Only being so happy keeps you going Sandy.

comment by groovyduringthewar (U1054)
posted 1 minute ago
Only being so happy keeps you going Sandy.
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I am always a very happy and positive person Groovy, but I have invested a life of my time and life in following Tottenham, so I like to put out me feelings on the club from time to time. This is nowhere near the worse Spurs side I have ever seen, but it is a team that is currently not going anywhere, unless the manager changes tactics from game to game.

Ange needs the season.

Hopefully Levy has learnt his lesson after he sacked Poch but I don't bet on it!

Performances have improved from the same fixtures we had last season.

Sandy, I was accused of being the next you earlier, I can't help but agree with nearly everything you said above, but it could be sooner.

This team is crying out for 3 CB's and wing backs attacking as we don't have any wingers to speak of, do have hope for Odebert (spelling).

We are Spurs
We know what we are

Welcome back Sandy... Hope you're well. Think you're pretty much on the money. Was saying largely the same things for the last 3 months of last season and nothing has changed.

I suspect Ange will be gone at some point this season.... but hes only part of the problem

The club is culturally broken... I have no clue if and when it will ever be fixed

Doesn't matter who the manager is with Levy & ENIC in charge

comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 32 minutes ago
Ange needs the season.

Hopefully Levy has learnt his lesson after he sacked Poch but I don't bet on it!

Performances have improved from the same fixtures we had last season.
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Only form will dictate if Ange gets the season. I honestly feel Levy is going to pull the trigger if we're languishing in midtable somewhere by next month.

People will use Arteta as an example of giving a manager time but Arteta did win an FA Cup early doors and never spent anywhere near as much as Ange.

comment by Diamondlights (U20501)
posted 3 minutes ago
Welcome back Sandy... Hope you're well. Think you're pretty much on the money. Was saying largely the same things for the last 3 months of last season and nothing has changed.

I suspect Ange will be gone at some point this season.... but hes only part of the problem

The club is culturally broken... I have no clue if and when it will ever be fixed
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Hi Diamond, yeh Ange won't last the season. What gets me is how the team just rolls over against all the usual suspects. Nuno went to Anfield and won with Forest at the weekend. Could you imagine him ever taking a probably better Spurs side to Anfield and winning. Massive weak mentality runs right through the club, and has done for years.

comment by sandy, golden boot winner fa cup 1901 (U20567)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Diamondlights (U20501)
posted 3 minutes ago
Welcome back Sandy... Hope you're well. Think you're pretty much on the money. Was saying largely the same things for the last 3 months of last season and nothing has changed.

I suspect Ange will be gone at some point this season.... but hes only part of the problem

The club is culturally broken... I have no clue if and when it will ever be fixed
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Hi Diamond, yeh Ange won't last the season. What gets me is how the team just rolls over against all the usual suspects. Nuno went to Anfield and won with Forest at the weekend. Could you imagine him ever taking a probably better Spurs side to Anfield and winning. Massive weak mentality runs right through the club, and has done for years.
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Yeah..... Something is broken (not sure what) dont wanna lay all the blame with levy, Ange or the current players specifically but cultrally something is wrong. You cant have this many managers, Players, DOF, Head scouts etc and yet the outcome is always the same. No matter what the club says it does appear that the focus is not on winning..... I have no clue why but the only consistent through this whole sorry period is ENIC.

Even during our best recent period under Poch, its feels like that was more to do with the stars aligning/ bit of luck (Kane, Dele, cheap great signings who were all motivated) than some kind of amazing planning from ownership.

The club feels like its got ahead of itself..... We have the infrastructure suitable for world beaters except we haven't put in the graft on the pitch to justify it.

It's that same mentality that Levy ENIC showed when he though we should be part of the ESL because of our stadium, balance sheet & the clubs value. Our sporting participation in such a competition was laughable.

I just feels like the club thinks of itself as big without wishing to put in the hard graft. It's the difference between a Big business and a big sporting insitution

Stay humble

I think you're right for the most part but barely any mention of Levy as the architect behind this mess.

Let's be real. Nothing will change all the time he's in charge. We'll screw up, lose matches, Ange will be gone and the fans will look to the next mug to save things. It's the same thing over and over and over again.

At what point are we going to accept that we've had some really high profile managers in charge of us and they've all failed on some level. Even when we did come close, that manager, who I won't name in case your ears bleed Sandy , wasn't backed when he needed to be. I'd much rather we all aimed our boos at the boardroom and not the touchline, and certainly not individual players. We're all frustrated at Johnson but abusing him directly online is classless and completely counter-productive. Yeah, tell a player low on confidence he's shiiiit, that'll improve him

The club is broken and changing the manager won't fix that. All the time the priority is profit over success we won't do anything of note. Trophies are considered a 'nice to have' rather than an essential driving force behind any club manifesto.

Joke club.

comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 7 minutes ago
I think you're right for the most part but barely any mention of Levy as the architect behind this mess.

Let's be real. Nothing will change all the time he's in charge. We'll screw up, lose matches, Ange will be gone and the fans will look to the next mug to save things. It's the same thing over and over and over again.

At what point are we going to accept that we've had some really high profile managers in charge of us and they've all failed on some level. Even when we did come close, that manager, who I won't name in case your ears bleed Sandy, wasn't backed when he needed to be. I'd much rather we all aimed our boos at the boardroom and not the touchline, and certainly not individual players. We're all frustrated at Johnson but abusing him directly online is classless and completely counter-productive. Yeah, tell a player low on confidence he's shiiiit, that'll improve him

The club is broken and changing the manager won't fix that. All the time the priority is profit over success we won't do anything of note. Trophies are considered a 'nice to have' rather than an essential driving force behind any club manifesto.

