Tim Sherwood being proved right
This Tottenham side needs help and it needs it fast, they are once again a soft touch, rarely able to score more than one league goal a game.
This season, 7 times in 9 games we have scored 1 goal or less and the only times we have managed it are against sides currently in the relegation places.
Under Andre Villas-Boas in 11 out of the 16 Premier League games we scored 1 goal or less with inverted wingers.
Under Tim Sherwood we scored 1 goal or less in 11 out of 22 Premier League games.
But goalscoring simply doesn't mean replacing the striker and everything will be alright because we are not creating the chances for them to score. The main problem is behind them and currently the three behind the lone striker, they are not good enough, simple as that.
The problem has built up over time with a just do enough attitude instead of a clinical attitude, it is demonstrated whenever we are 2-0 up and Adebayor is playing he simply drops into midfield and starts passing the ball backwards and forwards as if he is suddenly the sides playmaker. It impresses some but it embodies all that is wrong with the Tottenham mentality.
It shall come to pass and it has, what Tim Sherwood was saying is correct, the players here are here as a favour for some cash. I did not want Sherwood as a manager but I accepted what he had to say and not just reject it because he said it, I'm beyond that petty mindedness.
Sherwood gave it to the fans straight, he probably knew he was there simply to give Levy some honest answers about this lot, which would explain why we are trying to convince the Sevilla director of football to come to White Hart Lane. That suggests the signing have been Baldini inspired, his replacement for Bale, Lamela. They are world apart.
The Italian league and the Premier League are worlds apart, in Italy you have all the time in the world compared to the Premier League, if you can't produce your skill at pace then you won't make it over here and so far Lamela can't and Eriksen is struggling.
How many shots did Tim Krul have to save? We had 2 shots on target, one of those was a header for the goal. Deposit a new striker doesn't change the fact the players behind him are not creating anything.
If Tottenham are to save the season then we can't continue to carry players.
If you want to improve a player you have to introduce him into a settled and successful team, what you can't do is introduce a whole bunch of them and say right, now you all improve together. That's what Tottenham have done and come unstuck and with a new stadium around the corner it's been fouled up at totally the wrong time.
Spurs can't now spend big money, it's too close to stadium building time, which we are seeing with the budget purchases we hope play better than the overpriced cash mercenaries we have acquired.
We are in no different position than we were a year ago,we haven't moved forward at all.
This season, 7 times in 9 games we have scored 1 goal or less and the only times we have managed it are against sides currently in the relegation places.
Under Andre Villas-Boas in 11 out of the 16 Premier League games we scored 1 goal or less with inverted wingers.
Under Tim Sherwood we scored 1 goal or less in 11 out of 22 Premier League games.
But goalscoring simply doesn't mean replacing the striker and everything will be alright because we are not creating the chances for them to score. The main problem is behind them and currently the three behind the lone striker, they are not good enough, simple as that.
The problem has built up over time with a just do enough attitude instead of a clinical attitude, it is demonstrated whenever we are 2-0 up and Adebayor is playing he simply drops into midfield and starts passing the ball backwards and forwards as if he is suddenly the sides playmaker. It impresses some but it embodies all that is wrong with the Tottenham mentality.
It shall come to pass and it has, what Tim Sherwood was saying is correct, the players here are here as a favour for some cash. I did not want Sherwood as a manager but I accepted what he had to say and not just reject it because he said it, I'm beyond that petty mindedness.
Sherwood gave it to the fans straight, he probably knew he was there simply to give Levy some honest answers about this lot, which would explain why we are trying to convince the Sevilla director of football to come to White Hart Lane. That suggests the signing have been Baldini inspired, his replacement for Bale, Lamela. They are world apart.
The Italian league and the Premier League are worlds apart, in Italy you have all the time in the world compared to the Premier League, if you can't produce your skill at pace then you won't make it over here and so far Lamela can't and Eriksen is struggling.
How many shots did Tim Krul have to save? We had 2 shots on target, one of those was a header for the goal. Deposit a new striker doesn't change the fact the players behind him are not creating anything.
If Tottenham are to save the season then we can't continue to carry players.
If you want to improve a player you have to introduce him into a settled and successful team, what you can't do is introduce a whole bunch of them and say right, now you all improve together. That's what Tottenham have done and come unstuck and with a new stadium around the corner it's been fouled up at totally the wrong time.
Spurs can't now spend big money, it's too close to stadium building time, which we are seeing with the budget purchases we hope play better than the overpriced cash mercenaries we have acquired.
We are in no different position than we were a year ago,we haven't moved forward at all.
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