Progression up the table and ambitions to win that elusive piece of silverware have been cast aside in favour of the financial benefits of merely staying in the Premier League and signing players with the objective of achieving a profit rather than to form part of their long-term future.
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“It hurts and it will leave a bad taste in the mouth over the summer”, he said.
“I think it’s embarrassing from Newcastle’s perspective”, Walker said on Chelsea TV after the Blues’ drew with Leicester.
Aarons and Janmaat capped off the rout with two late goals within three minutes, catching Tottenham’s sluggish back-line off with the quickest of breakaways. Let us know by dropping a comment below via our Facebook comment box.
Kane told Spurs TV: “We’ve had a fantastic season but the last four weeks haven’t been good enough”. “Not just today – last week we should never have lost to Southampton and it probably started from the West Brom game, drawing that game”.
‘We played without intensity. It shows we are still learning and still have a lot to improve on. We haven’t cracked it yet. “You want to be sure people love you and if you work hard that they recognise that you are trying your best and I have this here”, he said. The Gunners victory, coupled with Spurs trouncing at the St. James’s Park by Newcastle, ensured Wenger’s men finish above their rivals yet again.
Goals from Georginio Wijnaldum and Aleksandar Mitrovic put Newcastle 2-0 to the good, although the latter was sent off for an aggressive challenge on Kyle Walker after Erik Lamela had halved Tottenham’s deficit.
“It’s hard to understand because all the season we showed character”.
The lesson from this defeat is clear all the same: if Tottenham are going to be genuine contenders in the seasons to come, then lapses like these can not be allowed to happen. We’ll have to play a long old season like this one at the top level if we want to be fighting for the Premier League again, so we’ve got to use days like this as motivation.
“It wasn’t a tactical problem, it wasn’t about physical conditioning – we need to improve our mentality”, he continued.
“We are really disappointed, because we couldn’t stay up and happy because at least we gave the fans something to enjoy”. I’ll be doing a five-part series on this addressing who I think stays and goes in the offseason, but I’m expecting in no particular order to have the following addressed: Backups for Dier and Dembele, a viable second scoring option up top besides Kane, and perhaps one more to add to the attacking band.
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“We needed to finish the season off strongly but two points from the last four games is unacceptable considering how we played for the rest of the season”.
