I think he's been brainwashed,everyone who comes to our club can't help but turn into a nice person. It's the best place in the world!!!!Succumbed to Levy’s charm
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I think he's been brainwashed,everyone who comes to our club can't help but turn into a nice person. It's the best place in the world!!!!Succumbed to Levy’s charm
OK.
He's just been kicked. I'll give him a pass.
He's just been kicked. Alli is available. Not Dier's fault that Moura is offside.
What Dier does here is exactly the kind of thing that drives me mad. We have a corner, and Dier turns and passes back to Aurier, putting our defence under unnecessary pressure.
We had just been defending a set-piece. The issue here was reorganising our defensive line after dealing with the initial threat. But I think I know the type of thing you are on about.
Anyway, I have told you 1,000,000 times that I really dislike him as a player. But you have dementia, and keep forgetting.
My initial point was that Dier was not the reason we ended up defending deep.
You clearly don't understand superstitions.
The only thing that works is NOT going with your superstitions, so as your new superstition is to drink from your Spurs mugs, you MUSTN'T DO IT.
But now that I've explained it to you and you realise that your new superstition is TO USE THE MUGS, you mustn't use them.
Get it?
...This will have to carry on right up to kick off (kind of like an extended 'she loves me, she loves me not').
Yep strange because we didn’t win anything.
Don’t remember the media or many fans hyperventilating with grief when we sacked Redknapp
Not temper your desire but your expectations after one game and 3 days at the club. As you say it's gonna take a while for Jose to work things out with both established players and the youth coming through.Come on Steve, I'm no apologist for Poch, I wanted him gone, but we've been here before this season, where we've played pretty well for a half, an hour or even 70 minutes (Palace, Leicester, Southampton, even Bayern was good for 40 minutes eg) and then capitulated. We coughed up two goals today to a team in even worse form and confidence than us.
As I said, I think Mourinho simplified things a tad, the format, the approach and the personnel - that's good - and everyone upped the effort a few percent as you'd expect for the new gaffer, that's good - but other than that it wasn't vastly different to some other games we've seen, it still had tropes we've seen for while - a midfield that went a bit awol (offensively and defensively) at the first sign of pressure increased, an attack that stopped pressing, and a frailty all over.
And that's normal, I don't expect all those things to disappear over night, or even in a month or two, but we'll get some idea in a couple of months whether these issues are really being solved, whether that extra effort becomes standard, and if we do see that over a period of time, I'l happily jump aboard the suck each other off fest.
I'm not going to temper my desire to see what I think is a better equipped young player who's spent 10 years learning a specific position to given some time to develop. I think if Pochettino had not lost his bollocks where this is concerned, there's a good chance he'd still be in the job.
I'm not daft enough to think that Mourinho was going to pick Skipp today or even in the next few weeks, but that doesn't stop me thinking he'd be a better 6 than the likes of Dier and Sissoko with a couple of games under his belt. And if I'm still watching Sissoko and Dier there in 3 months time, chances are I'll feel the same about Mourinho doing it as I did Poch.
Just seen the best thing ever on sKUMB.
In a nutshell, Spurs are 'massive chokers' because we only won 3-2 (from being 3-0 up).
What fucking world to those Danny Dyer/walk like you've shit yourself nomarks live in?
"What made me [start Winks and Dier] was the positional play of the four attacking players," Mourinho told BBC Sport. "I needed one midfielder that was more positional and I needed one midfielder that was more a passer of the ball.Look, I'd rather Dier out there as a DM than Sissoko, because he at least has a better game reading brain and does some of the simple stuff better, and Sissoko actively hides even more than Dier does, even under no pressure at times.
Maybe Dier's issues will be less emphasised under a more pragmatic approach of Mourinho than a more expansive and tactically challenging Pochettino, but still not my idea of a real midfielder, especially not a CM2 which asks it's components to be really rounded.
I went full on Spurs merch mental. Slippers, lounge pants, dressing gown, retro shirt, 2 x pin badge, scarf, baseball cap, and beer in a Spurs pint glass. It started as a joke, can't believe I've got to turn up at the stadium like that on Tuesday.Just realised that I inadvertently broke one of my superstitions yesterday, and we still won
(in case you're interested, it's the one that I don't use my Spurs mug on match days..... and I had actually used both! Know what I'm going to do next weekend)
Wear a pink carnation just so people can recognise you.I went full on Spurs merch mental. Slippers, lounge pants, dressing gown, retro shirt, 2 x pin badge, scarf, baseball cap, and beer in a Spurs pint glass. It started as a joke, can't believe I've got to tirn up at the stadium like that on Tuesday.
"What made me [start Winks and Dier] was the positional play of the four attacking players," Mourinho told BBC Sport. "I needed one midfielder that was more positional and I needed one midfielder that was more a passer of the ball.
"Of course, when I see Moussa, he is a very good player, but he is very different than my needs. I need that stability from Dier and I need the kid to move the ball faster, also positionally and also to find the attacking players in the positions we want them to find the ball."
Jose Mourinho shares why Moussa Sissoko didn't start for Tottenham at the London Stadium
Eric Dier and Harry Winks started in the middle of the park for Tottenham Hotspur yesterday. It has been a tough old road for Moussa...www.hitc.com
Instead of the usual gin?
Is there anyone left she ain’t tried it on yet???Gin? Ugh! Like drinking perfume....... no, I'm a vodka girl........ain't that right Chucklevision82
Our Arry knew...
Sammy, Sammy, SammyIs there anyone left she ain’t tried it on yet???
:gylfi:
Yes there were long balls in the first half, but more importantly, we were on fire, sparking flames. The passing was quick and incisive and the closing down was sharper. It was like looking at the Spurs team at the height of Poch's heyday. Balls weren't constantly being passed sideways. There were accurate, insightful balls going in all directions, including devastatingly through the middle. Attackers (especially Moura & Son) were moving around the pitch and bamboozling West Ham. Dele seemed alert and energetic, just like the old days. It was good to watch.Afternoon all...
I've only seen the motd highlights rather than the full game but have seen a couple of mentions of us playing more 'long balls' than previously. From what I have seen it looked like we were happy to play a pass that bypassed the midfield if it was on, as opposed to lumping it long looking for the knock down.
Anyone that's seen the full match confirm/deny?
Dier is also coming back from injury lay offs and will improve
Jose tried to buy him and Toby in the past so will persevere with him for a while yet