Newcastle 6-1 Tottenham: It's too late to save Spurs' season - Jermaine Jenas analysis

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Everyone astatine Tottenham volition speech astir warring and pulling unneurotic aft Sunday's embarrassing decision astatine Newcastle, but I consciousness similar it's excessively acold down the roadworthy for that now.

The team's momentum has wholly gone, and the players intelligibly person nary belief.

They played without immoderate benignant of a program astatine St James' Park, but that was hardly a astonishment aft what we've already seen from them this season.

They are successful a implicit mess, but for maine that stems from what is happening astatine the nine disconnected the pitch, and the full deficiency of absorption that comes from the precise top.

Spurs keeper Hugo Lloris was interviewed aft the Newcastle crippled and, erstwhile helium was asked a question astir the powers that be, helium benignant of batted it off.

Instead helium said the players person a work to perform, immoderate is going connected down the scenes.

There was a portion of maine that liked that, due to the fact that arsenic a subordinate you are ever 100% liable for maintaining your ain standards for yourself, the squad and the club, careless of what is happening. Lloris knew they had to bash much, overmuch better.

But it is not a coincidence that Tottenham are playing this severely astatine the aforesaid clip that everything other astatine the club, from the apical down, is simply a implicit and utter shambles.

'It feels similar Spurs person fixed up connected their season'

This benignant of messiness is thing caller astatine Spurs - you tin instrumentality it backmost arsenic acold arsenic you like.

I can't deliberation of different nine that would sack their manager the week earlier a cupful final, similar they did with Jose Mourinho up of the Carabao Cup last successful 2021, but Tottenham did.

This time, they got escaped of Antonio Conte with 10 Premier League games to go. Conte played his ain portion successful that determination with his behaviour, of course, but however tin you marque a alteration astatine that signifier of the play without having a caller manager to travel in?

At slightest bring successful idiosyncratic who volition springiness you caller ideas, a caller look, immoderate vigor - thing that mightiness supply a bounce to unafraid a Champions League spot, astatine a clip erstwhile the nine were really successful the apical four.

Instead, Spurs appointed Cristian Stellini, Conte's fig two.

By doing that, it felt similar they had fixed up connected the season, and that mode of reasoning has fed done to the squad arsenic well.

'Spurs looked shellshocked astatine St James' Park'

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Half of maine feels atrocious for the Spurs players close now, due to the fact that of everything other that is going on.

But the different fractional can't judge rather however mediocre they've been erstwhile I've watched them successful the past fewer weeks.

The slightest they could person done is got connected the shot to spot the crippled retired against Southampton successful Conte's last game, oregon dominated possession erstwhile Everton were down to 10 men for fractional an hr successful Stellini's archetypal crippled successful charge.

They couldn't bash either, and aft riding their luck to bushed Brighton, they were outplayed astatine location by a Bournemouth broadside battling relegation.

Then, connected Sunday, they turned up astatine St James' Park looking astir shellshocked, wholly unprepared for what would happen.

Every subordinate knows what to expect erstwhile you play astatine that stadium - adjacent during the years erstwhile Newcastle were nearer the bottommost of the league, it was ever similar a cauldron and you would inactive get a pugnacious game.

So, with the Magpies perfectly flying and astir to person their champion decorativeness since I was determination 20 years ago, Spurs should person known what they were astir to locomotion into.

You could archer by their faces that they weren't acceptable astatine all, and that was 1 of the reasons they wholly fell isolated the mode they did.

Spurs acceptable to commencement from scratch again successful the summer

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The Spurs players volition beryllium going done hellhole close now, due to the fact that what is happening to them is embarrassing. Not lone are they suffering, they volition beryllium dreading each game.

They are astatine location connected Thursday against Manchester United and determination volition beryllium 64,000 Spurs fans successful their stadium, each baying for humor aft watching their squad capitulate and their play collapse.

Those supporters are going to marque their feelings wide to the powers that be, and astir apt to immoderate of the players arsenic well.

That spilled implicit past week with the attraction Davinson Sanchez got erstwhile helium came connected against Bournemouth, and was booed each clip helium touched the ball, and again erstwhile helium was taken off.

I don't hold with that whatsoever, but Spurs fans are a frustrated clump astatine the infinitesimal and I deliberation anyone could beryllium the people connected Thursday.

I truly can't spot things getting immoderate amended for them this season, either. You tin hide astir them moving up the array for starters - they are much apt to beryllium heading successful the other direction.

Aston Villa, Liverpool and Brighton are each playing amended football, and I deliberation each 3 of them volition decorativeness supra Spurs - truthful things are beauteous bleak.

All they tin bash present is get to the extremity of the play and person a reset, but it is going to person to beryllium a speedy one.

Conte's exit was a large accidental to get a caller manager successful for the last fewer weeks of the season, to person a look astatine what needs to beryllium done successful the summer. Instead, Spurs volition beryllium starting from scratch, yet again.

Jermaine Jenas was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.

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