The special one, Jose Mourinho, has failed to ‘upgrade’ Tottenham since taking over from Mauricio Pochettino.
Injuries to key players like Harry Kane and Son Heung-min have not helped the situation, coupled with the departure of Christian Eriksen in January as well.
Gus Poyet believes these major reasons mean Mourinho should not be blamed just yet but should be given time to bring in his own choice of players.
“There are other places where you hang onto a team until the end and then you feel like you have to change everything. I think Tottenham is in that place at the moment. This defends every manager in the world, not only Jose Mourinho.” He told Goal.
“When you have Kane and Son, you are one kind of manager than without them. On the training pitch, you remain the same guy, you train the same way, say the same words and try to convince the players in the same manner.”
“When you change the manager, something isn’t right. The problem is not always the manager but they change him because it is logical not to change 25 players. People expect him to do something magical and there is normally a change makes a reaction.”
“The players normally like the change; then reality comes back on the players. It will be an important end of the season for Spurs but even more so in the market after. I think they have a plan.”
Before the suspension to the current season, Tottenham were without a win in their last six outings under Mourinho, including a disappointing exit from the Champions League.
