0:55 Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino insists there are no problems behind the scenes, despite their disappointing start to the season.
I don’t like to keep players who don’t want to stay at the club. I’m not even thinking of the economical perspective, but the emotion of the player.
We loved [Arjen] Robben and wanted to keep him [at Chelsea], but he wanted to join Real Madrid, so there are some moments when motivation affects the performance and it’s very difficult to keep a player really happy when he has other thoughts.
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Carragher: Time for Pochettino to go
0:51 Jamie Carragher believes this current Tottenham team has reached its peak and needs a significant change.
How I explain it is that I think this cycle is over for this Tottenham team – and I love this Tottenham team, and I love this Tottenham manager.
But last season, getting to the Champions League final papered over some of the cracks slightly. They lost 20 games last season.
So that was my worry for them. Are they going to get back to what we have seen in the last few years from them at the start of this season, or has this team realised it’s not quite good enough to win the Premier League, or to win the Champions League?
It feels like it’s physical and it’s mental maybe in the dressing room too. There is a lack of intensity and it comes from the fact they have been together so long and they are not quite good enough. It looks to me like this is the end of it now.
They are not going to win the Premier League or the Champions League now. They are just about qualifying for the top four and that was the remit three or four years ago.
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Merson: Worrying times for Spurs
It’s very strange what’s going on at Tottenham because you think they are going to start afresh against Watford at the weekend, leave their troubles behind and get on a roll. However, they go behind early, which you think is not a problem, but they can’t go on to win the game. And how fortunate they are with their goal is bordering on a joke.
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They are now fighting to get into the top four. You really don’t want to move into the new stadium and within one season you are not in the Champions League. Something’s going on there. I don’t know what it is but this team, with the quality it has, can’t be turning in performances like they have done.
These players are very fortunate that they play in a good team and these teams do not come along too often. This could be the best team they ever play in and to think they are just going to breeze through it would be a shame.
You’d expect Spurs to be beating the likes of Watford and Brighton. They should be getting maximum points against that sort of opposition. It’s very worrying times for Tottenham.
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