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Like many, I have mixed feelings about the season ahead, but mainly positive. Excited to see how the rebuild progresses and the potential for entertaining, attacking football. Lots of interesting plot lines, around who our strongest team now is and how much the youth get played.
Concerns are about tactical naivety; that the good teams will find us too easy to work out and we'll be stuck playing against endless low blocks and set pieces that we can't handle and that will make us seem boring again. And also Ange's 'Billy big bollocks' act ('I'm so experienced, I know everything about football, nothing surprises me and I have nothing new to learn') is starting to grate. But I still like him!
Overall, I think we're challenging for top 4, not all that bothered where really, as long as the footballs right and we manage to play it with more consistency this season.
We now have better squad depth to go further in the cups. Pre season, I've noticed Ange has mentioned the League cup a few times, so deep down he knows he got that wrong before. Would love to win the Europa, and we might go far with some luck with the draw, but I think the League Cup is actually really on this time.
I'd also hope that at least one of our newer players has a breakthrough this year and makes the rest of the football world sit up and take notice. Spurs have always had players like that.

Overall, time to really put the Kane era behind us and give them all something else to think about.
 
My only expectation is that we let in less than 50 goals in the league (with similar form in the other comps) and score 10-15% more, which should be doable. Where that land us is anyone's guess, but it'll probably be higher up the league table than last season.

As far as cups are concerned, there's also a big element of luck there, so no real expectations for FA and Carabao cups. The EL with its group stage and two-legged knockout ties is a bit more predictable, so expecting us to progress to quarters or semis at a minimum. Beyond that, who knows. There are a few strong teams in it, so it won't be a pushover.
 
I definitely want us to concede a lot less goals ,starting tomorrow night against more than likely a team that will be down near the foot of the table at the end of the season .Would obviously like to win the game but clean sheet would be a nice extra bonus I will gladly settle for a one or two nil win like any other top team would achieve.
 
Expecting city, Woolwich and Liverpool to, possibly occupy the first three spots.
After that, anything between 4-6 would be good, long as, we can reduce the points gap and concede less.
I don't think we will lose, five out of the last seven like last year, so that should cut the gap a bit.
 

What aggressive new approach to youth recruitment tells us about Spurs​

Archie Gray joins the likes of Micky van de Ven and Brennan Johnson in a Spurs’ squad bursting with youth and potential

Daily Telegraph 19/08/24

You can have the player’s word that he wants to join. You can reach an agreement on the transfer fee with his club. You can put him through a medical examination. You can even house him in a plush hotel overnight, ahead of the final details of his move being completed the following day.

You can do all this with efficiency and precision, and you can go to bed happy that the deal is tantalisingly close to being done. But as every football executive knows, you cannot be truly certain the player is yours until he has signed his name on that precious piece of paper. Until that critical moment, the dreaded “hijacking” is always a lurking possibility.

It is the scenario that every club fears and, for Brentford, their pursuit of Leeds United midfielder Archie Gray was another reminder of how quickly these situations can change in the transfer window.

Everything was in place for Gray to join Brentford earlier this summer. The player had been convinced, the £40 million deal had been agreed, the medical had been passed. And then, just as it was about to be done, the teenager was gone. To another part of the city, and another club. In those final hours, Tottenham Hotspur had snatched him away.

“As soon as I heard Tottenham were coming in, I was like ‘I need to go there,’” Gray told Football London after his move. “It’s a huge club and my dad said that, too. He came to my room one morning and said: ‘Look, you’ve got to go to Spurs.’”

Those with knowledge of the deal suspect there were additional factors at play. Spurs are understood to have offered a more favourable payment structure, for example. There is also a sense that it was more palatable to Leeds for Gray – a fan favourite, with strong family ties to the club – to be sold to a team the size of Spurs, rather than to Brentford. It is relevant, too, that Spurs defender Joe Rodon moved the other way.

Whatever the reasons, the end result was a source of significant excitement within the Spurs fanbase and inside the club. Despite only turning 18 in March, Gray made 52 appearances in all competitions for Leeds last season. He is, without question, one of the finest young talents in the country.

