You’re more likely to have shiiit football and no trophies under the present day Jose, combined with your owner.

comment by Mike (U1170)
posted 54 seconds ago
You’re more likely to have shiiit football and no trophies under the present day Jose, combined with your owner.
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Sorry wasn’t asking glory fans

The problem is, over the course of a game, we give away far more opportunities to the opposition than we create for ourselves. Luck has played a big part in many of our wins. The current style of play is not sustainable over a whole season.

We'll win nothing unless performances improve.

Depends what’s important to you.

Personally I want to be entertained and hope with that brings success.

If it was just about results fans would just check the scores and get on with life instead they watch every game and spends hours talking about the team.

The problem with Mourinho is that his style is nowhere near as effective as it used to be, though he might grab a League Cup here and there. Like United, I associate Spurs with attacking football but, like you say, if he can win you things (and get CL football next season), I suppose you've got to be happy with that. It looks like Spurs need a bit of a rebuild though and I don't know if that's Mourinho's thing. Hope he does OK, as I'm one of those who's always liked him, despite his faults.

Doesn't bother me if we win games from it and keep creating chances to score goals. The last 2 games have been ok in that respect. The Bournemouth performance was unacceptable however and there shouldn't be many of those going around.

Yes to a certain extent...... I suspect the 2 can be achieved with the right type of players. I know Jose has a certain stigma about the type of football he plays but that's a little unfair..... He played some good stuff at Porto, Chelsea and Madrid. At Inter he benefited from the defensive style of the Italian game.... Granted, United were a mess.

At Spurs, I fully expect him make us improve defensively in time and to be fair we are in transition as Jan & Toby have got older and our best FBs have left. The simple truth is that our CM is so weak (Winks and Sissoko) and their ability is so limited that the ball never gets to our best attacking players in dangerous positions with the opposition out of shape.

Upgrade Winks, Sissoko, Davies and Aurier and we are not a million miles away. Holberg would make a big difference and will allow his CM partner to play much in the way Dembele used to. I have high hopes for GLC/Dele in the 10 role, we have goals and pace in wide areas and Kane up top. Spurs need to play on the front foot higher up the pitch. A proper DM will allow that to happen and two players with more ability and vision that Winks & Sissoko will bring out the best in the guys ahead of them

Yes, it's very important to me. I like to look forward to watching my team.

Before covid, I still enjoyed going to spurs apart from the 2 hours we were playing. That's not how it should be.

Watching on TV now, I feel no excitement.

I also don't think these tactics are going to lead to long term success. Personally, I'm not fussed about domestic cups, they're a bonus.

If we get top 4 next year and are competitive in big games then I'll be happy but I don't see that happening.

comment by Sir Tottenham of Hotspur (U17379)
posted 17 minutes ago
comment by Mike (U1170)
posted 54 seconds ago
You’re more likely to have shiiit football and no trophies under the present day Jose, combined with your owner.
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Sorry wasn’t asking glory fans
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In one!

Means everything to me

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comment by Sideshow (U11809)
posted 9 minutes ago
The problem with Mourinho now is that his short-term impact at clubs is minimal. As it stands he will need a transfer window or two to mould the team in his image. With the right signings you probably would have a good chance at winning some silverware, however finding the right players will be difficult to find, as he is so inflexible and uncompromising in his methods since he peaked.
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To be fair, he’s more flexible in his tactical approach than Poch ever was

Style of play means feck all to me now. Winning matches and trophies is all the matters.

I think once Jose signs a DM or better CM's our style will improve. Have faith.

As for entertaining football, it's a myth and has probably been the root cause for our lack of trophies for the last 20-30 years.

I really hope Jose can pass and install his winning mentality into the club and fans to get away from the myth of champagne football. Even if he is here for 3 years as most of you think he will be.

I actually believe after managing all over Europe and being succesful he is ready to settle down for longer than three years. I could be wrong but I hope I am right. I'm not trying WUM when I say this.

Install a winning mentality then concentrate on pretty football is how I would like things to pan out.

