Good morning.
Music to my ears. The boss wants to play in the Europa. By play, I mean he wants to field a proper team and restore some pride in those taking the field in our shirt for these matches.
The last gentleman in charge opted for what I would call a divisive approach. On one side of the dressing room sat the first teamers who were played every league game until they dropped. On the other side sat the ones he wasn’t talking to and the kids. The latter category played in the Europa and they – through little fault of their own – in the main served up some rather unmemorable football.
What we need to brace ourselves for here is squad rotation. Which is an intrinsically good thing. Look I understand; if something’s not broke you don’t fix it, but you can’t treat modern players like the boys from the 60’s and 70’s and run them into the mud. They are different horses these days. Once warhorses, now (on a good day) Group 1 racehorses.
“This competition is very important. It’s a tough competition, you have to play 15 games before you reach the final, so it’s hard and strenuous and the best teams out of the Champions League are playing.
“It gives access to the European Super Cup and, for me, I always thought it was a prestigious competition and it should be promoted like that because after the Cup Winners’ Cup disappeared, it is not only about the Champions League.
“If we can win a trophy, that represents a lot for Tottenham Hotspur’s history as well and would be something really special.”
It’s great to see us taking every competition seriously.
Lloris will find himself in the green shirt sooner than antisipated then?
Cracking stuff and if AVB’s fitness regieme is as good as it’s being made out to be the boy’s will find this easier than last season especially if the squad is being rotated properly.
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Not sure if his fitness regime is producing the goods just yet. Late goals conceded in every match so far have arguably cost us five points to date. Either fitness or lack of concentration have been slipping (or one leading to the other) so this is an area we can improve on now the squad is complete and back from the international break.
Love the idea of 4 or 5 changes to the team that smashed Reading with key ins being Ade, Dempsey, Townsend Lloris and Caulker. Keep a few “Game changers” on the bench just in case and we should do well.
Would like Kyle N to stay on the field and get used to that position as he will be forced to play there for a few weeks, unless AVB takes the Bale fullback route.
Looking forward to it but I would like to see some of the up and coming players get in in the early stages but not mostly inexperienced players as we did against PAOK until the end. Conceding two soft goals early on left them a lot to do. Play the right players at the right time, as you say squad rotation. Still don’t know how Harry Kane did not score.
‘Music to my ears.’ And to mine.
Remember this is Lazio we are playing and will be a very tough game. The Team will need to include key first team players and some of the other Guys. If he is taking this seriously then he will put out the strongest team he can!!!