On a more positive note, now Kane has left, and the fact we’re now in a rebuild with many average players, at least the media will **** off and stop trying to sell our players for a while. obviously we can still look forward to more of levy’s ****ty decisions and general PR that will irk us fans, though.
Sacha Tavolieri seems to be re-hinting the idea of Orban. He’s quote tweeted his old tweet from a few days back where he mentioned we were in contact with Gent.
So definitely coming back. Good words. Obviously wish him all the best. Knock Arsenal out of the Champions league. Old habits......
Juventus reportedly need to sell players ASAP Cheeky bid for Gleison Bremer anybody? I mean, Vlahovic is obviously going to be linked now...
“The Board are merely temporary custodians of this Club. If this Board doesn’t share the ambition of one of our greatest players, then how can fans feel reassured in the direction of this football club?” THST pulling no punches. After years of seemingly just being “yes people” to the board, nice to finally see them growing a backbone.
Didn't share his ambition? We've spent the past three years bending over backwards to try and match it, making him the focal point of the team while hiring managers who (on paper, anyway...) were supposed to be the final piece of the jigsaw Indeed, this is a large part of why Conte flamed out: he made Kane so central to the team that it made it incredibly easy to prepare against us, because if a team cut the supply to him in midfield there was almost no chance of Son or Deki receiving a pass which set them free - and Conte making him an out-and-out striker was one of the most moronic tactical choices I've seen from our manager in years as that cut out those balls without the opposition having to lift a finger
My son and I said that yesterday. Perhaps not Christmas, but I would not be surprised to see him follow Kane next summer.
How could he not be the focal point when just about everyone else bar Son was a midtable player? Hiring Jose was trying to do a quick fix, cheaper job on a painful rebuild we were warned about. Stadium was meant to be a game changer - Club’s words, not mine - and yet we’ve gotten worse and also just lost our greatest player. If that’s ambition for you, good luck.
Making poor signings doesn't show lack of ambition, it's just bad luck. Our spend is massively up since the new stadium but we've still got a long way to go to catch some of the others. And we've never been anywhere near matching Liverpool and Man Utd in the last 50 years.
Wasting money doesn’t equate to ambition either, especially when there’s little to no planning or thought process behind it. For instance, £60m on Richarlison isn’t ambition, it’s stupidity - and everyone on here bar a very small minority knew it, just as the wider fanbase did. There’s been no clue from anyone on our board for years on what to do with the footballing aspects of this club and it’s why Kane’s left. He always maintained he’d stay if the club matched his ambition and felt we were moving in the right direction, so now he’s left, what does that tell you?
It tells me he understands football finance, statistics and probability about as much as the majority of the fans...ie not at all. The chance of us being able to build a team as good as Man C, Man U and Liverpool is close to zero while we have so much less income. Ambition is about closing the financial gap, nothing else will work. In the mean time we have to make risky signings from the pool of players the really big clubs don't want.
We move forwards. Wise words from a (so far) very impressive new coach. Harry is and will remain a legend, but I'm more confident for the future than I probably should be!
It tells me he knows this club is/ was on a decline and he no longer wanted to be a part of it, having saved us from that decline for years. We now have to really hope Ange can produce close to a small miracle because our record of replacing our best players in recent years has been horrendous, with the likes of Rose, Jan, Toby, Walker, Dembele, Wanyama and Eriksen all having not been sufficiently replaced, now we’ve got to replace/ get by without the best of them all. Fans have been sold down the river, we were told about bright future(s), instead we’re looking at a side that finished 8th last season and just lost one of the best players on the planet, all whilst paying even more money for the so called privilege.
1. Kane has handled this way better than the City debacle 2 yrs ago so I don't feel anything negative towards him tbh unlike with Bale, Modric, Walker, Keane or Berbatov. 2. We got a good amount that'll help us strengthen our defence and midfield and get a decent, proven Premier League goal scorer in. 3. I'm pleased we don't have to watching him banging in goals and winning trophies in the Premier league. 4. If our spending is done (as some places are suggesting) then I am full on Levy out. Til now I have been of the opinion that he should step back from choosing our managers cos his record has been bloody awful (JM, Nuno and Conte ffs...like they play watchable football) but if we do not have concrete targets and go and get them then that is a farce. 5. I hope the team get a decent start AND play good football or things will go full on Nuno VERY quickly. 6. Strap in boys and girls cos the roller coasting, puke inducing, **** spraying train that we called spurs is about to embark on another journey.
@Dier Hard did you write this https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...one-season-wonder-who-just-didnt-stop-scoring
I think there is a big divide on here by age in this situation. The older fans have seen many times superstars going and we know that Spurs continues often even better as was the case following the loss of Bale and Modric. Before that we had lost Berbatov only to have in place Bale & Modric. Greaves left Martin Peters arrived. Hoddle left Gazza arrived. Klinsman, Ginola, Blanchflower, Mackay, Gilzean. We enjoyed all of these players at Spurs and we missed them when they left but Spurs carried on. It's true we have never reached the heights of the 61 double since but football is very different now with enormous amounts of money sloshing around in the PL. I look forward to Ange managing this team because he looks like a proper Spurs type manager. Attacking football is ideal for winning cups. The one thing I don't want to see again at Spurs is defensive minded managers like Conte and Mourinho not to mention Nuno and AVB. In the 70's we won 2 league cups and the UEFA Cup. In the 80's we won the FA Cup twice and the UEFA Cup again. That should be our aim, to get back to the great cup winning tradition this club had but at least we need to get back to playing attractive football that football fans want to see. When you consider that we have played some of the worst football I have seen from Spurs while the great Harry Kane was in the team it proves that football is first and foremost a team game. If the team has the wrong direction from management it almost doesn't matter who is in the team it can still produce crap. I am confident (hopeful) with Ange directing things and Maddison in the heart of the team Spurs can once again produce decent football and aspire to win some cups. That's who Spurs are.