You get the feeling with Jose that there’s a plan A,B,C up to Z and everything in between
With Poch we played the same wether it was Colchester or Real Madrid

The only thing I really bother about is Spurs winning games, sure it is nice if you can play champagne football at the same time. I would be happy for Spurs to be completely outplayed but win. More or less what happened in the two legs of the CL semi-final last season.

All of our so called nice managers who played pretty football, Jol, Harry, Poch have all been losers. We need to change the mentality at the club, and hopefully Jose will do that.

comment by Sir Tottenham of Hotspur (U17379)
posted 4 minutes ago
You get the feeling with Jose that there’s a plan A,B,C up to Z and everything in between
With Poch we played the same wether it was Colchester or Real Madrid
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Not sure I agree with that. Only in the last two games he has changed the formation. Jose is not bothered about possession and his plan is to counter attack. With an few upgrades hopefully that could change.

Poch was very stubborn but when he had Llorente he wasn't bothered about hitting the long ball in the closing stages of a match.

comment by MourOUTho (U22347)
posted 46 minutes ago
The problem is, over the course of a game, we give away far more opportunities to the opposition than we create for ourselves. Luck has played a big part in many of our wins. The current style of play is not sustainable over a whole season.

We'll win nothing unless performances improve.
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Well we really don`t. Giving away possession doesn`t equate to the opposition creating lots of chances, for all Arsenal`s possession, they created less real chances than Spurs. Yesterday Newcastle had lots of pot shots, but never really threatened the Spurs goal to much. Spurs themselves used to have like 70/30 possession and still lose. Possession means nothing.

And exactly what luck did Spurs have in their wins. They have had lots of bad luck, pen in the last five minutes again United, disallowed goal again Sheffield United, stonewall penalty against Bournemouth turned down. I don`t remember to many bits of good luck going in Spurs favour since the restart.

Mad how the goonies won with Jose's template after we beat them on Sunday.

comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by MourOUTho (U22347)
posted 46 minutes ago
The problem is, over the course of a game, we give away far more opportunities to the opposition than we create for ourselves. Luck has played a big part in many of our wins. The current style of play is not sustainable over a whole season.

We'll win nothing unless performances improve.
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Well we really don`t. Giving away possession doesn`t equate to the opposition creating lots of chances, for all Arsenal`s possession, they created less real chances than Spurs. Yesterday Newcastle had lots of pot shots, but never really threatened the Spurs goal to much. Spurs themselves used to have like 70/30 possession and still lose. Possession means nothing.

And exactly what luck did Spurs have in their wins. They have had lots of bad luck, pen in the last five minutes again United, disallowed goal again Sheffield United, stonewall penalty against Bournemouth turned down. I don`t remember to many bits of good luck going in Spurs favour since the restart.
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omg

I actually agree with all of this 0_o

I think Spurs will win a trophy this year. It's what he does.

Judging by our match threads I’d say about 97% of people.

comment by Sir Tottenham of Hotspur (U17379)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by Sideshow (U11809)
posted 9 minutes ago
The problem with Mourinho now is that his short-term impact at clubs is minimal. As it stands he will need a transfer window or two to mould the team in his image. With the right signings you probably would have a good chance at winning some silverware, however finding the right players will be difficult to find, as he is so inflexible and uncompromising in his methods since he peaked.
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To be fair, he’s more flexible in his tactical approach than Poch ever was
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I am an ardent Poch fan, but even I can see this.

Jose changes tactics based on opponent, which is something I grew up with and having played preferred, as each opponent was different.
Poch was stubborn. He preached high pressing and work ethics, and I love him for that but boy oh boy, we stuck with that stubborness of his and it cost us the CL.
I think Jose is doing a stellar job as most fans don't realise that every side has a recycling point when it must be refreshed or it will be left behind and we are at that junction now.

Let Jose deal with this in his manner. We achieve a cup win or two, then we can start looking at the style of play. We achieve CL again. We can then get some serious players, because Jose will be able to negotiate the big egos.

comment by Automatic For The People #BLM (U21889)
posted 38 seconds ago
Judging by our match threads I’d say about 97% of people.
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The majority are not always right. You still got me on filter automuppet?

what style of play?