Tottenham Hotspur Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2024/25

doc_17

Hi lads. Just wondering what the story is with Dele Ali? Is it that Jose doesn’t rate him? Or did something happen? Like, he’s only 24 yet!!

tom1ie

If there’s one team we should hammer it’s Leeds.
All out attack from them will leave them exposed on the counter.
If Jose’s tactics are worth anything, we’ll see today.

2nd Row Donkey

He's been ****e for 3 years. Poch should have dropped him long before Mourinho ever got here.

Have zero faith in us moving the ball up the pitch today and our full backs already look too far forward for no good reason

doc_17

doc_17 wrote: »

Hi lads. Just wondering what the story is with Dele Ali? Is it that Jose doesn’t rate him? Or did something happen? Like, he’s only 24 yet!!

Hasnt put in an honest 90 minutes for the club since the year before the CL run, despite the odd highlights reel moment.

Dier with an absolute disaster header in midfield, taking on his own man to head the ball backwards into trouble. Ensuing cross to back post is dangerous

The type of little moment that doesnt make highlights but shows that individuals do not have the instincts required to control a game, and that therefore they cannot work in a tight tactical setup like this

Passing options, ambition and execution is gone straight back to the bad old days of the end of the poch era

If players are so desperate to return to that level, maybe they are more of the problem than we like to admit when we are quick to point to coaches

Three leeds players sprint forward

Six spurs players jog back

Is that tactics

2nd Row Donkey

Opened up very easily twice already. Goal for Leeds incoming.

Kiith

Good effort there, best moment for us so far.

When we do break, winks hits it into kanes heel, and then again doherty just gets prised easily off the ball

This team was *singing* against united, city, arsenal

It looks like its forgotten the words at the moment

Charliebull

Winks is shocking player

Winks, dier just making bad decisions

If theyd only play half sensibly, theyd be fine, but theyre in very important positions and seeing a lot of the ball to be so prone to freezing

Hojbjerg, ndombele are really important today

Reguilon and Lo celso would have been great options, jose wont forgive easily

Incredible for doherty to delay so long there, then get trapped, then make that pass

Just unbelievable. Nonleague stuff

Kane playing very well, at half pace. Quite strange.

Think its that leeds close but dont actually tackle

Looked a pen in real time

Bergwijn looking bright if quality not great so far, hope this pen sticks

golfball37

Undeserved but hopefully wakes us up

tom1ie

Reliable Kane.

2nd Row Donkey

Be interesting to see how we play at 1 nil up

tom1ie

We need to add to this now.

Please god we dont stop playing now

Not sure about "undeserved", as leeds do set up like atoms in a noble gas cloud at the back. Son and Bergwijn running right between the full and centre backs.

tom1ie

Dier is having a stinker.

Kane and son down, great.....

Hojbjerg doing both his and winks jobs out there. He'll be desperate to see a quality centre mid added id say

tom1ie

That’s quality.

Lovely goal

Kiith

Much better last 20 minutes. Kane and Son firing again, which is great.

Son's 100th goal for us...legend

Glebee

Just in, im shocked...lovely second goal.

There is little or no difference in this performance and other recent ones

Kane and son playing well and leeds despite flowing forward not really killing us in their final decision

Jesus BT sport are desperate to make this a controversial decision for the penalty

Dont believe in conspiracy theories about tv coverage but really feels like with kane, jose, alli coverage the past few months has been all skewed to cause us trouble

Kiith

3-0, Son to Toby

2nd Row Donkey

We needed this.

The awful thing is im not relaxing yet

Glebee

Sweet Jesus whats happening, a goal from a corner and a header as well.

Best chances of the game have come since, please god we dont regret it

tom1ie

We could do with a fourth.

Did i imagine Glenn Hoddle snickering at winks shooting there

Pity for bergwijn that doesnt end in a goal, be good to see the lad grab one

2nd Row Donkey

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The awful thing is im not relaxing yet

Aye, westham job

2nd Row Donkey

Get big Vini on for Son for last 15 mins

abff

Can we start relaxing yet?

Glebee

abff wrote: »

Can we start relaxing yet?

Never...

We can

Wouldve been good to see vinicius before now, but we took the sting out of this one quite well after the third

Still think the result is more to do with Leeds than us, cheap enough goals imo.

Very harsh second yellow tbh

Edit, take that back. Silly tackle

Charliebull

Did ya see the dirty look mourhino gave him 😁

Nice to get back to winning ways

We still in it after playing poorly last few games but need to keep it up

Jayus Lucas gives all but he runs down blind alleys

Glebee

I thought Leeds would give us problems today. COYS

Charliebull

Charliebull wrote: »

Did ya see the dirty look mourhino gave him ðŸ˜

Ive a wife looks at me like that, chilling

Charliebull

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Ive a wife looks at me like that, chilling

Don’t we all

tom1ie

Delighted with that win, we really needed it!
However, how much of it was down to Leeds being poor as opposed to us blowing them away?
If we play like that against better sides I can see us struggling.

Lad GAGA

Good win, we played some really good football in patches but at least continued to attack at 1 nil, 2 nil and 3 nil unlike recent games. Leeds are better than that and on another day might have had a couple of goals. Still good to get a win, clean sheet and some pace and precision in our play.

joeguevara

Was away for the Christmas and just back yesterday. It is clear that our system works against teams that attack. We were really solid and I don't think that the reason for the win was more to do with them than us. We should have been 4 nil up at ht. Berjwin missed relatively easy chances. Bizarrely lawrenson was the only analyst who had predicted a comfortable win and clean sheet.

Was worried when Kane and Son went down at the same time. Only blemish was the red. Doherty was very good but was clear that there was a risk of a second yellow. He should have been subbed earlier as we had a comfortable lead.

Delighted with viniscius appearance and hopefully he is more regular.

With aurier and sanchez not really a standard high enough for title challengers we should be looking at reinforcements.

Anyway a good day at the office.