🚨Tottenham Hotspur head coach Roberto De Zerbi on his conversation with Mathys Tel after the 0-0 draw against Everton:
🎙️ Reporter: “Roberto, you went straight to Tel after the final whistle. What did you say to him?”
🗣️ Roberto De Zerbi: “I went straight to him because I was frustrated. I brought him on with a very clear instruction: make the runs, move the defenders, attack the spaces and give your teammates options.
But when he came onto the pitch, I didn’t see enough of that. He was too static. He was waiting for the game to come to him instead of making something happen.
I told him directly, ‘You cannot come into a game like this and disappear. I need you to move. I need you to make the defenders think.’
We were chasing a goal and I needed energy, movement and aggression from him. Instead, there were moments where he was standing in the same position while his teammates were trying to create something.
That cannot happen.
I’m not angry because he made a mistake. I’m angry because he didn’t do what I asked him to do.
At this level, talent is not enough. If I ask you to make a run, you make the run. If I ask you to move the defence, you move it.
You cannot help the team if you are invisible.”
Want to see him down the middle as a SS besides Marmoush.
He has the ability to link play, hold up the ball a bit. Play in more congested areas. He is too erratic to play on the wing.
Savinho and Kudus on the flanks. Marmoush-Tel down the middle.
Savio completed five successful dribbles against Forest on Saturday btw. That was more than any other player in the Premier League.
He only played 60 minutes. #THFC
The level of Tel slander I'm seeing currently is crazy to me.
We just shipped our beloved Scarlett to Leyton Orient.
That guy is older than Tel.
Acting personally insulted that a guy who is half a decade from his prime isn’t the finished product is corny as hell.
Grow up.
missing pieces of a puzzle finally come together, exciting times 🫣🤞
This has been missing for such a long time.
Can we at last, say we are starting to get our club finally getting back.
RDZ inviting all the ex players in for lunch so that the current players can sit down and talk about and understand what it means to play for Tottenham it’s class.
Tottenham had a poor culture around football, a never mind there’s always next week.
We are seeing an elite operator putting the building blocks in place to be a serious footballing operation.
Ben Davies haters have always been so weird to me.
My man gets paid to play less than 5 games a season and just be a dressing room leader bringing the best out of his teammates.
He's glue. He's the culture guy. There's a reason he's lasted through 10 managers. Cornerstone.
It doesnt take a genius to work out where so many of our problems lie as a club and it is when it comes to our recruitment
A prime example is us signing Andy Robertson. Not going to knock the guy, hes a leader, a character and a good player. Its the structure to it which is all wrong
We wanted Robertson back in January when we had Thomas Frank, and we are still pushing ahead with him under De Zerbi. So thats when you start to raise questions over the vision of the club and what type of Tottenham they see us being
How can you have a recruitment team signing players without them being the Managers first pick?
If Robertson was a great fit for Frank, how is he a great fit for RDZ? Or vice versa. Frank is pragmatic, RDZ is front footed. Two completely different managers, but both suitable for the same player?
Until there is a proper restructure to our recruitment, we are only ever going to see the same problems arising where players we sign, simply dont work out. It goes back as far as Contes "club signing" quote when it came to Djed Spence. It wasnt the player who was the problem Conte was annoyed at, it was the structure
@SpursOfficial is in the Premier League next year! Congratulations to the players and the manager today. MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE FANS WERE FANTASTIC!! Now let's clean up and get started by removing the 🤡 first.
🚨Oliver Glasner just delivered one of the coldest press conference responses of the season
Reporter asked him about the title race and whether Palace could influence it…
Glasner replied:
“I checked my pay slips… I didn’t get any money from Arsenal or City.”
Then he finished with THIS:
“Our influence in the title race is definitely less than VAR.”
🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Sneijder: "I wanted to call UEFA after 35 minutes to cancel the game and to make them tell the players to leave the pitch and to announce Bayern Munich vs PSG as the Champions League Final."
Our fucking physios allowing Xavi to try and sprint on the touchline there? Are you utterly insane?
The incompetence in our medical department actually knows no bounds
The standard of refs this season is absolutely shocking they can’t keep the whistle out of their mouths it’s the same week after week they just make wrong calls constantly this is not just Tottenham games for anyone thinking a spurs bias it’s the worst I have seen in premhistory