Mason isn't solving the midfield issue
Mason isn't solving the midfield issue
Does Ryan Mason have what it takes to be Spurs next Head Coach.
Please note, a head coach is different from a manager.
A head coach works with the players he is given basically, yes of course he has an input into who they are, the type of player etc., but overall he gets what he is given by a Director of Football.
I'm not going to go and explain that dynamic, I'll take it that you are all intelligent enough to understand everyone works in tandem for the best results.
A manager has more control, more say in who is signed, more power, more authority.
Daniel Levy has tried both approaches and you can argue which has been the better option.
The game has changed, there is far more money involved and the traditional manager role id a bit of a relic at the top level.
Gone are the days of Brian Clough asking you to come to his office and asking you where you play, before explaining he has never seen you play!
His scout Peter Taylor told Clough who to sign and Clough trusted him implicitly. He even had one player sign a blank contract and said he'll fill it in later.
Didn't discuss wages or anything, just told the player to sign there.
Can you see a player being so keen to play for a manager that he does that!
Anyway, back to Ryan Mason.
A Spurs man yes, but I have seen nothing to suggest he is up to the job of coaching Spurs and I'll show you once again why.
Spurs are losing games because of the midfield.
The Twitterati are blaming the defence, but it's the fault of the midfield, the overrated Skipp and the currently defensively inept Højbjerg.
I showed you the problem against Liverpool in a previous post, I'll show you again for the opening Aston Villa goal.
Seven minutes in when we should be being tight, especially conceding goals in the first 10 minutes of virtually every game.
It is the midfield's job to PROTECT the back line.
No ball should be able to be played into a striker inside the box.
Against Liverpool I showed you a gaping hole where our midfielders should have been, but both had been drawn out playing their own ganme, not the team game.
Think Moussa Dembele.
One defensive midfielder sits, one is a link player and goes forward.
It can be either, but the point is, one sits in front of the defence.
Tottenham have nobody in front of the defence.
Look at these two graphics for the opening Villa goal.
Four Villa players running directly at our defence with a huge gap between defence and midfield.
Spurs do not have the fastest back line so can't push up to far.
They have acres of space.
The same thing happened after two minutes of the second half.
You keep doing this all game and you are going to concede goals at some point, it is just a matter of when, not if.
Romero is forced into a try to win the ball tackle, the same as Eric Dier was against Liverpool.
This is firefighting defending, you can only put out so many fires with no midfield helping you.
That one glaring error, that should be being worked on, it's that crucial to results, tells me that Ryan Mason is not ready for the head coach role at Tottenham.
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