Tottenham Talk on Monday 16th Aug Part 1
Tottenham Talk on Monday 16th Aug Part 1
Tottenham Talk on Monday 16th Aug Part 1 is upbeat and takes a further look at the brilliant Man City victory, before moving on to talk about the building of this great club under arguably the best chairman we have ever had.
Strong for some of you, not for others.
Grab a cuppa and read on folks, read on in a happy state of mind with a smile on your face, today is a day to be happy.
Spurs beat Manchester City and Arsenal lost to newly promoted Brentford.
The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, home to the mighty Spurs and what a start to the season. The toughest possible fixture, apart from perhaps the away game, and after 15 minutes the majority were fearing the worst.
Micah Richards did, Les Ferdinand did, yet you would have thought as former players, they could appreciate that things can change.
City started fast and we had to weather the storm, they could have scored but didn't and it was like old school football to see Tanganga let Grealish and Sterling that he was there, he was not afraid.
He stamped his authority on the pair of them at the outset and didn't relinquish it, aided by Højbjerg with Skipp playing the more central role.
We hit them fast on the counter-attack and City slowed, realised we weren't just going to rollover and defend like the League Cup Final, that we poses a threat and they had to be careful not to overcommit players.
That allowed us to start passing the ball, it allowed us brief moments of space and Lucas Moura proved a threat running at them.
Wasn't it great to see his directness instead of a safe sideways passing game or a slow tedious build up from the back we have had to get used to.
There were still moments where the off the ball movement wasn't good enough and our defenders had nobody to pass to but it was highly encouraging that many times we did.
I speculated in my piece before the game whether Son was going to be moved more permanently into a central position.
He had to play there yesterday so we can't read anything into that but Nuno's after game comments seemed to suggest he will get better at making the right choices in that position with more match practice.
I certainly gleaned form that and the fact we are looking for a left-sided winger that coming in from the left may not be the role he performs most this season.
Will we see the smiling South Korean play the number 10 role a lot more, the second striker centrally?
Since calling Tottenham the ‘Harry Kane team’, Pep Guardiola has lost five times to Tottenham...without Harry Kane.
Tactically Nuno got the game right, as the result shows, but it isn't the first time we have produced a performance against City.
Astonishingly, Spurs have won the last 4 home fixtures against Manchester City without conceding a goal.
We made the Citizens look like senior citizens, with them slowing the game to a walk at times.
They were trying to draw us out of our shape but we resisted, kept the two or sometimes three banks and let them have the ball at the back.
Significantly when they did, we had Son, Moura and Bergwijn central to stop them passing through the middle through Fernandinho who usually controls their play.
How many times did you hear the commentator mention him?
We forced them to build up wide which put pressure on the Tanganga/Højbjerg partnership on the right and the Reguilón/Dele partnership on the left.
Both partnerships handled it well, particularly the Reguilón and Dele combination.
If you have seen the video on Twitter, Fabio Paratici and Steve Hitchen got really into the passion of the game and I have no doubt the pair will watch it again to analyse what Spurs need going forward.
The new boy in the shirt.
The three new boys all got a taste of the atmosphere inside the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and the support they can expect when they step out to represent our great club.
Nuno said in the press conference that Dele is a player who can run box-to-box and that we should use that.
Yes, but what he doesn't mention is that it was money United generated themselves. As Sir Alex said, you have to have a successful business to have a successful team.
Tottenham are being built to match United, to do it the United way, the proper way, not be a Sugar Daddy plaything that Financial Fair Play tried to stop.
Every fan should be behind that.
Every fan should be able to see that that is the way the club is being built.
Every fan should be able to understand that you first have to build the business, to generate the money, to invest in the team and therefore the faster you can build that business, the faster the club will be where it can compete financially on an even footing with Man United and Man City.
More money coming into the business means more investment into higher quality players, with the resulting benefits.
If you could see that vision then you can understand why the stadium has had to come first, it is the hub of everything, it is the cash cow the club needed and it's a legal one.
Yesterday is yesterday, it is gone, finished, done, so let go of it. Embrace the now and the future.
Open your eyes and recognize the bigger picture, recognize what is happening at Tottenham.
We had a blip, it happens to every club, but the general curve is upward, the infrastructure has been built to accommodate it.
Any successful person will tell you to surround yourself with successful people, people who will support you and not try to drag you down.
They will tell you to act as if you are successful before you are.
You have the image of success to others before you have the success.
It is your job as a fan to be a part of that, to act in a positive way towards the club, to help create that image, that environment, that feeling that success is inevitable.
It's why I block the negative, why I block detractors, why I block the anti-Levy, anti-ENIC crowd whom this is seemingly beyond.
The future is what matters.
Why would you not want to play your tiny part in building the successful future of something you love, that is so clearly right there waiting when the stadium earnings kick in?
To not be able to recognize the building of the business was/is essential to achieving success is simply a wanton to hang onto a misplaced hatred that has come about through a lack of understanding or appreciation for the bigger picture.
What Tottenham are doing is showing you, indeed showing every club, how you build a club for 'sustained' success, not success for a couple of seasons while you have the right manager in place.
At the end of the day it will always be money that talks the loudest so building a business to generate it is plain common sense.
Well that's it folks, see you in Part 2 at 5pm GMT with Tottenham Transfer Talk.
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