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Lana1:
We could be 4 points behind City before they play again.

If these ones have any modicum of shame, they should make sure City dont win the league till the final day.

Had Ole started Pogba and Cavani against Leeds, it would have been 2 points behind City before Pep plays another game.

Stupid decisions by Ole is why he keeps failing.

Bombblacks:
One win away from winning the league you make nine changes to your team against an inform Chelsea side and used a formation I can't even understand or explain. Some coaches are just daft sometimes.

OPTA has it down as 3-3-3-1 formation.

Even FIFA doesn’t have this formation listed on their game.

Pep is a joke.

weedtaker:
2 in 2 now, concerning the CL final, I trust the bald fraud will be sh!!ting his pants now.

He will probably tell his boys to get Kante sent off in the final to have all the advantage he wants.

Pep is a snake.

Tuchel just beating Pep for fun these days.

Tuchel’s made this team so formidable.

They are currently the most difficult team to beat in Europe.

raumdeuter:
How did you feel when Man utd won 6 of 8 league seasons

6/8 isn’t 9/9.

Bundesliga has become the Scottish league.

Their European coefficient ranking should be halved for this rubbish.

The Bundesliga is a joke.

Kingsley Coman is the luckiest player on the planet.

He’s had 10 seasons in his football career and he has won a league title in each of those 10 seasons.

Dude has more league titles than Cristiano and his contribution in those titles is less than 10%.

Bayern win the Bundesliga - again.

Muller and Alaba with 10 league titles each(Ryan Giggs must be feeling uneasy now).

I wonder how Bayern fans feel. Do they celebrate these victories or they are now numb to winning?

raumdeuter:
What position was Pep earlier in the season after 4 seasons in the league

Pandemic season without a preseason.

It’s not reflective of how his teams operate. It’s a one off incident that we might never see again.

Even the PL had to delay City/United’s first PL games because the two teams went the furthest in Europe last season and had to resume the a new season in the PL within a month or so.

raumdeuter:
I agree. Barcelona is crap. I saw their lineup vs Madrid in the last el classico and like 8 players don't even deserve to play for Osasuna never mind Barcelona
Minguesa Lenglet Araujo Pedri Braithwaite Trincai Dest
They want to give Messi a last good outing given he has a few yrs left. They should go and sign Neymar

Neymar just signed a new contract at PSG.

raumdeuter:
Away win makes no difference. It's still 3 points

Spurs made top 4 for many seasons until Mourinho came

Spurs were in 14th position when Mourinho arrived. He didn’t meet Spurs in top 4.

And this was a Spurs side that had the same manager for 6 years. It wasn’t as if Poch was still new at the job. He’d had close to 6 years to fine tune the team to its taste and style and yet he plunged them to 14th position without a trophy.

You can’t blame Mourinho for Poch’s failure.

patrickmuf:
I didn't see the Juve slump coming.

For the Buli, I think Wolfsburg are stronger than Eintracht Frankfurt, so why are you particular about Wolfsburg?

Koeman is average, I agree...

Barcelona are crap lately though. I wonder what happened to La Masia and the bundle of talents they were pushing through about a decade ago.

There are a lot of mediocre players in their roster and the bulk of their best players are 30+. They need a serious overhaul to get back to those glory days.

raumdeuter:
So was Pep and Ole at the beginning of this season and they are now top 2 in the league

The difference is neither Pep nor Ole hadn’t won an away league game in almost a year.

Neither Pep nor Ole won a miserable 25 points from 24 PL games.

Neither Pep nor Ole had lost the most points from a winning position in a league of 20 teams.

The comparison to Pep/Ole is highly flawed.

hoopLA:
Lol.

Watch how the eternally foolish one will dodge this high jump you have set by running under the bar.

It knows itself.

Even my two month old baby knows Ole is a failure.

She saw his face on the screen the other day and didn't stop crying till we changed the channel.

Just kill me.

patrickmuf:
When Mourinho took over, we're Spurs in the top 4? No, they were 14 but he guided them to the Europa League position, is that not improvement?

This season, before he was sacked, were Spurs out of the UCL race? No!

You are talking about the UEL, ain't it a competition Mou is not supposed to give a damn about?

It's laughable, he wins it with us, you guys rubbish the trophy and now he losses out of the trophy, you want to drag him...Funny!

If you are going to use Poch's previous season to say Mourinho didn't improve Spurs, then that attached Pic is wrong because Ole has not improved Manchester United. He didn't guide us to a top 4 finish when he replaced Mourinho and in his first season, whilst he finished 3rd which isn't better than what Mou achieved, he was knocked out of the UCL in the group stage this season...

Mou finished 2nd with 81pts whilst with us, has Ole equaled or bettered that? No...

Mou won the UEL, has equaled or bettered that? No...

Mou took us past the group stage of the UCL, has Ole bettered that? No...

Mou won the Caraboa cup, has Ole bettered that? No...

If you are saying Mou didn't better Poch after replacing him by using Poch's previous season best, then we have no model for which to judge Mou as he has not had a full season with Spurs because he was still in with a chance to make the top 4 and win the Caraboa cup...

I know you will likely read the above and still argue but this is the most I can do...

So after almost 3 years and almost £300m spent, the PE teacher hasn’t outperformed Mourinho in any progressive metric?

Scenes when “Good Ebening” put Ole in the mud in the Europa final.

patrickmuf:
Their form has been atrocious and I read that Wednesday were penalized with point deduction else Derby deserves to go down...

Congrats to them all the same.

And Lampard almost got Derby to the Premier League.

