Jol at Spurs

[Rimbeux]

There's plenty to suggest he's not, mainly the amount of time and money they have invested in getting their managment structure as they wanted. There's also the fact that this season has seen the amount of games they play increase big style with the UEFA cup. They are still quite a young squad, and should get better if they can hang on to Berbatov, King and Lennon.

 

However, they look like missing out on Europe completely, and look no nearer being a regular top six side than at any time in the last 15 years, and he can't say he's not been backed with players. Levy has also not been shy in sacking coaches and managers. Will he still be head coach next season?

[AE]

He'll still be there and they will be top 6 next year.

[IgPig]

Its a weird one with Jol.

 

He never seems to get criticised in the papers etc despite having spent a lot of money and Spurs not really being much better off than when he started.

[Rimbeux]

He'll still be there and they will be top 6 next year.

 

 

Who are they going to displace? On paper they have the squad, but there are better drilled established units in Blackburn, Bolton and Everton, and other big spending underachivers Newcastle/Villa who will be aiming for the same.

[anny road]

He'll still be there and they will be top 6 next year.

 

based on??

[Bootle Buck]

He has a good talent pool but can't seem to get the best out of them. They always seem to have players strolling around the park and Robinson's inconsistancy doesn't help. I think they miss King enormously.

[Tosh]

I watched about 5 minutes of that game and "stroll" is exactly the word that came to mind seeing berbatov

[CarraLegend]

f***ing hell just realised they're 11th and only one point above 14th, thought they were about 7th, 8th. Thats really s***, they might of lost Carrick but he's still had a load to spend. Another overrated manager along with that t*** Stuart Pearce who shows passion on the touchline so must be great apparently.

[AE]

based on??

 

 

My brilliant football knowledge.

We'll see.....

 

 

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[growler]

his net spend is not high by the way.

 

also, they have a good squad of players, and should attract a decent manager I would think. who though?

[_00_deathscar]

his net spend is not high by the way.

 

That's to do with the fact that they are a selling club and accepted a ridiculous sum for their top player...if we'd have done the same for Gerrard our 'net spend' would not be very high either...

[Swagger]

f***ing hell just realised they're 11th and only one point above 14th, thought they were about 7th, 8th. Thats really s***, they might of lost Carrick but he's still had a load to spend. Another overrated manager along with that t*** Stuart Pearce who shows passion on the touchline so must be great apparently.

 

Agreed, especially with the last part.

[jimmylibel]

Wanted: strong leaders to fortify Jol's flimsy Tottenham

 

Martin Jol needs a talismanic figure to lead his Spurs pushovers back into European contention.

 

Kevin McCarraFebruary 6, 2007 12:10 AM

 

Martin Jol champions Michael Carrick as if the Manchester United midfielder were still his player. A manager can appreciate a transfer fee that could ultimately touch £18m yet mourn, too, what he has lost. The bereavement had to start all over again on Sunday as Sir Alex Ferguson's side swamped Tottenham 4-0 at White Hart Lane.

 

Carrick is no virtuoso but his scrupulous distribution and sound positioning in front of the defence were qualities that Jol's team lacked. They have been missing all season and the latest defeat was the third in a row at home in the Premiership. In view of the futility of the away performances, Tottenham cannot afford to be so shoddy on their own patch.

 

All managers preach passionate sermons on the theme of progress. They have convinced themselves that every word is burningly true but it is also in the interests of job security to tell the board that the future is enticing. Jol needs to hold the directors' attention, if only to stop eyes from settling on a league table that shows Tottenham in 11th place.

 

The club cannot vie for a Champions League spot as they did last year and Jol has to rebrand his squad as a force in the knockout competitions, with campaigns continuing in the FA Cup and Uefa Cup. Tottenham's emphasis on those tournaments makes the side look as if it is too flighty to deal with the extended commitment that the Premiership demands.

 

Jol knows the team has been flimsy and does not seek to blame it all on Tottenham's much-expanded programme. The Dutchman continues to be appreciated because of certain gifted signings, even if the outlay has occasionally been unwise. The White Hart Lane crowd is glad, for instance, to be watching Dimitar Berbatov, a skilful centre-forward with imagination and variety of repertoire.

 

The level of accomplishment in the ranks is not the principal worry. Jol diagnoses a lack of balance in the team, yet he thereby accuses himself since he is employed to achieve such essential structuring. As it is, Tottenham risk becoming one of those clubs who had a stab at gatecrashing the Premiership elite, only to be ejected by the bouncers.

 

Some problems should be merely temporary and Michael Dawson will have a dependable partner when either Ledley King is fit, assuming the fusillade of injuries does not mow down his career, or when the Portuguese newcomer Ricardo Rocha is assimilated. One of these days, too, the seemingly endless quest for a left-back must come to a happy conclusion.

 

Nor is it too extravagant a dream to envision that Robbie Keane or Jermain Defoe will yet be of greater help to Berbatov. Where Jol is failing is in finding equilibrium. The instinct to cheer a manager who puts Aaron Lennon on one flank and Steed Malbranque on the other is choked by the realisation that the core of the midfield is not puritanical enough to offset a pair of luxurious talents on the wings.

 

Tom Huddlestone, an exquisite passer who was usually involved when Tottenham did threaten United, is a playmaker but his instinct is to operate further forward than Carrick would. He is a footballer still in the making and will also have to gather experience to ensure that a certain lack of mobility does not let the game bypass him when the opposition are in possession.

 

Didier Zokora, too often disappointing, likes to run with the ball and is therefore not a successor to Carrick. Jol may be right to believe that Jermaine Jenas, injured at present, is cut out to solidify the midfield and enhance security, but all that is alarmingly hypothetical in a footballer who turns 24 this month.

 

Old-fashioned as it sounds to refer to such issues, Tottenham suffer from a lack of leadership. The club captain King inspires mainly by example when available, his deputy Keane has the self-involved traits to be expected of a striker and the goalkeeper Paul Robinson, who had the armband on Sunday, is excluded from huge tracts of the action.

 

Tottenham are too easy on themselves, as Jol implied when deploring the lack of tackles at Paul Scholes' goal. He is in merely his second full season as manager and there is a lot to admire in his philosophy and frankness, but Jol has put pressure on himself by piecing togther a squad that should deliver far more impressive results.

 

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Edited February 6, 2007 by jimmylibel

[PaulLFC]

things are quite bad currently, its getting to the point where you might seriously start to hear JOL, LEVY, COMMOLI OUT chants at the lane.

 

we pay Champions league ticket prices for Championship football.

Edited February 6, 2007 by dsn2k

[Romario]

Hamann would have been good for them for a season.

[Benitez]

It's wierd, he has this reputation of being this big tough guy, but the team he has built is one of the softest and wimpiest teams in the league.

 

I guess if they win the UEFA cup this season, then he'll be ok! But otherwise, he will be under pressure. After two seasons of heavy spending I guess getting into the UEFA cup positions is the least expected this year if they don't win the UEFA cup.

 

His 'style' (or lack of) football wise isn't going to help him much either with spurs, he's very negative and unwilling to take chances, and if people thought GH was negative, he was positively Brazil like in comparison to Jol.

 

That's to do with the fact that they are a selling club and accepted a ridiculous sum for their top player...if we'd have done the same for Gerrard our 'net spend' would not be very high either...

 

 

our net spend each year since Rafa came 'ere isn't actually that high!