I think there is some truth in it. Jose is an intelligent man who will surely be able to see we needed a 2 goal cushion to survive last night. Isn't that one of the things he's talked about in the documentary?
At the same time, we've definitely gone more defensive as a whole since West Ham, and the players are generally following this philosophy that Jose has instilled in them even if they should make 1 or 2 more attacks to placate their manager.
he's the donald trump of managers. lying comes very easy to him and it's never his fault. you'll be much better off when he leaves.
You lied yday when you said Ndombele and Stevie didn't travel..
If the way our midfield rolls over and gives complete domination to our opponents after we score isn't a tactical decision then the players we have in that area must be garbage.
The truth is probably that its a bit of both.
Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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I didn't watch the match but they were saying on MOTD that Bielsa and Leeds adapted their style of play to suit Burnley's. If they can manage to do it surely it should not be hard for us.
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Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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I didn't watch the match but they were saying on MOTD that Bielsa and Leeds adapted their style of play to suit Burnley's. If they can manage to do it surely it should not be hard for us.
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Obviously not, the brain is still in the defensive mode that Mourinho installs in training
It’s the middle of the park causing the issue, Sissoko and Winks aren’t good enough for what Jose wants to do.
Ndombele - Doesn’t have the fitness
Dele - Doesn’t have the work rate
Lo Celso, Sissoko and Winks - Don’t have the passing ability
The annoyance being we should of signed Tielemans instead of Lo Celso or signed Grealish when we had the chance.
When you hook a player and publically criticise him after the game for giving the ball away, it's not hard to imagine that the players pick the more conservative option 9/10
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Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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I didn't watch the match but they were saying on MOTD that Bielsa and Leeds adapted their style of play to suit Burnley's. If they can manage to do it surely it should not be hard for us.
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Bielsa is a much better and more flexible manager though.
He could have instructed the backline to push higher up the pitch, the midfielders to press aggressively which means winning the ball higher up the field to start attacks. The team stayed in a mid block press and when they won the ball back the attackers were too far away from the opposition goal.
He plays outdated tactics and even Ole has a more attacking philosophy than him.
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You lied yday when you said Ndombele and Stevie didn't travel..
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😂😂 you loser. Yes I watched his Wolves press conference and, quite reasonably in my opinion, interpreted Jose saying they didn't travel as being in regards to the Wolves game, not the Stoke game.
I refuse to believe it's just on the players. We do not have the worst midfield in the league, which would be the only way us being dominated in every match could be down to the players
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Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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I didn't watch the match but they were saying on MOTD that Bielsa and Leeds adapted their style of play to suit Burnley's. If they can manage to do it surely it should not be hard for us.
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Bielsa is a much better and more flexible manager though.
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The biggest fraud in football is Bielsa. Leeds are 12th in the league.
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You lied yday when you said Ndombele and Stevie didn't travel..
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😂😂 you loser. Yes I watched his Wolves press conference and, quite reasonably in my opinion, interpreted Jose saying they didn't travel as being in regards to the Wolves game, not the Stoke game.
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You said as a matter of fact. Losers give fake news
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Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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I didn't watch the match but they were saying on MOTD that Bielsa and Leeds adapted their style of play to suit Burnley's. If they can manage to do it surely it should not be hard for us.
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Bielsa is a much better and more flexible manager though.
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The biggest fraud in football is Bielsa. Leeds are 12th in the league.
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because bielsa is a fraud? or because they just got promoted. one thing for certain, jose couldn't take a mid table championship team and with few changes get them to 12th in the pl in 2 years. why talk such utter nonsense.
To answer the op question I don’t believe him.
I have thought about this myself and queried it in another thread.
Taking everything into consideration I think Jose is lying.
And this will create the divide between players and him which will eventually indirectly result in him leaving within the next 12 months.
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Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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I didn't watch the match but they were saying on MOTD that Bielsa and Leeds adapted their style of play to suit Burnley's. If they can manage to do it surely it should not be hard for us.
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Bielsa is a much better and more flexible manager though.
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The biggest fraud in football is Bielsa. Leeds are 12th in the league.
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because bielsa is a fraud? or because they just got promoted. one thing for certain, jose couldn't take a mid table championship team and with few changes get them to 12th in the pl in 2 years. why talk such utter nonsense.
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Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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I didn't watch the match but they were saying on MOTD that Bielsa and Leeds adapted their style of play to suit Burnley's. If they can manage to do it surely it should not be hard for us.
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Bielsa is a much better and more flexible manager though.
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The biggest fraud in football is Bielsa. Leeds are 12th in the league.
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because bielsa is a fraud? or because they just got promoted. one thing for certain, jose couldn't take a mid table championship team and with few changes get them to 12th in the pl in 2 years. why talk such utter nonsense.
