Marked for Conor Gallagher
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market26 Oct 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Tottenham can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Match24 Oct 2026
It finished 3‑1, and it was Luis Suárez’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Tottenham.
Match24 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win, and then this, against Crystal Palace. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.37, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad26 Oct 2026
200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Yves Bissouma was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Tottenham can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Anatolii Trubin's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Tottenham
15 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Mathys Tel gets it from the manager
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The dugout
Mohammed Kudus knocks on the manager's door
Back issues
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Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Tottenham's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Tottenham has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Destiny Udogie is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Omar Marmoush was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a goal for Tottenham
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Market19 Oct 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Mykhaylo Mudryk has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ronny Moncur and Tottenham agree another 3 years.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Destiny Udogie
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Half-satisfied: David Barnes on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Lucas Bergvall is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 26 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Savinho gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Andrew Robertson falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Shea Charles in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tottenham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Sandro Tonali keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tottenham say nothing, which says plenty.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Tosin Adarabioyo’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Tottenham needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Yves Bissouma asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
5 appearances at Trento and the goals keep coming. Tottenham are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.