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I think that will be next summer.

The poor finish last season probably hampered our recruitment this window more than we realise. It makes it harder to sell the story of a project that's going somewhere. If the TW had started last November, they would have been queuing up to join.

Even if we start slow this season, as long as we finish with momentum and qualify for CL then we'll be well set up.

With respect, do you know how many summer windows when we hear oh don't worry wait until next summer after yet another underwhelming window. It's said every year. I could go back 15 years it's been the same every year. Always left short, rarely securing top targets.

Remember when we didn't get Skriniar and signed Rodon.

Honestly I don't think CL matters so much nowadays, look at Chelsea and United this season, signed plenty of players. it's all about money, and we don't flash enough of it to clubs or players.
 
With respect, do you know how many summer windows when we hear oh don't worry wait until next summer after yet another underwhelming window. It's said every year. I could go back 15 years it's been the same every year. Always left short, rarely securing top targets.

Remember when we didn't get Skriniar and signed Rodon.

Honestly I don't think CL matters so much nowadays, look at Chelsea and United this season, signed plenty of players. it's all about money, and we don't flash enough of it to clubs or players.
Weird that you can remember that and not remember us getting VDV, a better player than either.
 
You are right we can't do anything. We can and do get behind the club but what is wrong with having a moan about it on here too? As long as people aren't going to the stadium and being toxic, but let's not pretend we are run to compete for major honours, we just aren't. Highest ticket prices in the country remember and look at our window. People start going oh you're always too pessimistic. Nonsense I say it's realism and calling it for what it is. We are a club that never pushes the boat out in a league where all our rivals do, so we are always up against it and handicap ourselves.

It's won us the best run club this week, but it's won us fuck all trophies. Levy in a nutshell.

Anyway going a bit off topic with Levy so I'll stop here.

Because it's the same point made over and over again and it's just a bit boring. Perhaps you don't feel the the incessant repetitive posts, and negative posts that bash our team and don't allow for nuanced discussion are toxic, but they kind of are.

Evey single club leaves themselves short in areas, every single season in this league bar 1.

Every club in the top 6 has finished outside of the CL and had below par seasons in the top 6 the last 5 years or so bar 1.

This is football. When you're winning games, it's easier to enjoy, when you're not, fans of every team regardless of how much silverware their owners have won for them complain.
 
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With respect, do you know how many summer windows when we hear oh don't worry wait until next summer after yet another underwhelming window. It's said every year. I could go back 15 years it's been the same every year. Always left short, rarely securing top targets.

Remember when we didn't get Skriniar and signed Rodon.

Honestly I don't think CL matters so much nowadays, look at Chelsea and United this season, signed plenty of players. it's all about money, and we don't flash enough of it to clubs or players.
With respect, yes.
 
Grey and Berg may well end up like the Modric's and Bale's, surrounded by crap and we end up having to sell them to Madrid
What I learned in this thread today:

Ashley Phillips is going on loan to Swindon(?), Manor Solomon wants to stay in England and that Tottenham could have stopped two generational players going to the most prestigious club on the planet if only we hadn’t surrounded them with crap like Hugo Lloris, Jan Vertonghen, Rafa VdV, Ledley King, Robbie Keane, Mousa Dembele, Harry Kane, Kyle Walker etc.

I almost expect a response that begins with ‘Bergvall picked us over Barcelona’ ……

Never change, fanbase, never change!
 
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Because it's the same point made over and over again and it's just a bit boring. Perhaps you don't feel the the incessant repetitive posts, and negative posts that bash our team and don't allow for nuanced discussion are toxic, but they kind of are.

Evey single club leaves themselves short in areas, every single season in this league bar 1.

Every club in the top 6 has finished outside of the CL and had below par seasons in the top 6 the last 5 years or so bar 1.

This is football. When you're winning games, it's easier to enjoy, when you're not, fans of every team regardless of how much silverware their owners have won for them complain.
This might be one of the most succinct and concise posts I've ever seen on this forum, and perfectly sums up how I feel about the club as of right now. We clearly have had a sea change in the outlook of the board on the club in the past 3 years or so, and if you went back to around the AVB/start of Poch era and we were signing the players we're signing right now people would be fucking creaming themselves. It's crazy to me how much the Poch era warped expectations around the club to be honest, I get that it's hard to listen to fans of other clubs beat the "Spurs don't win anything" drum but let's face it, if your team isn't named Manchester City the rest of the country has won pretty much fuck all since Chelsea won the CL.

