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AberdeenYid said:
Couple of things here:

If Levy has taken his eye off the main reason, isn’t that because he’s taken on Lange and Munn? And didn’t almost everyone on here not want Levy involved in the football side? Thought that’d be a positive?

What profits? Didn’t we lose £87m last year?

Not sure I’d class us as style, but there’s certainly something holding us back from taking the next step. Just don’t know what it is, but willing to roll the dice on replacing anything associated with the club to get us sparking.

You mention paying top end prices as a source of frustration. I think this is the crux of the matter, certainly on here. It’s the most often used stick to batter the owners with anyway. But weirdly not something I hear much of when I’m at the ground itself. Would fans be happier if we reduced ticket prices by a tenner and still served up the same inconsistent performances?
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You could ask the question if he has taken a step back from football , which I doubt , I’m sure he has the final say but if he has then why is he the highest paid chairman in football ?
 
Furball man said:
You could ask the question if he has taken a step back from football , which I doubt , I’m sure he has the final say but if he has then why is he the highest paid chairman in football ?
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It has been some time since other clubs have complained about Levy’s haggling in transfers and for negotiations to fall through. I think that shows he has taken a step back. I agree he should not be the highest paid Chairman as we have not been successful as a team and actually made a loss last year.
 
This Stavely business is so interesting .I remember years back some poster genuinely knew how business finance worked and used to put up pertinent facts and figures.My take as a non finance person is that articles have been saying for years that whatever happens with the club Levy wants to stay on as CEO but isn't he a minor shareholder compared to his boss so hopefully he will just sell up and take the massive profit
 
harry7 said:
We've scored the 3rd most goals in the EPL this season. More than Liverpool, Woolwich. Only City and Chelsea have scored more than us.

Only City, Forest and Liverpool have conceded less goals than us.


So, our defense is good. Our attack is good......But our results are bad. This dismal Palace performance aside, we are not too far off hitting our stride. Players need to step up and take action.
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This is largely impacted by the fact that when we're feeling up to it we've battered some clubs. Everton, United, and Spam. One of those opposition managers has been sacked, and it would surprise literally no one if the other 2 are on the street in January.

But in matches decided by 1 goal or fewer we have zero wins and only 1 draw. We cannot win tight matches, which tracks with Spurs' mental fragility across many managers for years. When we need to win a match, you can count on us not doing so.

I don't have the stats at hand, but I suspect we are below average across the past decade in matches decided by a single goal or less. This is the reason we've bottled so many cup runs (1/14 in terms of trophies from SFs played), lost the league twice, and often come up short in the race for top 4.

It's what Mourinho and Conte were specifically hired to fix, failed, and ultimately both left very aggrieved at that fact. We have a fairweather squad, and have for some time. We've got no bollocks when things get tough, which is why we lost in Madrid from the moment the penalty was awarded.

The only times I've seen us really fight back in big matches recently were the Ajax and City comebacks, and those were both Moura magic. Who we subsequently fucked off.
 
harry7 said:
We've scored the 3rd most goals in the EPL this season. More than Liverpool, Woolwich. Only City and Chelsea have scored more than us.

Only City, Forest and Liverpool have conceded less goals than us.


So, our defense is good. Our attack is good......But our results are bad. This dismal Palace performance aside, we are not too far off hitting our stride. Players need to step up and take action.
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Mate, wrong week for this. Us happy clappers had the forum last week. This week it's for those who truly come alive when we lose.
 
skywalker68 said:
No wonder ange is moody, couldn't get the players he wanted, and ended with an average team and shit performance levels.
Sounds like great planning from the recruitment team.
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It was obvious in the summer what a spectacular failure our window had been. It was an absolute joke. Strongly linked with Neto, Eze, Gallagher and end up with Odobert, Gray, Solanke, and Werner on loan. Yet again though, those of us who called a spade a spade were shouted down as moaners and negative.

It's always the same old story, some people don't want to accept it because accepting it means admitting that the club they love is run by a fucking parasite who doesn't really want to compete for the top honours and is happy signing cheap punts instead of signing top players to achieve success.

