Yeah but how did Spurs wage bill compare?
Mon had 2 problems.He couldn't find a decent striker to offer an alternative to Gabby and Carew If you look at how he spent the money he was given the spending on defence and midfield was totally out of line with the lack of spending up front and it showed, we were defensively sound but just didn't have the options up front if Gabby and Carew weren't doing it and neither of them was quite good enough to turn games on their own.
Quote from: paul_e on July 07, 2017, 02:38:00 PMMon had 2 problems.He couldn't find a decent striker to offer an alternative to Gabby and Carew If you look at how he spent the money he was given the spending on defence and midfield was totally out of line with the lack of spending up front and it showed, we were defensively sound but just didn't have the options up front if Gabby and Carew weren't doing it and neither of them was quite good enough to turn games on their own.He also had zero tactical nous.Whatever the opposition, try hit them on the break (unless they don't fall into that trap, in which case just bang your fucking head against the wall for 90 minutes). So many home league matches against dross opposition who weren't going to put us under pressure in the first place, toiling away with endless crosses in the general direction of the box.That whole MON period, we were great away from home (playing on the break) and absolutely crap otherwise.Every season he was there, we'd score 27 or 28 home league goals. Only 10 of them would be spread across two drubbings we'd dished out to clubs who were stupid enough to fall into our trap (Bolton always seemed to play an insanely dangerous high line against us) which would leave a ratio of 1 goal per match across the other 17 matches.Two totally different experiences, home and away.Oh and his substitutions - 75 minutes, Sidwell on, and usually something involving moving a non right back to right back (to replace the non right back who was already playing there).
I wouldn't. I wanted him out at the end of the second season.