Is it this easy to deflect from a loss?

We finished below Arsenal like 20+ seasons in a row,

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this in itself was spursy though.

our record at SB. we still werent winning there when they were finishing 13th ffs

Levy is probably trying to rent out the stadium for the champions league final as we speak

I love this cretinous idea that it's about mentality and mentality alone. That basically drops us into the same stupid thinking that made us believe that the right manager can change things. They can't. The drop off in player quality in terms of recruitment has seen firing of Poch, Jose, Nuno and will most probably be the reason for Conte either leaving or coming to some sort of mutual departure.

This is not about player mentality. It's about player quality. It's that simple. We're in 8th probably because we've got the 8th best squad, we're probably 8th in terms of spending and 8th in terms of wages. There or thereabouts anyway.

To believe one coach can turn the tide against a total lack of ambition from the owners is just a joke.

I'm not blaming Conte. He has average players. I'm not blaming the players either. It's not their fault they're limited. It IS however the fault of the ownership that the recruitment has been as woeful as it has been both in terms of scouting and budgets. We're getting outspent by the likes of Villa and Everton now.

This is on Levy and Lewis. Don't blame the players.

i do blame the players for not being able to do basics, and making the same mistakes over and over. that is not technical ability because every player can master basics. that is just lack of application or intensity / professionalism to actually be consistent

Trouble is...mediocrity & failure is now ingrained into the club mentality

They aint invented a potion that'll get that stench out any time soon

i have said for ages now that to dare is to do is some rogue slogan for us. its up there with how the players used to come out every time and say we need to learn from mistakes we need to do better, after every single stinky result, and then proceed to just carry on with the same.

Conte is a winner who is not used to losing. He comes to a club like Spurs and suddenly he has to rationalise being a loser, by association with the club, and he's finding it difficult to compute, hence the weird comments.

comment by Chronic (U3423)
posted 23 minutes ago
i do blame the players for not being able to do basics, and making the same mistakes over and over. that is not technical ability because every player can master basics. that is just lack of application or intensity / professionalism to actually be consistent
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Players not being able to do the basics goes hand in hand with a lack of quality. Poor to average players make mistakes, some more than often. Top players rarely do. THAT'S the difference. You think that every player should be able to do the basics but that's why there's a football pyramid. The lower the player quality, the more these mistakes happen.

What separates the truly elite players from the average ones is that ability to focus, determination to succeed and eliminate mistakes. Players make mistakes when they switch off. The best don't do that and you have to pay top dollar for those.

Losing to Wolves, Southampton and Burnley in a couple of weeks, shows how bad Spurs really are.

comment by sandy, golden boot winner fa cup 1901 (U20567)
posted 2 hours, 23 minutes ago
Losing to Wolves, Southampton and Burnley in a couple of weeks, shows how bad Spurs really are.
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To be compounded at Leeds on Saturday