What new identity? Define that for me? We are the sixth biggest club by revenue now and we will remain that even with the new stadium. In terms of financial capacity - there is a ceiling and that has been reached.
And the notion that the CL is the solution is what is so absurd. All of the vaunted benefits have proven to be false - all of them and yet the supporter base still desperately clings to misguided belief that this is the gateway to the elite.
We are not an elite club, we are not going be an elite club but we have built, despite against the odds, an elite side and yet rather than trying to utilise that in the small window we have this the supporters want to focus our efforts on trying to become an elite club. It’s absolute madness.
It’s not even funny at this point - it’s as you are blind to realities of what happened with Woolwich. Somehow it will be different with us.
If you are happy to see yet another talented Spurs fail to realise its potential then something is truly a miss. Seemingly the only thing we truly excel at is finding reasons why we cannot achieve success. It’s all there wrapped up in your posts. It doesn’t matter what players we have, it doesn’t matter what team we put out because we are the sixth largest club by revenue and therefore have already lost.
When has the club has as much success as a consistent football club in the league as we are having these days? When in our history have we ever had such a consistent spell? 3rd, 2nd & 3rd, 86 points, our record for a league season ever the season before last. Going from Spursy, lads it's Tottenham to drawing with the likes of Barcelona, Juventus & Real Madrid away. We've gone from being the team that concedes last minute goals to the team scoring them, no doubt sees us as a pushover or a pisstake now do you know how difficult that is for a team to do whilst breaking even in the transfer market whilst trying to build arguably a stadium none of us could have imagined?
If we want to stand any chance of serious long term success we have to do it a different way to the others. They are commercially light years ahead of us and if you offered me a lifetime of having the chance to say we mixed it with the genuine giants of the game game or a quick flash in the pan followed by mediocrity I would always choose consistency.
Woolwich had to take a step back to grow as a club and are still struggling because of it, I sincerely hope our boys don't but it's a choice the club needed to make. The stadium is so important to the future of our club that it astounds me so many overlook it. It's a time to be patient, to back the club, to enjoy the consistency we are experiencing and to back the team to give it every chance to grow in way very few teams are able to.
Personally I do see Tottenham Hotspur as an elite club, I feel honoured to have fallen into supporting such a great & historic team and I commend the clubs ambitions to take it to wherever it can potentially get to.
The Champions League money and rise in profile is of paramount importance for the next five years, give me that over a Carabao Cup any day of the week. For me it's a pleasure seeing my club grow at this moment in time, even if others fail to see it. Each to their own I guess but it's a long term thing in my opinion. Let's see how the club matures over the next 5-10 years.
Personally I think the club is doing a terrific job when so many are sounding their money and futures just to keep up with the crowd. I sincerely hope Pochettino stays, even if you clearly feel he and the team have been failures in recent years. I grew up watching the likes of Ruel Fox, Alton Thelwell & Andy Booth mate, maybe our perception of where the club was and now is is completely different
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level football anorak) and now I get people coming up to me when I'm wearing the jersey saying how much they like us. You need sustained success (like playing CL) over a long period for that, not a league cup every 10 years. Not that I don't want that too!
