Spurs 2024-25

[Zapp Brannigan]

Missing in action:
Vicario
Romero
Van de Ven
Udogie (sub - not fully fit)
Bentancur
Odobert
Richarlison
Moore

Available and playing:

Forster
Porro --- Gray Dragusin --- Spence
Bissouma
Sarr --- Maddison
Kulusevski ------ Solanke ------ Son (c)
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Subs:
Austin (gk)
Reguilon, Werner (out of favour)
Udogie (unfit)
Bergvall (promising but raw)
Lankshear, Dorrington, Olusesi (untested as yet)
...
& Johnson (yay we've got 1 proper, senior sub to bring on).

Liverpool, meanwhile - top of the table, at full strength (apart from Konate), with plenty of players who've had minutes taken out of their legs in the past month.

COYS!!!

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[Silas Loom]

Nope Liverpool

That should be fine then. Spurs are on their way to Wembley!

 

[planetgeli]

Decent set of tennis that

 

[Cerberus]

‘Am I not entertained’? No, not really. We have basketball for this sort of nonsense.

Took part in the Levy/ENIC out protests before the game - felt futile, esp when being filmed by tourists in half and half scarves.

Yes, yes, yes, big injury list etc etc. Coaches are allowed to set their teams up in different ways and Ange should have been more pragmatic (he never will be). It could’ve been 3-10 tbh.

Liverpool switched off inexcusably but aside from that looked sharp, direct, well organised and well coached. Must’ve felt like a training game

 

[tommers]

‘Am I not entertained’? No, not really. We have basketball for this sort of nonsense.

Took part in the Levy/ENIC out protests before the game - felt futile, esp when being filmed by tourists in half and half scarves.

Yes, yes, yes, big injury list etc etc. Coaches are allowed to set their teams up in different ways and Ange should have been more pragmatic (he never will be). It could’ve been 3-10 tbh.

Liverpool switched off inexcusably but aside from that looked sharp, direct, well organised and well coached. Must’ve felt like a training game

Why were you protesting?

 

[Cerberus]

Why were you protesting?

Profit over success
Gross mismanagement over a 23 year reign (1 LC to show for it)
Highest ticket prices in the league
Cancelled OAP concessions
14 managers and counting
A ‘feeling’ that the NFL, Go Karting, boxing, Beyoncé etc are prioritised over the football team.

May seem like 1st world problems and probably are but I know you’ve expressed similar sentiments at West Ham about your board

 

[tommers]

Profit over success
Gross mismanagement over a 23 year reign (1 LC to show for it)
Highest ticket prices in the league
Cancelled OAP concessions
14 managers and counting
A ‘feeling’ that the NFL, Go Karting, boxing, Beyoncé etc are prioritised over the football team.

May seem like 1st world problems and probably are but I know you’ve expressed similar sentiments at West Ham about your board

Yeah I just wanted to know, cos I didn't know things had got to the protest stage over there. From the outside you're consistently competing for Europe, you've got a great brand new stadium and you've managed to force yourselves into that top group without being bought by some murderous oil state or some murderous Russian oligarch. But I don't really pay much attention to what's going on at Spurs so I guess there's stuff going on I don't know about. The ticket prices and the OAP thing, fair enough.

TBH I thought the same when people were moaning about Moyes. We came 6th and 7th! We won a European title!

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Yeah I just wanted to know, cos I didn't know things had got to the protest stage over there. From the outside you're consistently competing for Europe, you've got a great brand new stadium and you've managed to force yourselves into that top group without being bought by some murderous oil state or some murderous Russian oligarch. But I don't really pay much attention to what's going on at Spurs so I guess there's stuff going on I don't know about. The ticket prices and the OAP thing, fair enough.

TBH I thought the same when people were moaning about Moyes. We came 6th and 7th! We won a European title!

Levy and Co deserve a lot of credit. From about 2004 onwards we took the leap from being part of the chasing pack and started competing with the big teams - those with huge history (Liverpool, Man Utd), the peak of Wenger's Arsenal, Chelsea's new money. Martin Jol was the start of it - first a dodgy lasagne away from the Champions League, then we got there, and we did it all by spending sustainably (self-generated and smart revenue chasing) with a clear identity of being a great place for up and coming talent. There were some ups and downs but the next decade saw us become the only team to consistently challenge the "Sky 4" (plus latterly Man City) without some seismic outside financial factor; culminating in the couple of seasons with realistic title challenges (a 2nd and the infamous 3rd in a 2 horse race vs Leicester).

Levy and Co also deserve a fucking good shouting at for not building on it. Pochettino had a summer without being allowed to add a single player to his squad; we earned the right to play with the big boys, in our shiny new world class stadium, then we didn't act like we belonged in that company. That squad that so nearly achieved miracles was systematically dismantled (partly through age, partly through natural turnover) and the playing side has clearly taken a back seat to maintaining the increased profile of the club as a whole, and what we're left with is being back to where we were in 2004 - one of the bigger, better sides in the chasing pack casting envious glances at the perennial title challenging sides. Just in a better stadium, with a cheese room.