After shocking defeat after penalties against League Two side Colchester and exit from League Cup for Spurs this question shows itself in all high. It was game in which Spurs dominated possession of the ball, but did not create many chances despite very strong side Poch picked up for this game. Does this sound familiar ? It brings us memories from games against Aston Villa and Newcastle this season. Slow passing you to me, me to you, but not forward.

Spurs coach Pochettino said all was good except aggression in final third. Just two or three chances against League two mid-table club was poor performance. Just when we thought Spurs healed that problem against Crystal Palace they show us they didn't. It looked like Poch will behead anyone who lose the ball by bad passing forward. I hoped N'dombele will end this pointless passing and bring some more creativity in this squad, but he plays just like others. I know he need time to get used on life in London and new team mates, but for now he did not solve this problem.

I can understand when you have lead that you might want to keep the ball as long as you can, because when ball is in your feet opposition can not make chances against you, but what's the point of doing that at 0:0 against Colchester ? Did they just do it hoping Colchester will make blunder or score own goal to make their job easy ? Well that didn't happened.

Players need to move better to uncover for receiving balls, ball must travel faster between players, forward passing is not crime! Question is why those players didn't do that in this game ? I know some of them are close to end of contracts, but behavior like this and poor games can only drop their value. Maybe they have some "water in the ears" ? This term means they think "We are so good, we don't need to play anything, we played CL final, all will worship us". Well they will not, quite opposite they will be very motivated to win or at least not to lose against CL finalist of last season. It's last moment to wake up and to try hard to win following games. If this water does not go out of their ears after Colchester, I will start to think that those who say there are plenty of wood work in this squad are right.

Fans have every reason to be angry after this and demand much better display and win in next game against Southampton. Win with good goal margin and one nice clean sheet should be right thing to forget this league cup exit. If they fail again it will be crystal clear that this squad is ready for some serious reconstruction in January like Poch said.

Problem is that he promised "real Tottenham" after closing of summer transfer window. Now it's time to deliver it. If that means to introduce penalties on players which perform poor, fine them. Some of them flight to high and need emergency landing.

Soccer / england league cup 2019

Is "water in the ears" of Tottenham players ?

Is "water in the ears" of Tottenham players ?

Is "water in the ears" of Tottenham players ?