Tottenham 1-0 Everton - LIVE Match Thread

There he is with the narrative.

Mourinho was a terrible choice. Everyone could see it other than Daniel feckin g levy.

Now we are a shambles with an overpriced dinosaur manager serving up some of the worst football I’ve seen at the club

Now they’re fighting each other too in international television

Saying “we were 14th is somewhat disingenuous” considering we were only like 3? Points off 5th I believe at the time.

A good way to look At it is- since Arteta has taken over at Arsenal they have picked up more points than us. With a worse team, with a worse squad, playing more exciting football, using more youngsters and it is his first managerial job.

Edin

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.

Spurs are still closer to 14th than 5th at the minute. Mourinho has spectacularly failed to get away from that big, mediocre mid-table pack despite having most of a season - and a transfer window, and an extended mid-season break for tactical drills - to get the team playing how he wants.

I don't know how long he supposedly needs but if it takes him, what, 8 months and that's still not enough to get a preferred lineup in a coherent shape, then... Well maybe he's just not a very good manager any more?

I’m trying to be open minded about Jose but I don’t really see the point. We’re sacrificing quite a lot of different things (especially player/youngster development/satisfaction) to roll the dice and gamble on winning the Europa league. I don’t often feel this down after a win.

That's exactly it - from my perspective, everyone knows it'll only last 3 years absolute tops, because that's the longest he's ever stayed at a club. And Levy is hardly going to give him a reason to stay longer if he even wanted to.

I mean, I don't understand why he was Levy's choice in the first place, but as it is, I really don't see the point in persevering when we all know it won't work long term. Might as well just cut losses and try to bring in someone who might be able to build something under Levy's restraints. Why delay the inevitable.

Levy has abysmal trophy haul as chairman. Brings in available manager desperate for work who has impressive trophy winning record. fails to see the bigger picture and think, oh this might not be the case at our club because my head is as far up my arris as Jose's is and i wont give him the players other chairmen have to work with.

comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 21 minutes ago
That's exactly it - from my perspective, everyone knows it'll only last 3 years absolute tops, because that's the longest he's ever stayed at a club. And Levy is hardly going to give him a reason to stay longer if he even wanted to.

I mean, I don't understand why he was Levy's choice in the first place, but as it is, I really don't see the point in persevering when we all know it won't work long term. Might as well just cut losses and try to bring in someone who might be able to build something under Levy's restraints. Why delay the inevitable.
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And this is why you are fan and not a chairman. You have to give a new manager time and at least two windows to implement their philosphy.

I for one am looking forward to next season.

Well, there's several reasons why I'm not a chairman. But equally I like to think I'd have realised Mourinho and Spurs were not a good match and I wouldn't have hired him.

Time will tell I suppose