All teams go through difficult patches. It’s about making sure you hold your nerve when in difficulty. The problem for Spurs now is that the manager has been so undermined, that it is hard to see him doing as well as he has done over the last two seasons.

Spurs may have to content themselves with a top ten finish and forget about the top four – for this season at least.

Even though the “Special Ones” is a big mouth， he had won numberous medals。

That is why Spurs need a new manager to give their hopes of improving a fresh start. It got to start from the sacking of Jol!

OK Ahmed.

“It’s hard to take a man seriously who, in a moment of desperation, boldly claims that no one could have done better than him.”

Firstly, in case you hadn’t noticed, Martin Jol doesn’t do desperation. If you watch any of his interviews or the comments he makes, he is confident in what he says and thinks, and will not bullshit. Everything he says is calculated, calm and rational.

“There’s ALWAYS someone who can do better mate, unless you’re telling me that the best Tottenham CAN do is be 18th after 7 games.”

About the “ALWAYS someone who can do better mate”, you are being ridiculously unfair on a man who steadied our ship for the first time in years. And, “unless you’re telling me that the best Tottenham CAN do is be 18th after 7 games.” When MJ said

“I have to come up with the goods, that is what I have done. No one could’ve done better, I firmly believe that. Not even Mourinho.”

I’m sure he didn’t mean “no-one could do better than 18th in the league after 7 games.” You apply this to the wrong facts. It is obvious he means no-one could have got two top-5 finishes.

Q1 – Would Mourinho have thrown away 4th spot (which Spurs could have secured before they got sick for the last game)?

Fourth spot was hardly thrown away. It’s not like we bombed spectacularly. We still played well to the end of the season, I am aware we had the odd bad result e.g. 1-1 West Ham but we had hardly reached the heights of 4th before so whatever we did it was to be a great achievement. Plus in hindsight, over-achievement, which is what 4th would have been at the time, could have been detrimental to the club. It is better we competed in the UEFA cup regularly before the challenge of regular Champions’ League football, where we would have had an improved squad and a better chance of going further.

Q2 Would Mourinho have had as bad a start to last season as Jol?

Yeah, it was not a good start, but it meant nothing once the season was over as we once again qualified for the UEFA Cup for the 2nd consecutive year. Mourinho lost his second game against Boro’ when he hadn’t lost for numerous games the previous season. He didn’t win the title either, so I could ask you, would another manager with all that money to spend not done as ‘badly’ as Mourinho and won the title? You can’t obviously say this, there are other factors but your question does not take them into account.

Q3 Would Mourinho’s Tottenham have finished SO FAR behind Arsenal as Jol’s Tottenham last season?

Oh yeah, REALLY far, 5 points. In a season where you could ask why did Arsenal, potential championship contenders finish something like 30 points behind Manchester United? Because of injuries. But no it’s fine, lets blame Spurs finishing SO FAR behind Arsenal on Jol.

Q4 Would Mourinho’s Tottenham be in 18th place this season?

Well as this is speculation, lets see what Mourinho has done. 6 played, 3 wins, 2 draws, 1 loss. Not top of the table. Hardly championship form considering he’s had hundreds of millions to spend. (I personally take into account injuries etc, but as your question doesn’t, neither will my answer.)

Even Mourinho could not deal with the injuries he had last year and this year, so it would not have mattered who was in charge of Spurs and the injury-ridden team, unless you are some sort of miracle worker.