It's easy to say "just go and spend the money and get ready made players" but we did that this summer spending £65m on Solanke and people are still fucking moaning about it.
 
You are right we can't do anything. We can and do get behind the club but what is wrong with having a moan about it on here too? As long as people aren't going to the stadium and being toxic, but let's not pretend we are run to compete for major honours, we just aren't. Highest ticket prices in the country remember and look at our window. People start going oh you're always too pessimistic. Nonsense I say it's realism and calling it for what it is. We are a club that never pushes the boat out in a league where all our rivals do, so we are always up against it and handicap ourselves.

It's won us the best run club this week, but it's won us fuck all trophies. Levy in a nutshell.

Anyway going a bit off topic with Levy so I'll stop here.

Well you said that people who aren't moaning are 'happy clappers' which is just a load of nonsense...there's legit fans who are aware of who we are owned by accept that they will run the club however they see fit but just want to do the noble thing of just supporting the football club and getting behind the fucking players, weird thing for a supporter to do I know.

Also incessant moaning is boring and just spreads a load of negativity around the fanbase and ends up seeping into the stadium affecting the team, because we know what happens on match days, the feeling around the stadium of a set of fans who are drained, fatigued and not getting behind the team is felt by other fans and felt by the players. All those boos to certain players, all those murmurs, all the frustration at misplaced passes from a group of expectant fans affects the players so much so they play within themselves.

So I say all that to say this, if you're not happy then go and legit to something about it, like get up off your backside and fucking protest at the very thing which is making your life a misery but you don't want to do that do you because it's an inconvenience in your life so you'd rather just bitch online.

Well sorry but you're a bunch of self entitled selfish lazy arseholes because you have the temerity to moan every day on social media and call others happy clappers for not following your lead yet you don't do a fucking thing about it and when there is some form of an actual protest barely any of you are there to be seen, it's embarrassing and what's more the noise is only loud when we lose or going through any sort of perceived bad moment™ as a football club.

The ENIC thread for example was bumped on Monday because we drew a fucking match of football....where is that same energy wheh we win or do something good?...It's not there and the same clowns who moan and heartily mock their own club and other fans die down until the pendulum swings again, funny that.

Because Spurs fans always do this...they moan and moan and moan at the board but nothing happens, nothing ever happens, nothing will happen until those fans actually do something about it so if you wanna blame anyone blame yourself, you have the power to start to make a change or at least affect and you choose not to use it so its on you..fans generally deserve the owners that you get in football and therefore you totally deserve ENIC.

Lastly you just need to respect those who treat football as some form of escapism and not everyone is an online freedom fighter or keyboard warrior, fans generally are deluded or those who want to live in a delusional world and live in hope we'll just let them, the vast majority of football fans live like this, if that's what makes them 'happy clappers' then so be it.
 
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Weird that you can remember that and not remember us getting VDV, a better player than either.

This is another thing, people just aren't honest when they bring up these points and their arguments are not consistent. It's hard to take them seriously...if you ignore things we have done which totally contradict your narrative then you are arguing in bad faith...boring.
 
Careful, you might get foul voted and sin binned for that sort of comment.

Another day of playing the man and not the ball, Christ you're such a gimp.

Are you here to actually debate anything I've said or even transfers or are you going to relentlessly obsess over me and try and gain more one-upmanship Internet points?

You really have female bad b attention seeking l energy with your sassy one liners...
 
Another day of playing the man and not the ball, Christ you're such a gimp.

Are you here to actually debate anything I've said or even transfers or are you going to relentlessly obsess over me and try and gain more one-upmanship Internet points?

You really have female bad b attention seeking l energy with your sassy one liners...
Sorry for trying to help you.

Regarding transfers I'm happy with the outs. as for the ins I'm not sure about the three puppies and the Obito Uchiha guy.
 
