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Management Relegation

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Do you think we'll stay up?

  • Yes

    Votes: 184 40.1%
  • No

    Votes: 275 59.9%

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It looks bleak but if we win on Saturday then we’re out of the relegation zone as West Ham don’t play until the Monday - only a win away at Palace would get them back out of it.

Saturday is the last last chance, it’s shit or bust time
 
It looks bleak but if we win on Saturday then we’re out of the relegation zone as West Ham don’t play until the Monday - only a win away at Palace would get them back out of it.

Saturday is the last last chance, it’s shit or bust time

It's not.

If any one of Leeds, Forest and West Ham lose too then Spurs stay in touching distance.

Spurs need to out perform one of the above in the remaining games.

It is still possible for Spurs to get out of this until it isn't.

It appears to be more and more unlikely as each game goes by and Spurs fail to win.

Keep Vicario, Romero and Porro away from the starting 11 and we still have a chance.

In my opinion.
 
We are not getting 9 points out of 6 games, that’s absolute loony talk. At best we draw with Wolves and lose the rest. Our team is completely dead, we have no quality and the players don’t have the bollocks to fight their way out of it. Everyone at the club has already accepted it.
Not having bollox is a ruse - primary issue is the players are shit

GK crap, midfield can’t control a ball or create, not a single wide forward in the squad and the forwards are shit and don’t score goals
 
Agreed. I'm not wasting any more time worrying about it. Some will call it pessimism but I've accepted we're down for ages now. We're a truly awful team and can't even compete with the likes of Leeds and Forest. Fuck it, bring on next season.
I think it’s more realism than pessimism.

If you were a neutral looking on at the situation, you’d have to say we look the most deserving of going down and the least likely to have the mettle to turn it around.
 
I think this is the moment, I mean since yesterday, when I've truly, finally, accepted that we're going down. I realize there's still a chance we don't, but for me, now, that would be an unexpected delight. I've internalized we're going down and that wasn't the case before yesterday. It didn't seem real before.
Last season we had our best day in over 40 years it'll be a very long time before we experience anything like it again. Just be grateful we were part of the experience. I don't know how we won that night but we did. It was a fluke just like Leicester winning the league. Absolutely heartbreaking that this magnificent club was allowed to come to this. So sorry for our loyal and wonderful supporters,been mugged fine style
 
These are the main reasons we will be relegated:

1. Vinai and Lange thinking Son could be sold without a replacement and Odobert and Tel would match his output.
2. Vinai and Lange thinking Xavi, who has never played in the PL, could match the combined output of the injured Deki and Maddison.
3. Vinai and Lange thinking we didn’t need to sign a wide player after selling Johnson and Kudus getting injured.

Beyond any issues with the managers, the poor mentality in the club, etc, it’s the decisions in the market this year that will relegate us. With a couple more attackers we’d be irrelevant but SAFE in lower mid table.
 
We are not getting 9 points out of 6 games, that’s absolute loony talk. At best we draw with Wolves and lose the rest. Our team is completely dead, we have no quality and the players don’t have the bollocks to fight their way out of it. Everyone at the club has already accepted it.
You’re probably right, but by some miracle a win on Saturday and it could kick start something.

We can but hope! 🙏🏻
 
Possibly but they are now gambling on coming back up quickly, they don’t and they will have to pump lots of cash or risk losing even more money as the value of the club declines. So it’s either

- Invest a few hundred million and get back quick
- Sell at a discount (I don’t think it would be as much as you would think as a lot of our value is our name, fanbase size, stadium, events and land to redevelop)
- Austerity but risk losing even more than the above two options if we get stuck down in the Championship for a while although they might get clever at mitigating costs.
As I said. Eating the cost of being in the championship for a year or two far outweighs taking a multi-billion pound loss. They can make it a few years by selling off first team players to balance the books.

The cost of the club isn't going to plateau past a certain number because of the assets. Bottom end £2bn high end £3.5-4bn. I studied economics at university, taken bottom dollar in the short-term isn't realistic. You can say what if this or that, but the reality is, they're not just going to throw away that kind of money while there's still revenue streams coming in, and the debt is as low impact as it is. The stadium has financed itself, it can operate independently with 0 football. The player payments will be paid off from sales, so it won't be a huge outlay. This is worst case scenario for a sale. If we stay up by a ball hair's width, then they could decide that they don't have the now how to run it and could sell while still getting value close to last year's offers.
 
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