Other Weekend Games 5th & 6th Oct

[darkstarexodus]

Great finish for the third.
It might seem shortsighted to sack Pochettino but he's lost this squad. It's going to be hard to reverse this tailspin.

 

[FoxForceFive]

Who is this little guy with the terrible hair, he has their defenders terrified

He looks a quality player. Hard to judge considering how poor spurs are playing though, but he's got that young fearless vibe along with a not insignificant amount of talent.

 

[Halmeister]

Teehee.

It is strange that after reaching the CL final last season that the team has completely imploded. It brought our team together the year before and pushed us on. The opposite has happened at Spurs. Could be something in those rumours...

 

[Rosco]

Something definitely looks up at spurs. A lot of players have downed tools.

Yeah Vertonghen downed his tool in Eriksens missus

 

[Bradley]

We want 4

 

[darkstarexodus]

Teehee.

It is strange that after reaching the CL final last season that the team has completely imploded. It brought our team together the year before and pushed us on. The opposite has happened at Spurs. Could be something in those rumours...

Reminding me of the season after we finished second with Rodgers. We were positioned to build on it but fell apart and he lost the room. Ours was catalyzed by losing Suarez and terrible recruitment. They have players who have agitated to leave and appear not to like each other.

 

[hmmmmm1]

Leicester will buoyed by the spurs result, extra motivation for them to take points today

 

[King Binny]

 

[Tinto]

Reminding me of the season after we finished second with Rodgers. We were positioned to build on it but fell apart and he lost the room. Ours was catalyzed by losing Suarez and terrible recruitment. They have players who have agitated to leave and appear not to like each other.

I think getting to the final was the peak of that Spurs team.

They really should have won the league the year Leicester did. They never got as close as that since.

 

[Hansern]

Poch said he wants to stay at Spurs for 5 years, lets hope that is true..

 

[Halmeister]

Poch said he wants to stay at Spurs for 5 years, lets hope that is true..

I hope not. I don't think he's the problem there. If he's backed to overhaul that squad he could turn it around.

 

[keniget]

Early days I suppose but right now looks like troubled times ahead for Spurs.

Eriksen, Aldeweireld and Vertonghen out of contract next summer, Pochettino has wanted out for a while it seems and an expensive stadium to pay off.

Not an easy rebuilding job.

 

[HC]

Woah

 

[Markeh]

Early days I suppose but right now looks like troubled times ahead for Spurs.

Eriksen, Aldeweireld and Vertonghen out of contract next summer, Pochettino has wanted out for a while it seems and an expensive stadium to pay off.

Not an easy rebuilding job.

if there was ever a man to pay off a stadium and keep a team in the top 4... Arsene Wenger

 

[Judge Jules]

I hope not. I don't think he's the problem there. If he's backed to overhaul that squad he could turn it around.

Perhaps. He's clearly mustard at rebuilding a team (did it well at Southampton to start with, and would be just what the Mancs need @ the moment) but there's something about that Tottenham side which makes me wonder whether he's the man to win things once the rebuilding's gone beyond a certain level. We found out to our cost with GH that the first bit doesn't always lead to the second.

 

[Raz]

Poch looks and sounds resigned. Just no emotions really to that loss, seems to have accepted that defeat before it even happened.

 

[darkstarexodus]

Poch said he wants to stay at Spurs for 5 years, lets hope that is true..

I'd put the over-under at five days right about now.

 

[Tinto]

Perhaps. He's clearly mustard at rebuilding a team (did it well at Southampton to start with, and would be just what the Mancs need @ the moment) but there's something about that Tottenham side which makes me wonder whether he's the man to win things once the rebuilding's gone beyond a certain level. We found out to our cost with GH that the first bit doesn't always lead to the second.

I think they reached the level we achieved before we bought VVD and Becker. We broke spending records to go up a level whereas Spurs just carried on as they always did.

To be fair to Klopp we only could break spending records because we got a fortune for Coutinhno and we got a payout for reaching a CL final.

 

[KopRed]

Just seen Llori's arm break. Is that career ending?

 

[darkstarexodus]

Just seen Llori's arm break. Is that career ending?

Only dislocated apparently.

 

[Modo]

Bayern Munchen lose at home to Hoffenheim and the other teams like Dortmund and Leipzig decide to drop points as well.
Big chance for Gladbach

 

[binomial]

Just seen Llori's arm break. Is that career ending?

No.

Dislocated elbow, he'll be back before end of year

 

[mark1975]

I think they reached the level we achieved before we bought VVD and Becker. We broke spending records to go up a level whereas Spurs just carried on as they always did.

To be fair to Klopp we only could break spending records because we got a fortune for Coutinhno and we got a payout for reaching a CL final.

I think it's been slowly unraveling since Poch said before the CL final about leaving if they won it. How do players then have faith in the manager long term?

For a manager to come out and say his future hinged on one game, it just filters down to the players, and when they start attracting interest from elsewhere, they see it easy to leave a club that doesn't have any longterm stability, they stop playing for the club and the manager and there's no way back then.

He's gone, sooner or later and he's engineered it himself, either knowingly or he's been really really fucking naive. Kane, Eriksen and co will all be getting picked off over the next two transfer windows.

 

[keniget]

I think it's been slowly unraveling since Poch said before the CL final about leaving if they won it. How do players then have faith in the manager long term?

For a manager to come out and say his future hinged on one game, it just filters down to the players, and when they start attracting interest from elsewhere, they see it easy to leave a club that doesn't have any longterm stability, they stop playing for the club and the manager and there's no way back then.

He's gone, sooner or later and he's engineered it himself, either knowingly or he's been really really fucking naive. Kane, Eriksen and co will all be getting picked off over the next two transfer windows.

I can’t see anyone paying the 200M or whatever Levy would demand for Kane.

 

[manwithnoname]

Pochettino lost faith in some of his players first, which is why he's been talking about huge squad clear-outs and making it clear certain players are welcome to leave.

Problem is that Levy only plays that game so far: he won't buy, or sell, at a price he isn't happy with, and that brinkmanship can occasionally be taken to the obvious extreme, so he doesn't do the deal.

What that means is that players who could have gone, didn't, and that means surplus players are still there, and all of the new players he wanted aren't, because the wage bill and fees are all dependent on the right exit prices being done.

 

[Athens]

Only dislocated apparently.

I've heard that a dislocation can sometimes take longer to heal than a fracture. It must depend on how severe the dislocation is, my brother dislocated my arm when I was about 3. The bastard.

 

[Athens]

That must be why I'm shit at football, I never healed properly.

 

[white-sox]

I think it's been slowly unraveling since Poch said before the CL final about leaving if they won it. How do players then have faith in the manager long term?

For a manager to come out and say his future hinged on one game, it just filters down to the players, and when they start attracting interest from elsewhere, they see it easy to leave a club that doesn't have any longterm stability, they stop playing for the club and the manager and there's no way back then.

He's gone, sooner or later and he's engineered it himself, either knowingly or he's been really really fucking naive. Kane, Eriksen and co will all be getting picked off over the next two transfer windows.

Bullshit. Think he made that as a passing comment. As in, he couldnt believe he could achieve such a task as the champions league with such under dogs. Pretty sure Tottenhams problems are more deep rooted than a flippant comment...

 

[Modo]

Pepe still got it:

https://streamja.com/M5vM

 

[rurikbird]

Pepe still got it:

https://streamja.com/M5vM

THAT was a proper dive.