Solutions to Spurs problems
I have two coaching qualifications and a winning mentality.
My views them from there taking into account the factors involved in the bigger picture.
For example.
We have Heung-min Son.
We are now big in Korea.
Asia is a huge growing market.
Manchester United cornered the market in Japan after signing Shinji Kagawa.
That support will travel through generations and continue to bring revenue into the club through commercial deals.
They have significantly more commercial deals than any club in the Premier League.
It is where their money comes from and they are the richest club in the country.
Spurs have to somehow match that.
NFL and the huge untapped American market, particularly now as football has taken a hold.
Grass roots it's the third most popular sport across the pond.
Do the Americans refer to it as a pond?
Spurs women have signed the best South Korean women's player.
We now have the best male and female players at the club.
During the summer we made significant efforts to sign South Korean central defender, Kim Min-jae.
All coincidence?
It fits in with cornering the Korean market and the desire to grow the Tottenham Hotspur support and thus brand in Asia in general.
That will bring increased commercial revenue.
The more commercial revenue we have, the more we can spend on the team through transfer fees and wages.
The stadium jumps our income so we can start to compete, but it's empty.
We still have to pay for it when it is budgeted to pay for itself, so that money has to come from somewhere else.
Off the field isn't good at the moment and there is no money in the game across Europe.
Players on high wages are a millstone.
Daniel Levy is a master off the field.
The club simply couldn't be in better hands.
Owners aren't allowed to just give money to buy players or pay wages.
Those days have gone, however much some fans wish to pretend otherwise.
The club must generate the revenue and be self-sufficient if it wants to play in Europe.
Right, having laid that groundwork, let's move onto the team.
If you haven't read my last post, you really ought to and come back to this.
Then you need to take into account a couple of Tweets.
A group of players who have won nothing at Spurs seem to want to tell a serial winner...
A winning mentality...
That they don't want to play like winners...
But want to do it their way...
The bridesmaid way...
The losers way.
Why?
Because they enjoy it more.
Going back to my cricket days, as captain, I selected a 3rd XI all-rounder (bats & bowls) for the Kent League 2nd XI side.
He declined because he wanted to bat and bowl all his allowed overs, which he was basically guaranteed in the 3rd XI.
Nothing wrong with that, we were amateurs, although I did go on to get paid to play, but it is a losing mentality.
Not wanting to play at the highest level you can is a failure mentality.
Dele Alli appears to be that 3rd XI player.
Danny Rose appears to be that 3rd XI player.
For a winning mentality the game has been fun, however it has been played, simply because you have won...
Nothing else matters.
The result is everything.
If certain players do not have a winning mentality then hanging a manager is only a temporary fix.
Unless you pander to them, they will revert at the first sign of struggle...
You'll win nothing because the winning mentalities will leave.
Talented as they are, they will not win you trophies regularly.
So, as a Chairman, you have a problem.
Do you back the players, as fans do...
Or do you back the manager...
In this case, a serial winner with a winning mentality?
Mourinho - Last 12 games - 16 points
The injured players we have, are generally of the right mentality, Sergio Reguilón, Giovani Lo Celso.
Let me throw in Steven Bergwijn here.
He works hard and the fans seem to like him...
But what is his end product?
It's February...
We are in 4 competitions...
And he hasn't scored a single goal.
When he gets into a scoring position...
He bottles it...
His technique goes.
That is beaus stress, anxiety, nerves take over...
He has the skill...
So it isn't that...
It's in his head.
So, what is he doing to improve the mental aspect of his game...
The problem area in these situations?
Bugger all.
He is practising his finishing in training...
So basically, under no pressure.
The result...
He gets in the same situation...
The nerves, stress, anxiety kick in...
And his thinking goes...
Technique goes...
A shot, basically out of panic and another miss get's chalked up.
The mind reverts to similar incidences...
It produces the same emotions...
So it produces nerves, stress, anxiety...
And he same result.
You have to control your mind...
To control your emotions...
To change the result.
But football doesn't do that...
It's above that...
Footballers are above that.
It's farcical in this day and age...
Every sport does it.
So, if we are going to stick with the amateurish approach...
Do we back a winning mentality...
Or the losing mentalities in the dressing room?
COYS
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