after an abject performance last time out and a cancelled game at Burnley, we return to premier league action in a game that we really must and should win.
Its been a week training with Conte. Every day on the training pitch should improve our understanding and performance level.
The team selection is pretty stable, its only Romero's replacement that is up for grabs, and Sanchez was selected again vs Burnley.
In the table, West Ham dropped points again and seem to have shot their load early in beating Liverpool. Leicester do not seem to be mounting any sort of challenge. United lie 1 point behind us and Arsenal 4 points ahead although we have a game in hand over both, and they play each other tonight.
Now is the time to push on. Home game vs Brentford and then Norwich. Win both those and by the end of Sunday night we could be in the top 4 and perhaps we can start to feel more positive and regain that belief we used to have.
COYS!
Now is the time..........
posted on 2/12/21
comment by JimmyGreaves (U21183)
posted 1 minute ago
To be honest it's all false hope. Even if we manged to win the next two games and results work in our favour and we end up 4th. Do we really think we will continue to get results with the current bunch against teams who are far superior to us ......which seems to be anyone we play these days. Also by the time January hits we will probably way off the pace for 4th let alone 6th.
We should be tapping up the players we/Conte wants now and getting agreements in place come end of Dec. No doubt we will waste the whole of Jan to end up on deadline day to sign anyone who will come and still not have sold the deadwood. Conte will walk defo...
I hope I'm totally wrong but my gut feeling is I am 100% right.
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Yeah. I’m worried that everyone, including me, is pinning all their hopes on January and it’s going to come and go with Levy just having reverted to type.
posted on 2/12/21
comment by JimmyGreaves (U21183)
posted 4 minutes ago
To be honest it's all false hope. Even if we manged to win the next two games and results work in our favour and we end up 4th. Do we really think we will continue to get results with the current bunch against teams who are far superior to us ......which seems to be anyone we play these days. Also by the time January hits we will probably way off the pace for 4th let alone 6th.
We should be tapping up the players we/Conte wants now and getting agreements in place come end of Dec. No doubt we will waste the whole of Jan to end up on deadline day to sign anyone who will come and still not have sold the deadwood. Conte will walk defo...
I hope I'm totally wrong but my gut feeling is I am 100% right.
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Spot On.....Some of the Spurs optimists on this site are totally delusional, Even Conte himself has come out and said in the past week that “he’s not a magician and that the quality of the squad is not very high… I’m sorry but we need to live in the now and see things for what they are. Having a world class manager is not gonna make enough of difference given the quality of the squad. At this point its all about Jan and the summer….The games themselves are secondary in the big picture… This is a dead season. The only question is whether Levy is gonna take his responsibility seriously or just hope Conte can perform miracles (a la Poch)….. Davies isn’t gonna turn into Maldini and Winks isn’t an untapped Paul Scholes. Whether we take 6 points, 2 or Zero in the next 5 days barely matters
posted on 2/12/21
comment by Diamondlights (U20501)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by JimmyGreaves (U21183)
posted 4 minutes ago
To be honest it's all false hope. Even if we manged to win the next two games and results work in our favour and we end up 4th. Do we really think we will continue to get results with the current bunch against teams who are far superior to us ......which seems to be anyone we play these days. Also by the time January hits we will probably way off the pace for 4th let alone 6th.
We should be tapping up the players we/Conte wants now and getting agreements in place come end of Dec. No doubt we will waste the whole of Jan to end up on deadline day to sign anyone who will come and still not have sold the deadwood. Conte will walk defo...
I hope I'm totally wrong but my gut feeling is I am 100% right.
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Spot On.....Some of the Spurs optimists on this site are totally delusional, Even Conte himself has come out and said in the past week that “he’s not a magician and that the quality of the squad is not very high… I’m sorry but we need to live in the now and see things for what they are. Having a world class manager is not gonna make enough of difference given the quality of the squad. At this point its all about Jan and the summer….The games themselves are secondary in the big picture… This is a dead season. The only question is whether Levy is gonna take his responsibility seriously or just hope Conte can perform miracles (a la Poch)….. Davies isn’t gonna turn into Maldini and Winks isn’t an untapped Paul Scholes. Whether we take 6 points, 2 or Zero in the next 5 days barely matters
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I have to agree. Nothing changes, we are a bang average football team with bang average players. The difference? We now have a top class manager able to get the best out of some of the good players we have and also call out the team for being the average bunch they are. Thankfully Jan transfer window isn’t far off and Levy has no choice but to spend money. Conte has pretty much said it in his interviews recently. Levy has nowhere too hide anymore. If we can get some decent results this side of Xmas, then hopefully we can crack on, but make no mistake about it, we are not very good.
