Tottenham Hotspur Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 25/26

On the plus side he knows the league, the epl teams , and our players a bit.

I would b3 worried that his style takes time to implement, are the club looking to next season already and making plans for the championship. Certainly looks that way, maybe they realise a full reset and clear out is the only way.

This also means Poch wont be back. I know hes not everyone's first choice but its an itch that has to be scratched... every newly appoint manager has this "bring Poch back" thing hanging over them, maybe we just need to get it over and done with and out of the way so we can get passed it.

HERE....... WE ....... GO.....

Poch arrived with a silver spoon and my overarching memory is Son banging in goals/assists and never playing 90 minutes, one of his many frustrating decisions week in week out

Listened to a podcast yesterday where they mentioned that Dunk said that the first few weeks under De Zerbi at Brighton were utterly confusing, that it took a long time to work out how he wanted them to play. That doesn't sound like a gamble you need to take now when he could take over in the summer after you've installed someone temporarily to keep you up.

Definitely.

We just need to source the easy to find alternative that will guarantee safety and have the luxury of deciding what's best in the summer. Maybe Ben Davies as was rumoured earlier this week.

He'll turnaround 8 months of abject performances, stay up, and then get someone better then. Simples.

Wasn't that the commonsense no-risk plan with Tudor?

Anyone who doesnt recognise that we are the worst team in the league (and have been for months) are watching a different team to me.

No one is saying it'll be easy but appointing De Zerbi NOW at this point of the season is making the mistake of the Tudor appointment potentially worse. Even if Spurs were relegated and De Zerbi took over in the summer, he'd ride the wave of positivity from bringing them straight back up. If he brings them down, the perspective changes.

Looks like it's a done deal.

more like AI, he ain’t that stupid

The more I look at this,the more I think the club are planning for next season in the championship.

The whole point of sacking Tudor and getting a new manager was in the hope of a new manager bounce ... but this appointment is anything but.

I would be fairly certain he won't be with us for five years am not sure what impact he will have for this season to help keep us up but am certain we would drop if Tudor stayed .Its a gamble worth taking this season anyway as if we do go down I don't think its as easy as some seem to think we will just come straight back up like the last time if people are old enough to remember like I am .

Just to be glass 1/10th full (AKA a Spurs optimist) for a minute: De Zerbi has apologized for the Greenwood defence so he must be at least pretending to build a relationship with the fans knowing he will be around for a while.

Secondly, and more importantly, I presume, without checking, he was Brighton manager when Bissouma came to Tottenham and single-handedly bossed us off the pitch. When we signed Biss I genuinely thought we had our Moose 2. If De De Zerbi can get a tune like that out of a player who thinks life is one big joke, what will he do with the likes of Gray, Bergvall, Simons and Odebert, young talents who look like they actually want to be on the pitch?

With no midweek games, an organized high press and , surely, a better run with injuries allowing the manager to discipline the wasters, we might actually win the Championship. (that’s the other 9/10ths kicking in).

My short term prediction is there is a shock banishment from the squad to train with the U18s, probably Biss, possibly VdV, and we beat Sunderland. The upside of the triangle has disappeared in 2026, it’s time we got it back!

COYS!!

"Don't get it do you"

Calm the jets, we are all part of the boards.ie spurs community in here,no need to get snarky with someone just because they have a difference of opinion.

De Zerbi's first training session, seems to b be trying to get some kind of plan across to the lads, Good to see him talking to players and seems very hands on in the training session. hopefully it pays off.

Read the international round up and it doesnt sound like many of our players left their spurs form behind them unfortunately. Bergvall got some decent minutes behind him, that was the main positive.