well their 6th team is playing england's 5th soon...
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Manager Ange Postecoglou
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I’ll PayPal you a tenner if Betis win that.
Call yourself a Tottenham fan but you can't even spell Christian Eriksen's name you fucking idiot.
It’s a major trophy and its status has improved so much since Champions League qualification was introduced. If people can’t see how much this is going to do for the club they’re delusional. We’ve got a major trophy and a huge boost in funds coming in. We’ve got the opportunity now to make the right decisions and seriously improve our squad.
Maybe it was fucking mistake to “throw” a knockout game against Dortmund and that’s why we’ve been a banter club for all these years
Easy to say now, we were chasing premier league titles then. That’s what genuinely excellent teams have to do, compromise on what competition is important. If we’d fucked off league titles to chase a Europa league I doubt people would have been thrilled.
To us now, the Europa league was our everything and easily the simplest, most likely route to the CL and to save Ange’s job. So of course we prioritised it. Finish top 4 or beat Alkmaar, Frankfurt, Bodo and United .. oh boy I wonder which is tougher to do.
Poch went for the stars .. CL and PL. He fell short but wouldn’t swap that Ajax game, that win over Madrid or those wins over City, Dortmund etc for winning another Europa league. Fuck that shit, we danced with Europe’s actual elite, we came close to being actual champions of Europe. That was worth it.
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"Meaningless" is such a weird take.
I suppose different people find meaning in different ways but I admit I'm struggling with this one.
I mean the thing that needs to be accepted as fact now is that winning the Europa League *is* in fact thrilling, as is winning a domestic cup. The "only PL and CL count" people are just incorrect and always have been.
The specific moment of that Dortmund game when we were hanging on by our fingernails as Little Cinderella Leicester City's only challenger, with the promise of them collapsing always in the air, was a uniquely difficult one, I offer Poch and Levy some grace there.
But the GENERAL PRINCIPLE is that Levy has never, ever provided the resources to make winning the PL or CL a reasonable aim, and so he and his managers' remit to throw their entire limited pool toward those competitions and forget about other trophies we had much more legitimate ambitions of winning was a big mistake and a recipe for exactly the kind of drought we experienced.
I would love for this to be a moment to change the club's way of doing business and make an absolute commitment to being the best team in Europe. But we all know that's not happening, we all know the Levy Handbrake remains firmly on. Under those circumstances the "lesser cups" mean a hell of a lot, as they always have in the club's decorated and glorious history!
I'm a generous soul, what can I say.
But you're right, gotta pick your battles. And that lad is beyond saving.
Maybe when we’ve won the PL and CL like Liverpool we can afford to sack it off,
Maybe now we’ve actually won it, these players have the self belief and know how to contend for the two biggest trophies in European club football.
Maybe we were a banter club under Poch because we tried to run before walking and now we are actually ready to step up.
Either way, this was a huge step for our club and this team.
He’s obviously a troll if you check his posts.Call yourself a Tottenham fan but you can't even spell Christian Eriksen's name you fucking idiot.
We looked stupid when Leve sacked Jol at half time by text so a clear precedent
We also looked stupid when he sacked Jose a couple of days before a cup final
Levy is capable of anything!
You simply can't mention poch and postefraudlou in the same breath...or even the same sentence...
Fuck off.
I speak as someone who thinks Ange ain't all that, but fuck off. Theres been nothing meaningless about the last few days.
So I repeat: fuck off.
I tried my damn hardest, but you were too far gone.Is that what you were trying to do?
Save me?
You still make me laugh and I kinda love you for it.
By the end of the bank holiday weekend your gonna be gone me thinks!
yea thats the case today, even tho the big teams in england show it no respect at all, they play backup keepers and all sorts in it. but the cup itself has big history and prestige. the likes of celtic and rangers would consider winning the europa as a better achievement than winning their league, as would many leagues around europe.