Postecoglou tells supporters they get the wrong end of the stick

Postecoglou tells supporters they get the wrong end of the stick

Postecoglou tells supporters they get it wrong


Thanks for the welcome back messages, my heart is getting better, my eye remains the same but I have learnt to control the eye ulcers. The rest of me is all OK apart from one aspect. My elderly Mum is fine and one of my brothers has a problem that could be very serious indeed, fingers crossed.

But enough of that, it Spurs related matters you want to hear nd my interpretation of events.

"This time of year is pretty hard for supporters because they don't have all the information and it's fair to say there is a lot of misinformation out there so it's hard to gauge." Ange Postecoglou.

In other words, all the people moaning don't know what they are talking about.

Supporters moan that Spurs don't buy there targets, yet Postecoglou is telling fans that Spurs are remaining disciplined in chasing the targets they want and not going after other players.

The same fans moaning that we don't do this are moaning that we are doing this!

That demonstrates all these people want to do is moan which in turn means their opinion is worthless.

It's a coincidence they are all anti-Spurs anti-Levy all week isn't it!

They have missed me educating them, haven't they otherwise.

Right, an Asian pre-season tour.

There have been two previous articles about the benefits of our Asian tour: The Importance of Training in Heat: A Look at Tottenham's Pre-Season Tour in Asia and The Impact of Tottenham's Pre-Season Tour on the Upcoming Domestic Season plus one about football transfers, Why Modern Football Transfers Take Longer: The Complexities Behind the Deal.

Brandon Austin has demonstrated he could be our number 2 next season, but certainly our number 3, on his own, at worst.

Emerson Royal and Yves Bissouma continued to show their games are error-ridden and I maintain my stance that Bissouma is massively overrated by everyone and that mentally he turns off.

With the sale of Emerson Royal (imminent), Djed Spence has stepped up so he will be the back-up right-back to Pedro Porro.

He and Oliver Skipp are easy to pull out of position leaving a gaping hole right outside our box centrally that opposition players take.

Skipp briefly played defensive midfield on tour but even then it happened again.

Why?

Well, when the opposition breaks quickly, these two defensive midfielders both do the same thing.

It is a time of stress, they are under pressure so, do they think clearly (the right mentality) or do they revert to their default (wrong mentality)?

Answer, they adopt the wrong approach.

Unless they can change their default setting, the problem will continue to arise.

I take you back to the Wolves game we lost thanks to Yves Bissouma losing the ball on the edge of their penalty area from our corner.

Bissouma was immediately under pressure and he sank into his default setting, chase the ball.

Tottenham had a defender who ushered the Wolves player away from the goal.

A second defender came to assist.

Bissouma continued to rum back changing his angle of rum toward the ball WITHOUT looking to see if there was any other danger.

There was one other player, but Bissouma didn't cover that problem, didn't cut off the passing angle and the second Wolves attacker rushed from the left to the centre of the pitch just outside our penalty are totally unmarked and swept the ensuing pass into the net to beat us.

Skippy, the bush kangaroo, did the same thing again.

Bayern Munich attacking, Spurs had two men stopping the player with the ball and Skipp running back joins them leaving the same D of the box area free.

A square pass found him because wasn't cutting off the pass to him either and Bayern were in again.

OK, this time they messed up and didn't score, but that default problem still remains.

Under pressure they don't think right, they think like schoolchildren and just run after the ball rather than mentally switching on and covering the danger or taking a position to prevent that pass.

Lucas Bergvall started the tour slowly, looked as if he would need some time to adjust, but by the end of the tour didn't look out of place against Bayern Munih.

People moaning we have signed an 18-year-old, he looks like a damn good buy.

Archie Gray? I thought he went the other way, started excellently and regressed as the tour went.

Now the heat, humidity, training will all have taken it out of the players and affect performance, obviously, I get that and he showed he has a lot of quality.

To me, I felt he will develop into a top-quality player.

Timo Werner did what Timo Werner does, put in a low cross across the box for a tap-in. It's what we want him to do so why do fans moan when he does it?

Because he isn't the superstar chequebook name our plastics want in every signing.

Sonny had the chance to shoot left-footed against Bayern Munich, he didn't, he cut back to his right, chance gone. He frustrates me sometimes.

Dejan Kulusevski has his detractors, I'm not one, his flicks on tour were brilliant and created goals, exactly what you want from someone central.

The youngsters all looked a promising bunch, Abbot and Hall less so for me than Devine, Donley, Moore, Lankshear and Phillips.

Dane Scarlett and Alejo Véliz do not impress me at all.

Though Lankshear showed in his first appearance that he could be better than both of those, no wonder Ange kept putting him on to play before the other two.

Mikey Moore will be training with the first-team full-time this season and will sign his first professional contract when he turns 17. You can expect him o get minutes in the UEFA Europa League and the Premier League.

Jamie Donley has impressed everyone and the 17-year-old will provide left-back cover for Desting Udogie, together with Ben Davies and Licky Van de Ven.

The Academy have sold Nile John to the Portuguese second-tier side CD Feirense.

Now, having arrived back we can sit back and relax, while we wait to see who the club brings in through the door before the close of the window.

Get on with life rather than obsess over transfers, it give you a far better perspective of things.

Alternatively, dig out information for fun and apply some logic to it rather than the daft mood swings because he believes every printed word.

COYS