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- Sherwood wasn’t our worst manager and actually did a very good job in the context of a temp manager after the AVB mess. He just rubbed people up the wrong way and wasn’t the long term option even though he thought should be.

- I’d rather Kane leave and Spurs play a modern attacking style of football than Kane stay and we persisted with the bullshit of the last 4-5 seasons.

- I don’t miss the old ground that much, its shit toilets and Chelsea coloured seats. Most of the problems with the new ground is the shit football that has been played in it combined with stupid ticket price rises. New ground is the best football ground in Europe maybe the world, we should be proud of it.

- our transfer windows of the past 2-3 seasons haven’t been that bad. They are the windows of a club refreshing a good squad, trouble is our squad wasn't particularly good. We lacked a big bang transfer window to fix the 2-3 years around Poch when we did fuck all. That is what we are still paying for. 2-3 years of poor investment and stupid decisions.

- Paratici getting banned was great for the club, he came in fixed us up with some good players then fucked off before he could choose a terribly unsuitable manager like Luis Enrique instead of Ange.
 
My unpopular opinion is that Davinson Sanchez is underrated.

Sure he’s hopeless in a low block as he’s not that organised, but as the last defender on the half-way line in a high press, and he’s a different player.
 
Billy Bob said:
At the time, Levy was right to accept the invite to the European Super League.

Its only hindsight that makes it a terrible decision.
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I mean, something like the ESL has been what Levy has spent his whole tenure (very successfully) ensuring Spurs' suitability for, so I understand where you're coming from.

But there are two problems

1. The Super League is disgusting and awful and its proponents ought to be ashamed of themselves, potential financial success though it may be. As a Tottenham fan I would rather be left behind, and would prefer to support a phoenix club which remained in the English pyramid over Franchise Spurs.

2. All of the ESL conspirators should have known that their plan was doomed to failure. Maybe Levy most of all, as he was the only Englishman in the group, best positioned to understand the way cultural forces would align against this thing. Those 12 clubs was just too small of a rebel alliance to possibly succeed.

I want Levy out, but I am under no illusions whatsoever that Levy's successor wouldn't make exactly the same decision in that scenario. It wasn't some blunder unique to him. But I don't agree that it was the right decision either morally or tactically.
 
I was unexcited when we signed Richarlison. A couple innocuous posts at the time received a lot of disagrees.

“Can’t get excited about Richarlison’
‘Show me the highlights compilation’

I’m guessing it’s not such an unpopular opinion anymore.
 
FightingIllini said:
I mean, something like the ESL has been what Levy has spent his whole tenure (very successfully) ensuring Spurs' suitability for, so I understand where you're coming from.
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How so?

I'd have thought ensuring being at the big table for the rest of time would be one of the very few things ENIC would have dipped into their own pockets for if it came to the crunch.......

FightingIllini said:
But there are two problems

1. The Super League is disgusting and awful and its proponents ought to be ashamed of themselves, potential financial success though it may be. As a Tottenham fan I would rather be left behind, and would prefer to support a phoenix club which remained in the English pyramid over Franchise Spurs.

2. All of the ESL conspirators should have known that their plan was doomed to failure. Maybe Levy most of all, as he was the only Englishman in the group, best positioned to understand the way cultural forces would align against this thing. Those 12 clubs was just too small of a rebel alliance to possibly succeed.

I want Levy out, but I am under no illusions whatsoever that Levy's successor wouldn't make exactly the same decision in that scenario. It wasn't some blunder unique to him. But I don't agree that it was the right decision either morally or tactically.
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Sooner or later fans would have resented the day that the drawbridge was drawn up and we hadn't accept our invite to dwell in side the castle.......

Maybe some old school fans would have relished the idea of winning a 'best of the rest UK' league, but even then a lot would have had second thoughts once it sunk in we'd never play an elite team ever again.

(To re-re-confirm. I am anti-Super League.)
 
Paul Robinson was in dreadful form before the Gary Neville own goal for England. I always felt he didn’t deserve the criticism he got for that goal, he was unlucky but his overall form around then was rubbish. I felt Cerny was unlucky to lose his place to Robinson after his spell in goal.
 
Airfixx said:
How so?

I'd have thought ensuring being at the big table for the rest of time would be one of the very few things ENIC would have dipped into their own pockets for if it came to the crunch.......
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Not sure what you're saying here.

But like, Levy's mission has been to make Spurs among the business and revenue elite, global megabrand, that sort of thing. That being the kind of operation suited to something like the ESL. I think we're all in agreement on that even where we view the project differently.

Airfixx said:
Sooner or later fans would have resented the day that the drawbridge was drawn up and we hadn't accept our invite to dwell in side the castle.......

Maybe some old school fans would have relished the idea of winning a 'best of the rest UK' league, but even then a lot would have had second thoughts once it sunk in we'd never play an elite team ever again.

(To re-re-confirm. I am anti-Super League.)
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Oh yeah it's a sad outcome in any event, nothing would ever be the same and both sides of the divide would live to regret it.

And I wouldn't even blame fans decrying a decision to say on the English pyramid side of the wall. There are differing views in this space.

But faced with a horrible choice, in my view that would have been the righteous one.

And in the ESL project as it actually existed, a clearly doomed venture sure to make villains of its proponents, turning it down would have been rare PR coup by Levy if he had that foresight. Alas.
 
I really thought Conte would adapt to managing a team from a club that doesn't spend as much as those that he has managed in the past. His first season felt like that would be the case, but turned out he is a complete fraud and cannot adapt.

I'm also secretly hoping that Tanguy will get his shit together and we'll see his talent in an Ange team.
 
Get in! said:
I really thought Conte would adapt to managing a team from a club that doesn't spend as much as those that he has managed in the past. His first season felt like that would be the case, but turned out he is a complete fraud and cannot adapt.

I'm also secretly hoping that Tanguy will get his shit together and we'll see his talent in an Ange team.
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The multi time league winning coach who joins the long list of managers who got exasperated at his job at Spurs is obviously not a fraud, just not a good fit for this team.

Is that unpopular? Probably. Conte is a good coach. I think he mostly showed that at Spurs until he threw a wobbly - achieving 4th from where we were was an INCREDIBLE achievement.

The football his teams play isn't what I like and he's not very likeable when it's going wrong, but the 'fraud' claims are just rubbish.
 
Raumdeuterz said:
The multi time league winning coach who joins the long list of managers who got exasperated at his job at Spurs is obviously not a fraud, just not a good fit for this team.

Is that unpopular? Probably. Conte is a good coach. I think he mostly showed that at Spurs until he threw a wobbly - achieving 4th from where we were was an INCREDIBLE achievement.

The football his teams play isn't what I like and he's not very likeable when it's going wrong, but the 'fraud' claims are just rubbish.
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He's a fraud. Any manager who needs to buy ready-made star players for every position, in order to win something, and who can't manage more than one game a week, but touts himself as an elite manager too good to manage a team like Spurs, is a fraud. I have some respect for Jose, but non for Conte.
 
Paul Gascoigne said:
The Luka Modric joke ?
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