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“Oh my word! That is… schoolboy’s own stuff!”
Yes, I follow Tottenham Hotspur. I’m Purple and Gold Til Tottenham Are Sold.
I also dabble in Transformers and Lego.
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I’d suggest the main difference is that they were serial winners and he isn’t. Not of anything significant.
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It’s truly ironic that all the epithets that a segment of our fanbase levelled at Mourinho and Conte are in actuality more true of Postecoglou.
Stubborn, tactically inept, out of his depth, spiky with the press.
Who wanted their Spurs back?
#THFC
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Do you feel proud? Do feel like it had any glory to it?
Or are you just counting the money being poured into Uncle Joe’s and Danny Boy’s pockets?
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Pointless.
Like the players you’ve recruited.
Like the manager you’ve appointed.
Like the parasite owner you’ve incubated.
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Again, John, you’re swinging and missing massively, old chap. Give it another shot.
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Like others, Nick, you’ve missed the point. If you could address it, that would be helpful.
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The answer to your first question, John is contained in the question I asked.
You have signally missed the actual point and are doing the exact opposite of what’s being posited i.e. what the key issues at Spurs are.
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Additionally, which of the currently injured players would have improved that side enough for us to have actually registered a shot on target?
Anyone?
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Yep
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True. But the player doesn’t have to agree to the transfer. If personal terms can’t be agreed, he returns to his club.
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And we move further toward being the stepping stone to bigger things for players.
That’s not what I want my club to be. Who does?
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Yes.
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I remember, Martin. I think it’s the same with any movement - it takes time. Let’s say hypothetically that Ange is sacked, like so many managers before. What’s DL’s excuse this time? More and more ppl will start to realise that the one constant is DL and start to raise their voices.
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…not just standing outside the stadium and shouting. There IS a place for doing that, but it can’t be the ONLY activity.
Literature, media engagement, open meetings, letter-writing as well as protest.
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100%. It’s why I don’t focus on ENIC and concentrate on Levy and the rest of the executive board. Reform, for want of a better phrase, rather than revolution.
The campaign should be about Levy and the exec board standing down and suitable replacements found.
And done as an organised movement…
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I agree. I don’t think it’s a simple equation by any means.
Ultimately, from my perspective, whether what we as fans can do will or won’t work is immaterial. I want to do best my club, so I have to at least try, whether it works or not.
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And 2 Martin’s point about emotion, I’m sure we all remember DL’s disproportionate reaction to Matthew Norman’s criticisms back in 2003 (I think): banning the Standard’s football reporter b/c of some mild criticism.
Key is m/stream media narrative is beginning 2 turn. And he’s never faced that b4
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I’m not so sure. He’s been a master at deflecting, so that when pressure builds he’s survived. But there’s always been someone to blame - the manager, COVID, another manager.
But he’s running out of room now. There are fewer and fewer things he (and Auntie Donna) can point to.
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Sorry, Dan, but the idea that the future is bright just b/c some youngsters found the net against a minor Swedish side is reductionist 2 the point of absurdity.
4 every youngling who had a good night last night, most Spurs fans can name 10 ‘future Spurs stars’ who fizzled out w/out a trace.
#THFC
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Nope.
We won a trophy back in 2008. Hasn’t stopped them mismanaging the club for another 16 years after that.
Systemic change is needed. A blip on the radar isn’t enough.
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Put enough pressure on him & he may (and I stress the word ‘may’) think it’s better to get his kicks out of screwing ppl in deals away from Spurs.
He’d still be a significant s/holder and live his lifestyle as standing down as CEO doesn’t remove his wealth, just his direct influence at the club.
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The thing is he can keep his wealth even if he isn’t in charge.
He’s already a billionaire. He doesn’t need the ‘salary’ he gets from Spurs.
He stays b/c he’s a weak-minded control freak who gets off on screwing other ppl during deals.
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We have to keep the pressure on him. Constant, unyielding. He hates the spotlight, so we keep it on him.
It worked with Sugar - he got sick and tired of it. It’s why he sold to ENIC in the 1st place.
Don’t know if it’ll work, but for the sake of the club we have to try.
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You’re abs. right.
I’d like ENIC to go completely, but it’s unlikely.
But ENIC staying isn’t the same as Levy staying.
Ppl seem to think that just b/c someone owns a co. it automatically means they have to be in charge of it. Simply isn’t the case.
Levy has to change or Spurs need a new CEO.
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He doesn’t want to win anything b/c winning things fuels fan expectation.
So, regardless of whether Ange is the right man or the wrong one, Levy will not back him sufficiently and he too will go the way of so many others before him.
#THFC
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Levy is not interested in winning anything. Mourinho’s departure showed that the most, but it’s evident when you look at how he interferes and even sabotages his managers.
All he wants is to qualify for Europe and take in that sweet, sweet UEFA TV money.
#THFC
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Conte can’t get Spurs to work either. He gets the chop after he, alone among them all, actually tells us what Levy’s Spurs actually are:
A money-making operation, not a footballing one.
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Conte. Another manager not supported in the transfer market. Not given the players he needs, so he has to deploy a style that Spurs fans rail against.
And Levy sits pretty while the fans turn on the manager. Cause they’ve stopped asking questions of him.
#THFC
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And then poor Nuno. Reportedly suffering depression after his last season at Wolves. Reportedly looking to take a break from football.
And the disaster unfolds. Personally, I have no animosity toward Nuno and wish him nothing but success. But he was not the right man for Spurs and it showed.
#THFC