the two together in terms of how much priority Poch has shown towards both (they were also quite continuous in terms of where the additional matches United had to play were scheduled).
The prioty of the majority modern clubs is to increase their revenue stream, it is why most are obsessed with the CL. The actual reality is that this has little bearing on a club of our standing. It doesn’t enable us to retain our best players, it doesn’t enable us to sign ones, it doesn’t enable us to become an elite club. Even with CL revenues those clubs capacity is still significantly above ours. The real presence globally is derived from consistent success at the highest level and we do not have the means to do that. And this current level isn’t sustainable, we have seen the reality of our postion with other clubs of simulator standing such as A Madrid, Dortmund and Monaco. But seemingly most in the supporter base won’t accept that reality, they will with othe clubs but not there own. We need to capitalise on this postion whilst we have this, we failed to do this with the Redknapp side and so far we following the approach as before so why would the outcome be any different to last time? I am acutely aware the game has moved on, aware that in many ways it has been for the worse especially when you have large number of supporters who are more concerned with status than they are with silverware.