Joke club.
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Levy aint going anywhere so no point. U gonna send him hate mail to his address?

comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 6 minutes ago
I think you're right for the most part but barely any mention of Levy as the architect behind this mess.

Let's be real. Nothing will change all the time he's in charge. We'll screw up, lose matches, Ange will be gone and the fans will look to the next mug to save things. It's the same thing over and over and over again.

At what point are we going to accept that we've had some really high profile managers in charge of us and they've all failed on some level. Even when we did come close, that manager, who I won't name in case your ears bleed Sandy, wasn't backed when he needed to be. I'd much rather we all aimed our boos at the boardroom and not the touchline, and certainly not individual players. We're all frustrated at Johnson but abusing him directly online is classless and completely counter-productive. Yeah, tell a player low on confidence he's shiiiit, that'll improve him

The club is broken and changing the manager won't fix that. All the time the priority is profit over success we won't do anything of note. Trophies are considered a 'nice to have' rather than an essential driving force behind any club manifesto.

Joke club.
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I've been a critic of Levy for the longest time but I think criticism of him now is more misplaced. We could definitely have targeted better players in the summer and signing Werner shows a lack of ambition, however you can't really argue that he hasn't backed the manager in the way previous managers like Poch weren't backed. Ange has got to spend over £350m in a very short space of time and we've been made aware he indeed wanted some of these players, particularly in attack. I mean the frailties shown during our set pieces is most definitely not a Levy thing.

Literally no point sacking Ange and just bringing in the next poor sod with the poison chalice, of trying to make Spurs successful while buying the likes of Werner and Solanke
We don’t buy good enough players to challenge and so you could have Pep as manager for all intents and purposes even he can’t polish a tuuuurd and get average joes to beat the top sides
May as well keep Ange and come 5th - 8th with him as anyone else
Because I for one am sick of the rinse and repeat of Enic regime

comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 3 hours, 23 minutes ago
comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 32 minutes ago
Ange needs the season.

Hopefully Levy has learnt his lesson after he sacked Poch but I don't bet on it!

Performances have improved from the same fixtures we had last season.
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Only form will dictate if Ange gets the season. I honestly feel Levy is going to pull the trigger if we're languishing in midtable somewhere by next month.

People will use Arteta as an example of giving a manager time but Arteta did win an FA Cup early doors and never spent anywhere near as much as Ange.
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Seven London derbies against Arsenal, Chelsea and West Ham, won 0, drawn 2 lost 5. I think Ange is done if he cannot get the team up for these sort of matches.

There’s some good players at Spurs, but not enough of them, to be successful…

The only way you’re going to win titles & trophies, is by buying world class players… & spending big…

Levy always buys for the future… & hope they come good…

Occasionally he’ll spend big on a player… but it’s never successful…

I think that Son, Werner, Johnson & Davies will need to go, in the summer… with major upgrades needed!!

Do away with Ange now and get Tuchel in whilst his available

comment by Conn & Duncan..Scottish Legends (U15636)
posted 2 minutes ago
There’s some good players at Spurs, but not enough of them, to be successful…

The only way you’re going to win titles & trophies, is by buying world class players… & spending big…

Levy always buys for the future… & hope they come good…

Occasionally he’ll spend big on a player… but it’s never successful…

I think that Son, Werner, Johnson & Davies will need to go, in the summer… with major upgrades needed!!
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This is a perpetual problem. By the time the likes of Gray and Bergvall do come good, even if they do so much time will have passed that the likes of Romero and VDV will likely have moved on and got better offers. How are you supposed to build a winning team if you're looking at success in 5 years? Players don't want to be a part of that, particularly the older ones. Kane fell for that bullshiiiit and, against his better judgement, stuck around for far too long.

What took place over the summer I would call squad neglect. To bring in a bunch of kids and send packing seasoned pros like PEH without getting in any adequate replacement is both unfair on the young players coming through and the fans that pay their money. Those youngster now have no experience to lean on when times get tough. Son is carrying the can for everyone in that regard. It's honestly an absolute joke and it's all because Levy wants to cut costs.

They'd like to have you believe that everything is rosey. Lovely stadium, beautiful training ground, fantastic academy prospects. But it all sits on what can only be described as an utter bed of cvnts drooling over each pound coin that rolls their way.

Nothing will change under this ownership. Guaranteed.

The only person that should be booed or abused online is Levy, he is the only man to blame and he has outstayed his welcome at Spurs

Sandy,...if I wrote what you've written here, I'd be accused of "moaning" about Spurs. And of "not being a Spurs supporter at all".

Tell me, how do you get away with writing this stuff?

Actually most of it is spot on true!
Except you and I differ on Romero.

Also, the back four,...Porro,Romero,Vdv,Udogie
are as good as any back four in the league.
They are helping the midfield out every game.

I said before the season started that the results of our first 4 games would indicate what our season would be like.....4 points out of 12!
So now we know.
Mid table at best.

Now about the manager. I call him Aussieglue and his feet really are stuck...he's turned out to be a one trick pony, and every manager now knows very well how to play against him.
Arsenal gave a demonstration: ...,sit back, defend, let us have the ball, and hit on the counter.
Newcastle did the same.

I said he'd be gone by Christmas! It just took the other managers a little more time than I thought to figure him out.