This is the thing, tho.
If Baldcunt was an honest man, he'd have told Ange we'd be on simmer, building up a new youth project, mindful of wage spend.
You're projecting your perceptions here now. If you honestly think that the entire club is not aligned in their thinking now, then further discussion on that topic is pointless.
Fans would have bought into it and calibrated accordingly.
On that we'll have to disagree. You only need take this forum as a microcosm of the overall fan base, and see that there are those who will never be satisfied with calibrating accordingly. They want it all and they want it NOW.
Instead, Ange comes out full of it (likely pumped full of baldcunt lies) talking like we're on a rolling boil and he's gonna do a Celtic with us.
Again, your perception. He intends to win things, but he's been consistent in saying that it takes time. The first part of being a winner is believing that you'll be a winner.
Fans minds are set to success and then we expect. Naturally.
But your timeframe isn't necessarily theirs. You've extrapolated what you want to believe and set your expectations accordingly. He expects to be challenging, you interpret that as winning. Show me one quote he's made where he's said he
expects to win the title this season.
Many expected the problems of last season, that would prevent us from having the success Ange has been talking about, would be properly addressed.
Again, we're only 2 games in, both of which we dominated. It's far too early to categorically state that we haven't addressed those problems.
Also, spurs fans, in general, have been amazingly patient without full-on rioting, after not winning anything for so long.
Agreed, some of us for a lot longer than others, and after having seen FAR worse.
We were all on-board with Poch's youth rebuild and it was clear, up front, what the project was.
And we all enjoyed that road to us being a very good team (apart from the last 2 years).
Being over THE (eternal) JOURNEY and putting focus on actually WINNING something is not some sort of deficiency.
At what point did I suggest it was a deficiency? That sounds more like you projecting insecurities. You think that because I enjoy the journey that I'm not bothered about the glory at the end of that road? It's the icing.
What are we doing???
Levy said we're building the stadium - with all the price rises that go with it - to take the club to the top echelon.
Now he's having wage-save windows???
Really, I have no idea what's happened to football fandom, generally.
It's not just this club tbf.
But I just can't relate to it.
It's a reset after a number of years of neglect. I posted a while ago that I felt that Levy took his eye off the ball and trusted the wrong people to manage the Football side, whilst he focused on getting the stadium build done. Now we're building a foundation which I believe is designed to ensure we don't suffer the same deterioration we saw under Poch. We built a side then with zero focus on longevity. I believe we've learnt from that and are building the foundation that we didn't have before.
It seems evident to me that you don't relate because you can't, or possibly won't, see the plan. It seems crystal clear to me. We've cleared out the surplus players, we've brought in young, hungry talent that want to play for us.
You'll read on here about how Woolwich have shown ambition by shelling out hundreds of millions on the likes of Rice, but what you don't read from those posters is how the filth cleared out their surplus players first, then brought in young, hungry players to replace them. Only after they'd integrated them with their young, hungry academy players, did they then shell out for the likes of Rice. Sound familiar?
Back to my analogy, they baked the cake then iced it.
You may not see it now, but the wage reduction will be a good thing going forward. It enables us to reward excellence in renewed contracts and wage increases for those who do excel. It also enables us to pay the wages for those players deemed as the "icing" when we're in a position to attract them.
You're an intelligent bloke thinky. You'll still have your doubts I'm sure, but I think you have enough about you to at least ruminate on what I've posted and question your own assertions. There are more than enough on here who refuse to see any point of view but their own, don't be one of them.
Lastly, I'll ask you again. How old were you when you began supporting Spurs, and was it our trophies that were your focus?
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