I get it, i really do. But they shouldn't then shout those of us down who are realists and call it for what it is.

Anyone who thought the summer window was anything but a disgrace is quite simply deluded. You don't even need to be knowledgable about football to know that signing two teenagers and Solanke / Werner was shambolic and utterly lacking in ambition.

Some people were even putting Gray and Bergvall in our strongest 11 back in July thinking that would take us to top 4. I said they were at least a few seasons away from contributing if they ever make it, but people didn't want to hear it.

I said Ange wasn't backed in the slightest but was told of course Ange's grand plan in May was to sign two teengers.

I think Ange is out of his depth but there isn't a single part of me which doesn't think he's also been thrown under the bus by the club. He should be doing better than he is, but I knew when the window closed that the tiny chance Ange had of succeeding here, was finished.

Can you imagine Conte or Jose putting up with that as a window? Or any elite manager?
 
Aphex said:
It was obvious in the summer what a spectacular failure our window had been. It was an absolute joke. Strongly linked with Neto, Eze, Gallagher and end up with Odobert, Gray, Solanke, and Werner on loan. Yet again though, those of us who called a spade a spade were shouted down as moaners and negative.

It's always the same old story, some people don't want to accept it because accepting it means admitting that the club they love is run by a fucking parasite who doesn't really want to compete for the top honours and is happy signing cheap punts instead of signing top players to achieve success.

I get it, i really do. But they shouldn't then shout those of us down who are realists and call it for what it is.

Anyone who thought the summer window was anything but a disgrace is quite simply deluded. You don't even need to be knowledgable about football to know that signing two teenagers and Solanke / Werner was shambolic and utterly lacking in ambition.

Some people were even putting Gray and Bergvall in our strongest 11 back in July thinking that would take us to top 4. I said they were at least a few seasons away from contributing if they ever make it, but people didn't want to hear it.

I said Ange wasn't backed in the slightest but was told of course Ange's grand plan in May was to sign two teengers.

I think Ange is out of his depth but there isn't a single part of me which doesn't think he's also been thrown under the bus by the club. He should be doing better than he is, but I knew when the window closed that the tiny chance Ange had of succeeding here, was finished.

Can you imagine Conte or Jose putting up with that as a window? Or any elite manager?
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Absolutely stunning post

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Aphex said:
It was obvious in the summer what a spectacular failure our window had been. It was an absolute joke. Strongly linked with Neto, Eze, Gallagher and end up with Odobert, Gray, Solanke, and Werner on loan. Yet again though, those of us who called a spade a spade were shouted down as moaners and negative.

It's always the same old story, some people don't want to accept it because accepting it means admitting that the club they love is run by a fucking parasite who doesn't really want to compete for the top honours and is happy signing cheap punts instead of signing top players to achieve success.

I get it, i really do. But they shouldn't then shout those of us down who are realists and call it for what it is.

Anyone who thought the summer window was anything but a disgrace is quite simply deluded. You don't even need to be knowledgable about football to know that signing two teenagers and Solanke / Werner was shambolic and utterly lacking in ambition.

Some people were even putting Gray and Bergvall in our strongest 11 back in July thinking that would take us to top 4. I said they were at least a few seasons away from contributing if they ever make it, but people didn't want to hear it.

I said Ange wasn't backed in the slightest but was told of course Ange's grand plan in May was to sign two teengers.

I think Ange is out of his depth but there isn't a single part of me which doesn't think he's also been thrown under the bus by the club. He should be doing better than he is, but I knew when the window closed that the tiny chance Ange had of succeeding here, was finished.

Can you imagine Conte or Jose putting up with that as a window? Or any elite manager?
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Yes mate agree with all of it, your spot on many of us did question the signings.
Apparently we didn't want neto because of injuries, I bet ange would have preferred him to the Burnley lad.
And yes some of this is on ange as well, but he must have known about levy and his antics.
Do you think that, the first 10 games of last season caught teams out.
But once they worked out anges one dimensional football, the results were harder to come by obviously injuries didn't help.
The back end of that season has purged into this one, team looks so average as does he.
Real shame but, I don't see him being here when the season ends.
 
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