I'm not going to sit here and say Levy is the entire problem... but he never replaced Dembele, he hasn't replaced Eriksen, and he fired Poch and replaced him with a terrible fit (managing style, tactics, culture, etc.) who is 15 years past the rest of the game. I mean, there's no one on this club that can make an incisive pass into the box and it's been a recognizable problem for 2 seasons (once Eriksen told everyone he wanted out). Not a single midfielder can put a pass onto the feet of someone making a run on the entire club. That's on Levy.
I think Tanguy was meant to replace Dembele, but clearly there was some failure in scouting there. Levy is 100% to blame for cheaping out on Grealish and Bruno Fernandes though.
We know who the supposed to be's are. To say no effort was made to replace is not fair. Ndombole and GLC were supposed to be the guys. We all signed on for that and were excited. We also spent a shit ton on both players. We have seen signs from both of them that the talent is there, but neither manager has gotten a consistent effort out of any of these players the past year an a half.
GLC was a rent to buy and moved from PSG to Real Bettis to Spurs in 2 seasons. He's a nice player, but hardly a replacement for Eriksen's productivity. I think Poch wanted him in on a rental to push Dele, not replace Eriksen. Maybe he'll be better when he plays for a manager who actually can put together some sort of attacking cohesiveness. I think they wanted Ndombele to replace Eriksen but he came in unfit, got hurt immediately, and thinks Jose is a shit (he's not wrong). That said, coming off of the bench, he was Spurs' best player not named Hugo Lloris today.
9 months of Mourinho and seemingly the only attacking move we have is to get the ball to Aurier and let him launch crosses. Sure the defense looks a little better and will probably be pretty solid if we decide to finally replace Wanyama, but I’m starting to lose a little faith in Mou. I want it to work.
Revisionist history. These are the two we wanted and everyone was excited to get them. Eriksen was shit for a year before he left.
GLC was the Eriksen replacement. NDombele was the Dembele replacement. Still need Wanyama and Walker replacements.
also, for the record, I was excited about any new player because Levy hadn't signed anyone in 3 windows or something. I liked Ndombele, thought Sess had promise (he's 19, he still does), didn't know much about GLC. We're in this mess because Levy didn't sign anyone in over a year. You can't do that.
Michael Oliver is refereeing the NLD this weekend. This is getting ridiculous. VAR has cost us at least 9 points this season (I'd argue 5 or more just since the restart) and handed how many soft bullshit penalties to United? They looked like shit yesterday until that complete joke of a penalty they received.
Get this season over with, it's the same feeling I had when we were in February. This team has been broken for 2 years and we started to fix it a little with Tanguy and GLC but there still needs to be change. I think our ideal finish would be to finish above Arsenal and maybe out of Europe (although money would be nice given our situation). We need new blood and players to come in, I don't care who they are really as there just needs to be that feeling of change in the locker room. I think it's pretty clear Mou thought if we could keep a bunch of clean sheets in the restart we could maybe snipe Champions league. I like the defensive solidity, which has been missing the past 18-24 months, but am frustrated by us doing the same shit of recycling possession and flinging in shitty Serge crosses. I hope that changes. I'm not doom and gloom. I doubt we get our Mourinho A1 targets since we're broke, but I do think we can put together some pieces. Also. Sell Serge please. Please.
Hell of a save, and needed, that was gonna be one of those awesome in off the bottom of the crossbar and almost straight down.
Silky layoff from Kane to Aurier who does, wait for it, not a god damn thing with space to cross. I wish he had any redeeming qualities.
We've looked like complete shit this half and Jose still doesn't have a sub up. Both of these teams stink
Allowed extra subs because of the amount of games right now and our dipshit manager doesn't even make one. Fuck Jose
We’re playing for a fucking draw at home against our rivals who are 1 point ahead of us in the table. Mou cant get out of here quickly enough. Just submarining whatever dignity the club had left.