And the difference is that as the (waning but still effective) empire, Man Utd had the finances to bankroll the "blueprint" of each manager. A luxury that the empire has earned the right to indulge as they see fit,
Davies and Emerson being injured at the same time is definitely a case of "**** Happens" as that means we had an unbalanced back four today which wouldn’t have been the case if we had even one of them available...except we had Tanganga on the bench today, so had the chance to play at least one FB who would have been a better fit That being said, Tanganga/Perisic likely would have made for ugly viewing, partly because Perisic as a FB is just...no, but the main issue is Tanganga is probably the poster boy for certain players stagnating under Conte as he's hardly played, and on the rare occasions he does play he doesn't have anybody clamouring for him to get back into the team anytime soon
I think ENIC own about 85% of Spurs. The other shareholders are mostly fans who didn't sell to ENIC when they bought out Sugar.
So 15% of THFC is effectively owned by Spurs supporters who probably bought into the club during the IPO of the Scholar era ?? I wonder how they are going to feel when they hear that our Billy has accused them of "riding the gravy train" ...
Because they’re both stupidly good people with too many morals. If both had pushed for moves like the four players I mentioned did, or like Walker did, they’d have had a queue of the world’s best clubs at their door, Kane still would and we might find that out sooner or later. I’ve said we’re three or four away from having a decent first XI and that’s on the basis of keeping Kane and Son too. With Son arguably now in decline anyway and Kane almost certainly not going to renew his deal, we’ll be anything from 5-7 off of a good first XI when you consider the changes we’d need to make and the impacts both of those players would leave.
But it’s been shown many times that you can’t just throw money at it. No team can afford to rebuild its team every season or two through spending. Spending big rather than spending clever has been an issue for Spurs recently - albeit that Utd or Chelsea have spent more
Conte left 4/5 weeks ago... Why hasn't the next manager been appointed at such a crucial stage of the season? Any chairman worth his salt would have a list of possible replacements ready to approach. If Levy had brought someone in quickly, you'd have a strong chance of qualifying for the champions league. That's gone now. It's a huge failure by Levy.
Skyte Sports have been making **** up again, claiming that Levy went into the dressing room at half time Dan KP has booted that into the long grass of that golf course Gary Neville chats to our players on PDQ
If you wanna end a **** day off with a laugh, apparently Emerson’s dad has said there’s a good chance Emerson will leave this summer as he sees his future at a team fighting for league titles, such as Real Madrid.
Sacking Conte and replacing with Conte lite suggests the ownership has given up on any serious efforts for the team and it looks like the team have followed suit and given up on the football only mugs are the fans who will still turn up in their droves because they use Spurs as some sort of emotional crutch in their lives just **** off and do the right thing and boycott games that doesn’t mean sell your tickets so someone else gets the seat let’s see what the match goers are all about…they often as a collective believe that they are the best representation of the fans so let’s see what they are going to do
The club has 30K other shareholders (other than ENIC), ENIC don`t own 100% of Spurs. Levy even confirms this in his lame interview with the Cambridge Union. So feel free to go along and watch it, and get `educated`.
Very interesting comments in the BBC article about Brighton, focusing on the impact of chairman Tony Bloom. I've had the pleasure of meeting Mr Bloom a few times at charity events and as well as being a genuinely nice bloke with a good sense of humour, he comes across as very astute and someone who plans for multiple possibilities. For example, at a dinner last summer I asked him tongue in cheek if he thought they'd be able to keep hold of Potter for. After taking a light hearted jibe at Spurs, he replied in earnest: "We'd love to keep him for as long possible, but if for what ever reason it isn't possible to do so, there are other options out there who would fit our vision and strategy." This, this and a thousand times this. The transition from Potter to De Zerbi was textbook seamless. It took him all of five games to settle in. We are a shambles by comparison, because there is no cohesive plan or vision.
Every successful club/manager stays that way by refreshing/strengthenimg parts of the team/squad every season. This does not involve stupid spending, just clever spending on one or two positions. Spurs had a manager that made them very competitive playing good football to watch, that man said at the end of a great season " now is the time to strengthen and push on". He didn't last long after that.
See all our home matches are sold out. Just goes to show, you can offer up dross but people will still come and watch it.
There's a reason most of their squad changed after that match They didn't want to play Championship football
