TOTTENHAM ARE STILL A BIG CLUB!

Yeah he may have always been a central midfielder but he never seemed to start there, he usually would start in one of the wide positions. These tend to be fluid revolving attacking positions when Eriksen/Dele/Lamela* start there but Sissoko had neither the tactical quick thinking or the passing ability, he'd tend to run at the fullback and then not be able to cross particularly well at the end of it. It wasn't just that he was being played too wide, he was also too far up the pitch.

Whereas he's fantastic pressing and harrying players and rampaging through the middle. The Dembele role is absolutely the best one for him in our team (and it's an essential one for us I think).

*I'm excluding Son and Lucas from this as their roles tend to be more direct.

Admittedly two of his recent notable contributions have come from a decisive pass from an advanced position on the right, but he's clearly bringing more than that to the team now.

He was France’s best player by a mile in the Euro 2016 final at CM, more or less, and talked up by the Telegraph at the time as ‘a successor to Yaya Toure as the Premier League’s most complete central midfielder’ but I guess Dembele and Wanyama’s excellent season after he joined meant he was shunted out right.

He's always been able to summon the occasional monster performance. First couple of months at Newcastle people were talking about him as the signing of the season. I'm sceptical that he's going to start delivering it on a consistent basis at this point in his career though

they should have two off already obv

alli letting us down badly until that amazing pass

Lucas uh got the uh ball there first ref

LOL the Arsenal, doubly hilarious given how desperate the media is for their revival.

That was fun. Dele the best kind of cunt tonight.

yesssss

https://statsbomb.com/2019/01/tottenhams-january-shopping-list/

This is excellent.

ooo lovely

love to read some new names. skipp has looked decent so far in a CM/DM sort of role and seems a likely option.

Probably the best argument for signing a proper defensive midfielder as soon as possible is that we're significantly constraining Winks' development as a playmaker. I thin whoever plays on Sunday is likely to have a very difficult game against a resurgent Pogba though - although I've never seen him have a good game against us.

just change your name to harry jinx ffs

skipp seems like a not-quite-as-good winks but appreciate both are as matt says probably developing without the platform of a support player beside them

obv skipp some years younger than winks when he debuted too

so much goes play has been going through pogba lately. the united midfield is still yet to be fully realised so mb it cld all be snuffed out quick but there are a lot of threats there and chief among them poggers the hard-to-mark long-legged marauding menace

little piece from michael cox on dembele: http://www.espn.co.uk/soccer/english-premier-league/23/blog/post/3751901/premier-league-will-lose-its-most-unique-player-when-mousa-dembele-leaves-tottenham

Tottenham have planned a "top-level meeting" to discuss how to deal with Kane's absence over the next couple of months. Loan signings are being considered, as well as the potential promotion of 16-year-old academy striker Troy Parrott.

No pressure Troy

Troy Parrott, Harry Winks, Oliver Skipp. I have to commend the Tottenham policy of only developing young players with entertaining names.

my client skipp can kick a ball very far away

Yeah, yeah, whatever, does he prefer Oliver and Olly? Either way, we've very excited about his name.

anyway

i am calm. the flower opens in its own time.

troy parrott may not be an adequate replacement this week for harry kane, but a fortnight of poch magic and it'll be lol arry oo

llorente will score a goal a game in february

vinny janssen GOAT for ten games

whatever. energia universale finds its way.

Fucksake

🇰🇷 South Korea 2-1 Bahrain 🇧🇭

Sonny progresses to the quarter-finals 👏#AsianCup2019 pic.twitter.com/uTVKllsLf4

— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) January 22, 2019

rushed home in time to see dier do that

Korea trailing Qatar 1-0 with nine minutes to go. Fingers crossed.

We are all Qataris now.

He's coming home

The prodigal Son returns!

yesss

are Qatar good now? Assume they've gotten a few ringers in

Their top player and leading goalscorer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A1n_Soria

He has been playing for them since 2007 tbf.

They have less ringers than many European national squads tbh.

True. Let he who is without sin...

was gonna say!

fuck these personality vacuum idiots

Two FBs, three and a half CBs and defending like this.

every one of these men is a professional footballer what a pack of bad old days cunts

Hahahaha

never in doubt

Match-fixing levels of incompetence here.

trippier is the embodiment of joe harts brittle guts

a word for the bein commentary the worst i ever heard

think scraping a Europa place probably a higher priority than losing to Chelsea or United in the semi tbf

i wonder if man utd manager elect poch has spotted that kane or son arent out there to bail out his preferred method of stodgeball from centre back to dier

poch out

a word for the bein commentary the worst i ever heard

Jonathan Pearce ranting about Sanchez not understanding the significance of the cup/playing a team from London

IS THIS THE END OF POCHETTINO AT TOTTENHAM he screamed at one stage

this from trippier is the single worst performance ive seen from a player since

hmmm

gary doherty, maybe anthony gardner

that ahould be a pen