"I hope these are just rumours but no matter how tragic this gets, remember we have been in far worse situations and recovered so in many ways" Perhaps Spurs are following the classic economic cycle. Peaks and troughs, with the pattern being the level of each trough is higher than the one before. We are currently in a "trough" where we are 13 pts from top with 6 to play. As opposed to two points from zero with 8 to play.
Modric wouldn't have stayed, am surprised you think that as players like Modric and Bale aren't just interested in playing CL games, they want to be at clubs which challenge for the CL and win titles and you need more then the right manager, you also need owners who spend money. I'm pretty sure most of the top clubs in Europe are in debt and spend money they don't have short term and while I'm not suggesting we put the club at risk, to get to the stage you want, it would need owners with a different mentality and resources.
"If we had got two extra points in Harry's last season then we'd have likely kept Modric" 1. Only 1 pt was required to avoid what happened (exercise for the reader as to precisely why ) . 2. He may still have gone. But at least the CL excuse would have been killed.
Well we must be because we beat you 5-0 and 4-0 and that makes 9-0! Also in 180+ minutes your lot managed 3 shots on target. Suarez is brilliant but you are doing the rest of the team a disservice . Suarez was far from our best player today.
Does the fact we're 13 points from the top suggest we're not far off being a decent team or suggest the top four is skewed due to having four teams fighting for the title in terms of point totals being fairly even? As it's rare to have such a tight race. I would say a combination of both but due to the nature of Enic fluking a decent manager eventually, then surely we're due some good fortune!
"Does the fact we're 13 points from the top suggest we're not far off being a decent team" Since 2005, the squad season by season has been getting stronger and stronger in its core. Tis why with even with the departure of Bale and the big squad churn, "sh*te" Spurs are where they are. Because this path has been slow and not spectacular since 2005, the warnings go unheeded by the ignorant and arrogant. Which is why you got 2010.
If we look at the squad of 2010, key players where signed by Redknapp to compliment the squad in place so any praise for the CL qualification goes to the man who managed the team and made them believe it was possible. But overall, the squad is bigger and the worse players of today are better then the worse players of previous squads but our best players are worse then the best players of previous squads so we're left with a fairly unspectacular squad with potential to be a good team with the right management.
Can only assume the punch rumour is true to some degree as surely the club or sherwood would have issued a denial
They might not even know about it. It's only social media running with it at the moment, as far as I can see.
Sorry but Sherwood punching a player? This must be a wind up from someone on Twitter just to cause more embarrassment to us.
We also have some very good players, many of whom are injured at the moment. Our problem is they lack focus, in other words, proper management. That is what has brought the difference to you. Not that some of your players who looked less than average a short time ago have suddenly become superstars, just that they are properly managed, organised, and motivated. THAT, is the main difference between us!...
"If we look at the squad of 2010" We see a lot of the key talent already beiing present/signed at the club before Arry arrived. http://www.transferleague.co.uk/premiership-transfers/tottenham-hotspur-transfers.html The Spurs of 2009-2013 has been a long time in the making.
Talent which Redknapp got the best out of, plus key players such as Crouch, Defoe, Bassong, Kaboul where signed by Redknapp with Huddlestone playing the best football of his Spurs career under Redknapp. But anyway I know during that season you was a Redknapp fan and openly praised him, just like Power previously admitted he thought Redknapp was a special manager so you can pretend to try and pass credit elsewhere but you're just being either a Wum or overly stubborn.
The Spurs defence has looked solid against the lesser sides but crumbles under pressure from the better ones, as it did again today. Like Utd, you need fresh blood in the defence. If the team is competent and confident at the back, then the players you have available in the front six should be capable of getting results, although you need a goalscorer.
The defence isn't the main issue, in my opinion. The side has no balance, our back line don't get any cover and there's no playmaker keeping the team ticking, so we're always chasing the ball and the game against better sides.
Try and Arry spin it how you want, Boss, but my comment on the building of the squad holds. Some of the key personnel in 2009-10 go back to before BMJ. And as for Arry, credit where credit is due. And BLAME where blame is due also.
