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Eric Ten Haag has signed a new deal at Ajax and Brendan Rogers looks like staying at Leicester City. So does that mean the Tottenham job is unattractive? Because watching them tear Sheffield United Apart last night, I did think, who would not want to manage these players in this stadium? My name's Jack Pitbrook. You'll listen to The View from the Lane podcast. I'm joined as always by James Moore. James, you'd want to manage these players, wouldn't you? Yeah, definitely, yeah. And that last night was roughly the team I would have picked, so I would have won a Premier League game 4-0. Easy. One thing I really liked about it is, you know, we've seen so many games this year where Kane just drags them through by himself. And yet Kane, you know, he didn't score yesterday, which is almost, you know, noteworthy enough in itself. But there were so many other good contributions from other players, weren't there? Delhi, Bale, Oriet, Regoulon, Son. It was a proper team performance. Yeah, I have to admit, I do find it quite pleasing, and I'm sure he wouldn't like me saying this,

I do find it quite pleasing when Spurs win convincingly and Kane doesn't really do that much.

It does make you feel a lot more positive about the team that they're not being carried by this one player in every single game.

And obviously, the caveat is, Sheffield United, their bottom of the Premier League, they got relegated. I think the quickest relegation or joint quickest relegation ever, sure. But, you know, it was that one ball down the line to bail aside in the first half, which is obviously an incredible pass from came. He wasn't really in the game, was he? and I don't know whether there's sort of still lingering issues with that injury from the other week, maybe.

But he didn't look particularly happy.

Didn't look particularly infused, which isn't to say, you know, that he's sulking or that he played especially badly.

But it's just quite nice to see other players come to the floor and take a bit of responsibility, which last week we were saying was a thing we needed to see happen between now and the end of the season. Totally, yeah, yeah. That is exactly it. Spurs needed guys who aren't cane to perform well and track them over the line and as high up the table as they possibly can

over the last few games of the season. So it was really, really pleasing from that perspective

to see that last night. The two players I want to pick out are Delhi and Bail. I mean,

let's start with Delhi. That was only his third Premier League start of the season, which is just

ridiculous. That's crazy. Given everything about Delhi and you know two time two time PFA young player of the year, scored a goal in the World Cup quarter final. Still only 25 years old. And I actually thought he was really good yesterday. I thought he was really good off the ball. He won the ball back a lot of times. He was very dangerous in his kind of interchanges with teammates. He didn't really... He kind of made a few good runs in behind, that kind of, you know, like kind of Pocitino style, running him behind onto the Alderweil-Long ball-type movements. And I just thought he was really good. I know that, generally speaking Spurs have used Lucas in that role in the last few months. And, you know, Luke, there are some aspects of the game that Lucas is really good at. But I think I'd probably prefer watching Delhi. I think he's just a bit, I think he's just a bit more talented and... Fun. Yeah, and fun. He's just a fun player. on his day day, there are very few players in the Premier League, I'd say, more fun than Derli Ali. And, you know, this wasn't his best performance of all time, obviously, but it was probably his best performance to the Premier League this season, which, as we were established, probably isn't really saying that much. But it was just so good to see him out there, just enjoying himself a little bit. And I know we didn't see the sort of classic, you know, cheeky, Deli Alley smile. But, you know, there was a nutmeg, and there were a few little flicks and tricks that did come off, a couple that didn't, some, like, intelligent passes, some ambitious passes. and it was just so nice to see him out there showing that he's that he's still

the same player or somewhere close to it. Off the back of the announcement that our

esteemed friend Mr. Marino would now be working for Talk Sport. I tweeted, Deli Allie's not

finished. He's 25. I'm not going to explain that joke.

A lot of people didn't get it.

I think Jackie, you probably do. Do you get that? No. Producer Tom will get it. It's a legendary talk sport clip, and I'm not going to explain it. It's about Antini Amy, but I'm not going to explain it. And a lot of the replies to that tweet, Well, obviously, people missed the point in a joke.

A lot of people replied to that tweet saying,

oh, he's never going to be the same player.

He's not the player he was three or four years ago. He's not interested. He doesn't want to be here. He doesn't want to, he doesn't want to work hard. It's never going to work out. And again, only Shepard United. But you saw yesterday there is a superb player in there. And I think with the right, with the right management, the right coaching, and those are two separate things, I think he could still be like a top Premier League player. I really think you. You don't just lose that overnight at that age. I think it's crazy the way that he was being written up. And we'll see what happens between now and the end of the season,

but I guess your expectation would be you'll start the next game at Leads. And then, you know, assuming he doesn't play dreadfully, or probably play the rest of the Premier League games as well. And let's see what he does between now and the end of the season. I think if he plays like he played yesterday or, you know, even improves on that in the next few weeks, and I think come the end of the season

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