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Management Relegation

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Do you think we'll stay up?

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    Votes: 184 40.1%

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    Votes: 275 59.9%
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Tottenham Massive said:
If it was any other Big 6 club I'm pretty sure they'd be enjoying it even more.

But the end of the day, this is a scenario playing out that's never been seen anywhere in football before. So we've obviously become the car crash that everyone is slowing down to gawk at out of sheer disbelief or morbid curiosity.

One of the 10 wealthiest clubs in Europe on the brink of relegation not through sanctions, points deduction, financial irregularities etc but through simple, outright neglection of the football team while banking up 100s of millions in unspent PSR reserves.

It's a blatant act of self sabotage.
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It's not self sabotage. It's greed.

The irony is that through pure greed they have failed to realise they would be able to make more money by investing in the basic currency of a sports team which is the on field performance.
 
harrykane10 said:
And we also failed to build a team around certain players like for example kane or Gareth Bale
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We did build teams around them (very good ones). The only problem is that they didn't win anything and players got sold off as soon as the teams built momentum. The habit of selling key players is a very slippery slope because other players start to question the ambition of the club and get the same idea.

We responded to the brilliant 11/12 campaign by sacking Redknapp and selling Modric and van der Vaart. This sent the message to Bale that we were weakening the squad instead of strengthening it. We might have signed Lloris and Vertonghen in that summer but you can't build squad depth by giving with one hand and taking with the other. The next summer Bale was off to Real Madrid because we showed him that we wouldn't match his ambition.

And when we finished 2nd in 16/17, instead of strengthening the squad for a title challenge we wasted money on crap and sold Kyle Walker to a title rival. Who needs the best RB in the Premier League when you can get Serge Aurier for £23m?

And so the watering down of our playing squad continued. We didn't back Poch. We didn't back Conte. We didn't back Ange. And we are where we are.
 
After a few weeks of absence, the Mrs and I visited the local last night, and as a known Spurs ST holder, the amount of grief I received was unbelievable. The overblown media obsession with us has emboldened fans from pretty much every club in the country to feel that us, as Spurs supporters are fair game for ridicule. Do the clowns running this circus not realise that without THFC, the golden egg that is the Tottenham Hotspur stadium wouldn't exist? FFS!
 
Kid Chameleon said:
We did build teams around them (very good ones). The only problem is that they didn't win anything and players got sold off as soon as the teams built momentum. The habit of selling key players is a very slippery slope because other players start to question the ambition of the club and get the same idea.

We responded to the brilliant 11/12 campaign by sacking Redknapp and selling Modric and van der Vaart. This sent the message to Bale that we were weakening the squad instead of strengthening it. We might have signed Lloris and Vertonghen in that summer but you can't build squad depth by giving with one hand and taking with the other. The next summer Bale was off to Real Madrid because we showed him that we wouldn't match his ambition.

And when we finished 2nd in 16/17, instead of strengthening the squad for a title challenge we wasted money on crap and sold Kyle Walker to a title rival. Who needs the best RB in the Premier League when you can get Serge Aurier for £23m?

And so the watering down of our playing squad continued. We didn't back Poch. We didn't back Conte. We didn't back Ange. And we are where we are.
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The chickens have well and truly come home to roost.
 
Kid Chameleon said:
We did build teams around them (very good ones). The only problem is that they didn't win anything and players got sold off as soon as the teams built momentum. The habit of selling key players is a very slippery slope because other players start to question the ambition of the club and get the same idea.

We responded to the brilliant 11/12 campaign by sacking Redknapp and selling Modric and van der Vaart. This sent the message to Bale that we were weakening the squad instead of strengthening it. We might have signed Lloris and Vertonghen in that summer but you can't build squad depth by giving with one hand and taking with the other. The next summer Bale was off to Real Madrid because we showed him that we wouldn't match his ambition.

And when we finished 2nd in 16/17, instead of strengthening the squad for a title challenge we wasted money on crap and sold Kyle Walker to a title rival. Who needs the best RB in the Premier League when you can get Serge Aurier for £23m?

And so the watering down of our playing squad continued. We didn't back Poch. We didn't back Conte. We didn't back Ange. And we are where we are.
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We only sold players because they wanted to leave - and they only wanted to leave because we aren’t a serious football club, and show no ambition to achieve anything.


Sooner Lewis dies, the better. Levy too.

Horrible little bastards
 
harry7 said:
Lol. If the wage bill was 550m that would be an average salary of 350k a week per player.
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No - I meant 40% of 550M. Our wages to revenue % ratio is well talked about…. That would put it around £220M, and yes I think we can take £100M off that

Apparently the last financial year will show bumper revenue numbers so that % should be even lower
 
Teach said:
No - I meant 40% of 550M. Our wages to revenue % ratio is well talked about…. That would put it around £220M, and yes I think we can take £100M off that

Apparently the last financial year will show bumper revenue numbers so that % should be even lower
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The forecast for last financial year is a 30-45 million loss due to spending in the transfer market.
 
The players for the most part are utter cunts, have zero respect for any of them bar a couple of youngsters who show some spirit.
That athletic article saying one of them says they aren't concerned etc - how in the name of fuck can a professional footballer think that let alone say it to anyone? They should be sacked immediately and never wear our shirt again. Over paid prima dona cunts.
 
Next season suspect if we are down it will be something like the below

Youngsters: Gray, Bergvall, Moore, Lankshear, Vuskovic, Souza, Philips, Byfield, Odobert, Donley, Scarlett with others like Williams-Barnett on loan maybe. Vuskovic can’t see the £100m or so we will want so plays or stays in Germany.

Seniors: Maddison, Kulusevski, Solanke, Davies new contract, Danso, Sarr, Solomon. Most of the rest sold, mare we keep Gallagher and Xavi if Poch comes back as he was close to them. I also doubt clubs will take big risks on high wage injury prone players like Maddison.

I think Poch will be back barring Real or Man United coming in for him.

I suspect the below sort of team.

Kinsky
New RB Vuskovic Danso Souza
Gray Bergvall
New RW Maddison Moore
Solanke
 
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