The Next One including Transfer Talk
There is no pre-game testing in League Two so Tottenham paid for Covid-19 tests to be carried out on the Orient squad and I believe there are 10 players who have tested positive and 8 members of staff.
They have obviously been in contact with others, opposition teams and Spurs will not want any of the squad to become infected with such a hectic schedule.
Naturally Orient chairman Nigel Travis wants the game to be rescheduled because of the £100,000 TV revenue they would be due but the rules of the competition declare the game should be forfeited.
Tottenham have said they will cover the cost of the cancellation of the game for Orient and still auction shirts for the Justin Edinburgh Foundation.
"You ask me about Sergio and I think Sergio will be quite quick. He is in the last period of his recovery. He's training today with one of my assistants."
"He cannot play on Tuesday but I would say he will be available for us maybe for the end of the week."
He was obviously asked about Gareth Bale but gave no timeframe, just said that a positive mindset can aid recovery from injury.
"I do not know when Gareth can be back. The only thing I know is that his motivation is high.
"He's so happy to be with the club of his heart, he's so happy to play for us and when a player has this motivation, many times you can shorten the period of recovery."
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure."Norman Vincent Peale
For any situation you have to take responsibility and now that Bale has returned to Spurs o "feel the love" his attitude has changed from latter years at Madrid I'd expect.
Players want to play.
We have seen a poor attitude from Bale at Madrid when he wasn't, a poor attitude from Ndombélé when he wasn't and a poor attitude from Dele when he isn't.
Three recent examples where a sports psychologist could have made a difference.
If you are not being picked then it should be seen as a challenge to you.
See it as a challenge and you can take a positive mindset to change it.
You first ask the boss why you are not playing, what you need to do to get into the side, what aspects of your game do you need to work on etc.
You then determine to work on those in training to make the improvements you need, or just wait your chance, while still giving everything in training.
It is important to be totally ready when the chance comes and to take advantage of it to put pressure on the boss to pick you again and to show him you can be trusted.
It is important to be totally ready when the chance comes and to take advantage of it to put pressure on the boss to pick you again and to show him you can be trusted.
What you can't do, is go half-arsed in training and expect to take that underlying mental attitude into a game.
That underlying attitude will hold you back, prevent you from producing your highly motivated best, which is obviously what you want to be performing all the time.
I believe Gareth is going to be a huge success at Tottenham once again because of the motivation he will now be experiencing.
"If you can change your mind, you can change your life."William James
Isn't that simply what Dele has to do, change his mind,choose to see things differently.
Look at our fans, demonstrating for Levy out whining we haven't got a striker yet and generally not supporting the club unless we are actually playing and then supporting with reticence.
The rest of us are waiting until the end of the window to see our position then and make decisions of where we are, understanding the complexity of the transfer market and how virtually all clubs wait until the final two weeks to do business.
Time pressure forces prices down as does the need to sell.
We re-sign one of the worlds best players that needs reviving and a top quality young left back and suddenly we have the best three in the Premier League potentially.
We could be out of two competitions vs we have enough to play weak opposition and stay in two competitions even in a short period where we have plenty of games.
We haven't picked up any injuries, Steven Bergwijn has a slight hamstring issue that we are bringing him back slowly from, Tanguy Ndombélé isn't match fit so is being eased back with 45 minute appearances, Japhet Tanganga was injured before the season started and Giovani Lo Celso has had to take it easy pre-season so is another working his way back to fitness.
We could be out of two competitions vs we have enough to play weak opposition and stay in two competitions even in a short period where we have plenty of games.
We haven't picked up any injuries, Steven Bergwijn has a slight hamstring issue that we are bringing him back slowly from, Tanguy Ndombélé isn't match fit so is being eased back with 45 minute appearances, Japhet Tanganga was injured before the season started and Giovani Lo Celso has had to take it easy pre-season so is another working his way back to fitness.
Gareth Bale isn't fit and yet his signing together with Sergio Reguilón has given all the supporters a lift, they have all turned to being a bit more positive.
