Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

[Muttley]

UEFA squad list - https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/clubs/1652--tottenham/squad/

Venom - inj
Forster - if fit again
Austin - yes
Whiteman - yes
Gunter - perhaps

Dragu - yes
Udogie - no
Romero - no
Porro - yes
Davies - yes
VDV - no
Dorrington - no, now on loan
Cassanova - perhaps
King - perhaps
Hardy - yes

Biss - unlikely
Madds - yes
Gray - yes
Bergval - yes
Kulu - yes
Johnson - no
Odobert - no
Sarr - yes
Bentancur - yes
Moore - yes
Hall - perhaps
Olusesi - yes

Son - yes
Richi - yes
Werner - no
Solanke - yes
Lankshear - yes
Ajayi - perhaps
Williams-Barnett - perhaps

Obviously no Kinsky, Spence or Reggie registered. Scarlett may have been added to List B, but not updated on the UEFA site yet.

So we only have 18 definite yes's, so the 6 other kids will inevitably travel. I think Forster will be back, perhaps Biss.

Ange really is operating with a hand tied behind his back in this competition.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

That doesn't sound like the type of risk Levy would sign off on.

Probably thought 'painful rebuild' meant finishing 10th as a worst case scenario

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

UEFA squad list - https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/clubs/1652--tottenham/squad/

Venom - inj
Forster - if fit again
Austin - yes
Whiteman - yes
Gunter - perhaps

Dragu - yes
Udogie - no
Romero - no
Porro - yes
Davies - yes
VDV - no
Dorrington - no, now on loan
Cassanova - perhaps
King - perhaps
Hardy - yes

Biss - unlikely
Madds - yes
Gray - yes
Bergval - yes
Kulu - yes
Johnson - no
Odobert - no
Sarr - yes
Bentancur - yes
Moore - yes
Hall - perhaps
Olusesi - yes

Son - yes
Richi - yes
Werner - no
Solanke - yes
Lankshear - yes
Ajayi - perhaps
Williams-Barnett - perhaps

Obviously no Kinsky, Spence or Reggie registered. Scarlett may have been added to List B, but not updated on the UEFA site yet.

So we only have 18 definite yes's, so the 6 other kids will inevitably travel. I think Forster will be back, perhaps Biss.

Ange really is operating with a hand tied behind his back in this competition.

Solanke? ...a yes?
Biss might have a small hamstring issue.

 

[elyid]

Probably thought 'painful rebuild' meant finishing 10th as a worst case scenario

Also, while playing incredibly attacking football so maybe the fans wouldn’t get too upset.

 

[thfcsteff]

I'm not convinced there are any player leaks here. Without a name/names it is all too easy for a journalist to just make that story up and post it as gospel.

I think the name is in there. Plainly. My hunch? It's the one that isn't spelt s-o-n. I think 'most' of the players are onside and committed to trying to dig out of this despite their fatigue, etc. But as with pretty much every group, there's always one or two...again, I accept this is speculative on my part and I'll happily accept ridicule if doled out. As I usually say on these matters, here's hoping I am wrong.

 

[thfcsteff]

The ones he's flogging when the sports scientists are recommending they need a rehab day?

Anyone now still think Gerry Francis' Terror Tuesdays were a good idea? It's just so character building to make the squad run until the first one pukes!

Where are you hearing that? What's your source?

 

[thfcsteff]

And even that is to quell the external noise (not that it would)...if you asked Ange whether he needed it...he'd laugh.

Perhaps.
But perhaps there's another side of this. He's spent the last three months roughly sliding into a crisis, and I'm sure he isn't sleeping well or in the greatest health via stress and hours. No family around him, so flying solo. And a bit of a loner. Of course, some of this is his choice and his character, nonetheless I think he is probably close to burnout too, thus maybe any support would be welcome?