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Spurs West Brom Preview – News, tactics and suggested team

Spurs West Brom

 

After a loss and two frustrating draws, Spurs will hope to get back to winning ways this Sunday, as West Bromwich Albion visit White Hart Lane.

It all started so well for Mauricio Pochettino with four consecutive wins. A drop off was inevitable as the new boss finds Continue reading

Pochettino springs a surprise

Kaboul as captain

Tottenham’s announcement yesterday evening that Younes Kaboul would be the new Spurs captain caught many by surprise.

The general consensus seemed to be that it was a toss up between Hugo Lloris and Jan Vertonghen, with some outside bets on Federico Fazio – always an incredibly unlikely option. Pochettino did give us some big clues. Continue reading

Spurs Sunderland Preview – News, tactics and proposed team

Sunderland Spurs

 

Spurs travel to Sunderland this weekend for a rare three o’clock Saturday afternoon kick-off.

The international break came at a frustrating time for Tottenham, having just lost 3-0 to Liverpool, the one setback in an otherwise positive start to the season. Last year’s Continue reading

How Liverpool stopped Spurs’ key man

Lamela is held back by Lovren

 

Erik Lamela has had a great start to the season, finally delivering on the promise that saw Spurs pay a club record £30 Million for his services. He was arguably the man of the match in our demolition of QPR, changed the game in Tottenham’s favour with two assists when he came on as a substitute against AEL Limassol and even scored a wonderful goal against World Champions Germany, when called up by Argentina on Friday. A far cry from his injury hit performances last season.

However, amongst the positives there has been one disappointment Continue reading

Spurs transfer window review – a stronger squad but no new striker

Pochettino Levy

On the face of it, this was a reasonable transfer window for Spurs, certainly if you like a bargain. First the positives.

We bought players in several of the key positions that needed strengthening, primarily left back and central defence. We also now have a reserve goalkeeper who isn’t in his forties.

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