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Tottenham Hotspur Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2024/25
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Disappointing, but jaysus twas entertaining.
Its almost as if the last 10 years of Spurs were run over the course of 120 mins.
Just when we get ahead, and you feel a bit of hope rising, something happens and knocks you back ... 2-1....3-1 ...
Then Spurs kick on again.... 3-2 ..... 3-3 ... Yes, this is it boys.. We are 'back' .....
Hey, hang on now Tottingham ..... 4-3 .... Yep, another set back. Here we go again... Ahh twas good while it lasted.
HEYYYY!!!! 4 fcuking 4 ..... YESSSSSSSSS ..... This really is it boys... "Come on yooooou Spuuurs" .... YESSSSS ...
Its our year cos "Its lucky for Spurs when the year ends in One, We first won the cup when the century begun"
5 - 4 ..... ohhhh... thats it fcuking finished with them.... Fcking useless... ENIC out.... F*** them ...
Lloris - cost us big time again. 3 Goals .. All should have been stopped by the "world cup winning captain" ....
Winks - hes shot... And his shot hit the corner flag.
Son - invisible for most of the game.. Good corners, and great cross for Kane.
Lamela - he was very good again - Yellow card tightrope as always, but thats him. Brings energy and relentless.
Moura - plenty energy , and pace, will always run into a defender .
NDombele - Majestic again. Just link so well between defence and forwards. Drop the shoulder and hes gone.
Hojbjerg - covers a massive amount of field. REALLY really really 'unlucky' to have the pen given against him... Maybe a few errors this game - but i will forgive for that.
Doherty - average, not as rubbish as usual , so thats good ?
Davies- played well, plenty of over lapping runs.
Sanchez - 2 goals ... thats about it ...
Kane - handy goal, missed 2-3 good chances....
Sissoko - the one lad that you wouldnt put on the wing and expect to get good crosses in. Yes, him.
Toby - Average enough.
The quadruple is over. Just have to be happy with the Triple.
Handy one now on Sunday .
Jesus im dreading it.
"Bright lights and Thunder .................... " #NoPopcorn
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Good session today,” wrote Gareth Bale on Instagram, accompanying the photograph of him from Tottenham’s training pitches on Tuesday with a bicep curl emoji. When the post went live that evening, the Spurs squad were at their hotel on Merseyside and looking forward to Wednesday’s FA Cup fifth-round tie at Everton. Except that Bale was not with them.
“Good session today?” thought José Mourinho. Bale had made clear to him that he was not feeling 100% and would not be able to travel but the tone of his public messaging was different. Taken to the extreme, it stood to back Mourinho into a corner at Goodison Park when Bale’s absence came to light.
What we have long known about Mourinho is that he will fight his corner, he will seek to control the narrative and, very often, he will throw a few punches in the process. And so we had the interview after Spurs’s wild 5-4 defeat in which the manager provided uncomfortable detail to explain why Bale was not a part of it.
Mourinho expressed his surprise that after Bale had been an unused substitute in Sunday’s 2-0 home win over West Brom, the player said he needed a scan on something that was irritating him, which took place on Monday. He was able to train on Tuesday but Mourinho wanted to make clear that Bale then got word to him that he felt he should work with the sport science team for the next couple of days. “I don’t think it’s an obvious injury,” Mourinho said.
There has been little detail on Bale’s problem, except to say it is somewhere along a leg, and nobody knows whether he will be available for Saturday evening’s game at Manchester City. But the impression Mourinho got across was that, at the very least, he was baffled by Bale’s condition and, at worst, he wondered whether it was really that bad. To labour the second point – does Bale still want to run through walls for Spurs?
It is all impossibly delicate, the situation framed by the romance of Bale’s return to the club from Real Madrid on a season’s loan, the yearning among the fanbase for him to roll back the years to when he was the Premier League’s most dominant talent.
Mourinho is caught in the middle. He does not want to attack Bale in his press conferences – he knows he must not do that – but it has become increasingly difficult for him to hide his frustration at the 31-year-old’s fitness levels and performances.
Remember the joy that Spurs supporters felt when their idol swept back into the club in mid-September? A group of them lined the entrance to the training ground as he was driven in to finalise everything, the sun shone and they allowed themselves to be carried away by the thought of Bale alongside Harry Kane and Son Heung-min in a lethal front three.
The reality has been jarring and there is a reason why Mourinho has barely played Bale in the matches that count – he has looked fragile and one-paced, seemingly lacking confidence in his body. On the bad days, it has been as if he is worried about getting injured.
There has been a touch of the Emperor’s New Clothes about it all – hard to accept that Bale has been stripped of his finery – although Mourinho’s veiled digs have become a little more regular and with the veil slipping more and more.
Bale has been held back by a lack of football in recent seasons at Madrid, with the last one being the worst. When he rejoined Spurs, he had played only four times since 26 February. Bale needs trust and regular action to find his rhythm; the more he plays, the stronger and more resistant he gets. Plainly, that has not happened.
