Former players Roberts & Archibald not impressed

Former captain and centre-back Graham Roberts has always seemed like a down to earth guy who obviously loves football and Tottenham but appreciates the fans as well. He doesn't feed PR talk on his Twitter account but speaks honestly.

There are many bad things to come out of Twitter but it has it's good points as well and honest assessments from former players who know the game inside out, both on and off the field, are a part of the good. Ex football players are football fans just like us and so when they are not impressed with what they see then you know the players aren't good enough.

Too often the second team are looking poor, they are playing together each week and but for rare moments look like a bunch on individuals rather than a team. Roberts was not impressed with what he saw last night.

Graham Roberts ‏@GrahamRoberts4  10 hours ago
we are very lucky that we have Lloris the best goalie in the world . Dier was good Kane very good but you can't win games with 3 players

Steve Archibald, who felt we were very poor against Nottingham Forest reserves isn't impressed with out new centre-back signing Federico Fazio, or at least he wasn't last night. For me that's because he is having to try and do Vlad Chiriches job as well as his own and he can't shine in a situation like that as Michael Dawson found out.

Steve Archibald ‏@SteveArchibald812 hours ago
Fazio, ball watching like a school kid, didnt know where the striker was !

Steve Archibald ‏@SteveArchibald812 hours ago
Fazio, looks to me like he punching above his weight, hope im wrong !

It will be vital that we buy a new centre-back in January or bring in DeAndre Yedlin or get Kyle Walker back so Eric Dier can be freed to play in the middle and Chiriches let go. Continuing to play him is just going to reduce his value further and further.

Ryan Fredericks ‏@RyanFredericks_12 hours ago
Harry, Harry Kanee.. Harry Harry Kanee!!!

Quite why some Spurs fans say Harry Kane should be sold is a mystery, he is developing and looks far more likely to score a goal than Roberto Soldado, who simply doesn't fit our system. The statistic last night that he didn't touch the ball once in the opposition penalty box is simply not good enough.

He is a mile away from coming good at Tottenham and has along with Paulinho and Chiriches proved to be money wasted. Who was responsible for picking these signings has some questions to answer. Daniel Levy does the deals but he isn't the one making the assessments.

I have said fr a long time now we need to become world leaders at assessing players and especially their mental attitude. If we don't we will continue to buy duds and only find out when it is too late and we are stuck with them, unable to get rid of them, unless it is at a huge loss.

Everything may not be right on the pitch but it's also not right off it too.