Here are your Tottenham Hotspur headlines for the morning of Tuesday September 8.
Tottenham Hotspur’s pre-season winners and losers
Jose Mourinho’s Tottenham Hotspur will begin their 2020/21 Premier League campaign at home to Everton with the North London side keen to get off to a winning start.
Spurs have faced Ipswich Town, Reading, Birmingham City and Watford in four pre-season friendlies, but Sunday’s home match against the Toffees will demand a higher level of performance from Mourinho’s men.
So who were the winners and losers of Tottenham’s pre-season? football.london’s Alasdair Gold took a look, identifying the players who look ready for the new season and those who still have some work to do.
Son Heung-min has impressive over the last few weeks, scoring four goals in four games. Tanguy Ndombele, however, has struggled to make much of an impression, with Gedson Fernandes also toiling in pre-season.
14 things we noticed in ‘All Or Nothing Tottenham’ episode five
Monday saw three new episodes of Amazon Prime’s ‘All Or Nothing Tottenham’ series released, with the show’s fifth episode the most drama-filled so far.
Danny Rose and Christian Eriksen are featured heavily as they attempt to force a move away from the North London club. The episode documents tense meetings between the two players and Mourinho and Daniel Levy.
football.london ’s Alasdair Gold takes a closer look at the episode, listing 14 things of note. These include a rare insight to a Spurs board meeting and a defence from Levy of his transfer policy as Tottenham chief.
The show’s makers were granted unprecedented access behind the scenes at the North London club, with fixed cameras in the offices and back rooms at Hotspur Way and in the dressing room at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Danny Rose’s frank conversation with Jose Mourinho gets Spurs fans talking
It was arguably the highlight of episode five of Amazon Prime’s ‘All Or Nothing Tottenham’ series and Rose’s tense conversation with Mourinho has got Spurs fans talking.
The left back was filmed informing Mourinho of his disgruntlement at not playing as frequently as he’d like, questioning why other players were not being dropped for poor performances while he was.
Rose’s comments split the Tottenham support, with some taking the side of the England international and others claiming Mourinho was right to bench the left back and favour other options.
January saw Rose join Newcastle United on loan for the second half of the 2019/20 season, with the 30-year-old now back at parent club Tottenham Hotspur. Read here
