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.

 

[tommers]

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.

I thought you didnt get the cheese room?

But isn't all of that because you have to pay for the stadium? Like I said I don't know but it seems like a pretty simple correlation.

 

[Silas Loom]

Still Ange in as long as the replenished team next year does well in cup competitions, and we get into Europe somehow. If senior players start bitching in the open about the impact of Angeball on their hamstrings and career longevity, then we’ll probably need to change, but hopefully not back to a bus parker.

Levy out is a) meaningless, as we know he will exit when the right offer comes along, and nobody is in a position to sack him, and b) ludicrous, given that the most likely alternatives would be a debt-loading vulture fund or a sportswashing petrostate, and c) also ludicrous, given that we are only half way through a massive property development exercise which will ultimately give us a cheat mode on FFP. And Kulu deserves a much better song than the “I don’t care about Levy” dirge.

 

[Silas Loom]

I thought you didnt get the cheese room?

But isn't all of that because you have to pay for the stadium? Like I said I don't know but it seems like a pretty simple correlation.

The stadium and wider development funding has been very long term. I suspect that the missed transfer windows were more a matter of horror at player price inflation, which ENIC has now come grumpily to terms with.

The cheese room exists. It was removed from the building plans and from hospitality pre-sales collateral at the request of a certain oligarch who was concerned for the security of his incredibly rare washed rind yak cheese. If you’re trusted enough by the club, you get a tap on the shoulder and an invitation to be a keyholder.