Eurosport - Thu, 09 Oct 12:54:00 2008
Tottenham midfielder David Bentley admits the Premier League's bottom club have become a laughing stock.
Spurs have claimed just two points from their first seven matches - their worst start to a season since 1912.
Manager Juande Ramos, having been in the job for just under a year, is under increasing pressure while questions are being asked of sporting director Damien Comolli's activity in the transfer market, allowing experienced strikers Dimitar Berbatov, Robbie Keane and Jermain Defoe to leave without finding suitable replacements.
"I know people are having a laugh at the fact we are bottom of the league at the moment but it's up to everyone at the club to stop the jokes," said Bentley.
"We're not happy with what has been happening. You cannot hide from the situation but what we need are a team of leaders who take responsibility. We have to grow as people.
"We have more than enough good players at Tottenham to get us out of this situation and I give my word that we will."
Bentley, who moved to White Hart Lane from Blackburn in the summer for £15million, does not regret the switch to north London and is backing Ramos to turn things around.
"I'm fully behind him, 100 per cent," the 24-year-old told The Sun.
"I still love being at Spurs and I don't regret joining the club for one second.
"I know I haven't been at my best but I haven't become a bad player in a fortnight. The manager believes in me."
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this team in their dark season so far...everyone has their opinion but i think is they can improve for their next match....go go go ModRic.
this team in their dark season so far...everyone has their opinion but i think is they can improve for their next match....go go go ModRic.
Can anyone remember Nottingham Forest apparantly they were too good to be relegated, but it happened to them. watch out spurs
Message 92 Hunchback, yep, proved myself right really. Once school din din time finished the messages calmed down to mostly real football fans with genuine comments to make. I cannot believe how much rubbish makes it on here. Thanks Hunch, you proved my point with your illiterate trivial outburst. You seem to have a faecal fixation, possibly because you speak it. I won't contribute again. This forum isn't about football really, it's somewhere to go to say the things you wouldn't normally get to say in public. I am amazed at amount the mindless vitriol being excreted. COYS
Bentley needs a goal or two, some assists, and things'll get rolling - for a club in Spurs's position, any club it's all about attitude and application, the resolve to keep fighting and never give up. Typical sensationalist journalism, headline makes it out as if he said those words - he didn't, that's quite clear in the piece.
A season in the Championship will make spurs fans appreciate the Premiership and the fact that they don't have a god given right to be there.
I have to say that i think osme of the people who have commented on here, need to gt a life. Slatting a club that isn't doing well isn't about being a football fan, it's pathetic. I love football, I happen to support a 2nd League club, so I do understand the concept of bad performances. Everyone wants to take a dig at Spurs because of their failures. Granted, they should have pushed through and they should be in the top half of the table but it isn't always that simple. I balme the board down, if they had taken the Berba money beofre, they could have sourced a striker, but they held out for more money, pure greed. Ramos doesn't play the same team, they are not being given the chance to play together and form any kind of chemistry or unity. The bloke barely speaks English and won't even face the press. He believes his own press a wee too much I think. The players do need to be sorted out. They need to earn their big wages. However, all the sad ones who are out to have a go, especially Arsenal fans who seem to think The Gunenrs have never lost a game and have god status, need to lay off of them. In typical fashion along with a fair few Chelsea fans I know, these fans are all talk at the start of the season and then when they win nothing, they claim it was because they were concentrating on bigger things or the following season. Give Spurs a break.
don't blame ramos, he's doing his best. work hard spurs. you hav the skill and potential to do well, however u may have been unlucky. you can do it! spurs all the way!
Bentley is the typical player of todays generation of footballers, ever since hes been on the football scene its been more for his mouth or about himself then the football he produces on the pitch. The problem is todays footballers have no loyalty towards anyone but themselves and live in this bubble thinking the world owes them something,
for instance has Bentley been at a club long enough to establish himself producing a constant level of good football?..... Answer is no, and wheres the loyalty today with footballers choosing when and where they want to play when they feel like it regardless of what happens to the club! And with these kinds of players you look back at their career and you say what have they really achieved and the majority of the time nothing but headlines of their mouth or the money and transfer fees involved along the way!
But with these increasingly self obsessed players you get teams that never fullfil their true potential and then its the manager I.E Ramos who are made the scape goats, remember before the season started everyone was saying how good his signings were and that spurs would do well, cause they havent is it truely his fault or is it these footballers that call themselves footballers!
u dont hve to spend £20million on a striker loook at blackurn with cruz quality striker on a gd deal!
Spurs should swallow ther pride and beg Christian Gross to come back
@#$% spurs enjoy the championship nothing but a bunch of nobs play with and support them
Sack the man in charge of transfers. Ramos can only work with what he has got, and it must be hard if your entire team is sold and replaced with a bunch of no hopers. David bentley? LMFAO
It's not that Spurs aern't a big Club they are they proved it when they finished 5th 2 seasons running and got to the UEFA Cup quarter finals the fact that we aer down there is because we sold 2 players capable of getting 20 goals a season in Keane and Berbatov and didn't replace them If your going to sell players fine but atleast erplace them with people capable of diong the job Ramos hasn't done that that's why we're down there I knew this would happen the moment we let them go Pavlyuchenkohas scoerd a maximum of 10 goals in a Russian league Season and that's hardly Permiership quality atch we shouland we should never have signed him if we don't beat Stoke in our next match we should rid ourselves of |Ramos and bring in a new manager and during the next transfer window give the new man £20m and tell him to go find us a new striker capable of the job in question
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I'd love it if Spurs went down. As a West Ham fan i know how it feels to have your best players taken away.
Perhaps the above comments puts the whole nonsense that is modern football into perspective.
Roy Wallis
Norfolk
In responce to the comments from Shannon 9/10/08....is it about time you spurs fans realised that you ARE only a mediocre team at best and have been for the past 10 years or more. The recent Carling Cup victory was more the result of a new manager coming in and the euphoria that goes with a new appointment than it was down to spurs being a good team. Remind me, when did you last go a whole season without losing a game? At the rate your going you lot will probably beat dismal Derby Countys record for most losses in a season. Bentley...what a joke...if he was any good the Gunners would never have sold him to start with. Enjoy your season looking up at everyone....especially the mighty Arsenal...........oh....... and thanks for Sol Campbell
Although from the red and white half of N.London,I am genuinely sorry to see a club with Spurs past record,now in such trouble.
What's that whirring sound coming from White Hart Lane? Is it the slipstream of class strikers leaving for other clubs? No! It's Bill Nicholson,Danny Blanchflower and John White spinning in their graves!
stevie boy,you sad git,if you were focused.fella,you wouldnt have sheated all over that toilet bowl at work,and wasted company cleaning money.
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