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Ange is an odd character to be manager of a club like Spurs. Guy is arrogant and unpleasant with the media, but also has very little history of success in his career to back up this behaviour. You would think he was a young, headstrong manager with the way he acts, but this man is older than my parents, lol. I don't really understand him or why Spurs fans back him and his "project" despite mediocre results. The man seems over-matched, tbh.

Badly need to bring Longstaff or Willock on, the team is lacking legs.

I hope people remember days like this before they enter this thread to disparage him the next time he goes a few matches without scoring and is missing chances. Striker is the most inconsistent position by nature; all of them will have cold spells. The reality is that Isak is easily one of the best forwards in the entire world when he is "on" and that is a very good amount of the time. Even when he's not scoring, his general play is incredibly valuable to the team. Easily the most important player in the team; the success of the remainder of the season will depend heavily on his availability.

If this results holds, it puts us behind Fulham and Bournemouth, and this wouldn't be out of step with how the team has looked this season. Generally, they have played at a similar level to those midtable sides. The lack of solidity they showed after taking the 2-1 lead is concerning. Looks with the ball, easy to play through. You don't compete against top teams that way. Edit: Fuck all that shit I just said

There are countless avenues to express these things that do not put their players in this position, tbh. The entire situation feels unnecessary to me.

Again, you are telling me the issue is non-political, but we have other posts in this thread expressing that the beliefs of nearly every major world religion are not acceptable in civilized society, as such decided by the Western intelligentsia (the only people with opinions that matter). I empathise with your thoughts on it and don't mean to diminish them, but it is inherently political imo, as is every other significant social movement.

Your question has two parts. For the first part, I genuinely do not think there is anything in football that interests me less than whether Bruno or Lascelles see fit to wear an anti-racism armband. Beyond my own lack of interest, these campaigns are provably ineffective and a waste of time. For the second part, it would obviously diminish my opinion of them if a player went around saying that Black people were inferiorBut again, this is my personal opinion, and also not equivalent to anything Guehi or Morsy have expressed. It is not as though racism against Blacks/Africans has is a rarity in football, anyway.

Maybe the clubs and leagues should wisen up and put all of this rubbish on an advertising hoarding and stop using their employees as vessels to makes useless statements for the political issue du jour. The players are not even allowed to make political or religious statements of their own volition. How silly is it that they should have to make them at the club's behest?

I do not understand this statement; many groups of people exist. One can acknowledge they exist without wearing the group's paraphernalia at their place of employment. Refusal to do so does not make them hateful or evil, no matter how much certain people will protest. Frankly, trying to frame the issue as ”not political" is just a rhetorical attempt to limit discussion and push back. The statement is inherently political, to the point that there are actual policy debates around it to this day.

Michail Antonio needs to let his hairline come home.

Rodri went off injured at halftime of the Euros Final; his replacement came on, played fantastically well, and scored the winner. If Oyarzabal had instead come on, had a shocker, and handed the title to England, I feel like Rodri would not have won the award. Vini should have won, imo, but he wasn't at a level where it was undisputed. With Rodri, it just seems like they wanted to reward a player with both club and international success, and he was the best option from Spain or Argentina.

There are generally about 2-3 strikers in world football at any given time that are actually consistent and do not go through random patches of poor finishing. Osimhen is probably my favourite player around these days and once every five matches or so, he looks like Michail Antonio on a bad day. Lautaro Martinez, Harry Kane, even Lewandowski all have games like this regularly. Isak is at the same level of the players I named, imo, but scoring goals is difficult. Once again, the failure is recruitment. Calum Wilson should have been shipped to Saudi or a lower team in the table that can take the risk with his constant absences due to his quality. This Osula boy, they could have loaned him to a Championship side or somewhere in Europe if he needed to season first. Isak has played 90 minutes in most of the matches he's started this season; even the best forwards usually sit after 75 or so if things are not working. We simply cannot afford to.

Not sure it is his fault necessarily, the recruitment is a much bigger issue for a club with our ambitions imo, but I would be stunned if he survives this season without massive improvement. The table is not inaccurate for this group at all, they perform and look like a mid table team. Like most sides of that pedigree, there are a few real high quality players and occasionally we flash ability to play at a higher level. However, we are completely incapable of imposing our style of play in matches, remain very inconsistent, and do not have the quality to replace from the bench or adjust when the top players are injured or not in form. The team is 12th and the next two matches are Arsenal at home and then a very tough away trip to the City Ground (Nuno's team are horrible to play against). There is every chance that the table looks very grim for this team in a fortnight. It is hard to know how the owners react in this situation as we haven't seen them deal with it before, but if we are 13th or 14th at the international break, it is a position that leads to managers getting sacked more often that not. I like Howe, but would not begrudge a change at this point. The team is just not hard to play against at this moment. I would prefer a manager that can restore defensive solidity if he is replaced.

Commentator is talking about the confidence Howe is showing by keeping Isak on. The only striker on the bench is a young boy the manager refuses to play, I don't think it is about confidence.

This team has nowhere near the attacking talent and depth to be where it wants to be.