I do often think of that Wembley tonking of Liverpool and Kane ending the career of Dejan Lovren as a sliding doors moment. The problem we had there is that everyone at the top thought “yeah, we’re good” where as Liverpool used that to identify weaknesses and go and buy the best players they could. They’re obviously a bigger club than us but we were much better than them over that period for years, the difference is we rested on our laurels whilst they took action to ensure those sort of results wouldn’t happen much longer, and since then they’ve won the PL twice and the CL.
Catrick_Sawyze on
She’s bang on
LxD6 on
Boring hindsight… Spurs is and has been spending like a top 8 club. Yet still performs like bottom 5. Spending is not a current problem (it is if you want to win a league, but that’s too far away to even say out loud right now). First we need our DNA back. Replace Thomas Fraud.
scoringspuds on
Exactly this. The board and levy are massively to blame for the spot we are in. We could have propelled ourselves to a premier league win, champions league win and really compete year on year for top 4 spots with the right investment but that ship has sailed and it’s now going to cost far more to get us into the spots we should be in as the most expensive club in the league.
eats_somethings on
Saw this this morning and couldn’t agree more. Maybe some rival fans will see this and understand why we’re so pissed instead of assuming we’re all delusional and think we should be challenging for league titles like some of them do.
FunTurnip135 on
Absolutely spot on! My feelings exactly.
shoulders_UK on
Facts.
MeehanTron on
Honestly, that’s the best and most eloquent explanation of where we are and how we got here I’ve heard.
JamesCDiamond on
Absolutely correct, and well-delivered. The only time it felt like we were trying to really push on was that summer under Conte, and even that didn’t last. Those transferless windows cost us so badly – that’s on Levy *and* Pochettino both.
The 90s were grim. I’d like to think we can avoid another decade plus of just existing, but that’s on the board and recruitment staff to make the right decisions. They have this window and (because I’m probably more patient than most) the summer to show that things have changed with Levy gone, that the 100m will be spent well… But I’m not hopeful.
IzzyShamin on
This is what I said at the start of the season. Our signings were good, but not something a big club would be doing. But apparently signing Xavi and Kudus was enough to convince our fans of TF. We signed a wonderkid at the last minute and a guy who wanted to move here.
It’s always been a mindset. We keep thinking like we have to prove something to everyone when in reality the Europa League final should have been the mindset change for the club to show they weren’t afraid of pushing us to the next level.
Maybe we don’t sign the big names, but we need to show we’re interested in going in that direction. Big offers, big names because that’s BIG CLUB shit. We need dick on table energy but instead we get 👉👈energy. That’s a mindset problem and until we fix that, we won’t be anywhere near big club status.
Gavlar3107 on
Absolutely well said!!
Big_AngeBosstecoglou on
Damnnn need to get her on the Overlap Fan Debate, she’s good!
lowplaces10 on
She’s nailed it. The board have a small club mindset.
ChixChix on
She’s absolutely spot on. I havent heard a rant this bang on accurate. She understands it!
LargePlums on
Yeah this is bang on
ImRonBurgandyyy on
Preach it sister
WhiteHeartedLion on
Tottenham hasn’t regressed to the 90s, because during most of the 90s there were individual players I actually wanted to see play, so it was a head above current season.
GuavaAway4512 on
Should never have sacked Big Ange. Players loved him, results weren’t great but he had shit all to work with. Season 3 would have been exciting. But no.. sack him after he wins us our long overdue trophy. Tottenham are crap
windmill_exe on
100% agree with her take. This team is the reality of Spurs without Son snd Kane. They elevated us and the board never matched their ambitions or replaced them with decent talent.
Lange has overseen some of the worst transfer decisions I have ever seen
fietfo on
Agree with everything she says here. Very well put.
Especially the point about the Liverpool game, absolutely bang on.
Fuzzy_Kangaroo7566 on
Absolute sense …… 👌 EnicOut
CF_Zymo on
This is the first time I’ve encountered this woman and I am fully invested in everything she has just said. She is spot on.
spacekicks on
This has to be the season all the fans are putting serious pressure on the board. They’ve got away with so much but if nothing changes this season then it likely never will.
LogicKennedy on
We’re not back in the 90s, though. In the 90s we were a small club with a big history, now people know our name worldwide. We have one of the best stadiums in the country and an incredible amount of yearly revenue as a result. As bad as things are right now, there is still a lot to be optimistic about if we can get the footballing side sorted.
Our current big issue with the footballing side is that the Lewis family doesn’t want to spend. That was true in Levy’s time and it’s true now: they have always been the actual problem in terms of us not spending enough. Levy was the messenger and a lot of people mistook him for the message.
