The Official Tottenham Hotspud thread [Vol 12]
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m3sye said:
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Some angry fans last night
Hope you wasn't involved yiddman
Not me, had a beer with some Bayern fans back in town, all very jovial! Some angry fans last night
Hope you wasn't involved yiddman
Guvernator said:
Nope any new manager coming in will struggle with this team, Levy is the only one that can fix this right now tbh. Sell the driftwood including Eriksen and buy 2-3 decent defenders with the money.
As a non-Spurs fan, seems to me this is all down to Levy being a smart arse and being caught out. Not offering existing players decent contracts so they all run down at the same time, not signing players for a couple of windows, etc85Carrera said:
As a non-Spurs fan, seems to me this is all down to Levy being a smart arse and being caught out. Not offering existing players decent contracts so they all run down at the same time, not signing players for a couple of windows, etc
In case nobody noticed we were building a £1bn state of the art stadium. The best in the UK if not Europe. Levy is entitled not to spend hundreds of millions on players whilst that's happening. It will get better. Patience everyone. Good things come to he who waits.jonmiles said:
In case nobody noticed we were building a £1bn state of the art stadium. The best in the UK if not Europe. Levy is entitled not to spend hundreds of millions on players whilst that's happening. It will get better. Patience everyone. Good things come to he who waits.
There are elements of this Jon I would agree. But Spurs are in a very precarious position. I am pretty sure we are now the most expensive team to watch in the league, the stadium and all that it offers is utterly fantastic, but it's one way now they have to remain at the sharp end of being competitive because things will get problematic if they don't. Maybe the fanbase is large enough now to absorb a blip? Who knows. Lets be positive, the way Spurs as a club have gone about getting themselves to the upper echelons of the league is fantastic and on solid financial footing, but where the club needs to go to stay at the top will be risky if it doesn't come off.
At least you're bloody lucky that you're going through this downturn in form at exactly the time when Utd are s
t, Arsenal are still rebuilding after Wenger left and Chelsea are rebuilding after transfer bans and under-investment in their squad. So if you're going to have a dodgy season, this year is the year to do it!
Would be bloody funny if the likes of Leicester and someone else managed to squeeze into the top four/six and pushed one of the aforementioned clubs out, however.
t, Arsenal are still rebuilding after Wenger left and Chelsea are rebuilding after transfer bans and under-investment in their squad. So if you're going to have a dodgy season, this year is the year to do it!Would be bloody funny if the likes of Leicester and someone else managed to squeeze into the top four/six and pushed one of the aforementioned clubs out, however.
jonmiles said:
85Carrera said:
As a non-Spurs fan, seems to me this is all down to Levy being a smart arse and being caught out. Not offering existing players decent contracts so they all run down at the same time, not signing players for a couple of windows, etc
In case nobody noticed we were building a £1bn state of the art stadium. The best in the UK if not Europe. Levy is entitled not to spend hundreds of millions on players whilst that's happening. It will get better. Patience everyone. Good things come to he who waits.jonmiles said:
In case nobody noticed we were building a £1bn state of the art stadium. The best in the UK if not Europe. Levy is entitled not to spend hundreds of millions on players whilst that's happening. It will get better. Patience everyone. Good things come to he who waits.
I acknowledge that, but having 3-4 (?) players all in the last year of their contract in the same season is bad management and was avoidable by either offering better contracts or selling and replacing them before their value dropped and/or they can walk away for free.Also, Levy has form for trying to be smart and show what a great negotiator he is, by eg leaving transfers until the very end of the transfer window and being difficult over transfers - which is possibly why Real Madrid decided they didn't want to pay an extortionate price for Eriksen/deal with Levy when they can sign him for next season for free.
Not sure that the stadium costs would have made a difference - sure, you wouldn't be spending hundreds of millions but how much is to going to cost to replace the 3-4 players you will likely lose and what impact will this have on other players, who may decide that if the squad is being broken up they, too, may be better off elsewhere. A lot more than the new contracts that would have avoided this predicament.
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