Bale has spoken that he feels the love around the place and spoken before about fans being on a player's back not helping a situation, Dele has said much the same thing.
Criticism on social media, therefore, needs to be constructive.
Criticism on social media, therefore, needs to be constructive.
There is nothing wrong with criticising if it is constructive not destructive.
For instance, I have taken issue with both Tanguy Ndombélé and Dele Alli plus the club, but in all three instances I regularly state what the problem is and how to solve it.
Use sports psychologists to change mentality and to build the right mentalities in the first place, to lead the footballing world in developing the regular and sustained use of them as a part of normal training.
I have taken a negative (poor player attitude, poor recruitment) and turned it into a positive, an opportunity for improvement, a challenge that can be faced with positivity.
Unless people are taught this they are not going to do it themselves, Dele isn't is he, he doesn't seem to even see it as an issue.
Why would he, most people wouldn't because mentality is a clueless world for the park footballer, for most.
From what I hear Dele isn't leaving, it wouldn't make any sense to sell him in a depressed market, hence our £70 million (€76.27m - US$89.59m) price on his head.
Right let's have some Transfer Tittel Tattle.
Daniel Levy does not want to pay more than £27.51 million (€30m - US$35.22m) for 25-year-old (26 next March) Benfica striker Carlos Vinícius.
Benfica are refusing to sell him for that price,hence us talking to Wolfsburg about 27-year-old (28 next August) Dutch striker Wout Weghorst.
German paper BIld report that Peter Braund,a Tottenham Hotspur scout who lives near Hannover was watching Weghorst yesterday against Bayer Leverkusen.
Again, they are talking too much £32.1 million (€35m - US$41.1m) and as Arkadiusz Milik has still not signed for Roma, we have gone back to Napoli to see if we can get the price reduced to a sensible level with his contract running down, he only has 9 months left.
As you all know we are his third choice destination but neither of his other options have come to fruition yet.
Spurs are hoping the arrival of Gareth Bale and Sergio Reguilón might persuade him that he should come to North London, but again we will be looking to bring the fee down to a level that reflects his reducing contract length.
Newcastle had discussions but have bought Callum Wilson, Valencia had talks but their whole squad is up for sale, Suarez to Juventus has stalled, as had Suarez to Atlético Madrid.
There is a suggestion the Spanish may now target Eden Dzeko, still talk of hi going to Juventus too, which would leave a striking space free at Roma, which could then revive the talk for Milik.
It isn't as simple as going out to buy a striker.
There are so many other factors involved when Spurs are not the first option, thus sometimes you have to wait for events to unfold or the price to drop to a more realistic level.
I understand that we would like to take him on a free transfer, meaning a loan ideally, which Napoli have turned down.
Roma have offered a loan deal too.
Apparently Milik is being very specific about where he wants to go so isn't interested in the general market, something which doesn't please Napoli owner and president Aurelio De Laurentiis.
Milik wants to play to be ready for the European Championships next summer and that isn't going to happen at Napoli where he is training alone.
Apparently Napoli had offers and could have sold him for £22.97 million (€25m - US$29.38m) but refused and now all those offers are off the table with his contract having run down further and the fact he is training alone.
De Laurentiis is apparently not happy with Roma reducing their offer and with the player for refusing to sign a new contract and being specific about how and where he exits.
In 3 months he can negotiate a free transfer.
Juventus, it seems, have decided to loan Alvaro Morata from Atlético Madrid for £8.27 million (€9m - US$9.57m) with an option to buy at £41.33 million (€45m - US$52.87m) plus an option to extend the loan for a further year for £9.18 million (€10m - US$11.75m) reducing the purchase option by the same amount.
That means Juventus will not need Dzeko and Roma will not need Milik unless Dzeko goes elsewhere.
Napoli have lost their gamble it seems, shot themselves in the foot and now have a depreciating asset which we want to take advantage of to secure an advantageous deal.
That puts us in the driving seat in negotiations.
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