"In Mauricio I believe we have a Head Coach who, with his high energy, attacking football, will embrace the style of play we associate with our Club. He has a proven ability to develop each player as an individual, whilst building great team spirit and a winning mentality.
“I am delighted that Andre has agreed to become our new Head Coach. He has an outstanding reputation for his technical knowledge of the game and for creating well-organised teams capable of playing football in an attractive and attacking style. Andre shares our long-term ambitions and ethos of developing players and nurturing young talent, and he will be able to do so now at a new world class Training Centre.”
"With his great knowledge of the game and his excellent motivational skills, Harry has inspired his teams to consistently over-perform, whilst his preferred attacking style of playing the game sits comfortably with our Club's history, heritage and the type of entertaining football our fans want and expect to see."
“Juande’s arrival is great news for Tottenham Hotspur. He brings with him a wealth of experience, a proven track record and a winning pedigree. Now is the time for us to regroup and look to deliver the results and performances that everyone associated with the Club wants to see.
“Martin is a highly experienced coach and I am delighted that he has accepted what to me is one of the most prestigious positions in the Premiership. He has a reputation for creating well-organised teams capable of playing attractive football. He is very technically minded with a good knowledge of both English and European football, in addition to first class man management skills.
The announcement of the exciting appointment of current France coach Jacques Santini as our new Head Coach after Euro 2004 has sparked an huge demand for Season Tickets for the new campaign - make sure you don't miss out on the action!
― anonanon, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
its true its all true
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
5 yrs ffs
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
At least they didn't have the brass neck to trot that guff out for tim
― JLB Credit (Jack BS), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 10:26 (nine years ago) link
"We have a great squad and we owe them a Head Coach who will bring out the best in them and allow them to flourish and enjoy a strong, exciting finish to the season. "We are in the fortunate position of having within our Club a talented coach in Tim Sherwood. "We believe Tim has both the knowledge and the drive to take the squad forward."
― anonanon, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
delight admittedly tempered
― anonanon, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
Southampton had a small squad that had basically run themselves into the ground by Christmas, I'm not sure it'll be as much of an issue at Spurs, even allowing for lol injury crises.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
despite none of them being on the england plane, there are fourteen spurs players past&present going to brazil. that's not far off barca
― ogmor, Friday, 6 June 2014 07:42 (nine years ago) link
Lloris, Vertonghen, Dembele, Paulinho, Modric, Chadli, Bentaleb, BAE, Dos Santos, KPB, Palacios, Zokora, Postiga, Pletikosa - right?
The last couple took me ages to get.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 12 June 2014 10:16 (nine years ago) link
Corluka is in the Croatia squad, isn't he?
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 12 June 2014 10:29 (nine years ago) link
sixteen! forgot about postiga & pletikosa but yes there's corluka and also dempsey
― ogmor, Thursday, 12 June 2014 13:30 (nine years ago) link
looking over our squad, if vertonghen will play lb with a decent attitude that's 1 worthy first team defender. best of the rest are crocked or shakey or both, worst of the rest are awful or dgaf and can't be picked.
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
regardles of attitude i don't think jan is a fullback. agree that there are plenty of questions about the rest of em.supposedly bidding 5M for jamaal lascelles who... has a cool name. don't know anything else.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
http://thepremierleagueowl.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Screen-Shot-2014-07-08-at-16.01.41.png
― mizzell, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
I wish I'd found that website, took me an hour in excel. tho I will as able to add a fairly pithy comment field.
llorisvertonghen- if no prob at lbkaboul- replace if possiblechiriches- replace if possiblewalker- watch like a fuckin hawk, try to sell for decent cash, replaceSandrodembeleeriksenLennonlamela not sure how adaptable he is at LW Adebayor - flaky as fuck but its not gonna happen for soldado let's face it
flog- Dawson, siggurdson, paulinho, naughton, everyone, sell the club, stadium, buy gold or oil futures, learn peace, fuck hateful football
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
With Vertonghen, Walker and Chiriches it's a problem with decision-making, not ability or technique - Poch knows how to organise a defence and should be able to work those problems out, ideally with Vertonghen at CB. Kaboul is finished and should be offloaded as quickly as possible, he's either injured or a disaster area, but I don't think anyone would take him. Dawson I suspect will be gone by the end of the summer.
It appears we're hawking Sandro around which strikes me as madness, if we're going to play the sort of pressing game then he's essential in midfield. I was hoping the World Cup would illuminate something about Paulinho but he appears to be the ultimate water-carrier really.