posted on 2/12/21
Everything crossed it does work out for the better COYS
posted on 2/12/21
I just don’t understand the optimism that we’re going to somehow improve. When you look at our stats, I’d suggest we’re over performing, points wise. So my fear is we’re more likely to go backwards.
Also, from Conte:
“ When I arrived previously at a club, I didn’t spend a lot of money – with Inter, Chelsea, Juventus. I’m not a manager who arrives and says: ‘I want this, this and this.’ Or: ‘I want top, top, top.’ I’m a person who believes a lot in my work. I know that to improve and be competitive and fight for something important, you need quality in the players. But we need a little time also to have a vision.”
Lads, there will be little to no spending in January.
posted on 2/12/21
comment by Genius of Nielsen (U9059)
posted 12 minutes ago
I just don’t understand the optimism that we’re going to somehow improve. When you look at our stats, I’d suggest we’re over performing, points wise. So my fear is we’re more likely to go backwards.
Also, from Conte:
“ When I arrived previously at a club, I didn’t spend a lot of money – with Inter, Chelsea, Juventus. I’m not a manager who arrives and says: ‘I want this, this and this.’ Or: ‘I want top, top, top.’ I’m a person who believes a lot in my work. I know that to improve and be competitive and fight for something important, you need quality in the players. But we need a little time also to have a vision.”
Lads, there will be little to no spending in January.
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Don’t believe that. Levy has nowhere too hide anymore. This fails, it’s all on him
posted on 2/12/21
You can't hang your hat on enough of the players. You've got a few who are pretty dependable like Lloris, Skipp etc. You have others who you know should be in the first team like Kane and Reg, but they aren't always delivering. It's honestly a mess.
posted on 2/12/21
Brentford are 5/4 for the win or draw, that is decent odds and they are no mugs. I am toying with the idea of having some of those odds, everytime we have a chance to take an opportunity and climb the league, we fail.
The thought of Sanchez at the back is the stuff of nightmares.
posted on 2/12/21
Faaack me no wonder Sandy left, you lot are a right bunch of Debbie downers.
My confidence is not in our squad, my confidence is 3 things:
1) there are 17 pizz poor sides in this league, many of whom are somehow worse than us
2) we have the best manager out of those 17
3) we have 2 world class forwards, if they rediscover their form then we will be back in business
Good night, god bless
posted on 2/12/21
comment by Diamondlights (U20501)
posted 3 hours, 4 minutes ago
comment by JimmyGreaves (U21183)
posted 4 minutes ago
To be honest it's all false hope. Even if we manged to win the next two games and results work in our favour and we end up 4th. Do we really think we will continue to get results with the current bunch against teams who are far superior to us ......which seems to be anyone we play these days. Also by the time January hits we will probably way off the pace for 4th let alone 6th.
We should be tapping up the players we/Conte wants now and getting agreements in place come end of Dec. No doubt we will waste the whole of Jan to end up on deadline day to sign anyone who will come and still not have sold the deadwood. Conte will walk defo...
I hope I'm totally wrong but my gut feeling is I am 100% right.
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Spot On.....Some of the Spurs optimists on this site are totally delusional, Even Conte himself has come out and said in the past week that “he’s not a magician and that the quality of the squad is not very high… I’m sorry but we need to live in the now and see things for what they are. Having a world class manager is not gonna make enough of difference given the quality of the squad. At this point its all about Jan and the summer….The games themselves are secondary in the big picture… This is a dead season. The only question is whether Levy is gonna take his responsibility seriously or just hope Conte can perform miracles (a la Poch)….. Davies isn’t gonna turn into Maldini and Winks isn’t an untapped Paul Scholes. Whether we take 6 points, 2 or Zero in the next 5 days barely matters
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I hope this means youll do one for the rest of the season. Youve already predicted it to be doom and gloom and a dead season, so please switch off and we'll see you in August 🙏