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If Frank goes from 17th to 5th with this squad while playing Champions League in midweek he's a goddamn hero.Well Levy then is the clouds.
The league the last few seasons is changing. We don’t have 4-5 good clubs, we have 6-7 of them. Liverpool, City, Woolwich, Chelsea are getting joined by Newcastle and Villa who are maxing their PSR each season to build up as their owners are rich.
Top 4-5 will require big investment and probably an increase in the wage structure of the club. If Levy expects Frank or any manager to cheap his way to top 4 he is a fool.
Last part is exactly what Levy is banking on. A manager who can have us outperforming on the cheap and is happy to work with what he's got.Look, in reality we need both and a top 6 club which isn't run by Levy would sign both.
Woolwich signing Eze, Zubimendi etc whilst finishing 2nd for a few seasons in a row, signing Rice for 100 million.
It's quite simple, their owners are going for it. Not recklessly, but they are putting the money up. Levy is the curse we just can't get rid of. Constantly sucking our spirits dry by doing far too little year in year out.
We just finished 17th. Yes we won a trophy but let's be honest, it's a one off. We just got into the CL.
Yet once again we are scraping the barrel in terms of ambition.
I used to get angry about it, but now I'm just detached.
I don't think I'll ever get into Spurs like I used to until Levy's gone. Only way is that Frank performs miracles and fosters something special with a squad and makes us challengers and a proper team again.
You know players and especially good ones can adapt and play slightly differently, it’s not that complicated. Is Arteta going to have to play exactly like Glasner at Palace. Players understand where the space is. It’s more natural than you think. It’s not pieces on a chess board.He plays as an inside 10 in a 3-4-2-1 system, he isn't a natural left winger or a natural 10, we already have two 10's in our team
Also Eze on another level to Kudus, behave, the guy had purple patch in his last 3 months at Palace before that you had Palace fans saying that he was lazy and inconsistent, are we saying that a couple of months of good form is all it takes to clear other players or are we just perhaps over reacting a little to recency bias maybe?
RW is where we need an upgrade and cover most, not an inside 10 where we struggle to work out where his best position is in our team and tbh Kudus is more versatile anyway.
If Frank wants good players then he'll have no complaints about Kudus then.
Sack off the Champions League, focus on the league and a domestic cup.If Frank goes from 17th to 5th with this squad while playing Champions League in midweek he's a goddamn hero.
This notion AGAIN that Ange sacrificed the league for the Europa - fuck me lads let it go will ya!
My bad Hotspur way the training ground
Don't you think the Spurs fanbase will have realistic expectations after finishing 17th?Not really.
If he’s not finished top 5 and won a trophy after 2 seasons, he will have been objectively worse.
If it’s been 2 top 6 finishes, there is maybe a case that he’s building something solid that could be better but his first 2 seasons will have been worse.
Top 8 this season should and will have Frank in the hot seat. Especially if there is a good option available.
More akin to a magician if he does that.If Frank goes from 17th to 5th with this squad while playing Champions League in midweek he's a goddamn hero.
We should probably save ourselves the time and hassle and just close this thread. We're not signing anyone good. Just more children and bargain bucket freebies.
We finished 17th last year, and we're not going to improve the squad? Yeah... we're fucked.
Then only reason we built the new stadium was to stroke Daniel Levy's ego. We were conned. Apparently the new ground was supposed to put us in a new financial stratosphere and give us more spending power. Did it fuck. Now we have to sell to buy despite having the lowest wage to turnover percentage in the division.
Highest paid chairman in the league? What a cunt.
I watched him in his first season as he was someone I had heard a lot about fromFor what it's worth, that 23/24 season was largely just a mirage of outperforming xG (plus some goals against shit Europa League opponents, and as we know from the Brennan Johnson thread, those don't count)
There was not a real difference in underlying quality between the two seasons. A lot of successful dribbles and not a lot of end product.
Source?We should probably save ourselves the time and hassle and just close this thread. We're not signing anyone good. Just more children and bargain bucket freebies.
We finished 17th last year, and we're not going to improve the squad? Yeah... we're fucked.
Then only reason we built the new stadium was to stroke Daniel Levy's ego. We were conned. Apparently the new ground was supposed to put us in a new financial stratosphere and give us more spending power. Did it fuck. Now we have to sell to buy despite having the lowest wage to turnover percentage in the division.
Highest paid chairman in the league? What a cunt.