In pre-season, Gray demonstrated that he is so much more than a prospect for the future. This is a player for the present, capable of operating in midfield and defence, and he has settled quickly in Ange Postecoglou’s squad.

Even more excitingly for Spurs, who face Leicester City in their season opener on Monday, Gray is not alone. His arrival is part of a wider strategy, now overseen by technical director Johan Lange, which has seen the club move out of one cycle and into the thrilling start of the next.

Since last summer’s transfer window, when Postecoglou was appointed as head coach, the average age of the new signings at Spurs has been younger than 22. This season, alongside Gray, they have added promising Swedish midfielder Lucas Bergvall, who is also 18, and winger Wilson Odobert, 19, who has joined from Burnley.

Spurs are betting on young talent. Micky van de Ven (£43 million), Brennan Johnson (£47.5 million) and Radu Dragusin (£25 million) all arrived in the last year, aged 22 or younger. There are others to come: Croatian defender Luka Vuskovic, 17, joins the club next year, as does South Korean forward Yang Min-Hyeok, 18.

This is not to say they are prioritising the future over the present, though. Dominic Solanke’s arrival, for £65 million, is evidence that Spurs want to win as soon as possible.

Lange, who moved to Spurs from Aston Villa in November last year, has played a significant role in the past two windows, but Postecoglou has been just as important, if not more. Last year was a time of enormous change at the club — managing director of football Fabio Paratici left, as did performance director Gretar Steinsson and chief scout Leonardo Gabbanini — and Postecoglou helped to stabilise the situation.

On a basic level, Postecoglou enjoys working with young players. Youngsters are generally more impressionable and open to ideas, and his style of play requires their huge amounts of energy.

The summer arrivals of Gray, Odobert and Bergvall, and the emergence of 17-year-old academy sensation Mikey Moore as a genuine first-team option, have strengthened the sense that something fun is stirring at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Many of the old guard — Harry Kane, Eric Dier, Harry Winks, Lucas Moura, Hugo Lloris, Davinson Sanchez — have left in the past year, and now a fresh set of players are looking to make their mark.

Mid-August is a time of optimism at almost every club, of course. Everyone dreams big at this time of year. But at Spurs, the feeling of excitement is not just for the coming season, but also for what might be possible over the next few campaigns. If last season marked the stirrings of a new era, then this season could be the year it truly begins.
 
For the first season in a very long time I'm quite looking forward to how we will develop as a group. I really like the current philosophy of recruitment i.e. young up and coming talent rather than over priced/hyped so called established players and I'm not giving the little bald (he can do one) fella a get out of jail card, I still want us to finish high up in the league and go all out for the cups.....oh and I also couldn't give a feck if we sign anyone called Marky.
 
We should prioritise beyond anything to win that Europa league.
It ticks all the boxes, a cup, ( a prestigious one) , gets you into champions league. It is also winnable.
If Aston villa were in it ( with the emery fac) they are probably favourites for it.
 
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It's called being realistic. Baby steps. We're not going to be title contenders after one season and with so much change in the squad.
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Of course we’re not, I don’t think anyone expects that (well besides 34 people as the poll shows lol), but these baby steps are more like newborn baby steps if it makes sense. I suspect a small amount of the fans will be satisfied if we improve the GD metrics but don’t end on a higher note/position in the table or a trophy challenge, at the very minimum.
 
Win some silver.

Play some decent football.

The second wish should hopefully equate to a good points haul and a reasonable league position.

Would I be gutted with a cup and 5th? Absolutely not, feed me it please.
 
I think we'll start slow and have difficulties. We've turned over so much of the list and leadership group and are incredibly young.

Then we'll improve dramatically around December and come roaring home. The issue will be limiting the damage of the early months. Not drop points to Scum and not go out of the League Cup /Europa.
 
Top 10 finish if we are lucky, that's about as good as this squad should get. .. ...villa and west ham are miles ahead of us now, in terms of quality of squad imo...
Season is already a right off....I think I'm starting to not love the so called beautiful game anymore
 
Shadydan Shadydan have you nothing better to do with your time than going back over posts that old. Fucking hell mate touch grass
 
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