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They way people talk about him like he is the second coming is very overboard. Apart from winning the championship with Leeds he has done sweet fa for all the other European clubs he has managed.
Roy Keane once won the championship with Sunderland. Big deal.
Don't put him in the same sentance of Jose. You embaress yourself.
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Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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I didn't watch the match but they were saying on MOTD that Bielsa and Leeds adapted their style of play to suit Burnley's. If they can manage to do it surely it should not be hard for us.
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Bielsa is a much better and more flexible manager though.
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The biggest fraud in football is Bielsa. Leeds are 12th in the league.
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because bielsa is a fraud? or because they just got promoted. one thing for certain, jose couldn't take a mid table championship team and with few changes get them to 12th in the pl in 2 years. why talk such utter nonsense.
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They way people talk about him like he is the second coming is very overboard. Apart from winning the championship with Leeds he has done sweet fa for all the other European clubs he has managed.
Roy Keane once won the championship with Sunderland. Big deal.
Don't put him in the same sentance of Jose. You embaress yourself.
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Bielsa has got his teams punching above his weight for decades, and he's moved with the times. Mourinho hasn't punched above his weight since his first gig at Porto. And Bielsa has done it with attacking verve.
Don't get me wrong it's an apples-and-oranges comparison, and Mourinho clearly has the fuller trophy cabinet. 10 years ago I'd have said Mourinho was obviously the better coach. Nowadays though...
All Mourinho had to do after the WHU debacle was to drop Sanchez, Winks and Sissoko from the team indefinitely. Instead he has changed the way we play, sacrificing most of our attacking for defending. It didn`t need such a drastic change of tactics, just a change of personnel.
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Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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I didn't watch the match but they were saying on MOTD that Bielsa and Leeds adapted their style of play to suit Burnley's. If they can manage to do it surely it should not be hard for us.
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Bielsa is a much better and more flexible manager though.
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The biggest fraud in football is Bielsa. Leeds are 12th in the league.
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because bielsa is a fraud? or because they just got promoted. one thing for certain, jose couldn't take a mid table championship team and with few changes get them to 12th in the pl in 2 years. why talk such utter nonsense.
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They way people talk about him like he is the second coming is very overboard. Apart from winning the championship with Leeds he has done sweet fa for all the other European clubs he has managed.
Roy Keane once won the championship with Sunderland. Big deal.
Don't put him in the same sentance of Jose. You embaress yourself.
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Bielsa has got his teams punching above his weight for decades, and he's moved with the times. Mourinho hasn't punched above his weight since his first gig at Porto. And Bielsa has done it with attacking verve.
Don't get me wrong it's an apples-and-oranges comparison, and Mourinho clearly has the fuller trophy cabinet. 10 years ago I'd have said Mourinho was obviously the better coach. Nowadays though...
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Winning everything with Intet was punching. Wrong again Amanda.
He's setting you up the same way I could imagine him handling a mid-table club. He is a back foot tactician 100%, the ideology is how do we stop them first/how do we hurt them second, but he's not THIS negative usually. On occasions yes but not as a matter of course.
It could be the players, falling back into a pattern that worked vs. the big teams which was your best sequence of results home & away in a long time, but even if it's the case in itself it's poor leadership... he's empowered the players but they're not following orders on a game by game basis. That's assuming he's not outright lying when he's saying that as you say, which is always possible with Jose.
I am willing to give Mourinho until the end of the season but I have to say that
The football is some of the worst I`ve seen at Spurs.
We have become too predictable.
We have no plan B.
Mourinho overuses certain players.
Mourinho underuses other players.
Mourinho is scapegoating one of our best players.
We take the lead and then stop playing.
We are playing to our weakness and not our strength.
Mourinho has blind faith in some ordinary players.
Mourinho has no faith in some very good players.
I could go on....
It does not look too good at the moment and I have no idea how things will develop.
What is clear though, is that we need a good performance and 3 points asap.
It is not all doom and gloom though, we have already been away to Old Toilet, Klanfield, Stamford Bog, Molineux, Turf Moor, The Hawthorns (won`t be easy now Fat Sam is there) and St Mary`s. That is 7 of the tougher away games out of the way already.
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posted on 28/12/20
I think there is some truth in it. Jose is an intelligent man who will surely be able to see we needed a 2 goal cushion to survive last night. Isn't that one of the things he's talked about in the documentary?
At the same time, we've definitely gone more defensive as a whole since West Ham, and the players are generally following this philosophy that Jose has instilled in them even if they should make 1 or 2 more attacks to placate their manager.
posted on 28/12/20
he's the donald trump of managers. lying comes very easy to him and it's never his fault. you'll be much better off when he leaves.
posted on 28/12/20
You lied yday when you said Ndombele and Stevie didn't travel..
posted on 28/12/20
If the way our midfield rolls over and gives complete domination to our opponents after we score isn't a tactical decision then the players we have in that area must be garbage.
