Kaboul thinks Dembele is wrong
Captain Kaboul has spoken and he disagrees with Mousa Dembele, who thinks we weren't too bad in the first half, when incidentally he was on the field. Younes is a bit more honest about it, we never looked dangerous.
So if we never looked dangerous, why does Dembele think we weren't too bad? Clearly their is a massive difference in the standard expected, one is happy looking good without doing anything and the other realises there has to be an end product when you are passing around, you have to create chances.
We had 7 shots in 90 minutes and not one on target until Roberto Soldado had a flicked shot after 71 minutes. No shots on target is not playing too bad, sorry Mousa you are miles off the mark, which as I said last night brings into question whether you have a winners mentality or not.
As Kaboul says, we played with a slow tempo and our tempo is dictated by Caopue, who Jamie Redknapp tells us plays at his own pace and Mousa Dembele, who slows the game down by dribbling.
Whoa, a better mentality, there it is again from a player for all you folk who don't believe mentality is important in sport, that's Pochettino and Adebayor saying it last week now Kaboul this week.
One positive sign from Spurs TV who did this interview is that Kaboul looks genuinely gutted, which is the sign of the right mentality, winners are gutted by defeat and it hurts, for others they simply forget it as if it didn't happen and will be their normal self without the joviality. Does one care more than the other or does one just show it in a different way?
To relate it to club sport, it's playing to win or playing for fun. For a winner the fun comes from winning for the rest they'll get their fun even if the team have lost. A professional sportsman is just someone who gets paid well for doing what they are good at and what they enjoy. Within that there are still winners and losers, still people like Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo, players determined to improve themselves and others who just keep doing what they have always done.
Like an office employee who tell you, well this is the way we have always done it, so it is in sport for some. Weeding those out is important. The vast majority of players only improve when someone shows them how to improve, but for the real winners like Bale, they take it upon themselves to go and find how they can improve and ask for help. Then they work and work to achieve it.
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The more of those type of players you get in a squad the better you will be. The more of the 'fun' players then you'll stagnate. It's vital to have players with that drive but of course these players want to play for the best clubs, we have to recognise them, harness them together to turn us into a top club. Do we have enough of them? Only time will tell.
Weren't we supposed to be bouncing back against WBA? I always find it amusing when a player says we have got to bounce back in a game they are unlikely to play in. Of course Kaboul is the club captain so speaks for the club but a win against Nottingham Forest will have no bearing on how we perform in the Premier League, it'll lift spirits but that's all and players should be lift in themselves for the next Premier League game.
The Forest fixture is for the second string to play, for players like Ben Davies to get the nightmare game he had against Partizan Belgrade out of his system.
So if we never looked dangerous, why does Dembele think we weren't too bad? Clearly their is a massive difference in the standard expected, one is happy looking good without doing anything and the other realises there has to be an end product when you are passing around, you have to create chances.
We had 7 shots in 90 minutes and not one on target until Roberto Soldado had a flicked shot after 71 minutes. No shots on target is not playing too bad, sorry Mousa you are miles off the mark, which as I said last night brings into question whether you have a winners mentality or not.
As Kaboul says, we played with a slow tempo and our tempo is dictated by Caopue, who Jamie Redknapp tells us plays at his own pace and Mousa Dembele, who slows the game down by dribbling.
"We're all disappointed, of course, after this poor defeat, I think we played with a slow tempo all of the game and we never looked dangerous, or a threat for West Brom.
"They took their chances and they scored from a corner. It was not good enough from us. I am still questioning everything, what went wrong. We didn't create any chances.
"We were just inviting them to try to score. It was not good enough from us. But that's football and we have to go back to training with a better mentality also."
Whoa, a better mentality, there it is again from a player for all you folk who don't believe mentality is important in sport, that's Pochettino and Adebayor saying it last week now Kaboul this week.
One positive sign from Spurs TV who did this interview is that Kaboul looks genuinely gutted, which is the sign of the right mentality, winners are gutted by defeat and it hurts, for others they simply forget it as if it didn't happen and will be their normal self without the joviality. Does one care more than the other or does one just show it in a different way?
To relate it to club sport, it's playing to win or playing for fun. For a winner the fun comes from winning for the rest they'll get their fun even if the team have lost. A professional sportsman is just someone who gets paid well for doing what they are good at and what they enjoy. Within that there are still winners and losers, still people like Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo, players determined to improve themselves and others who just keep doing what they have always done.
Like an office employee who tell you, well this is the way we have always done it, so it is in sport for some. Weeding those out is important. The vast majority of players only improve when someone shows them how to improve, but for the real winners like Bale, they take it upon themselves to go and find how they can improve and ask for help. Then they work and work to achieve it.
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The more of those type of players you get in a squad the better you will be. The more of the 'fun' players then you'll stagnate. It's vital to have players with that drive but of course these players want to play for the best clubs, we have to recognise them, harness them together to turn us into a top club. Do we have enough of them? Only time will tell.
"It is a tough week, every game is tough. The game on Wednesday is important for us because we want to win something this season.
"Forest are a good side, they are doing well in the Championship and we have to bounce back straight away on Wednesday."
Weren't we supposed to be bouncing back against WBA? I always find it amusing when a player says we have got to bounce back in a game they are unlikely to play in. Of course Kaboul is the club captain so speaks for the club but a win against Nottingham Forest will have no bearing on how we perform in the Premier League, it'll lift spirits but that's all and players should be lift in themselves for the next Premier League game.
The Forest fixture is for the second string to play, for players like Ben Davies to get the nightmare game he had against Partizan Belgrade out of his system.
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