Vlad Chiriches was part of the 'Summer Seven' at White Hart Lane last year but has failed to impress in his first season. While being comfortable on the ball, his passing is wayward and he frequently gives the ball away in his own half. He takes unnecessary risks when left one-on-one and always gives the impression a mistake is just around the corner. Positionally he is poor, he has a major weakness...
Gareth Bale wins Champions League Gareth Bale proved he was right to leave Tottenham last summer to join chase his dream of not only playing for Real Madrid but winning the biggest prize of all. His single minded work ethic meant he first had to work at his game so hard that Real Madrid would want to buy him in the first place. Compare that to the current crop of Spurs players and their mental attitudes...
Tottenham have a policy of looking for players with one year of their contract to run as if a club wants to cash in on the player they have to do so then or lose him on a free transfer at the end of the next season. Players in this situation are cheaper than their ability, by that I mean if they had a longer contract they would cost considerably more. One such player is Real Madrid striker Alvaro...
The guessing game continues with conflicting stories over the future of Southampton boss Mauricio Pochettino. This is like the Gareth Bale sage all over again, there were those of us who knew he was going and those who simply refused to believe it. The same seems to be going on with the press over Pochettino. On the same day stories are printed that the 42 year-old Argentinian may reject Tottenham,...
The Champions league final takes place tomorrow evening between Atlético Madrid and Real Madrid so will one of the two Head Coaches end up at Spurs? At first glance you would say it was nuts but there are factors at play here for both parties. Back in April top London football agent Jonathan Hope of Revolution Sports Management revealed he had offered Atlético Madrid Head Coach Diego Simeone...
As I speculated in an article on Monday May 19th which included a look at home grown players ( The Spurs Summer Transfer Window Jigsaw ) 24 year-old Jon Obika has signed a new contract. He is homegrown and seems to permanently be on loan at an age where he would expect him to either have broken through or be sold. We named him last year as a homegrown player in our Premier League squad and then loaned...
Aston Villa have been linked with Lewis Holtby for a while now and the stories from fellow German Felix Magath, his boss at Fulham, about his lack of fight could see him leave Tottenham. He has always shown effort and fight for Spurs so it was strange comments to hear from his loan spell with the London side. A lack of fight is exactly what was witnessed at White Hart Lane so Tottenham might look to...
The 33-year-old Brazilian agrees one-year deal Gomes made 135 appearances while at Spurs Watford have signed the Brazilian goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes on a free transfer from Tottenham. The 33-year-old has agreed a one-year deal at Vicarage Road, with the club having the option of a further 12 months. Watford announced on their website: Heurelho Gomes has agreed terms on a one-year deal at Vicarage Road...
Tottenham continue their search for players to fill key positions despite having no manager, the latest coming to light being Benfica winger Nicolás Gaitán . Manchester United are keen on the 26 year-old Argentinian and of course no transfer target of ours is complete without mentioning Liverpool interest. Gaitán came on with 25 minutes to play at White Hart lane in the Europa League tie and scored...
Former Spurs favourite David Ginola has been taking his coaching badges and is known to want to work with the Tottenham youth. Installing someone like Frank de Boer as Head Coach may not mean all his backroom staff coming with him back high profile former Spurs players being asked to help develop future generations. It is thought if De Boer were appointed that his twin brother would be coming as well....
English born Sporting centre-back Eric Dier is a player Spurs have been watching for a few years now and will not be a new name to my readers. Last March I wrote an article about him and then again in September last year when we were still having him watched. Eric Dier 19 year-old to watch He joined Sporting (formerly Sporting Lisbon) when he was 9 and has captained all their age groups through the...
Former De Boer international teammate has also heard about Tottenham and Frank De Boer talks he claims. In addition to the story I bought you yesterday about more than one ITK guy suggesting talks between Spurs representatives and Frank De Boer a former teammate of his has claimed to have heard the same thing. Bolo Zenden was talking to TalkSPORT and said: "I've also heard that Frank de Boer has been...
I came across an interesting read, interesting because what Ryan Nelsen says about his time at QPR could equally apply at Spurs today. Toronto FC boss and former Spurs player, Ryan Nelsen was talking about a his time at QPR in the 2012/13 relegation season with all the big money players they had. “It was an amazing learning experience for me. “It was an environment that probably players were getting...
I had to check it wasn't April Fools when I read about this story a couple of days ago, a 33 year-old on over £150,000 a week, nuts. The has scored 9 premier League goals in 16 games so yes he can score but a 2-year contract for a 33 year-old, I don't believe a word of it. Our rivals at the top of the table offer one year deals when players reach this age and I'm sure we would be no different but this...
Tottenham have been keeping an eye on the Javier Hernandez situation at Old Trafford for a while now and our chance to secure him may have come around. He has been warned by his Mexico manager Miguel Herrera that if he wants to keep getting selected for his country he will have to leave Manchester United in search of regular first team football. "In the case of 'Chicharito', I believe it'd be in his...
It's been a quiet week on the new manager front with Mauricio Pochettino the flavour of the week last week while the other candidates were unavilable to talk to us. Frank de Boer was in Indonesia with Ajax on a pre-season tour and only arrived back on Saturday so the expectation was that we would progress forward with him this week if we were interested. Carlo Ancelloti is tied up with Real Madrid...
Brazilian is currently third-choice goalkeeper at Spurs £7.8m signing went on loan to Hoffenheim last season Heurelho Gomes will leave Tottenham Hotspur at the end of his contract this summer. The 33-year-old Brazilian goalkeeper arrived in 2008 to much fanfare in a £7.8m deal, playing a key role in Spurs run to the Champions League quarter-finals three years later. Continue reading... ...
Tottenham goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes will leave White Hart Lane next month, the Premier League club announced on Thursday....
Specifically I’m referring to one statistic: best win rate of any Premier League Tottenham manager. Now that’s quite a statistic, and in the right context can certainly be used to ward off any naysayers or haters. After all, who are we to judge his methods? How can we have an objective view on his tenure […] The post How Tim used the media to justify his bad decisions appeared first on SpursWeb...
Mauricio Pochettino calls upon the philosophies of Marcelo Bielsa, now coach at Marseilles for his inspiration and tactical strategy. Marcelo Bielsa was his former boss at Newell's Old Boys and for the Argentinian national side and Pochettino has adopted the 'intense pressure' approach that Bielsa sides use. The Pochettino system is a 4-2-3-1 formation with high-pressing, two defensive midfielders,...