The truth is probably that its a bit of both.
posted on 28/12/20
Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
posted on 28/12/20
comment by Dave&Danny (U4428)
posted 2 minutes ago
Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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I didn't watch the match but they were saying on MOTD that Bielsa and Leeds adapted their style of play to suit Burnley's. If they can manage to do it surely it should not be hard for us.
posted on 28/12/20
comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Dave&Danny (U4428)
posted 2 minutes ago
Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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I didn't watch the match but they were saying on MOTD that Bielsa and Leeds adapted their style of play to suit Burnley's. If they can manage to do it surely it should not be hard for us.
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Obviously not, the brain is still in the defensive mode that Mourinho installs in training
posted on 28/12/20
It’s the middle of the park causing the issue, Sissoko and Winks aren’t good enough for what Jose wants to do.
Ndombele - Doesn’t have the fitness
Dele - Doesn’t have the work rate
Lo Celso, Sissoko and Winks - Don’t have the passing ability
The annoyance being we should of signed Tielemans instead of Lo Celso or signed Grealish when we had the chance.
posted on 28/12/20
When you hook a player and publically criticise him after the game for giving the ball away, it's not hard to imagine that the players pick the more conservative option 9/10
posted on 28/12/20
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comment by Dave&Danny (U4428)
posted 2 minutes ago
Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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I didn't watch the match but they were saying on MOTD that Bielsa and Leeds adapted their style of play to suit Burnley's. If they can manage to do it surely it should not be hard for us.
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Bielsa is a much better and more flexible manager though.
posted on 28/12/20
He could have instructed the backline to push higher up the pitch, the midfielders to press aggressively which means winning the ball higher up the field to start attacks. The team stayed in a mid block press and when they won the ball back the attackers were too far away from the opposition goal.
He plays outdated tactics and even Ole has a more attacking philosophy than him.
posted on 28/12/20
comment by LukaBrasi LOL (U22178)
posted 1 hour, 36 minutes ago
You lied yday when you said Ndombele and Stevie didn't travel..
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😂😂 you loser. Yes I watched his Wolves press conference and, quite reasonably in my opinion, interpreted Jose saying they didn't travel as being in regards to the Wolves game, not the Stoke game.
posted on 28/12/20
I refuse to believe it's just on the players. We do not have the worst midfield in the league, which would be the only way us being dominated in every match could be down to the players
posted on 28/12/20
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Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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I didn't watch the match but they were saying on MOTD that Bielsa and Leeds adapted their style of play to suit Burnley's. If they can manage to do it surely it should not be hard for us.
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Bielsa is a much better and more flexible manager though.
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The biggest fraud in football is Bielsa. Leeds are 12th in the league.
posted on 28/12/20
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You lied yday when you said Ndombele and Stevie didn't travel..
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😂😂 you loser. Yes I watched his Wolves press conference and, quite reasonably in my opinion, interpreted Jose saying they didn't travel as being in regards to the Wolves game, not the Stoke game.
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You said as a matter of fact. Losers give fake news
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Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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I didn't watch the match but they were saying on MOTD that Bielsa and Leeds adapted their style of play to suit Burnley's. If they can manage to do it surely it should not be hard for us.
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Bielsa is a much better and more flexible manager though.
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The biggest fraud in football is Bielsa. Leeds are 12th in the league.
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because bielsa is a fraud? or because they just got promoted. one thing for certain, jose couldn't take a mid table championship team and with few changes get them to 12th in the pl in 2 years. why talk such utter nonsense.
posted on 28/12/20
To answer the op question I don’t believe him.
I have thought about this myself and queried it in another thread.
Taking everything into consideration I think Jose is lying.
And this will create the divide between players and him which will eventually indirectly result in him leaving within the next 12 months.
posted on 28/12/20
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posted 2 minutes ago
Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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I didn't watch the match but they were saying on MOTD that Bielsa and Leeds adapted their style of play to suit Burnley's. If they can manage to do it surely it should not be hard for us.
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Bielsa is a much better and more flexible manager though.
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The biggest fraud in football is Bielsa. Leeds are 12th in the league.
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because bielsa is a fraud? or because they just got promoted. one thing for certain, jose couldn't take a mid table championship team and with few changes get them to 12th in the pl in 2 years. why talk such utter nonsense.
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posted 2 minutes ago
Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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I didn't watch the match but they were saying on MOTD that Bielsa and Leeds adapted their style of play to suit Burnley's. If they can manage to do it surely it should not be hard for us.
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Bielsa is a much better and more flexible manager though.
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The biggest fraud in football is Bielsa. Leeds are 12th in the league.
