We're not really seen as a top 6 side anymore. ENIC have made a decision to spend at the same approximate level as West Ham and clubs like Villa and Newcastle are clearly more ambitious. We've got our Sugar era Tottenham back.
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Liverpool have been missing Allison for chunks and Konate is currently out. They remain comfortably top of the league.
City are having their worst run of form since Pep arrived and are ahead of us.
Woolwich have been mostly lucky but have missed Odegard for a big part of the season and currently have Gabriel out. Comfortably ahead of us.
Injuries happen to everyone. Especially key positions. Of course, there’s no way we are equipped to deal with losses in these positions but they happen.
Fair point.
No right or wrong answer, to be fair. Every kid is different...some will develop more going out on a loan or two, others will benefit more from staying with their parent club even if their gametime will be inferior to what they'd get in the Champo/League One/abroad.
To be honest, I don't mind Mikey or Odobert or Yang or any of the kids sticking around if that's what they & the club think is best for both parties, but no way we should involve more than 2 or 3 (say 4-5 at a push) in the first team regularly...knowing I'm including Archie & Bergvall in that. Let's keep in mind that dudes like Udogie & Brennan are hardly grown men, heck even Kulu is only 24, Radu 22...and we've seen how we've struggled this season & last due to their lack of maturity.
Whatever bs the big fella & his master wanna try & force-feed us, the obvious truth is that we desperately need experienced winners and proper leaders at Spurs, especially if we gonna integrate them kids by the handful. If you look at Barcelona, they always find the right balance...the Gavis and Yamals are always surrounded by the Piques, Busquets, Lewandowskis. But yeah, obviously it helps big time that from the top down, that club (like Bayern, Real, Inter, Juve, City, Pool...) is obsessed about winning on the football pitch and they deliver year in year out. Kids know they don't push themselves and just rely on their talent, they'll be out the door in a jiffy.
Rishi Sunak, Rupert Lowe, your boys took one helluva beating...
Not impossible, Big Sam never is a total no-go with clubs in that sorry position So'ton find themselves in. But I think he's got too much baggage nowadays. Moyes and Southgate, though they too play pragmatic footy, remain a bit sexier.They’d need someone to help them avoid relegation.
Also entirely possible the Saints will go for an exotic appointment, like a Spaniard or Portuguese or Italian guy who plays attractive ball. But they still don't have the roster for it, which is how they sacked Martin in the first place.
I wish them well regardless, really don't mind Southampton. Many other teams I'd rather see relegated before them.
I think a friend of a friend might stand a chance to get interviewed for this job.
He’s currently at West Brom but definitely on the radar of premier league clubs.
Agreed. Did our job and put them to the sword. Big positives again were Gray, Bergvall and Spence.
If we send back Werner, bench Son, sell Richie, and replace with an elite winger and no.9 we will start to look a good team.
Starting to think Gray might develop into the dominant no6 we've missed since Dembele left.
He's a bloody good player. And a specimen. We need more specimens in the first team. Porro needs both a rest and competition for his shirt. Hope Spence starts vs Man U
Spurs have finished in the top 6 thirteen times in the last 15 seasons. Explain how, and by who, they are not seen as a top 6 team anymore?
The media and our ownership.
I think with his attributes he has so much more about him than Porro for an Ange system.
By what or who's definition?
So who do the 'media' see as the top 6 sides?
Would love to see him in midfield once we have defenders back. Much more composed and looks more press resistant to me than Biss
Nonsense
How could you forget about Craig David? I’m genuinely curious. Can you fill me in?Rishi Sunak, Rupert Lowe, your boys took one helluva beating...
We still haven't seen a team go through a whole season without winning a match. I don't know what we would call it but it would be the opposite of the Invincibles.
Derby came pretty close but they still managed to sneak one win.
Who cares about being seen as a Top 6 team? It's a fucking meaningless tag invented by Sky Sports to accommodate the fact the Goons started falling out of the Top 4.
We don't get trophies or any form of respect for being in this mythical "top 6". In fact it ends up being a stick to beat us with, "the only one of the big six to never win anything"
Fuck the idea of "big six". I want trophies.
We don't get trophies or any form of respect for being in this mythical "top 6". In fact it ends up being a stick to beat us with, "the only one of the big six to never win anything"
Fuck the idea of "big six". I want trophies.