Fans can't affect anything the owners do and the way they choose to run the club,
They really could though - Imagine if using social media the fans got 70% of match going fans to stop spending money in the stadium pre or post match and said this will continue until OAP's get their discounts back and ticket prices are reduced for kids, how long do you think it would take ENIC to buckle when they are losing millions per match?
The trouble is as British Fans we just accept it and get on with it.
 
With respect, do you know how many summer windows when we hear oh don't worry wait until next summer after yet another underwhelming window. It's said every year. I could go back 15 years it's been the same every year. Always left short, rarely securing top targets.

Remember when we didn't get Skriniar and signed Rodon.

Honestly I don't think CL matters so much nowadays, look at Chelsea and United this season, signed plenty of players. it's all about money, and we don't flash enough of it to clubs or players.
It is considered we overpaid for Solanke or in your words flashed the cash. This deal would not have happened a few years ago. What happened 15 years ago is irrelevant it is what has happened in the last couple of years. Yes we should have bought more but not injury prone ones in Neto.
 
They really could though - Imagine if using social media the fans got 70% of match going fans to stop spending money in the stadium pre or post match and said this will continue until OAP's get their discounts back and ticket prices are reduced for kids, how long do you think it would take ENIC to buckle when they are losing millions per match?
The trouble is as British Fans we just accept it and get on with it.

Brother I hate to say this but online social media posts don't do as nearly as much as you think definitely in relation to how the owners spend the money on the team and whom.

If they choose to go down a project route and not spend of established players there's fuck all fans can do about that, that would have been already decided by the board and the online section of our fanbase will be ignored because they don't affect the bottom line, and I'll be real the fans online who constantly moan are a very loud minority anyway, they don't represent anywhere near the majority of Spurs fans and even social media Spurs fans.
 
Well you said that people who aren't moaning are 'happy clappers' which is just a load of nonsense...there's legit fans who are aware of who we are owned by accept that they will run the club however they see fit but just want to do the noble thing of just supporting the football club and getting behind the fucking players, weird thing for a supporter to do I know.

Also incessant moaning is boring and just spreads a load of negativity around the fanbase and ends up seeping into the stadium affecting the team, because we know what happens on match days, the feeling around the stadium of a set of fans who are drained, fatigued and not getting behind the team is felt by other fans and felt by the players. All those boos to certain players, all those murmurs, all the frustration at misplaced passes from a group of expectant fans affects the players so much so they play within themselves.

So I say all that to say this, if you're not happy then go and legit to something about it, like get up off your backside and fucking protest at the very thing which is making your life a misery but you don't want to do that do you because it's an inconvenience in your life so you'd rather just bitch online.

Well sorry but you're a bunch of self entitled selfish lazy arseholes because you have the temerity to moan every day on social media and call others happy clappers for not following your lead yet you don't do a fucking thing about it and when there is some form of an actual protest barely any of you are there to be seen, it's embarrassing and what's more the noise is only loud when we lose or going through any sort of perceived bad moment™ as a football club.

The ENIC thread for example was bumped on Monday because we drew a fucking match of football....where is that same energy wheh we win or do something good?...It's not there and the same clowns who moan and heartily mock their own club and other fans die down until the pendulum swings again, funny that.

Because Spurs fans always do this...they moan and moan and moan at the board but nothing happens, nothing ever happens, nothing will happen until those fans actually do something about it so if you wanna blame anyone blame yourself, you have the power to start to make a change or at least affect and you choose not to use it so its on you..fans generally deserve the owners that you get in football and therefore you totally deserve ENIC.

Lastly you just need to respect those who treat football as some form of escapism and not everyone is an online freedom fighter or keyboard warrior, fans generally are deluded or those who want to live in a delusional world and live in hope we'll just let them, the vast majority of football fans live like this, if that's what makes them 'happy clappers' then so be it.
The reason no one turns up to protests is because of these deluded fans you speak of

I will support the players and team whomever our owner is, I always have, but that doesn’t mean I can’t try to show these deluded fans how badly the owners have let us down for 25 years

I agree it can be boring on here though and have dialled it down personally on non ENIC threads

I just want to enjoy the season now
 
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