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When you review an outcome, most sensible people will know that it's what's gone into the preparation beforehand to have a good one. Perfect practice makes perfect - nowhere does that old adage mean more than preparing a team for a match; the balance is difficult, but when a whole team is switched off and look unready - you can be sure it's more than just 'attitude'..
Jose and his management style and self-promotion has once again ignored his role in dividing the dressing room and around 10 first team players searching for an exit, including according to some well-informed journalists and agents, Kane and Son. There are others who have also decided that his poor training methods, his flip-flopping on setting up patterns of play, his piss poor tactical training and propensity to chuck players to the media wolves rather than take the responsibility that he should.
So having used the media to build up his excuses again and again he now accuses the players of 'playing for themselves and not the team' - what he should have said, is they're not playing for him, and in my book that's entirely down to him and mirrors his previous two mess up exits from the last two clubs.
I get why he's done it, he's a clever man that knows how to distract and give the media the storylines he wants them to swallow. Of course, knowing that pundits and fans alike have ripped his tactical decisions and game management to shreds, he conveniently pulls the wall (or at least tries) over everyone's eyes - of course some will swallow it hook line and sinker, the more sensible will know that much of what's been going on and is still going on is because of 'cause and effect' these messes do not just happen on their own...
Some have taken Kan's words as support for Jose, it isn't. Harry is off, his agent (his brother) is busy working on his exit, Harry's recent performances also show where his mind and body is, he has real reason to be like this - he has lost the faith, the same as Son has. But in Jose's World, it was their attitude that was wrong. Watch this space, it's now down to whether Levy will give him more time if he doesn't turn this all around between now and the end of the season..
"Good result. Total credit to the players for an incredible attitude, incredible effort," said Mourinho.
"I think our next challenge is not to play like this as a reaction of an awful performance but to play like this, with this soul, as a permanent thing.
"This is not about tactics but about attitude. The players gave everything."
The manner of defeat to Dinamo and the harsh words of Mourinho and captain Hugo Lloris afterwards sparked speculation over how long the former Chelsea, Real Madrid and Manchester United boss would be given to turn Tottenham's fortunes around.
Mourinho is expected to be given the chance to end Tottenham's 13-year wait to win a trophy in the League Cup final against Manchester City on April 25.
And there is still life in Tottenham's final nine league games of the campaign now as they climb up to sixth and close to within three points of fourth-placed Chelsea.
"In the last couple of games, the attitude dropped below our standards," said Kane.
"(Today) you saw everyone fighting, putting their bodies on the line and that's what we'll need to give the top four a push."
As we know, and we saw it last season, when players are thinking more about getting out as quick as they can it leads to erratic performances. it isn't a surprise to me, but for some, they'll not look at the wider picture and who isn't doing their part.
Leadership matters.
Jose and his management style and self-promotion has once again ignored his role in dividing the dressing room and around 10 first team players searching for an exit, including according to some well-informed journalists and agents, Kane and Son. There are others who have also decided that his poor training methods, his flip-flopping on setting up patterns of play, his piss poor tactical training and propensity to chuck players to the media wolves rather than take the responsibility that he should.
So having used the media to build up his excuses again and again he now accuses the players of 'playing for themselves and not the team' - what he should have said, is they're not playing for him, and in my book that's entirely down to him and mirrors his previous two mess up exits from the last two clubs.
I get why he's done it, he's a clever man that knows how to distract and give the media the storylines he wants them to swallow. Of course, knowing that pundits and fans alike have ripped his tactical decisions and game management to shreds, he conveniently pulls the wall (or at least tries) over everyone's eyes - of course some will swallow it hook line and sinker, the more sensible will know that much of what's been going on and is still going on is because of 'cause and effect' these messes do not just happen on their own...
Some have taken Kan's words as support for Jose, it isn't. Harry is off, his agent (his brother) is busy working on his exit, Harry's recent performances also show where his mind and body is, he has real reason to be like this - he has lost the faith, the same as Son has. But in Jose's World, it was their attitude that was wrong. Watch this space, it's now down to whether Levy will give him more time if he doesn't turn this all around between now and the end of the season..
"Good result. Total credit to the players for an incredible attitude, incredible effort," said Mourinho.
"I think our next challenge is not to play like this as a reaction of an awful performance but to play like this, with this soul, as a permanent thing.
"This is not about tactics but about attitude. The players gave everything."
The manner of defeat to Dinamo and the harsh words of Mourinho and captain Hugo Lloris afterwards sparked speculation over how long the former Chelsea, Real Madrid and Manchester United boss would be given to turn Tottenham's fortunes around.
Mourinho is expected to be given the chance to end Tottenham's 13-year wait to win a trophy in the League Cup final against Manchester City on April 25.
And there is still life in Tottenham's final nine league games of the campaign now as they climb up to sixth and close to within three points of fourth-placed Chelsea.
"In the last couple of games, the attitude dropped below our standards," said Kane.
"(Today) you saw everyone fighting, putting their bodies on the line and that's what we'll need to give the top four a push."
As we know, and we saw it last season, when players are thinking more about getting out as quick as they can it leads to erratic performances. it isn't a surprise to me, but for some, they'll not look at the wider picture and who isn't doing their part.
Leadership matters.