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because bielsa is a fraud? or because they just got promoted. one thing for certain, jose couldn't take a mid table championship team and with few changes get them to 12th in the pl in 2 years. why talk such utter nonsense.
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They way people talk about him like he is the second coming is very overboard. Apart from winning the championship with Leeds he has done sweet fa for all the other European clubs he has managed.
Roy Keane once won the championship with Sunderland. Big deal.
Don't put him in the same sentance of Jose. You embaress yourself.
posted on 28/12/20
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comment by Dave&Danny (U4428)
posted 2 minutes ago
Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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I didn't watch the match but they were saying on MOTD that Bielsa and Leeds adapted their style of play to suit Burnley's. If they can manage to do it surely it should not be hard for us.
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Bielsa is a much better and more flexible manager though.
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The biggest fraud in football is Bielsa. Leeds are 12th in the league.
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because bielsa is a fraud? or because they just got promoted. one thing for certain, jose couldn't take a mid table championship team and with few changes get them to 12th in the pl in 2 years. why talk such utter nonsense.
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They way people talk about him like he is the second coming is very overboard. Apart from winning the championship with Leeds he has done sweet fa for all the other European clubs he has managed.
Roy Keane once won the championship with Sunderland. Big deal.
Don't put him in the same sentance of Jose. You embaress yourself.
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Bielsa has got his teams punching above his weight for decades, and he's moved with the times. Mourinho hasn't punched above his weight since his first gig at Porto. And Bielsa has done it with attacking verve.
Don't get me wrong it's an apples-and-oranges comparison, and Mourinho clearly has the fuller trophy cabinet. 10 years ago I'd have said Mourinho was obviously the better coach. Nowadays though...
posted on 28/12/20
All Mourinho had to do after the WHU debacle was to drop Sanchez, Winks and Sissoko from the team indefinitely. Instead he has changed the way we play, sacrificing most of our attacking for defending. It didn`t need such a drastic change of tactics, just a change of personnel.
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posted 2 minutes ago
Difficult for players to change from ultra defensive set up, when they are doing it in training everyday and on the pitch, to a more attacking system, they are not machines , difficult to flip flop especially during a game
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I didn't watch the match but they were saying on MOTD that Bielsa and Leeds adapted their style of play to suit Burnley's. If they can manage to do it surely it should not be hard for us.
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Bielsa is a much better and more flexible manager though.
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The biggest fraud in football is Bielsa. Leeds are 12th in the league.
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because bielsa is a fraud? or because they just got promoted. one thing for certain, jose couldn't take a mid table championship team and with few changes get them to 12th in the pl in 2 years. why talk such utter nonsense.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
They way people talk about him like he is the second coming is very overboard. Apart from winning the championship with Leeds he has done sweet fa for all the other European clubs he has managed.
Roy Keane once won the championship with Sunderland. Big deal.
Don't put him in the same sentance of Jose. You embaress yourself.
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Bielsa has got his teams punching above his weight for decades, and he's moved with the times. Mourinho hasn't punched above his weight since his first gig at Porto. And Bielsa has done it with attacking verve.
Don't get me wrong it's an apples-and-oranges comparison, and Mourinho clearly has the fuller trophy cabinet. 10 years ago I'd have said Mourinho was obviously the better coach. Nowadays though...
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Winning everything with Intet was punching. Wrong again Amanda.
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posted on 28/12/20
He's setting you up the same way I could imagine him handling a mid-table club. He is a back foot tactician 100%, the ideology is how do we stop them first/how do we hurt them second, but he's not THIS negative usually. On occasions yes but not as a matter of course.
It could be the players, falling back into a pattern that worked vs. the big teams which was your best sequence of results home & away in a long time, but even if it's the case in itself it's poor leadership... he's empowered the players but they're not following orders on a game by game basis. That's assuming he's not outright lying when he's saying that as you say, which is always possible with Jose.
posted on 28/12/20
I am willing to give Mourinho until the end of the season but I have to say that
The football is some of the worst I`ve seen at Spurs.
We have become too predictable.
We have no plan B.
Mourinho overuses certain players.
Mourinho underuses other players.
Mourinho is scapegoating one of our best players.
We take the lead and then stop playing.
We are playing to our weakness and not our strength.
Mourinho has blind faith in some ordinary players.
Mourinho has no faith in some very good players.
I could go on....
It does not look too good at the moment and I have no idea how things will develop.
What is clear though, is that we need a good performance and 3 points asap.
It is not all doom and gloom though, we have already been away to Old Toilet, Klanfield, Stamford Bog, Molineux, Turf Moor, The Hawthorns (won`t be easy now Fat Sam is there) and St Mary`s. That is 7 of the tougher away games out of the way already.
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