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Should Spurs have one captain or a 'Leadership Group'

  • The leadership group is not working; Spurs need a solitary captain.

    Votes: 18 37.5%

  • The leadership group is a great idea but the wrong people are in it.

    Votes: 9 18.8%

  • The leadership group was probably Levy's idea and that is why it is a bucket of shit.

    Votes: 21 43.8%
  • Total voters
    48
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Leadership group WhatsApp.

- "Hi guys!!! Great effort today, you all tried really hard! Next week we'll win, let's stay positive!"

- "Aww thanks dude! You played really well too! Wolves were just on another level :("

- "Ikr! We we a bit unlucky. I think we should do something for the boys tomorrow to perk them up? I might bring in some cupcakes?"

- "OMG cupcakes sound SOOO good! Ange will be happy ;)!!"

- "Apparently Deki picked up a knock and is a doubt for next week."

- "Stop leaking things!! You're going to get us in trouble!!"

Bunch of fucking wet wipes. Zero bottle. Giant pussies the lot of them. There are around five players I'd keep around next season, the rest can fuck off.

I deactivated this account at the start of the season because I knew it was going to be an absolute shitshow and thought I'd save myself the mental anguish of having to talk about it every week.

The silver lining is that this specific brand of pain is surely close to ending. Angeball will be dead and buried by the summer. But let's face it, with Levy at the helm, our suffering will just be a different flavour next season.
 
bk_spur said:
We need to get rid of Son, Romero, and Vic from the 'leadership group'- they are not good leadership material. We have some players that could be good leadership material though: Maddison, Solanke, Van de Ven, Danso, Kulusevski.

We really need a new coach to figure out what the future spine of the team will be. After that is figured out we can determine a captain and leadership based on who is most likely to feature regularly. I personally like the idea of Kulusevski as a captain, but if he isn't going to be first choice at either of his positions, it doesn't make sense to make him captain.

It's sad but it doesn't seem like the club- Levy mainly- is sophisticated enough to create and sustain a genuine culture of developing young talent and being competitive, like Dortmund are, for example. I'd like to see them embark on a genuine rebuild around Kulu as a 10 for example, but that would require identifying and hiring a great coach, keeping them happy, and sustaining a possibly rock first season while the rebuild occurs. Since I think that's beyond Levy, I recommend a more conservative strategy, playing obvious players in their obvious positions, such as Maddison at the 10.

That would give us some undisputed starters next season:

Dom
LW-Maddison-RW
Bergvall-CM
LB-VdV-Danso-RB
GK

Of these you get: Dom, Maddison, Bergvall, VdV, and Danso. There really isn't much of a choice for captain except Maddison or Solanke. We should go ahead and pick Maddison as captain, and make Solanke and VdV his VCs.
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I agree with a lot of your takes on here, but I have to say, for me Maddison would be appalling choice as captain and wouldn’t fix any of the issues that our current “captains” have.
 
bk_spur said:
Solanke then? VdV? I can't really see who else could do it- we are very much short of captain type material.
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Well this is it for me, I don’t think we really have a suitable candidate at all. I almost think we basically need to go out in Summer to buy ourselves a captain.

Solanke, I just don’t know what he’s done that would show him to be a good choice for captain, poor bloke spends the game wandering about hoping someone might give him even a half chance to score.

Maddison, spends more time on his arse than on his feet, whining at the ref and tbh is so flakey and in and out of games, if he dissapears off or has one of his no show performances how can we expect him to lift anyone else?

Romero doesn’t want to be here, Mickey rarely is, Vicario will tell you to keep calm then pass it to the opposition, and Son might be the single worst choice of captain I’ve ever seen in my life - great player, we owe him a lot, but he just doesn’t have a captains bone in his body unfortunately.

The only player that shows something like leadership is Bergvall, but he’s too young and new to the league and just needs to be able to focus on developing himself as a player without trying to lead this shit show.

The club really has got the leadership at the club so, SO wrong.
 
Os22 said:
Well this is it for me, I don’t think we really have a suitable candidate at all. I almost think we basically need to go out in Summer to buy ourselves a captain.

Solanke, I just don’t know what he’s done that would show him to be a good choice for captain, poor bloke spends the game wandering about hoping someone might give him even a half chance to score.

Maddison, spends more time on his arse than on his feet, whining at the ref and tbh is so flakey and in and out of games, if he dissapears off or has one of his no show performances how can we expect him to lift anyone else?

Romero doesn’t want to be here, Mickey rarely is, Vicario will tell you to keep calm then pass it to the opposition, and Son might be the single worst choice of captain I’ve ever seen in my life - great player, we owe him a lot, but he just doesn’t have a captains bone in his body unfortunately.

The only player that shows something like leadership is Bergvall, but he’s too young and new to the league and just needs to be able to focus on developing himself as a player without trying to lead this shit show.

The club really has got the leadership at the club so, SO wrong.
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Well- I agree. Solanke by default because he is a senior player and at least a hard worker and good example. If we can sell Maddison to City then maybe we can make Kulu the captain and install him at the 10.

We really are in a pickle though, as you point out. No really suitable candidates at present.
 
Look at the posts on here when Son was made captain. It was painfully obvious it was the wrong appointment and he had zero attributes to indicate he was a good leader but actually look at the responses at the time ffs.

Yes its all well and good now everyone and their dog were apparently aware it wasn't going to work but at the time the majority were cool with it. Romero being one of the vice captains was also a laughably bad decision but again, look the responses at the time.
 
Hojbjerg continuously getting slated (even when he wasnt even playing ffs) and people getting hardons when a video came out with Ange shouting "pass it forward" at Hojbjerg in a friendly.

We got rid of the only leader that is willing to take accountability and decided the best course of action was replacing him with a kid for 35m who hasn't played in his preferred position the whole season haha...and people rejoiced like it was great business.
 
I think it's hillarous that some of the most loathed players are now genuinely missed for their character as men, as fighters and are indeed sorely missed for their simple spirit. So here is my apology to these three players in particular who however shit didn't hide, fought for the badge and never simply pussied out of anything.

Pierre-Emile Højbjerg Eric Dier Emerson Royal

I AM SO SO SORRY. I NEVER VALUED ENOUGH FOR WHAT YOU DID GIVE, AS OPPOSED TO WHAT COULD NOT DO.


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Shotgunofmichalebrow said:
I think it's hillarous that some of the most loathed players are now genuinely missed for their character as men, as fighters and are indeed sorely missed for their simple spirit. So here is my apology to these three players in particular who however shit didn't hide, fought for the badge and never simply pussied out of anything.

Pierre-Emile Højbjerg Eric Dier Emerson Royal

I AM SO SO SORRY. I NEVER VALUED ENOUGH FOR WHAT YOU DID GIVE, AS OPPOSED TO WHAT COULD NOT DO.


Sorry Home Alone GIF by filmeditor
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I always thought that Hojbjerg and Dier would have made good captains; Royal not really.

No one in the present squad would, although there are some with potential if they hang around long enough (e.g. Gray, VdV, Bergvall). If I had to pick an interim captain at the moment it would have to be Kulu, if only because he seems to actually give a shit.

Vicario? Don't make me laugh; he can't even command his own area, let alone a whole team.

Otherwise they are a sorry bunch leadership-wise.
 
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