Hard to believe this was our club 7 months ago. From finally winning a trophy…. to this? Players and fans feeling disconnected, while ownership is chasing record profits at the expense of lifelong supporters. No clue where we go from here — I just hope it’s anywhere but where we are now.
by dream_team1012
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The trophy was awesome but it’s not like the club was in a magical place then. Finished 17th, incompetent leadership in the board room, shit recruitment and transfer strategy. We don’t just magically get to this point we are at now.
Everyone feels so numb. It’s wild. I don’t even know where to turn or where to place the blame. Everywhere i guess. Just numb.
At least now the fans are on the same page. We all want the manager sacked lol
A month before this people were saying the exact same about “disconnection”. Ange was cupping his ear to the fans, we were on our worst run of results in a generation etc. It all turns very quickly. Modern football is very much immediate results driven.
Tottenham Hotspur is a business that just happens to have a football club
It was our club 7 months ago, we just happened to win a trophy to paper over the cracks.
The rewriting of history on this sub is mental, yes we won the EL but last season other than this was horrendous, even worse statistically than this season so far, and players + the manager were fighting with fans, the toxicity was out of this world
The Spurs situation is unimaginably bad. If ownership, the front office, and Thomas Frank can’t put their hands on the situation and point the club in a positive direction, they have to make changes. Winning the Europa League, hiring a new manager, Levy’s departure, and ownership’s announcement of £100 million capital all represented forward movement, while missing out on signing Gibbs-White and/or Eze and not signing any equivalent players were setbacks. Among other things, they need a top-money new signing for a no. 9 or a no. 10, they have to sign Van de Ven to a strong contract to keep him with the club, and the manager has to get winning results.
Where are we going? We’re going to sign more 19 year old defenders and loan them out.
The club was in absolute shambles seven months ago as well. The Europa League run was the North Star shining through the clouds.
Sonny knew something we didn’t. He knew when to get out.
Kindly, our team looked like this winning the trophy.
The trophy was a flash in the pan, we’ve been on a steady decline for years. Kane and Son carried us for years, and now we see the effects of them gone.
See this is very reactionary and don’t get me wrong your immediate emotions are valid but we are no where near doomed as people are making it out to be. Manager isn’t good enough but our squad is very young as well and they have mistakes in them. We have westham next at home , even shut up shop and win on pens or by an odd goal in the cup and win the league match we can easily be in a much positive place. Even tonight and I want to say this to people we weren’t awful if we can get results performing like this I’ll happily wait till summer to get a new manager
The feeling is bad to be sure, but it’s baffling to me that people are acting like this is solely Frank and not a very potential possibility had Ange stayed, assuming the same injury stuff. The long term management failures would still be here, the uneven roster would still be here. Part of being a fan should be a sober reflection on where a club truly is at — while, of course, still calling for the club to do better.
Not hard to believe, our league form was this shit last season
The only successful clubs were under pep Klopp and emry and the other noticeable absentee because they are the main men at their clubs, they have power and a vision.
I’m sorry ange had to go for just how disgraceful we were last season but tbh that Europa league was more than just an FA cup and he had the dressing room and fans it might have also blown up like this but FRANK was brought in so we wouldn’t be in this position. At least we stood for something under ange even if the team maybe didn’t
I’d blame that on the Lewis family and the board. Poor recruitment in the summer, followed by reluctance to sack a clearly incompetent unpopular negative coach. Now the rot has gone deep and the toxicity settled with fans and probably lots of the players. It’ll take a long time to fix the damage the past 5 months caused.
This is why sacking Ange was stupid. Not even because it was “wrong” but because you didn’t HAVE to do it. Why risk all the goodwill you built up with the trophy for THOMAS FRANK?
Everyone who is anyone knew Udogie wasnt going to be fit this season and we werent even in the market for a LB. That is our biggest blunder this season
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This is why I was against sacking Ange, PL results aside the club was finally happy, the players and fans were connected even the Ange outers were saying they wanted him gone but were happy with him winning a trophy and could understand if he stayed and instead they ripped it all apart.
Say what you want about Ange but at least there was a spark and belief in the club. That belief led us to winning the 1st trophy in 17 years. I understood his sacking due to the horrid league campaign but if you’re gonna replace him, get a suitable replacement. Anytime I see a frank quote it seems to make me dislike him more. He seems not to understand the club and this whole Arsenal mug debacle has put my head on mars tbh. Add to that the awful football, it’s the most disconnected I’ve been with the club for as long as I can remember
I think he’s saying that the owners are never there to offer any reassurance when times are bad & that they promised they’d invest in top players, when they clearly have no plans to do so. “We want to win the champions league” springs to mind. It’s beyond a joke how badly they’ve run the football club.
It was a fluke, easiest ride to win a trophy ever.
7 months ago the team was one spot above relegation.
Hmmm.
A little bit of revisionism going on here.
We were shit last season too. We got lucky in the EUFA in that we came against the only team worse than us in it.
This year IS better. I no longer feel I need to hide behind the sofa every time a diagonal ball is put into our box l, so that’s at least some improvement. The board needs to prove they actually give a flying fuck and make some SERIOUS money available for signings. No more fucking about. Get players signed and pay over the odds if we have to.
We also sucked back then. Ange delivered on that one competition, in that year. I don’t think he would have been successful going forward. We spend on players that are not talented enough and/or don’t fit. We definitely need a better coach, but it won’t matter unless the fundamentals and vision are solid. That starts at the top.
As much as people were like ange is not good enough etc etc. Im sorry but he was the glued that kept the players together. They believed in him. The club has ripped that up and we are wondering why they are not performing?? Get real. The club fucked up big time