Ole has shown plenty of acumen getting a Norwegian team to compete with teams from richer, stronger leagues in Europe.
Asamoah and Lichtsteiner are good squad options, and very experienced players. When we've played with a back three we haven't looked more defensively solid, and it wouldn't have stopped us from conceding the equaliser from a corner. It wouldn't have changed the total lack of energy our forwards/midfielders had in the second half, which allowed Wolves to get a proper grip on the game and trap us in our own third, with Moutinho being a crucial substitution.
This old Chestnut. Winning trophies is good for business. Period.
As @breakout67 has already better stated, a change in tactics could have helped. But simply sitting there and doing nothing just reminds me of our days under Van Gaal were all we were treated to a typical right back change at random points in games.
I'm not saying he can't be criticised, it's today's criticism in particular that is bizarre. Saying he should have won trophies up to now is absolutely fine, saying they lost today because of some lack of bottle is near-deliberately stupid.
It depends on your business goals. Do you think Stan Kronke has been unhappy with his returns from Arsenal?
But Spurs have consistently crumbled when the title pressure has been on them. Not just this season either. It's been a constant theme of theirs for a while. No one really thought of them in the title picture until now. And they probably won't be in it for much longer
All aboard!
They're looking to maximize their profitability. Without exception, the most profitable clubs in world football are also the most successful. You know this.
Put it this way: if this was an unusual occurrence, no one will mention it. The reason why it's brought up after this result is because of all that happened before it.
Been on since we appointed him. I'm not a Poch fan because he consistently bottles big occasions, something a United manager should definitely not be doing.
Spurs have been relatively pressure free for years due to being so irrelevant. The very second Tottenham have come under any type of pressure or must win occasion, he's lost the game. fecking disaster of a manager at a big club if you ask me.
Not a Poch fan but I would add a caveat.
Not convinced by Ole either and I do think the tough games will come.
He is great at overperforming with limited resources, but at the same time really bad when there is some pressure to win. So no surprise that after people started mentioning them as title challengers, they crash next game.
Get in.. But we really need Arsenal to at least score 3 second half goals and draw this
Me neither. I am not convinced.
Is it him who bottles though...? Or his players? Spurs has a culture of bottling running through it as a club.
Seems to be en vogue with lots of posters. It’s lazy and boring. Think it’s more used as an insult than anything actually meaningful.
No, city don’t bottle it because they’ve already gone the distance. The difference is that when the pressure is on spurs they seem to not have the nerve for it
Yeah, that’s my take on it
Well, maybe they’re just not good enough? City, by contrast, are...so aren’t they bottled it more (this season)?
Liverpool are on course for 102+ points... How on earth is this a good chance for Spurs to win the league? They've not even signed any players. Not a penny spent in the summer. And they're bottlers because they won't get the 100+ points it will take to win the title. It's unbelievable it really is.
They've lost several times this season already. It's simply your own confirmation bias that leads you to labelling today's result a bottle job whilst every other defeat this season is just a side dropping points.
Yes - I am not saying they are not....but I saw them against Fulham. They were awful….and Spurs are in the form of their life
Come on now, I've been saying it for 2 years
This is the best Tottenham have been in a while, and were within 6 points was it? Before they lost to wolves.
Staying true to what we are is the best way forward. Ole might not be the one to restore us to former glory and he might get a couple of seasons before he eventually gets the boot but our next manager will be coming in knowing what we expect and what the standards at the club are. None of this "Please come and fix us" bullshit to whichever big name manager is doing well in Europe. I'm sick of seeing our club be dragged into mediocrity because some shit manager had success somewhere else and thinks he can replicate everything to exactly how it was at his previous club, get to feck with that shit.
It's bottling it because over the years they have consistently lost when the pressure was on. Spurs have been irrelevant for years which is why they've been successful, the second there's any pressure to win they bottle it. That's why it's bottling and Pochettino is the ultimate bottler.
