I don't think he needs a wake up call. I think he's an extraordinarily smart guy, but if by wake up call you mean the realisation that CL money doesn't just happen, then I agree.
Yes I do mean the latter.
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I don't think he needs a wake up call. I think he's an extraordinarily smart guy, but if by wake up call you mean the realisation that CL money doesn't just happen, then I agree.
The groups have their own charm, you play teams you've never heard of whose entire squad cost Ndombele's weekly wage and lose 1-0 away in the snowI won't be unhappy to be in it if it's Europa or nothing. The group stages might be flat but you can still get some tasty match ups in the knockouts.
Those matches where Kane was emerging and we beat Russian farmers 5-0 were great fun.The groups have their own charm, you play teams you've never heard of whose entire squad cost Ndombele's weekly wage and lose 1-0 away in the snow
Nice to see how the vote is going.
“The game is about glory”. “European nights under the lights”
nope
“Top 4s our everything”
I don't fully understand the narratives that surround European qualification to be honest. If a club doesn't make CL then it's said they will lose their players and will be unable to attract quality to the Club. Yet that narrative never affected Chelsea, Man U etc when they failed, in fact they just carried on as normal.
There may be truth in it but equally, it's a narrative that only gets aimed at select clubs.
We are so far away from being a cohesive team we can't have the distraction of Europe, this team is gassed and is not coached, we need dip out of Europa altogether, we simply aren't able to compete on a domestic level, let alone juggling a European one as well.
I agree no champions league then don’t bother with Europa league concentrate on league form and have a proper go at the fa cup then use the league cup for the kids perhaps Europe had become a distraction and papered over the cracks that were starting to appear
Major interpretation problem you got there......
Why?
Look at the vote. People don’t want to be in Europe.
50%.
To achieve what?
Most have convinced themselves we can win something that way or that we're too shit to compete period.
We deserve nothing.
So potentially do a 'Colchester' then have no feasible way to service and develope your squad/new/young players?
Players get unhappy if left kicking their heels with no matches to play unless you buy them off with mega wages.
No Europe is simply a back step in the process of building the squad up to being able to challenge on all fronts; something we worked extremely hard over the last decade of more
At the moment we haven't got a squad with enough quality to challenge on all fronts here we are in March out of every cup competition way off in the league perhaps rest them all bless them and bring in kids as they aren't on mega wages and might actually play for the pride of the club not the mighty dollarSo potentially do a 'Colchester' then have no feasible way to service and develope your squad/new/young players?
Players get unhappy if left kicking their heels with no matches to play unless you buy them off with mega wages.
No Europe is simply a back step in the process of building the squad up to being able to challenge on all fronts; something we worked extremely hard over the last decade of more to do.
I hate the Europa League, it only really gets interesting once you reach the last 8 but even then nobody gives a shit about it as the CL is at the same stage.
We're better off without it imo.
At the moment we haven't got a squad with enough quality to challenge on all fronts here we are in March out of every cup competition....
way off in the league perhaps rest them all bless them and bring in kids as they aren't on mega wages and might actually play for the pride of the club not the mighty dollar
we can't even beat Norwich Burnley or anyone else at the moment I'm afraid it could be dark times ahead I love this club to bits the team needed a revamp after the champions league final if we manage 5th that's not going to attract the quality we so desperately need is 5th going to make Harry a happy boy ? Interesting times ahead as always with spurs coysYes, if I haven't already, I happily acknowledge as much but if you're hoping to supplement the quality at our core with kids or develope young, rough diamond signings; in what games do you build them up?
You want to trickle even further down the league next year whilst this new generation learn on the job in the EPL?
People forget, no Europe at all = 8th or worse.
That's not minor a back-step to go forward; that's a return to the 90s.
Depending on whether one has given up on a European placing this year; you could, but kids + Kane next year isn't gonna magically bounce us back to top four.
(This years Chelsea isn't a realistic outlier here.... They had a generation of players ready to break out thanks to a mass - and not entirely legal - system of stockpiling.)
Retaining European football of some description maintains an infrastructure that allows us to redeveloped our squad by means of fresh signings and supplement it with a few worthy academy lads.
(It's no coincidence that we've struggled to integrate players since becoming a CL regular.... Jansen, GKN etc. are a prime example of this: If we could have built them up in the EL theirs would likely had been a different story. As it was there weren't enough lower stakes games to afford them gametime to gel and grow with the existing squad.)
Throwing a bunch of unqualified kids to the proverbial lions merely in the name of youthful enthusiasm (against the likes of Utd, Arse & WH who have everything still to play for) is a hiding to nothing.
we can't even beat Norwich Burnley or anyone else at the moment I'm afraid it could be dark times ahead I love this club to bits the team needed a revamp after the champions league final if we manage 5th that's not going to attract the quality we so desperately need is 5th going to make Harry a happy boy ? Interesting times ahead as always with spurs coys