Baphomet wrote:HIF wrote:I've always liked Mourinho even though his style of play is not so entertaining. Sadly this level of football is about results. It's about winning. You lose playing exciting football you're still going to get the sack, you win the title with boring football and the fans will love you. Of course Mourinho seems to have become a manager who gets a team to win and then the team seems to destroy itself from the inside but I'm quite sure that Spurs fans will take 1 league title and then a miserable season and José out over another top 6 finish with no title in site.
I don't know if Spurs can do that yet. the Spurs I know have no bottle when the pressure builds up, but if there is any manager who can cure that, given the incredible talent in the team, then it's Mourhino. Their chances of winning the title have never been higher but I wouldn't even put it at 50% just yet. It's far too early in the season.
It's unlikely that Spurs win the title, yeah. Liverpool are still the favourites, in my eyes, regardless of what happens in tomorrow evening's match. I'm liking how this season is shaping up though, there are some interesting teams hovering at the top of the table and more than it has in a while the Premier League feels like a proper free-for-all.
The chaotic Christmas fixture period usually weeds out the pretenders, so we'll see what happens there. My hopes are that Spurs are able to get back into the CL via top 4 or the EL. Anything more than that would be a bonus for me.
Looking at the teams at the moment it should be down to Liverpool or Spurs but this season is getting better and better with the money finally helping to level the talent pool a little. sure there is still a massive difference between the players that the "big 6" can buy and the rest of us but we can pay for talent of the second level and hope that our scouting is better than the big teams.
Liverpool should still win the title by a distance but Spurs have the quality of players and the strength of manager to win their first title in a million years if they can hold their nerve. Man City? what has happened to them? Pep just doesn't seem to have the tactical nous to win at the moment. ManU are torn apart with player ego as they have been for a number of years and their manager is not strong enough to pull them together when they are losing. Chelsea have talent but they are too young to be consistent this season. Southampton have a skilful team (especially Ward Prowse) and a very good manager but I'm not sure they have the stamina to keep this level up till the end of the season (but at least they have no European commitment). Leicester are outperforming their skill base. The rest of the teams are pretty much of a similar level, capable of winning any given match but of losing them too. And Arsenal are being sucked down to the relegation vortex. Thankfully for them there are 4 or 5 severely weak teams so over a season they're safe but just sitting in that bottom quarter for any amount of time is going to hurt their ability to sign the players they need. Arteta seems tactically unable and experientially in capable of bringing his team of top players together to win games. Could he really be a casualty before Manu get their next manager. Seems that way at the moment.
