The players are shirking their responsibility
Our one world class player, Hugo Lloris, has spoken, our form is the players fault not the head coaches. Delighted you agree with me Hugo. When you first suggest such a thing as a fan you get roundly criticised but the impression is that most fans have now come to realise that it's the players not pulling their weight.
Yes we can blame the people who bought them, yes you can blame the people who appointed the person who bought them. I have written many times that the club needs improving from top to bottom, that we need to adopt the Kaizen approach where we make small improvements in every area of the club constantly.
What that does, apart from improving the club significantly over time, is build a culture of quality, of constant striving for better, a culture of being the best, of winning, of moving forward, it instills a positive culture. If you have that culture off the field then it aids the same approach on the field. There is far too much this is how it has always been done or this is the way we do it so we'll stick to it in football.
The world advances and football needs to advance with it, in certain respects football training is archaic. Having said that the players themselves are shirking their responsibility. They are paid a fat wage to give their best, to try their best and clearly some of them are not. There is always another well paid job around the corner so why bother.
That mentality is comfort zone mentality, that is losers mentality. An individual should always be striving to improve themselves in any walk of life and footballers are no different. Keeping the skills they have sharp is one thing but they should be adding to them every day, our lot seem to be going in the other direction. Every individual makes a personal choice, nobody else decides for him how he is going to behave, he does it himself so the players have to take the responsibility for their actions.
I'm glad he has raised the spectre of relegation as many fans will simply think Spurs are too good or too big a club to be relegated. Performance dictates relegation, nothing else and at the moment we are playing relegation football with no sign of that changing before next year.
A few people need a reality check and I don't just mean the fans. We are in the 21st century but our player recruitment is 20th century. To retain quality players with the right mentality you have to surround them with players of the same mentality, freeloaders here for the cash just drive the quality away. One day our recruitment committee may just grasp that rather essential fact.
Yes we can blame the people who bought them, yes you can blame the people who appointed the person who bought them. I have written many times that the club needs improving from top to bottom, that we need to adopt the Kaizen approach where we make small improvements in every area of the club constantly.
What that does, apart from improving the club significantly over time, is build a culture of quality, of constant striving for better, a culture of being the best, of winning, of moving forward, it instills a positive culture. If you have that culture off the field then it aids the same approach on the field. There is far too much this is how it has always been done or this is the way we do it so we'll stick to it in football.
The world advances and football needs to advance with it, in certain respects football training is archaic. Having said that the players themselves are shirking their responsibility. They are paid a fat wage to give their best, to try their best and clearly some of them are not. There is always another well paid job around the corner so why bother.
That mentality is comfort zone mentality, that is losers mentality. An individual should always be striving to improve themselves in any walk of life and footballers are no different. Keeping the skills they have sharp is one thing but they should be adding to them every day, our lot seem to be going in the other direction. Every individual makes a personal choice, nobody else decides for him how he is going to behave, he does it himself so the players have to take the responsibility for their actions.
“When it's the third coach in a year and there are problems, perhaps it's not necessarily the coach that is the problem. Even so, we work, we try to find solutions.
“No [I don't regret signing], because I have faith in the technical staff, in the coach.
“I had similar periods at Lyon, where there was real pressure on a daily basis and crisis management. We are more on our own in London, where we are comfortable.
“We have to get ourselves out of that, because if we have to fight against relegation, comfort isn't going to help us. It really worries me for the coach.”
I'm glad he has raised the spectre of relegation as many fans will simply think Spurs are too good or too big a club to be relegated. Performance dictates relegation, nothing else and at the moment we are playing relegation football with no sign of that changing before next year.
A few people need a reality check and I don't just mean the fans. We are in the 21st century but our player recruitment is 20th century. To retain quality players with the right mentality you have to surround them with players of the same mentality, freeloaders here for the cash just drive the quality away. One day our recruitment committee may just grasp that rather essential fact.
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