Ex Spur thread

The issue with Clarke is pretty similar to the issue we had with Foyth: they were both streaky players on arrival, and the only way to fix that is to have them play enough football that the poor decisions start to get ironed out and their instincts sharpen up

In the case of Foyth, realistically we should have been braver in using him when he was available during the 2018-19 season, because while we were overloaded with RBs that season we really should have cut our losses on Aurier and have Trippier/Foyth as our rotation axis with KWP in reserve, because while injury did eat into his playing time, that would have set up the asymmetrical FB system Poch wound up introducing the following season (plus KWP would have been in line to get some playing time, due to offloading Aurier)

On the other hand, in Clarke's case the main issue was that Poch tended to like a pacey winger off the bench (which is what N'Jie and Nkoudou were) so in theory Clarke could have been an option the season he arrived, but due to him being such a raw talent when he arrived even if he did get subbed on for let's say 25% of our matches with a few cup starts thrown in, even if he remained injury free he likely wouldn't have started to truly click until either very late in 2019-20 or more likely at some point the following season

If things worked out and/or were handled differently, hindsight suggests that Foyth would likely be a starter for us by this point (with the likely knock-on effect of us selling Sanchez a couple of years ago) but Clarke is harder to gauge - partly due to his Championship loans seeming to be cursed, but also he'd have likely found himself in the same position Bryan Gil is currently in where there's a Sonny-shaped blockade to him getting regular minutes - although given he has played LWB for Sunderland this season, it does have to be asked if having Perisic/Clarke as our LWB axis this season was something we could have considered instead of letting him go last summer

 

The formation is all wrong. Greaves, Chivers and Gilzean all played CF. Beal, England were CH and there is no left back (Kinnear played on the right). Centre midfield of Venables, Mackay and Mullery is overloaded and Cliff Jones played on the left (I think)

 

My late father played against Cliff.

I met Mike England a few times on hols - lovely guy!

 

Going to suggest that Roma may not have much of an affinity with you...

 

He was very upset because Taylor awarded Sevilla a penalty, which was overturned by VAR.
Ok...

 

He asks his players to play as smart tnuc's but as a manager not such a smart tnuc last night

 

Like most modern managers, he asks his players to cheat, play-act and feign injuries.
He also gets very upset when other managers do the same.
They harass and intimidate the officials, then wonder why said officials get flustered.

 

That's his daughter shaking and crying. Well done, Jose.

 

So glad he ain't still the manager...should never have been let near our club

 

6 months touchline ban and €100'000 fine at least , the Jose Mourinho circus has gone too far this time

 

I would say he should be sacked for this. THere are ways of complaining about a ref's performance and that wasn't it.

 

I think the time has come to have compulsory press conferences for officials straight after the match has ended , before the PMGOL and theirUEFA andFIFA have time to prepare a scenario that exonerates their officials. Thousands of fans, players and managers would have loved to say those words to Taylor and to a number of other officials as well.

 

Hardly the first time he declared a fatwa on a ref, either

 

Scott Parker is being linked with both the Leeds and Leicester jobs

 

Sherwood seriously chats ****...at one point in the interview claims spurs won something in his time playing there ...he joined in Jan 1999 as a player and did NOT play any role in the league cup semi finals or final as he was cup tied...he joined our coaching staff in October 2008 6 months AFTER we won the Carling Cup in Feb 08...twat

 

That makes him right though, sort of.
Aubameyang and Vertonghen both won the league this season, too.
Doubt they'll be celebrating it too much, though.

Cancelo can justifiably claim to have won two league titles this season.
Played 26 games for City and 21 for Bayern.
Nobody seems to want to stump up the cash for him.

 

Forest have triggered a clause in Serge Aurier's contract to extend it for another 12 months.
He had a very good season, despite missing a number of games through injury.
Still played 24 league games and 4 cup matches, too.

Had something of an inverse season to the more highly rated Jesse Lingard.
Did **** all and got released.

 

Toby Alderweireld has scored a 94th minute equaliser for Antwerp at Genk.
That result gave them their first league title since 1956/57.