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Tottenham Hotspur 2017/18 - Spurs are on their way to Wembley

LiamO said:
Well at least you got the two-goal difference between them correct
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It was completely what I expected: a motivated, cohesive team switching between pressing and counter-attacking with graceful ease, against a confused, lacklustre, nervous rabble.

My opinion on Sissoko changes regularly, but I’m coming round to the view that performances where he has more desire than his team mates expose his weaknesses rather than justifying the existence of a hard-running bulldozer who can’t pass.

And now, probably, a brilliant and pointless effort against Dortmund, and then we’ll be shit against WBA. Which is the one I have tickets for.
 
Really good second half and we top the group of death. Wouldn’t have believed it when the draw was made.

Baggies, though. Liberated from Pulis. And with no-one rested at all, and my fairly consistent record of failure as a Wembley spectator.
 
Very good, very mature performance last night at Dortmund. Rose, Dier, Sanchez and Winks in particular....take a bow.

Who’d of thought - topping the ‘group of death’ with one game to spare!

Still doesn’t banish the memory of Saturday’s debacle but that’s another post.

Wish WBA had waited another week to sack Pulis - ‘bounce’ factor now in play. I always think, banana skin when I see this fixture near.....I think form over recent seasons suggest draw ...

Need an early goal Spurs...
 
Looks a bit of a carthorse don’t he?

Vinny’s only on loan though...so he may well be back!

Spurs forums have picked up in the fact that Llorente was seen on camera straight after the final whistle at the NLD laughing and joking with Monreal. I didn’t see it myself but not a great look for someone who can’t buy a goal..
 
Cerberus said:
Looks a bit of a carthorse don’t he?

Vinny’s only on loan though...so he may well be back!

Spurs forums have picked up in the fact that Llorente was seen on camera straight after the final whistle at the NLD laughing and joking with Monreal. I didn’t see it myself but not a great look for someone who can’t buy a goal..
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Yeh damn footballers having friends at other clubs
 
Or damn footballers lacking the wherewithal (in an emotionally charged atmosphere) to wait until off the pitch to have a chinwag and a laugh
 
Ah, I see the confusion. Llorente is actually a professional footballer, who is paid handsomely to take what other people treat as a game very seriously indeed, to the extent that a poor performance and a loss against local rivals should be deeply troubling. If you weren't watching Swansea in previous seasons and had just noticed him recently, you could be forgiven for assuming that he was a plucky amateur.
 
Silas Loom said:
Ah, I see the confusion. Llorente is actually a professional footballer, who is paid handsomely to take what other people treat as a game very seriously indeed, to the extent that a poor performance and a loss against local rivals should be deeply troubling. If you weren't watching Swansea in previous seasons and had just noticed him recently, you could be forgiven for assuming that he was a plucky amateur.
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he's a spurs player and spurs are - or should be - quite used to losing to arsenal by now.
 
chieftain said:
Better
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Worse. And then, worse. Toothless against West Brom. Leicester deserved their goals, but it should have been a glorious 2-4. Lamela's return is a good thing and compensates to some extent for Eriksen being finished, but until Wanyama is back there's still a huge problem with midfield. Poch is fuming. Winter is coming. Topping the group will count for nothing unless we progress in CL. These are bad times. We have not seen their like for some time.
 
Agree with all that ^^^

Huge test of Poch and of a squad who have possibly believed the hype and who are definitely looking jaded.

None of this is helped by our rivals all finding form while we slump....doubtless we’ll here/see the Gooners getting their jibes in before their usual February meltdown
 
marshall said:
Isn't your problem mainly Wembley?

And Alli, get shot of the bloke, definitely a bad apple.
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Nah. Real Madrid and Liverpool were trounced at Wembley. Our problem is squad depth, and a style which requires peak performance, all the time, from seven or eight key individuals. Dele is only young, and there’s no reason to think he’s a bad apple - you’ve just upset Eric Dier, which is brave of you - but he’d certainly be a better player if less hyped. And I think he’d be better developed if he was played further back.

Disclaimer, I know nothing about football other than watching it from time to time. So these are ill-informed and borrowed opinions.
 
I do hope it’s a return to form. Will see after the Brighton game in midweek.

Should’ve won this 9 or 10 nil....and we weren’t that good. Shaking off poor form in the first half only for Stoke to oblige us in the 2nd half by falling to pieces. A pathetic display from well paid, experienced international (in the main) footballers.

Felt sorry for Stoke’s fans having to travel all that way for such a spineless, insipid display from their team.

As for us - our two ‘problems’ - one (Eriksen) player himself into a bit of form; the other (Dele) was well under par and could do with a spell on the bench...
 
i wonder if Kane will stay after this season....i expect the offers are going to get ridiculous.

is Alli okay? He looks depressed to me.
 
Pickman's model said:
yeh how dare they treat a game as a game
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1991's is my favourite, though that may be more to do with that FA Cup run leaving my first lasting impression of the club on me.

It's funny how the red in the AIA logo unleashed such a torrent of invective, given how recently Mansion was our sponsor.
 
ska invita said:
i wonder if Kane will stay after this season....i expect the offers are going to get ridiculous.
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No way will he leave in the Summer. I know everyone has his price, but he's clearly Spurs in more than just the name on his wage slip, and I can't for a second see him giving up the opportunity to lead the team out at that glorious new stadium.

I strongly suspect we'll see two or three of the very highest quality signings in the next window. I think Levy will have big plans for our rebirth at WHL-2.0...
 
Corax said:
No way will he leave in the Summer. I know everyone has his price, but he's clearly Spurs in more than just the name on his wage slip, and I can't for a second see him giving up the opportunity to lead the team out at that glorious new stadium.

I strongly suspect we'll see two or three of the very highest quality signings in the next window. I think Levy will have big plans for our rebirth at WHL-2.0...
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Im feeling the opposite, I think he's got a foot out the door, especially if we don't finish top 4 or win the Champions League!! ;) This Man U game tomorrow feels like a big one in terms of the season.

Son is my favourite player anyhow, but of course we need Kane. Makes such a nice change to have a proper striker in the team. Should get a few quid for him though once he abandons us though no doubt it will be wasted on some false hopes like after Bale got sold.
 
ska invita said:
Im feeling the opposite, I think he's got a foot out the door, especially if we don't finish top 4 or win the Champions League!! ;) This Man U game tomorrow feels like a big one in terms of the season.

Son is my favourite player anyhow, but of course we need Kane. Makes such a nice change to have a proper striker in the team. Should get a few quid for him though once he abandons us though no doubt it will be wasted on some false hopes like after Bale got sold.
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Son is one player where I'm very happy to have been proven wrong. His talent was never in doubt IMO, but he just never seemed on the same wavelength as his teammates before. And he always looked kinda... sulky about it I guess. That's all changed this year, and he's vying with Kane and Vertonghen as our best player over the season.

The whole 'wasted money' thing from the Bale sale has become something of a trope, but what people seem to forget is that two of the players we spent it on were Eriksen & Lamela, both of whom are absolute quality. I think we turned a profit on most of the others. Although how the fuck Paulinho ended up at Barca I have no idea. One of the worst players I've ever seen in our shirt.
 
Cant believe Erikson is only 25! Just looked it up..I was expecting 35! Yeah he's definitely going into the Spurs canon...I feel a lot less attached to Lamela for some reason
 
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