Typical. Highlight reel makes player look better than he actually is
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Good luck at Angers, mateWasn’t brilliant, but better than what expected. 6.5/10
I actually feel so liberated now we've got Ndombele, Lo Celso and Dele off the books, it's like we've been given a new lease of life, nothing worse than something or someone dragging you down that you can't get rid of, reckon this will give the manager and the players a big boost.
Well done for admitting it in the very first line. Lots refuse to admit there love of him despite the evidence.He has fans who love him, because he took us from mediocrity and debt in 2001 and steadily improved our financial muscle so we can become a top club. We've been in the CL 5 times in the past 12 years and in the EL the rest. Clubs similar to us like Everton, Villa, Spam, Newcastle are still mired in mediocrity.
Have we done equally as well on the footballing front? No. But we're in a position now to do well, exactly because we have the financial muscle. There will be missteps along the way, but it's an upward trajectory. This shit doesn't happen overnight. It takes time. That's why some fans love him. Then there's the short-sighted bunch who would rather bankrupt the club to win a fucking FA cup. To them he's anathema. And when we start winning stuff, they'll probably also say it's in spite of Levy, completely ignoring the fact that it was his 20+ years in charge that put us in that position.
In my opinion, he's the best chairman we could have. He's not perfect and he fucks things up, but name me one other chairman over the past 20+ years that has done for his team as much as he has done for Spurs.
I think we will just say the same thing “no more excuses” if what you says happens again. Rather than “that’s it, time to go”I don't think we'd ever have cleared so many out of the squad, never had a full season of new stadium and never gone into pre season with Conte.
If the same shit happens with all of those factors in play, there needs to be more than half a dozen plebs at the training ground protesting.
Outstanding for France? He’s had 7 caps since 2018What a waste of fucking talent though from those players. Still amazing to think of.
1 Dele was rated as a £80-100m during peak Pochettino years
2 Ndombele was in the French and Champions League team of the season, outstanding for Lyon and France
3 Lo Celso doing great for Real Betis
I don’t care who you are but 2-3 year ago you would never have thought all 3 would fail. Sod’s law.
Wasn’t brilliant, but better than what expected. 6.5/10
So true. They will just keep making excuses for him no matter how many more bad mistakes he makes that costs us. They love the guy.Many blamed Rednapp, many Blamed Poch, many blamed Jose, many Blamed Nuno and many will blame Conté.
Stockholm syndrome. People feel sorry for Levy because Liverpool stole Diaz and Barca stole Traore. He is such a Great Chairman. He hired Conté. He showed us he really Loves us. Nuno over sold his CV to poor Levy. José publicly humiliates Levy. Poch was ungrateful and started to challenge him. Poor Levy. He built a stadium for us and then COVID came along......
Poor Levy he really cares about TFC
But Tanguy and Celso will be back in july and we will have to hope they have done well enough for someone to bid for them. It may be that we take 25m for each . We are not getting anywhere near 50 for T@nguy.I actually feel so liberated now we've got Ndombele, Lo Celso and Dele off the books, it's like we've been given a new lease of life, nothing worse than something or someone dragging you down that you can't get rid of, reckon this will give the manager and the players a big boost.
Outstanding for France? He’s had 7 caps since 2018
Well he’s barely been in the squad since so to say he was outstanding is probably an exaggerationYes and played well in those games well, at least the 2-3 I saw.
Report I read on the BBC last week said we had offered £38m with £10-15m in add on's, Liverpool offered £37.5m with £15m in add on's but they also had to give and £8m inital payment to make it work.Liverpool offered more. That's the crux of the matter.
I agree they have a slightly different approach. Both need players who will die for the cause. Both need specific players that are able to play counter attacking football.
Can't say one is better than the other. One is slightly more pleasing to watch.
I think we will just say the same thing “no more excuses” if what you says happens again. Rather than “that’s it, time to go”
Well he’s barely been in the squad since so to say he was outstanding is probably an exaggeration
I actually feel so liberated now we've got Ndombele, Lo Celso and Dele off the books, it's like we've been given a new lease of life, nothing worse than something or someone dragging you down that you can't get rid of, reckon this will give the manager and the players a big boost.
This was my problem with Diaz is it was not that I did not want him I did but it felt like there was no planning when it came to targeting him. Even in the summer transfer window there seemed to be very little planning when it came to a lot of the signings. With Emerson I felt like Paratici went to Barcelona to sign a player any player it did not matter who that was why we tried to sign Illax Moriba first.Yea, I think that for the team morale it is positive shift.
But would have really preferred if we would have got more promising alternatives in as well.
This Bentacur+Kulusevski deal felt very much like shopping in the outlet store when current selection has been out for days already. It's not that we scouted, analyzed and chose those players as our first picks. Its more that they were offered and available and we took them from very willing seller for terms that is more benefitial for seller rather than the buyer.
And this has been the story with Spurs transfers for a long long time. No proactive planning. Not going after priority players. Negotiating to very max level for every player, regardless of their importance and value. Not planning for the future.
This was my problem with Diaz is it was not that I did not want him I did but it felt like there was no planning when it came to targeting him. Even in the summer transfer window there seemed to be very little planning when it came to a lot of the signings. With Emerson I felt like Paratici went to Barcelona to sign a player any player it did not matter who that was why we tried to sign Illax Moriba first.
Yea, I think that for the team morale it is positive shift.
But would have really preferred if we would have got more promising alternatives in as well.
This Bentacur+Kulusevski deal felt very much like shopping in the outlet store when current selection has been out for days already. It's not that we scouted, analyzed and chose those players as our first picks. Its more that they were offered and available and we took them from very willing seller for terms that is more benefitial for seller rather than the buyer.
And this has been the story with Spurs transfers for a long long time. No proactive planning. Not going after priority players. Negotiating to very max level for every player, regardless of their importance and value. Not planning for the future.
Yeah our strategy still needs a lot of work, people wanted us just to spend willy nily but I really don't trust the club to buy the right players at the moment, like for example you just know that anyone who is linked or brought by Liverpool, City or Leicester, you just know they're gonna be a hit because they all know what they're doing, with us there's always a question mark this needs to be worked on from now until Summer because it's imperative we sort hsis shit out, it's gone on for far too long.