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Legacy Lilywhite said:
Honestly what is the boardroom doing other than finding ever more lucrative ways to screw our fans? What is there for us - the real club - to get excited about?
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To be fair there could be loads going on with the board, we're just not privvy to.

January transfers can be getting lined up as we speak

Just as they can be sounding out potential new managers as we speak

We won't (and shouldn't) know about either until announcements are made

But of course they could be doing fuck all too, only time will tell
 
postbox said:
To be fair there could be loads going on with the board, we're just not privvy to.

January transfers can be getting lined up as we speak

Just as they can be sounding out potential new managers as we speak

We won't (and shouldn't) know about either until announcements are made

But of course they could be doing fuck all too, only time will tell
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Or they can be discussing more genius ways to generate easy revenue. Sell Romero, add 20 to every pint, make the first team play at Olympic Stadium so they can do more concerts and so on.
 
It really is comical how difficult we make running a club look.

My five point plan for Vinai, presuming we can’t get new owners in.

1. Fire everyone who had anything to do with putting this squad together - Paratici, Lange.
2. ⁠Find a couple of ex-players who are intelligent and have a clear vision for what Spurs should be and add them to the board or senior management. My picks would be Vertonghen and maybe Lloris when he retires.
3. ⁠Decide on the style of play that chimes with the club’s history and resonates with the fans and pick a manager who most embodies it. And have a list of 4 more who embody it should the first one fail.
4. ⁠Sign the players who fit the style of play.
5. ⁠Give the youth players more chances to create a link between the squad and fans.
 
Rebrov_Likes said:
It really is comical how difficult we make running a club look.

My five point plan for Vinai, presuming we can’t get new owners in.

1. Fire everyone who had anything to do with putting this squad together - Paratici, Lange.
2. ⁠Find a couple of ex-players who are intelligent and have a clear vision for what Spurs should be and add them to the board or senior management. My picks would be Vertonghen and maybe Lloris when he retires.
3. ⁠Decide on the style of play that chimes with the club’s history and resonates with the fans and pick a manager who most embodies it. And have a list of 4 more who embody it should the first one fail.
4. ⁠Sign the players who fit the style of play.
5. ⁠Give the youth players more chances to create a link between the squad and fans.
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Fan response:

"wahhhhh the manager doesn't get to pick the players and the board are making too many decisions. We're being cheap by using cheap academy players. We should be signing this other player who is the next big thing even though he doesn't fit the way we play"
 
CJJ said:
Fan response:

"wahhhhh the manager doesn't get to pick the players and the board are making too many decisions. We're being cheap by using cheap academy players. We should be signing this other player who is the next big thing even though he doesn't fit the way we play"
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I donn’t think I’ve ever seen fans complain when youth players are given a chance. And even if they are not top quality like Mason, Townsend, etc, they can start the process of building something.
 
Don Pedro said:
This gooner rat is destroying our club
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Look i'm not wild about having an ex gooner in charge and i'd happily see him bugger off but the club was being destroyed long before he was appointed. What we're seeing now is 7 or 8 years of dreadful appointments and signings. This mess has been on the cards for a long time, its Levys legacy. A team devoid of stars, its just that Kane and Son kept things semi respectable for 4 or 5 seasons.
 
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The club has been on a downward spiral since the CL final.

There doesnt seem any ambiton to build a squad. They usually buy a player or 2. But over the course of a season the squad is usual short in multiple areas and falls short of expectations.

I dont really see that changing unless there is a dramatic shift in the boards ambition to buy top players.
 
PatagoniaPhil said:
The club has been on a downward spiral since the CL final.

There doesnt seem any ambiton to build a squad. They usually buy a player or 2. But over the course of a season the squad is usual short in multiple areas and falls short of expectations.
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That's basically the same thing Liverpool have done since the CL Final.

The main problem since the CL Final was Poch choosing Sessegnon, NDombele, and Lo Celso.

The damage is, in a big part, that we couldn't afford to have 3 expensive unfit passengers that swallowed up a huge chunk of squad space and budget.

IMO Poch should have had the pride to walk away after the CL final, Jose comes in and has £150m to spend and we're all looking at a very different timeline
 
Rebrov_Likes said:
It really is comical how difficult we make running a club look.

My five point plan for Vinai, presuming we can’t get new owners in.

1. Fire everyone who had anything to do with putting this squad together - Paratici, Lange.
2. ⁠Find a couple of ex-players who are intelligent and have a clear vision for what Spurs should be and add them to the board or senior management. My picks would be Vertonghen and maybe Lloris when he retires.
3. ⁠Decide on the style of play that chimes with the club’s history and resonates with the fans and pick a manager who most embodies it. And have a list of 4 more who embody it should the first one fail.
4. ⁠Sign the players who fit the style of play.
5. ⁠Give the youth players more chances to create a link between the squad and fans.
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He would have to fire himself as part of point one which means he can't execute points two to five and quite frankly I wouldn't want him to... he's a useless cunt picking up a big salary and doing fuck all... if he worked anywhere else he would be sacked by the owners.
 
PatagoniaPhil said:
The club has been on a downward spiral since the CL final.

There doesnt seem any ambiton to build a squad. They usually buy a player or 2. But over the course of a season the squad is usual short in multiple areas and falls short of expectations.

I dont really see that changing unless there is a dramatic shift in the boards ambition to buy top players.
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Think you can trace it back to arguably summer 2016, thats when we stopped buying good players. Because of that the squad all got old together and weren't replaced. The 11 years prior to 2016 we were actually really good, in many ways a bigger Brighton the way we played the market. In the last 9 years you can list the successful signings on 1 hand. Add in some monumentally stupid managerial appointments and a poor footballing set up and you have the current mess.
 
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Sir Archibald Crooks said:
Think you can trace it back to arguably summer 2016, thats when we stopped buying good players. Because of that the squad all got old together and weren't replaced. The 11 years prior to 2016 we were actually really good, in many ways a bigger Brighton the way we played the market. In the last 9 years you can list the successful signings on 1 hand. Add in some monumentally stupid managerial appointments and a poor footballing set up and you have the current mess.
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1 hand... you could probably do it on 1 finger...
 
Brian Fantana said:
Or bring David pleat back! 😂

Really, would he have done a worse job than paratici and Lange?
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joking apart he had a very good hit rate with his transfer picks when he was scouting for us. Mainly English lower league, very few duds. The only one that worked out badly was as manager he replaced Hoddle with Metgod which I didnt think would work. Can't see why we didnt buy Micky Hazard back seeing as we'd won the EUFA cup with him.
 
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Brian Fantana said:
Or bring David pleat back! 😂

Really, would he have done a worse job than paratici and Lange?
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I mean having one person with the ear of Levy who actually had some hands-on football knowledge was probably a deep lying factor in the squad that Poch eventually had.

The guy is in his 80s now though. We need to get some young, driven people with actual football and Spurs experience involved in the running of the club. Every huge European club does it - Bayern, Real, Juve, Barca, Ajax.
 
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