Mourinho Staying at Spurs
Mourinho Staying at Spurs
Mourinho is staying at Spurs, that is the news from Tottenham Hotspur Blog News (THBN).
Trippier has made 58 appearances for Atlético Madrid contributing 11 assists.
Former Valencia right-back Curro Torres (2 time LaLiga winner) says;
"Trippier is a really impressive player. He is one of the best players in Europe in his position."
We have struggled to find a right-back since who even comes close to what Trippier is capable of, even if he did have a poor season before he left. The grass is not always greener.
I mention that because we have a fickle section who demand change at any sign of trouble and we even have fans who want us to lose to oust a manager, utterly absurd.
Not what I'd call a fan, a follower maybe, but fan, no.
Have a player you don't like, a manager you don't like, but to wish your own side to lose, well that just simply isn't support.
The more you read the more you understand that our supporters do not understand transfers or how the club operates.
They like to blame Levy for things that he isn't involved in, like choosing the players we go after.
You have an agenda if you are hanging onto that rubbish, we have people appointed to do all that stuff in collusion with the manager.
It is the manager who dictates the type of player he wants and the scouting department who go and find players that fit that criteria, with analytics playing a huge initial part in that.
The club is not a bottomless pit of money, especially during a pandemic where income is reportedly down £150m (€176.26m - US$207.35m - AUS$271.27m).
Every club is a business and has to be run as a business, hence our transfer budget and wages budget are what we can afford.
I'll remind the out of date bunch to go check the BBC website about Financial Fair Play and the fact all transfer money and wages have to be generated by commercial income and broadcasting revenue.
Joe Lewis could give money for infrastructure, in the form of an interest free loan but that would only save the interest payments we now make, which are around £55m (€64.62m - US$76.13m - AUS$99.48m) for the stadium.
Even that isn't going to fund the transfers people want and free money for the wages budget.
Changing owner is, therefore, a pointless exercise as any new owner is restricted by the same rules, unless we are totally out of Europe, when £30m (€35.25m - US$41.53m - AUS$54.26m) can be invested.
Commercial income needs to increase, hence the new stadium to generate more revenue, which will take a couple of years to recover from the pandemic and start generating regular income.
Then there is the development of American football and that market to tap into, so the club are placing themselves strategically to develop the income we need in the long term, not just the short term.
Frustrating for some but it is clear to see the blocks are there to secure our future as a top club.
I have said it many time but there are still people who do not understand, you can have skill, but skill is not enough, as Ndombele has shown, as Dele has shown, you have to have the mentality to go with it.
Without the right mentality you can't win anything.
The players, well some of them, do not have the right mentality, they are fine when things are going fine but as soon as there is trouble in the road, they think of themselves.
You have seen us look like a team who has never played together before, a team of individuals all doing their own thing it seems, which doesn't match what everyone else is doing.
I wrote when Harry Kane broke into the team at the end of a season under Tim Sherwood, that Emmanuel Adebayor and the other players needed Harry Kane's mentality, that they could all learn from him, that they should copy him.
How right I was and the same stands for today too.
He is a model professional, unlike Ndombele who downed tools to start with, Dele who got too interested in his own image, Danny 'entitled' Rose or now Harry Winks kicking up a fuss.
Mourinho is a winner, he has a winning mentality and he knows what mentality is needed within a player, far better than any fan does because most fans do not have winning mentalities, despite what they think.
Most fane don't know what a winning mentality is, it's a world away from just trying to win a football match. It takes you to a whole different level of performance.
Many of you thought Harry Kane was just a Championship standard player, now look where his winning mentality has got him, a Golden Boot winner considered to be one of the top strikers in the game.
Trophies are the dressing and yes he will want trophies but controlling what you can control, yourself, being the best you can be, that is a winning mentality.
It takes a team to win trophies, not an individual.
The key is surrounding yourself with like minded mentalities, not players with skill who are fair weather winners.
People who don't blame others but take responsibility for the situation they find themselves in and taking action to improve it.
Well, that little tangent started about transfer so I'll pull it on track and tell you, despite what you may think, the manager always has the last say on a transfer, not Daniel Levy.
He merely determines what we can afford and tries to do deals within our budgetary constraints. All the eggs can't be put in one transfer basket.
Players can't be sold if clubs don't want to buy, or offers sufficient wages, as in the case of Danny Rose, or if a player doesn't want to leave for a smaller club.
While we are talking manager and Daniel Levy, let me say the senior players, like Kane and Alderweireld, are all behind Mourinho.
It is the lesser lights, those I have been insisting have the wrong mentality who are proving it now, either running to the press, having their agents run to the press, moaning behind the scenes and having their agent talk with the chairman with or without them.
Players today don't moan to a manager so much, they go above his head, just like the threat from Danny Rose in the documentary.
The board is split on Mourinho I believe, but there is also some understanding now (at last) about the importance of mentality and that some of the players simply don't cut the mustard mentally.
My view, if you want it, well you're getting it anyway, is that Mourinho will be here next season and there will be a summer clear-out of the weak mentalities.
Daniel Levy does not want to sack him.
Daniel Levy has provided the club with the infrastructure for success.
He now wants a manager to develop the playing side of the club into a successful outfit and you don't do that by chopping and changing.
While we were growing we had to find managers to do a job, we had to look for managers who could get us into and keep us in the Champions League through their ability as a coach, not a cheque-book.
Pochettino took us a step but we still kept bottling it in finals and a semi-final against Chelsea.
Mourinho was brought in to develop winning and he needs time to turn the squad around, he needs time to get the poor mentalities out, regardless of their ability and time to bring in a squad of winning mentalities.
Then it is a question of cementing that mentality, that ethos within the club so that it continues.
There are people within the club, not just the players, who need a mental change, a mental adjustment, mental development to achieve a winning mentality.
It has to be within the club off the field as well as on, you can't have won without the other or it will all fall apart.
Daniel Levy has that mentality, it is up to others to get on that wavelength, up to supporters too.
Out with the old, in with the new.
To that front Spurs are obviously scouring Europe and South America for summer transfer targets, but we'll leave such chat for another article.
COYS
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