How much does any of it bother Bale, the man who has won everything at club level, including four Champions League titles, and has everything off the field, too: a loving family, magnificent homes and nearly £200m in the bank? In terms of Mourinho’s machinations, the answer is not one bit.
Bale endured far worse in Madrid, where almost everyone seemed to be against him. The club wanted him out but they were scared of letting him join a rival lest he come back to haunt them. It made no sense, though, when they stopped him from going to the Chinese Super League in the summer of 2019. The lines of conflict hardened, with Bale acting up at times – he felt trapped. It was messy. At Spurs, meanwhile, he is a popular member of the dressing room and the fans will always love him.
Where does Bale go from here? He has an eye on the European Championship with Wales in June, although he would not be able to affect that in his current form. There is no option in his Spurs agreement for a further year and so he will return to Madrid where he is under contract until June 2022. He is unlikely to be wanted there any more than he is now but he would not be inclined to go on another loan.
He is paid somewhere north of £650,000 a week under the terms of his Madrid deal and, if it is unclear exactly how much of that Spurs agreed to take on, it is understood to be less than the £200,000 a week they pay Kane, their top earner.
On a worst-case scenario, Bale would collect what is owed to him by Madrid for a final year, even if that involved further stand-offs and drift. It is providing the sad postscript to a glorious career.
(David Hytner - The Guardian)
"Bright lights and Thunder .................... " #NoPopcorn
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Man City Vs Tottenham.
Sat 13th @ 5.30pm
Out - Lo celso and Reguilon
Doubts - Bale and Aurier.
yeh, cant wait to play a team who have won their last 15 games........
"Bright lights and Thunder .................... " #NoPopcorn
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Well said Jose......
The anti Spurs bias in the media is fcuking ridiculous at this stage !!!!
"Jose Mourinho has revealed he would not want to keep his runners-up medal if Tottenham lose April's Carabao Cup Final to Saturday's opponents Manchester City, but has defended the club's decision to sell merchandise for the occasion.
Tottenham's online shop is selling flags, pennants, magnets, mugs and scarves branded with 'Carabao Cup Finalists 20/21', which has prompted ridicule on social media from supporters of rival clubs.
It is Spurs' first domestic final since 2015 and they are aiming to end a 13-year wait for silverware.
Mourinho's own brand is entirely about winning and the Portuguese has never been one to celebrate simply taking part.
To emphasise that point, Mourinho offered to give away his runners-up medal if Spurs are beaten at Wembley on April 25 but does not believe that selling cup final merchandise is indicative of a small-time mentality.
"I didn’t know about the merchandise," said Mourinho, who has won 12 of his 15 major finals.
"I think we have a marketing [and] merchandising department that is responsible for that and I presume that's their job.”
"I don’t know, maybe I am saying something silly, but I imagine that a very important thing in their job is to make money, right? So if you can make money selling something, [then] make money!
"If you ask me if am I going to buy anything, I am not. If ask tell me, 'If you lose the final, what are you going to do with your silver medal?'
"I am going to say first of all I think I am going to win the final, and secondly if you want my silver medal I'll give to you because I don’t want to keep it.”
"But I think marketing and merchandising is about making money. Sell anything you can sell! When you go to Man Utd matches, how many sponsors they have around the pitch? They sell everything: they sell mattresses, they sell pillows, they sell shoulder supports or neck supports...they sell everything!
"So probably they are doing very well. We have empty stadiums, an incredible stadium always empty. How many millions is Tottenham losing every match we play at home?
"How many millions is Tottenham losing per month? We have to make money so we go to a final, try to sell some pins, some shirts, key-rings, anything. So well done."
Mourinho's comments are timely, with Spurs having just appointed the club's first chief commercial officer, former NFL executive Todd Kline, who will start work in June.
The former Miami Dolphins will be tasked with growing the commercial side of the club, including helping to find a lucrative naming rights partner for their stadium.
Mourinho will be hoping Spurs can sell enough merchandise to raise funds for new signings in the summer but he is realistic about their limitations in the transfer market, particularly compared to City, who they meet at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday, and champions Liverpool.
The Spurs manager desperately wants at least one top centre-half but Spurs are unlikely to spend the £64.3million that City paid for Ruben Dias or the £75m shelled out by Liverpool for Virgil van Dijk.
"I’m not going now to try to compare my situation with other clubs because the club was very open with me," Mourinho said.
"I knew that I was going to come to a different reality. A big club, no doubt about that, not one second, but a club with a different profile in terms of being or not being a candidate to win competition A or B.
"A club not being able to resolve problems with a cheque. And the club made the possible efforts in the summer to improve the team and I’m not complaining with anything, I just do my work the best I can and that’s it."
(London Evening Standard)
"Bright lights and Thunder .................... " #NoPopcorn
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