Stoked to see what Poch will be able to do with Eriksen and Lamela.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
yes to the three, being hugely optimistic, that being the outlook then kaboul being fit and not killed in a high line is no further of a stretch IMO matt. just can't see it!
bae back at lb or is the ship sailed?
Sandro is our best player alongside eriksen and lloris and our best leader alongside kaboul and it beggars belief that we're not fending off huge bids for him, never mind trying to sell him off our own bat.
paulinho is awful, not even showing ability in flashes like gylfi or chadli
I'm psyched to see what poch does with holtby and townsend
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
I still think paulinho has the most potential of our more attacking MFs, hope poch gives him a go
― ogmor, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah tbf I would be uneasy about writing off anyone but Dawson, naughton from p much our entire squad there's a us able squad player at least in each of the rest and none of last summers purchases came near to their potential
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
would a move for di maria be out of the question
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
yes
i mean LFC probably had/have the money to buy Pogba but cmon now.
― pandemic, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 08:54 (nine years ago) link
lascelles is talented but unless poch is v v diligent then moving to spurs at 20 now will surely turn him into another jenas/walker/naughton feckless pissflap
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 10:05 (nine years ago) link
lack of midfield distributor still painfully obv from that stack of squad names there
jordy clasie would do nicely imo
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 10:19 (nine years ago) link
depends on distribution method envisaged IMO, holtby can do metronome, for all the lack of form paulinho can surely carry it and provide simple links, dembele also capable of travelling with it if that's required, bentaleb p decent simple link. was prob the most overlooked/neglected part of avb setup maybe? and Sherwood wasn't gonna put it right, but I don't think individual ability is a huge prob in the midfield set
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 10:57 (nine years ago) link
doesnt have to be thudd hollywood pings but u need more about u than those water carrier types to improve the laborious transitions you have right now
dembele capable, yeah gl with that
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 11:28 (nine years ago) link
sorry the lackofform() function had more than just paulinho as an input but dembele is in no way a write off just yet imo
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 11:30 (nine years ago) link
he's not but the fate of a season shouldnt rest on that whimsy either
other than for sociopaths "we're shit without you" is the arch anti-motivator, in fitba and indeed beyond
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 12:08 (nine years ago) link
http://www.football365.com/tottenham-hotspur/9379550/Premier-League-Tottenham-ready-to-proceed-with-new-stadium-at-White-Hart-Lane
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Friday, 11 July 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ateQQc-AgEM
― r|t|c, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
He's definitely in the group of players I'd expect Poch to improve, so pretty happy about this. Pretty much the end of Vertonghen at LB I'd imagine.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
he's not a bad backup and along with a lot of the players we keep getting rid of is a good cheap squad option
― Serious Men raised by the Issues Movement (darraghmac), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
probably a bad sign for Fryers more than anything
― anonanon, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
fryers not being good enough to break ahead of naughton is a bad sign for fryers tbf
― Serious Men raised by the Issues Movement (darraghmac), Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
shape of things to come
https://vine.co/v/MVDztlqIUml
― anonanon, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
the fuck was that
― Come and Heave a Ho (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
Should have seen the Ceballos miss five minutes later.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
Harry Kane has signed a new five year contract.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 14 August 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
in absentia a europa league thread: fuck this stupid club that is above buying defenders
― duff paddy (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/tottenham-hotspur/11048364/Tottenham-transfer-news-Spurs-set-to-bid-for-Sevilla-central-defender-Federico-Fazio.html
Don't know much about this guy, but 3/4 of a new back four would represent a decent summer.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
Clad supposedly off to Roma
― mizzell, Thursday, 21 August 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Vlad even.
I don't get selling Chiriches and letting Dawson and Kaboul hang around
― anonanon, Thursday, 21 August 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
idgi keeping any of em so sell em in whatever order
― duff paddy (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 August 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
Harry Kane has sneakily developed into a decent player
― anonanon, Thursday, 21 August 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
good third choice in a one man system if our first choice was reliable and second choice suited the system but alas
― duff paddy (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
does anyone feel certain if vlad is even any good or not
― r|t|c, Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
in a high line its been impossible tbh
― duff paddy (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
I'm 90% sure he is but will happily defer to Rudi Garcia on the issue. He seems like he would know for certain.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
sabatini otoh is a bit more hit and miss
― r|t|c, Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
Things that look like an ILF "the interior life of..." thread but aren't: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/aug/15/small-talk-michael-owen
― Tim, Friday, 22 August 2014 10:39 (nine years ago) link