The other big problem right now is that none of our managers are brave enough to actually rotate and/or play the youth, which means that all our best young talent goes out on loan and then gets no game time when they come back until they’re inevitably shipped out. Meanwhile our first XI slowly breaks down, leaving us with a broken squad.
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Bingo!
Very well said, thanks for posting.
I do often think of that Wembley tonking of Liverpool and Kane ending the career of Dejan Lovren as a sliding doors moment. The problem we had there is that everyone at the top thought “yeah, we’re good” where as Liverpool used that to identify weaknesses and go and buy the best players they could. They’re obviously a bigger club than us but we were much better than them over that period for years, the difference is we rested on our laurels whilst they took action to ensure those sort of results wouldn’t happen much longer, and since then they’ve won the PL twice and the CL.
She’s bang on
Boring hindsight… Spurs is and has been spending like a top 8 club. Yet still performs like bottom 5. Spending is not a current problem (it is if you want to win a league, but that’s too far away to even say out loud right now). First we need our DNA back. Replace Thomas Fraud.
Exactly this. The board and levy are massively to blame for the spot we are in. We could have propelled ourselves to a premier league win, champions league win and really compete year on year for top 4 spots with the right investment but that ship has sailed and it’s now going to cost far more to get us into the spots we should be in as the most expensive club in the league.
Saw this this morning and couldn’t agree more. Maybe some rival fans will see this and understand why we’re so pissed instead of assuming we’re all delusional and think we should be challenging for league titles like some of them do.
Absolutely spot on! My feelings exactly.
Facts.
Honestly, that’s the best and most eloquent explanation of where we are and how we got here I’ve heard.
Absolutely correct, and well-delivered. The only time it felt like we were trying to really push on was that summer under Conte, and even that didn’t last. Those transferless windows cost us so badly – that’s on Levy *and* Pochettino both.
The 90s were grim. I’d like to think we can avoid another decade plus of just existing, but that’s on the board and recruitment staff to make the right decisions. They have this window and (because I’m probably more patient than most) the summer to show that things have changed with Levy gone, that the 100m will be spent well… But I’m not hopeful.
This is what I said at the start of the season. Our signings were good, but not something a big club would be doing. But apparently signing Xavi and Kudus was enough to convince our fans of TF. We signed a wonderkid at the last minute and a guy who wanted to move here.
It’s always been a mindset. We keep thinking like we have to prove something to everyone when in reality the Europa League final should have been the mindset change for the club to show they weren’t afraid of pushing us to the next level.
Maybe we don’t sign the big names, but we need to show we’re interested in going in that direction. Big offers, big names because that’s BIG CLUB shit. We need dick on table energy but instead we get 👉👈energy. That’s a mindset problem and until we fix that, we won’t be anywhere near big club status.
Absolutely well said!!
Damnnn need to get her on the Overlap Fan Debate, she’s good!
She’s nailed it. The board have a small club mindset.
She’s absolutely spot on. I havent heard a rant this bang on accurate. She understands it!
Yeah this is bang on
Preach it sister
Tottenham hasn’t regressed to the 90s, because during most of the 90s there were individual players I actually wanted to see play, so it was a head above current season.
Should never have sacked Big Ange. Players loved him, results weren’t great but he had shit all to work with. Season 3 would have been exciting. But no.. sack him after he wins us our long overdue trophy. Tottenham are crap
100% agree with her take. This team is the reality of Spurs without Son snd Kane. They elevated us and the board never matched their ambitions or replaced them with decent talent.
Lange has overseen some of the worst transfer decisions I have ever seen
Agree with everything she says here. Very well put.
Especially the point about the Liverpool game, absolutely bang on.
Absolute sense …… 👌 EnicOut
This is the first time I’ve encountered this woman and I am fully invested in everything she has just said. She is spot on.
This has to be the season all the fans are putting serious pressure on the board. They’ve got away with so much but if nothing changes this season then it likely never will.
We’re not back in the 90s, though. In the 90s we were a small club with a big history, now people know our name worldwide. We have one of the best stadiums in the country and an incredible amount of yearly revenue as a result. As bad as things are right now, there is still a lot to be optimistic about if we can get the footballing side sorted.
Our current big issue with the footballing side is that the Lewis family doesn’t want to spend. That was true in Levy’s time and it’s true now: they have always been the actual problem in terms of us not spending enough. Levy was the messenger and a lot of people mistook him for the message.
The other big problem right now is that none of our managers are brave enough to actually rotate and/or play the youth, which means that all our best young talent goes out on loan and then gets no game time when they come back until they’re inevitably shipped out. Meanwhile our first XI slowly breaks down, leaving us with a broken squad.