Only Spurs rush in: it's the UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2018/2019 thread

Ampadu was very good.

Mourinho isn't to blame for individual errors and players underperforming, he's absolutely to blame for expecting a central midfield consisting of a 21-year-old winger and Harry Winks to hold back a team currently level on points with Bayern in the league. Spurs were incalculably better when Lamela and Ndombele came on. They barely had a touch of the ball in the first half.

see above!

would be fair to say that the first hour of each of our last few games has been very strangely set up and improved after the subs

whether theres a genius to it or not, who can say eh

LOL Chelsea.

Alphonso Davies looks legit.

He's in my FM team and yes but the little (
twat keeps demanding more money

undoubtedly the biggest Canadian talent since...uh

Joni Mitchell

tonetta

i never actually made it to a game when he was playing for the vancouver nightcaps sadly. looks class

How quickly people forget Bayern’s other Canadian superstar of the early 00s.

Vancouver Nightcaps is adorable btw.

Wondering if jim was in Vancouver to support Kenny Miller during his stint with the Whitecaps.

Heagreaves was only Canadian when he wasn't playing well. Or possibly German

this is paul stalteri erasure

this is going well

I guess that's probably goodnight Spuds.

Abysmal.

Wondering if jim was in Vancouver to support Kenny Miller during his stint with the Whitecaps.

― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, February 25, 2020 1:49 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

this was of course the impetus.

I only saw Kenny play once or twice for Vancouver but he scored 2 good goals in one game, a 4-2 victory.

hoops legend

its difficult to blame everyone involved to the correct extent without absolving others equally deserving of blame

levy should go

jose shouldnt stay

lloris, aurier, dele should never pull on the shirt again

With apologies to the 200 Spurs fans on ILX, few things are sweeter than watching Mourinho lose.

.....you outed yrself as a spurs fan previously iirc

With Poch, completely out of the question with Mourinho in charge.

I'm loving Mourinho's Spurs I have to say

main objection to mourinho is the salary, secondary is the feigned helplessness we were only paying poch 8m a year for

Mourinho is long past his best and the fact that he keeps getting "big" jobs in the prem is an indictment of how backwards the suits that run football clubs are. any club that takes him on deserves all they get

agreed

Sacking Pochettino, the club's best manager in decades, for having a poor start to the season after starving his team for three windows in a row was a fucking idiotic call.

Pretty sure he was glad to go by then.

starving his team such that he turned into the listless shadow he was was the idiocy

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— Lars Sivertsen (@larssivertsen) March 11, 2020

Poch is the least to blame of anyone here, when he walks into a cushy Bundesliga job we'll all be reminded quite how good a coach he was, particularly on limited resources. Poor squad building is ultimately laid at Levy's door, and Mourinho has been making the absolute worst of a bad job.

Individual players have been idiots time and time again but the frequency of these cock-ups has definitely been increasing over the course of this season.

The thing with latter day Mou is he joins clubs already struggling and can go a long way with "hey I'm not a miracle worker", well into the next season - splashing more money this summer on second to third rate players for Spurs. He's this close to doing so bad he can be sacked today. But not quite there yet. And he'll hover in that place, he enjoys being in that situation. Good luck getting rid of him.

Meanwhile no-one here cares one iota but PSV has signed Roger Schmidt as new manager for next season, which is a proper Big Signing for a Dutch club. He trashed Ajax w/ Red Bull Salzburg, twice, and got to the last 16 w/ Leverkusen. Before the inevitable disappointment, it's nice to daydream about what could be. Decent football for one.

Mourihno's treatment of Pogba and Ndombele has been absolutely toxic and whatever short-term boost of confidence he has given Dele has clearly worn off. His biggest strength this season has been to salvage games with good substitutions that probably only needed salvaging due to his poor starting lineup / strategy. I can't imagine he's anything other than a net negative on team morale.

failure to deploy the idiots in the safest possible setup, as well as somehow also managing to nullify any attacking threat our capable players might bother to muster in the same formation takes....some ability

i think removing him might actually be the best thing to do, early as possible after the season ends.

but that relies upon levy backing the new guy early, when in all likelihood the new guy will be told to learn the squad and we'll back you in jan, in jan theres no value in jan, next summer we'll rebuild and if the poor sod is till there then and not insane he'll get andy carroll on aug 31st

nothing excuses the performance from the players, not under poch and not now

nothing excuses managers not making a decent fist with what they have, not latter poch and not now. the gap between "i have enough and we will challenge" and "oh well two injuries i guess we cant pass or tackle now" is a complete sidestep from either of em or anyone else.

but its prob time that levys handling of everything from the stadium delay onwards seems him the main target. hes killed it stone dead and deserves sacking.

he'll get andy carroll on aug 31st

Oh man would I love too see it!

Sacking him end of season in a "we're very sorry it didn't work out etc" way seems like the best way out for Levy. If he waits any longer he's stuck in his own trap of having to feign actual faith in the bastard.

jonathon liew summed it up quite nicely

Late in the game Mourinho summoned his assistant João Sacramento to his side and simply shrugged at him, like a customer returning a defective phone to a retailer. Look, João. It doesn’t work. I’ve tried all the buttons. I’ve tried playing 5‑4‑1 at home. I’ve tried throwing my club’s record signing under the bus on live television. Now I’ve tried to gegenpress one of the best teams in Europe with a knackered team and a bare minimum of preparation. It’s a dud.

some quality kiss of deathing there from the radio commentary team

none of my patients came to clinic today so i'm watching this and it's infuriating

Blimey.

Just after Liverpool's second Pat Nevin was giving it "there's no better team in Europe at game management" and then the sky fell in

Blimey

Uh oh.

Blimey.

aww bless

That was more like it, best LFC have played for a while. Surprised Allison missing so many games hasn't cost us more in the league this season tbh. Still not really found the exact right method for away games in Europe over the last 3 years which is crazy considering this is the only time they've been knocked out. Competition looks p open now . kinda think Bayern should win it but still have a feeling for PSG, obv rooting for Atalanta.

One of the worst red card decisions... ever? In the PSG match

when there's no crowd, yelling 'oh fuck off' or such won't be so hard for the referee to ignore idk

kinda think Bayern should win it but still have a feeling for PSG, obv rooting for Atalanta.

Anyone but PSG tbh.