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I think there could have been one more game (As I said, shame Leicester and Roma didn't go ahead as would have been better than practically a training game against Lions).

But I don't have any issues with how our pre-season went outside of that. Ange got to see (like we did) who was good enough and who wasn't. You don't need to play 6, 7, 8 games to figure it out. He'd have seen alot more in training than in the friendly games.

The big issue in the off season was either not getting deals done quicker and as we currently see, getting rid of the deadwood. Though likely not easy when no one actually wants them.
I'd have rather played Leyton Orient and Colchester than waste time on the other side of the world playing in ludicrous conditions our players won't have to endure during a season.
The fact money and PR is now more important than football is a glowing example of what's going wrong in the game.

And for once, no I don't hold Levy responsible. He's just doing what the rest are to try to keep up.
 
:balesnarl: most of our squad 100% live in London. Kane was in the process of moving more centrally. I've spoken to agents who tell me that living in London (central London )is a very big draw for Latin American and African players and in particularly their wives. What Ive noticed about my fellow English men is that its them who are down on London. All the Italians I know personally (family and freinds!) Would not choose to live north of Watford if they could at all help in fact they'd rather root canal. Its like inverse patriotism. Lol 🤣
It's a crowded shit hole. I can't wait to get away when I finish work or games. There's also London-London, like the city and near the ground, and then there's the outer areas that are nothing like that.
 
Conversely, don't you see the similarities with other clubs?

For example, if you talk to woolwich fans (shudder...) won't they same much the same about Pepe, Tavares, Nelson, Elneny, Soares, Holding etc as we say about our deadwood? Doesn't every club have some deadwood that's hard to shift? (Apologies if anyone doesn't consider any of those deadwood - I admit that was a list lazily compiled by just looking through the squad).

Not necessarily saying they are the same exactly, just that for all clubs it's not easy to shift deadwood, that doesn't apply just to us.
Whataboutery
 
I'd have rather played Leyton Orient and Colchester than waste time on the other side of the world playing in ludicrous conditions our players won't have to endure during a season.
The fact money and PR is now more important than football is a glowing example of what's going wrong in the game.

And for once, no I don't hold Levy responsible. He's just doing what the rest are to try to keep up.

I do miss those friendlies. Nice little games to go to aswell.

I wouldn't even say our pre season was lucrative. We could have done what United did and went and toured round the world in multiple continents for big bucks. And we didn't. We had minimal travel and lots of training pitch stuff.
 
If we had Saudi dollars we would be serious competitors in no time at all.
Instead we are stuck with the failure bunch, for how long is anyone's guess.

I'm 42 and I believe entirely that this regime will outlast me.
I'll either get so sick of Spurs I'll commit to one of my other hobbies more full time, or they'll just pass it from person to person within the Levy/ENIC world for decades and I'll just get old and die.
And I doubt I'll see much success.
 
Have to sell to buy…

Can’t bring anyone in until we shift these players that we have needed to shift for 3 or 4 years now…

I thought that Levy's gin palace was supposed to be the game changer for us, an unrelenting piggy bank that we could tap into in order to compete with the likes of the top four?

Appears that we have all just been taken for mugs, and looking at the season ticket prices, are still are being taken as mugs.

The mans nothing more than a snake oil salesman.
 
I'm 42 and I believe entirely that this regime will outlast me.
I'll either get so sick of Spurs I'll commit to one of my other hobbies more full time, or they'll just pass it from person to person within the Levy/ENIC world for decades and I'll just get old and die.
And I doubt I'll see much success.
I realised when Harry was in charge, that these lot we would achieve nothing with them.
The penny dropped then, and over 10 years later, my thoughts have not changed.
Trust us of the so called top six, to have the least ambitious owners of the lot.
 
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I thought that Levy's gin palace was supposed to be the game changer for us, an unrelenting piggy bank that we could tap into in order to compete with the likes of the top four?

Appears that we have all just been taken for mugs, and looking at the season ticket prices, are still are being taken as mugs.

The mans nothing more than a snake oil salesman.

It was supposed to help bridge an otherwise large revenue gap between us and the like of Dippers & Arse...... On average our spending has increased so to whatever extent the pledge is coming true (though we can't be doing as well as projected as ENIC saw fit the need to inject 150m last summer)......

If Kronke suddenly feels like burning a few hundred mill that's an external matter that we have no influence over... It doesn't suddenly render the stadium project to be a con.



One should note that the oft seen claim that "we were promised it would make us challengers" is just another fan-made-falacy.
 
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