Don’t be obtuse. Who is worth more - a 25 year old Harry Kane or a 33 year old Harry Kane? All other things being equal, age is a significant factor, and if you can’t see that then you’re thicker than I gave you credit for. Amazing I know.
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Don’t be obtuse. Who is worth more - a 25 year old Harry Kane or a 33 year old Harry Kane? All other things being equal, age is a significant factor, and if you can’t see that then you’re thicker than I gave you credit for. Amazing I know.
He really does think he has an individual take on the club that only he can see.
Textbook delusional narcissism.
They also tend to say things like ''So please do me the courtesy of not wasting my time with this level of drivel again''.
The forum's Patrick Bateman.
Positive is a point of viewpoint - and the mindless comment was in relation to the number of identikit posters who simply subscribe to prevailing groupthink.
Or they, you know, just agree with one another.
Ghastly pseud. Every post reeks of faux intellectualism. The internet is full of them.
Never criticise Poch, Levy or the star players, we are overachieving as our turnover is less, we Will silverware. Repeat, repeat repeat.
Just how long will it take for the penny drop that something is amiss when a club continues to build hugely talented sides and yet has gone over a decade without winning anything. Nah nothing to see right? We have Poch - he is magic didn’t you know?
And this ‘man against the masses’ bullshit is another characteristic.
Possibly the most muddled gibberish posted on here in some time. That’s impressive. Well done mate. Beautifully ironic that last bit.
Wow what a counter - watchourt it’s Christopher Hitchens reborn!
When has the club's PR said never to criticise Poch or Levy or the star players?
The job of the club's PR is to be positive. Most fans choose to be positive. Just because those things align doesn't mean people are being influenced.
You're so desperate to be this contrarian lone wolf that you think you're something special.
The kind of guy that will say Shawshank Redemption is shit just because everyone thinks it's great.
Probably hate Michael Jackson's music as well. But laud a guy playing pots and pans on a unicycle in a room underneath a Hoxton pub.
“It’s a forum” is not a caveat for being a stupid cunt.
I can see why your such a popular guy.
Thanks for the heads up Chris.
You should stop mentioning Hitchens and try reading him.
Plenty of people provide occasional constructive criticism (or even knee jerk emotional comments) on Pochettino, Levy, or any number of our players. That’s a bit different to constantly criticising Pochettino and Levy and our players. Most posters on here will find positives and negatives that don’t chime with one another, but when there’s a tendency to find doom and gloom in everything about the club it soon gets a bit tiresome.
As for success, yes we’ve had some hugely talented sides, and yes I’m disappointed with our lack of trophies over the last decade. But we’ve also been up against several other very talented sides (almost all of which simply have bigger pockets than us). Since last winning a trophy we’ve been in two League Cup finals (losing one on penalties), and four FA Cup semi-finals, as well as finishing runners-up in the league (though I don’t think we’ve ever been in a realistic position to genuinely compete for it). No trophies, but hardly a sign of a club not looking to win something.
What would you have us do differently?
I’m not to be desperate to be anything - I simply don’t create false realities and live in those comfort narratives.
The reality of the situation is that the club has gone over a decade without silverware - it’s managed to achieve this despite building 2 of its best sides in that time. It’s has achieved that feat whilst vastly inferior Woolwich and United sides have won 4 FA cups, 1 UEFA cup and a league cup between them. Despite our failure to win anything we have had 2 managers openly denigrate cup tournaments like the UEFA cup that have defined our club. The current manager who has had one of the best sides in the clubs history but hasn’t anything to show has openly stated that the domestic trophies are a distraction, that a club that has not won anything in a decade has a higher priorities. Clearly something is amiss here but the prevailing thought amongst many in the supporter base is that everything is fine whilst those who question this are the villains of the piece. Again just how many years need to pass before you and your type start to actually question this? Again the employees of the club are accountable to us not the other way around but seemingly you are perfectly content to let them go against the traditions of the club.
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Deep down, very deep down...I completely, purely, utterly despise you.
And yet if I told you in this period we have achieved our best run of league finishes in the Premier League era (The League is your bread and butter) you'd dismiss it as PR spin.
It's also quite evident that the competition is far higher than it's ever been.
Tradition is important but overrated. I value our tradition of style of play above any trinket anyway. I enjoy the game. I don't need success, although it would be nice, to value my club. You evidently do.
Comparing us to United is futile and you know it.
What? Narratives that have been cooked slowly in order to preserve them? I’m learning a lot this evening.