Rooney needs intensive coaching lessons from Pochettino.

adebayo201:
Whichever way you want to consider it, Mourinho's and Ryan's time at Spur so far ain't palatable.

They won last week with same Bale scoring hatrick or so, people were out saying he's better.

Today, he lost to Leeds who his predecessor Mourinho comfortably brushed aside.

Whichever way you want to look at it, as you're backing one, you're exposing the other side. Just know that Spur are shit.

Poch had almost 6 years to build this team though. It was his tactics, every player was the player he bought and he had imparted his mentality into them.

In those 6 years, Poch won nothing. Zero trophies!

Rooney avoids relegation.

Maybe Daniel Levy should hire him.

raumdeuter:
Within that 9months they still made top 4, made CL final

Within that 9 months, they were in 14th - hurtling towards relegation.

raumdeuter:
Yet within that time of not winning an away game they finished top 4 ahead of teams winning away

Away points hold extra value, all na 3 points

Of course, all na 3 points got them in 14th position.

For those who want to know how bad Spurs were under Poch, this is the evidence.

Poch wasn’t just awful, he was in a relegation form for 9 months before he was sacked.

raumdeuter:
Any team can be in any position during the season what matters is where they end the season

City and Man utd were below 10th at some time this season both are now top 2 at the business end of the season

LMAO!

Spurs hadn’t won an away league game in almost a year under Poch.

How the fück were they going to finish top 4 that season Poch was sacked? How?

raumdeuter:
Leeds already took points off Chelsea Liverpool City and Manchester united in the last 2months

Mourinho’s Spurs beat Leeds 3-0.

raumdeuter:
Ryan's immediate predecessor did not make top 4
Mourinho immediate predecessor made top 4 for many seasons

Actually it was under Mourinho that they failed to make top 4 in the last like 6 seasons

It was the same Mourinho’s immediate predecessor that left them at 14th position.

Same team, different managers.

Kane hasn’t scored or assisted a PL goal since Jose left.

Salah might yet win the golden boot.

I am so happy Spurs are in so much pain. I am even happier these 3 points Leeds are getting means Arsenal will sink back to 10th position.

Life is good.

I can’t believe Mourinho is losing to a newly promoted Leeds.

Gareth Bale v Leeds:

0 shots on-target
0 chances created
0 successful crosses.

Jose is holding Bale back. If he didn’t ask him to defend 80% of the time, Bale would have scored another hat trick in this game.

…….Oh wait!!!!!!

BARAJ92:
Please mention teams in recent years that has to play three games within 5 days in the history of premier League.

Palace in 17/18 - their festive fixture was ridiculous and they played 5 days before this run of fixtures.

United haven’t played a PL game in the last 2 weeks so what’s the noise about?

GloryIsaac:
Nothing is set in stone. If they wanted to show it on Friday, they will. Rescheduling didn’t start today.

The TV scheduling are set in stone. They cannot schedule more than 10 games on a Friday. If this happened at the start of the season, they would have moved things around a bit but the competition is almost over and all the games this month have already been distributed to the TV companies.

There’s nothing the FA can do - there’s zero room to move things around for Man Utd. 3 games in 7 days is nothing though. I have seen worse scheduling of festive fixtures some years back. Ole should be able to navigate United to safety especially when Leicester keep dropping points.

GloryIsaac:
14th. An extra day for rest goes a long way.

Only one game can be shown on Friday and that game had been chosen by TV folks before United fans went to disrupt the Liverpool game.

GloryIsaac:
United will play 3 premier league matches in 5 days!

Who schedules these things?

And these aren't small teams (Villa, Leicester and Pool). Smh

The schedule was already tight and the fans decided to disrupt the game against Liverpool.

Where else do you expect the FA to put the Liverpool fixture?

CapitalCee:
People dont know the level of Bruno's impact on team, its not just on the pitch, he generally raised the level of the team in all aspects

He should be the captain.

DeadPresidents:
When you self style yourself as the “special one” and nurture your mystique, don’t complain when the people bring their dead to you.

At the same time, the objective/project must have a realistic goal. Tottenham haven’t won the league in 60 years or win any trophy in 14 years. Why would anyone expect Mourinho to perform a biblical miracle and win them those two trophies especially without any sort of investment?

DeadPresidents:
Mourinho almost always gets enveloped in vicious cycles where he skips fundamental team building in favor of results (to satiate the appetite of his patrons) and either achieves “success” and implodes or just go off his tracks and its a mess.

What is demanded from him is very different from other managers. One standard for Jose, another standard for the others. Klopp went from winning the PL to finishing probably 7th. If it is Mourinho, he would have gotten the sack as soon as it was mathematically impossible to get Top 4.

See how no one in the media is saying football has left Klopp behind or he should take some time off or he should go and manage a national team for a while. See how no one in the media is sowing any seeds of discord that Klopp has lost his dressing room and the players don’t want to play for him.

Yep, that’s the difference!

DeadPresidents:
I can’t blame Mou alone for his recent failures, as some blame must be apportioned to the guys who sold him a project.

I can’t blame him for his recent failures either. United refused to back him after he finished the closest to arguably the best PL team ever. Other owners would have used that as an opportunity to give him the players he wanted to bridge the 19 point gap. Ed Woodward gave him Dalot, Grant and Fred instead.

The Tottenham project was a joke from the start. Levy rarely spends money. Getting a new stadium and the financial challenges COVID-19 gave Levy the excuses he wanted to avoid getting quality players in Spurs and yet he wanted a trophy because Mourinho is related to the prophet that parted the Red Sea with a staff.