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if you finish 4th and you can offer UCL's football, then it will be easier to attract good players.
and with good players it will be easier to make this thing stable and not temporary
I would say nobody has a better chance of getting this under invested mess of a squad into the top 4 than Antonio Conte.
He knows the players and what he has to work with and somehow achieved the impossible last year. So who knows
Antonio Conte at Tottenham feels like a relationship slowly fizzling out | David Hytner
Spurs manager is back in full health and returns for the second leg against Milan – a game which will shape their season
www.theguardian.com
I agree it’s hugely relevant and why we should refresh when it’s still achievable but my point is based on current form, we won’t be fourth for long.
Agree but then you look at his blind spots of two man midfield, late subs, PEH, Persic, Son and fucking Lucas and have to think that ship has sailed
we can't know. in this season many teams had ups and downs not only us.
if we manage to fix the defence we have possibilies.
another problem are the away matches: we totally lack of personality
I don’t see it as the defence at all. We make mistakes defensively but root cause is we never control the tempo of a game so come under pressure. Players like PEH, Persic and Son are not comfortable on the ball and are erratic
Not quite, mate... Liverpool, Newcastle and Brighton all leapfrog us if they win their games in hand. Even Brentford would be just 1pt behind us if they win their games in hand.
They all have to play us. We beat them, we stay above them, whether they win their game in hand or not (although it may not play out in that order due to fixture dates)
A good video actually. The end the most important bit and how swapping to Poch or similar will cost time and money.
because the game is totally planned and the players have limited freedom of choice.
the games are boring because conte works too much.
that's why his teams express their best the year after he goes away, because the players have a basic organization but also more freedom to create
Given those games are at Anfield and St James' Park, it's probably more in their hands than ours, but I take your point.
Yep if its Poch or someone else we're looking at a 14/15 style rebuild, it took 3 windows and a lot of good coaching. I hope people don't expect instant results but we have to rid ourselves of this dour football even if it means going back a step to eventually go forwards.
Similar to before, we need energy and effort. Absolutely sick of Son tiptoeing about and Persic jogging around with PEH the pointer
Yep, in a ideal world those 3 will be gone. Perfect time to sell Hojbjerg and the last opportunity to get something for Son. I'd give Perisic a free transfer.
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Video was better than I thought it was going to be.
plays down that woolwich considerably outspent us for the last 3 seasons.
Does say we need a top class CB and top class CM with some creativity and the ability to play with Kane.
Most of us agree with that. Personally not sure Conte hasn't tried Richarlison #9 with Kane #10 more and Kulu as an AM. Have a feeling that Poch might try that.
3 and 1/2 seasons of turgid football will be over soon.
Already looking forward to front foot attacking football under new gaffer next season.
The bigger worry is if we are going to successfully going to get rid of all rubbish players that are stealing wages and making us no better footballing outfit than the likes of Wolves and Villa.
Get rid of all those garbage players at any cost.
Already looking forward to front foot attacking football under new gaffer next season.
The bigger worry is if we are going to successfully going to get rid of all rubbish players that are stealing wages and making us no better footballing outfit than the likes of Wolves and Villa.
Get rid of all those garbage players at any cost.
That's the problem ditching Conte if we lose tonight. Any new manager coming in wanting to impose a new style might make results suffer. Performances are turd under Conte but recently we've been picking up wins. Levy has to weigh up what is best, sticking with Conte and hoping that with one game a week he can repeat last season and get top four or twist and bring in another manager who may not hit the ground running if he starts changing formation etc.
It isn't as easy a decision as is being made out.