Expectations for the season?

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A trophy would be nice. Obviously the league or cl would be marvelous but I would take an fa or league cup and a top 4 finish.

Would like to see the new signings settle in quickly and for the likes of dier, rose and lamela continue with their great form and for Ali to mature a little more and not fade after 65 mins.

There is less pressure on Kane this season now we have back up which will help him

My fears are that we continue dropping points in games we dominate, hopefully the likes of Newcastle, everton and stoke at home last season will be a rare occurrence this season

I like our nasty side and as brilliant as it was to see us kicking the chavs around Stamford bridge, we lost our cool and it needs to be controlled
 
Interesting read. And shows how scared the big teams are that they feel the only way to compete is to spend obscene amounts – like a bully in the playground...

I hope our squad don't get too down if we only manage a top 4 finish as it will still be a massive achievement and everyone should be applauded for their effort.

Personally think the first half of the season is important. There are quite a lot of teams with new squads, it should take a while to 'click' so as we're settled we need to get points on the board early and apply pressure and face reality that some will come into the swing nearer the end of the season...
 
I expect us to be continually overlooked by the media as they wank off all the new signings and managers until midway through the season when they finally see us as contenders. Once we pick up some steam hanging around the top 4 come February we will probably struggle and end at the more usual 5th place behind the ever-spending Chelseas, Citys and Uniteds of this world.
 
I have high hopes that this finally is the year of the mighty spurs. To many new coaches, new players and new game plans in the other teams while Tottenham can keep the core, young players have evolved a year, last year's new recruits are healthy and used to Poch's game plan and the depth of the roster have been filled with high quality back ups for the important positions.
 
MindBlown said:
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Wimmer, Wanyama and Janssen are the only proven quality back ups. The rest are either mediocre or inexperienced academy graduates with loads of potentials.
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Only takes one to have a breakthrough season and we have 4 amazing options from the bench depending on the situation, things have been a lot worse than this
 
Most bookings, most goals scored.

I'm quietly confident of a top 4 finish. Getting out of the group stages in champs league and a good FA cup run would be lovely.
 
This from the Grauniad, points 4 and 8 seem to be a bit confused.... Probably written by some goon supporting cunt.

Ten things to look out for this weekend | Football | The Guardian

Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend

4) Unready Everton could be there for the taking
Everton, having lost five and won two of their final 10 league games as last season drifted to the most limp of conclusions, can be expected to improve significantly under Ronald Koeman. This, however, might not be the day they prove it. Ashley Williams is unfit, Yannick Bolasie and Lamine Koné have not yet joined, and Romelu Lukaku and Seamus Coleman, two members of last season’s squad whose position in the starting XI would seem assured – outbound transfers notwithstanding – are doubtful. “We are not at the level we need to be, in terms of the players and their physical state,” says Koeman. “The squad will be 100% in two or three weeks. It’s a big project. It won’t be complete after two months, we need more time.” Tottenham know all about starting seasons disappointingly slowly, having kicked off last season with a defeat and three draws – one of them against Everton. They ended the season similarly, with two defeats and two draws – in the 30 games in between they were the best team in the country, a full nine points ahead of Woolwich and above Leicester by an emphatic goal differential of 17. Their efforts to hit the ground running this time could be assisted by Everton’s apparent unreadiness to do so. SB

8) Can Spurs avoid another underwhelming start?
Tottenham were excellent last season, at their best, probably the best team in England. But there was still something irrepressibly Spursy about their best league season in a generation ending with a title lost to Leicester and a capitulation against a relegated side that meant they finished behind Woolwich for the 21st time in 21 years. Now, through the summer, they’ve watched Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United install a variety of elite managers and players, such that they now face a serious battle to preserve their status as Champions League competitors, let alone championship contenders. But success needn’t be beyond them; it is not easy to pinpoint any weaknesses in their first-choice line-up, and they retain the same movement and intensity whoever Mauricio Pochettino selects. But this is not to say they have no weakness. Unlike their likely rivals, they have neither elite players nor an elite manager, so this is their challenge: to produce them organically. The likes of Toby Alderweireld, Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Moussa Dembélé and Erik Lamela must improve themselves from the merely very good, and Mauricio Pochettino, similarly unproven, must extract it from them. And his team has been dealt a tricky start at Everton, whose players will be buzzing to assert their worth before Ronald Koeman’s inevitable splurge. Last season’s dodgy start cost Tottenham the title – the same again will cost them a lot more.
 
  1. League top 4
  2. CL qualifying beyond group stage
  3. Domestic cups: One final
  4. Play high intensity, exciting football and leave space for local players to breakthrough.

Even if we only achieve the first and the last, I would be happy.

The league will be hard this year, the hardest I can even remember. Even if we are at our best in EPL years
  • UTD have JM and pissed away money on signings
  • City have PG and ditto
  • Woolwich are still very dangerous and no worse off than last season finishing 2nd
  • Liverpool have a decent manager and a better squad and no european distractions
  • Chelsea ditto + have spent equally much
  • Leicester is a wildcard and I can see them being highly effecient winning points of "lesser" sides again
  • West Ham have a very small squad but a decent manager and a few very good individual players
 
Now the windows shut I'd say 5-6th & get to the CL 2nd round. That would be a solid season.
 
Top 4, don't see us challenging for the title though. Yeah, some other teams have improved, but I expect Leicester to drop quite a bit from where they were last year and while Chelsea and Liverpool don't have to play in Europe, they still need to play significantly better than what they showed last year. I'm not actually that impressed with their transfer dealings. Mane is a good signing for Liverpool, but apart from him? They still have Mignolet in goal, Klavan I have my doubts about and they are playing Milner at LB... Chelsea made two good signings in Kante and Batshuayi, but their defence is questionable imo. Cahill, Terry, Ivanovic... getting old, how long can they keep up. And David Luiz is a joke. I'm not impressed with Woolwich either, but then again they always seem to get top-four.

We'll probably get out of the group stage of the CL at least, likely to exit in the quarter finals or something. I don't expect much from us in the domestic cups.
 
I expect us to finish 6th due to the CL and the fact that Chelski is going to kill it this year, Conte is the best coach in England (maybe on par with Poch) and has a lot of attacking options. Liverpool are going to be spectacular in a lot of ways (both in defeat as in victory) but Klopp wont win them the title. I do however feel Mignolet is a lot better than people seem to think (i'm biases) and that a lot of their goals are due to their sub standard defending.

City are going to win in, Man U are going to bore us to second and the Gooners always seem to be in the top 4. Leaves us, Leicester, Everton, Gooners to battle it our for places 4-6
 
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