Spurs

Brisan123 · May 28, 2021

Yid4life said:
Loyalty is a rare commodity in football.

If only players had 1% of the loyalty fans showed

PaulPowersTash · May 28, 2021

Zatara said:
I think if Spurs do want Poch then they would surely go down the route of selling players and giving him the fees to build a new young team.

United should be all over Poch.
Glad they are not though.

Brisan123 · May 28, 2021

artetas_biggest_fan said:
If I was him I’d stay at Spurs and become a club legend. He would do that if he stayed his entire career there. Players are too often caught up in the now, in getting a medal, they don’t think of the bigger picture.

The obvious case in point is Matt Le Tissier. For the rest of his life he will be adored by Southampton fans. Shearer at Newcastle the same. I read an article a few months back (can’t recall the player) that he has a few medals in his cupboard (which he never looks at), but he’s got no lifelong connection to any club, and he’d swap that in a heartbeat. It’s an article that really changed my perception of what means most. Adoration is priceless. Kane has that, he’d give all that up by winning a few largely meaningless medals at a club that he has no affiliation to. By staying at Spurs and doing all he could do to win medals there would mean a lifelong connection and adoration for the rest of his life. A wise man wouldn’t give that up.

You are really petrified that if City get Kane your lot may kiss any league title ( asterisk or otherwise ) for the next 5 years

Brisan123 · May 28, 2021

artetas_biggest_fan said:
There’s a weakness in Rodgers, a fragility in his teams. All of them lack steel/defensive nous.

With the RS they conceded a whopping 50 goals in the 2013-14 season. The forwards almost pulled off a miracle by carrying them to the league. Stevie Me slipping is seen as a pivotal moment, but no team should have a set up where a midfielder loses possession in central midfield which results in an opposing forward having a whole half of a field to himself with only a gk to face. Any competent manager has the team compact, not have wide open gaps to be exploited.

With Celtic the beatings in Europe included getting smashed seven by Barca. He did well domestically but that’s because there was no opposition to exploit his non existent defensive set up.

Twice now with Leicester they have collapsed at the end. Had they missed out today by winning and Chelsea also winning then fair enough, they did all they could. But to lose at home to a Spurs side that is largely rudderless at the minute with Mason at the helm, it’s more flakiness from Rodgers. It’s especially damning as they were 15 minutes from qualification. A top manager closes that out, kills the game. Instead they were wide open as all his teams are.

He’s an excellent attacking coach and his teams are good to watch, but he’s lacking in the other side of the game.

Conceding 7 happens to a few teams
I can think of one last season

Brisan123 · May 28, 2021

emir said:
He should tie her down with a baby. Imagine how good at football a child would be, with Pep as the grandfather and Dele as the father.

@ForeverBlue92 would just tie her down
Not sure he has a baby left in him

Brisan123 · May 28, 2021

LABlue2 said:
It’s ok to sell one of the best strikers in the world, they’ll just use that money to

sPrEaD tHe GoAlS aRoUnD tHe TeAm

Hopefully they use Everton’s exploits after selling Lukaku as a template

paulbefc · May 28, 2021

Brisan123 said:
If only players had 1% of the loyalty fans showed

Spurs fans would have Kane drop-kicked out of the club the moment they doubt he can continue scoring goals and making their weekends that they've built around a football club.

Any loyalty Harry Kane has shown or will show Spurs is more than he has had or will get back. His contribution has been enormous and he has been well paid. No one owes anyone anything at that point.

The notion that Harry Kane should show Spurs loyalty and that his morals may be even 1% off is the last resort of the desperate football fan that knows deep down that their club can't offer the player what their performances could yield at another club and doesn't want to face that reality.

He'll be one of Chelsea's/City's own next season and a judas to Spurs for making a perfectly fair career move.

artetas_biggest_fan · May 28, 2021

Brisan123 said:
Conceding 7 happens to a few teams
I can think of one last season

Fergie’s team got hit for six from Southampton (having just conceded five to Newcastle). Shankly’s side conceded five to Johan Cruyff’s Ajax. But we aren’t taking about one off beatings suffered by great managers. Even Moyes who was known for well organised, dour, defensive football conceded seven and five to Arsenal and Bucharest respectively during his best spell at the club. So it can happen to anyone. The difference is Rodgers’ teams are routinely opened up when facing any form of quality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016–17_Celtic_F.C._season#Group_Stage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017–18_Celtic_F.C._season#Matches

34 goals conceded in 12 games.

Against Spurs, with 15 minutes left to secure CL football, his team parted like the Red Sea. His teams are never compact, leaving wide open gaps to be exploited. Bale at the end almost walked through the the middle of the field, with the first person he faced being the goalkeeper. That’s not a defensive set up.

Rodgers needs a defensive coach to assist him.

catcherintherye · May 28, 2021

Brisan123 said:
You are really petrified that if City get Kane your lot may kiss any league title ( asterisk or otherwise ) for the next 5 years

Not only that, but if Kane goes to United, they are also elevated to a level beyond where Liverpool can get to and would be right in the mix with City and Chelsea.

Efcjake · May 28, 2021

If they don't get Conte who will it be? They aren't getting Zidane and I don't like thir chances of getting Pochetinno while he is already at a better club and had Madrid sniffing around him.

PaulPowersTash · May 28, 2021

artetas_biggest_fan said:
Fergie’s team got hit for six from Southampton (having just conceded five to Newcastle). Shankly’s side conceded five to Johan Cruyff’s Ajax. But we aren’t taking about one off beatings suffered by great managers. Even Moyes who was known for well organised, dour, defensive football conceded seven and five to Arsenal and Bucharest respectively during his best spell at the club. So it can happen to anyone. The difference is Rodgers’ teams are routinely opened up when facing any form of quality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016–17_Celtic_F.C._season#Group_Stage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017–18_Celtic_F.C._season#Matches

34 goals conceded in 12 games.

Against Spurs, with 15 minutes left to secure CL football, his team parted like the Red Sea. His teams are never compact, leaving wide open gaps to be exploited. Bale at the end almost walked through the the middle of the field, with the first person he faced being the goalkeeper. That’s not a defensive set up.

Rodgers needs a defensive coach to assist him.

Mancini tried to get him in as his assistant manager when he first joined City.
That would have been a perfect combination without a doubt. Mancini
being Italian was a defensive genius. Rogers on the offensive side would have
been superb.

Thomasc · May 28, 2021

Efcjake said:
If they don't get Conte who will it be? They aren't getting Zidane and I don't like thir chances of getting Pochetinno while he is already at a better club and had Madrid sniffing around him.

Conte surely wouldn’t go here.
Has to be in the running for Real job?