This situation now has a sense of sadness behind it, not even angry anymore. On a human level, I don’t want Poch gone, but given Levy won’t sack himself where else is there to go now ?
These results are generational. They are so bad that we will always remember them. The performances are so very inept that they will be used as the comparison for future bad results, the same way we look at Ipswich away in the early 00’s or people look at Liverpool away in the 70’s, Port Vale in the 87 season.
How this mess has developed is the most perplexing of things. So much there of the elite level, stadium / training ground / players - yet fail to turn up at a game in Brighton, days after one of the biggest stains ever on British Football in terms of results. It’s ridiculous and we are rightly being ridiculed.
Now, more than ever, we need to see some decisions, we need to see a plan and a direction, but I fear we won’t, because we never really seem to. Time for Levy to not be a fucking coward. Sort it out. Back the manager. He won’t.
Poch, to his huge credit called this situation many months ago, maybe even at the end of the 17/18 season. He said it needed to change and a new direction set, he was ( now with hindsight) totally honest that this group had gone the distance and needed changing. Levy reacted by signing no one.
I suspect Poch anticipated the board backing him this last summer and and yet they did not, again. They fucked about and delivered injured players, punts on loan deal and a 60 million pound midfielder whom is, at best, questionable. It was never going to be enough. Again the manager called it. Jack Clark was signed and Poch never wanted him. Sessegnon pretended to be a big signing, but he was not ever that. It’s awful really.
The coaching team got players who were not up to speed, and then as a result they are forced to play those players who they needed to move on. All the time trying to do the impossible to keep players happy who knew they are not actually wanted around anymore.
If players like Eriksen, Toby or Jan were valued they would have contracts that reflected their contributions and status. Yet tellingly they are still on deals that were under market rate 4 years ago.
I don’t think Poch is being too loyal, more he’s being forced to play those he has long since said need to be jogged on, he has no choice to pick those players whom are compromised.
All roads lead back to Levy.
Here’s something I heard this past week, the day after Ndombele was signed the club made cuts to contracted staff. That sounded ridiculous, but on reflection, maybe not! £1 spent = £1 recovered. That’s the Levy way Look at the stunt with the shirts that was reported, they don’t “invest” they use the money the club makes to invest.
Over 20 years now almost everything that Spurs have done under Levy has had an air of the cheap about it and it’s boring as fuck.
Some people counter the lack of investment by pointing at the stadium and going “ohhh”. But fuck the stadium. That’s doing us no favours and it’s all part of a wider land deal anyway, the football club was used as leverage to buy up cheap land and property. ENIC will clean up on property long before we have recovered from the sale of Kane.
And is that Stadium is even “our” home anymore? The football club feels like an anchor tenant in what was once our own stadium. When you are getting wankers turn up dressed in Fenerbahce shirts, caps and with flags in the home end during a champions league game then you really do have to question what this club has become ( fact by the way, it happened on Tuesday )
No one really cares, as long as the coin is spent then no questions seem to be asked, That is the Levy way 4th is cheaper than winning and as Dickens wrote, darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
Tonight, because I really actually do care I hope Daniel Levy feels as bad as everyone of us and wakes up tomorrow, like Scrooge on Christmas morning, and begins to sort this bloody mess out. It’s on him, not just the manager ( or is it coach ?)
To end my ( pointless rant ) It’s a fucking mess. And a disgrace and could end in relegation, but then “We are too big to go down!” ? Are we not ?
Silence.
These results are generational. They are so bad that we will always remember them. The performances are so very inept that they will be used as the comparison for future bad results, the same way we look at Ipswich away in the early 00’s or people look at Liverpool away in the 70’s, Port Vale in the 87 season.
How this mess has developed is the most perplexing of things. So much there of the elite level, stadium / training ground / players - yet fail to turn up at a game in Brighton, days after one of the biggest stains ever on British Football in terms of results. It’s ridiculous and we are rightly being ridiculed.
Now, more than ever, we need to see some decisions, we need to see a plan and a direction, but I fear we won’t, because we never really seem to. Time for Levy to not be a fucking coward. Sort it out. Back the manager. He won’t.
Poch, to his huge credit called this situation many months ago, maybe even at the end of the 17/18 season. He said it needed to change and a new direction set, he was ( now with hindsight) totally honest that this group had gone the distance and needed changing. Levy reacted by signing no one.
I suspect Poch anticipated the board backing him this last summer and and yet they did not, again. They fucked about and delivered injured players, punts on loan deal and a 60 million pound midfielder whom is, at best, questionable. It was never going to be enough. Again the manager called it. Jack Clark was signed and Poch never wanted him. Sessegnon pretended to be a big signing, but he was not ever that. It’s awful really.
The coaching team got players who were not up to speed, and then as a result they are forced to play those players who they needed to move on. All the time trying to do the impossible to keep players happy who knew they are not actually wanted around anymore.
If players like Eriksen, Toby or Jan were valued they would have contracts that reflected their contributions and status. Yet tellingly they are still on deals that were under market rate 4 years ago.
I don’t think Poch is being too loyal, more he’s being forced to play those he has long since said need to be jogged on, he has no choice to pick those players whom are compromised.
All roads lead back to Levy.
Here’s something I heard this past week, the day after Ndombele was signed the club made cuts to contracted staff. That sounded ridiculous, but on reflection, maybe not! £1 spent = £1 recovered. That’s the Levy way Look at the stunt with the shirts that was reported, they don’t “invest” they use the money the club makes to invest.
Over 20 years now almost everything that Spurs have done under Levy has had an air of the cheap about it and it’s boring as fuck.
Some people counter the lack of investment by pointing at the stadium and going “ohhh”. But fuck the stadium. That’s doing us no favours and it’s all part of a wider land deal anyway, the football club was used as leverage to buy up cheap land and property. ENIC will clean up on property long before we have recovered from the sale of Kane.
And is that Stadium is even “our” home anymore? The football club feels like an anchor tenant in what was once our own stadium. When you are getting wankers turn up dressed in Fenerbahce shirts, caps and with flags in the home end during a champions league game then you really do have to question what this club has become ( fact by the way, it happened on Tuesday )
No one really cares, as long as the coin is spent then no questions seem to be asked, That is the Levy way 4th is cheaper than winning and as Dickens wrote, darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
Tonight, because I really actually do care I hope Daniel Levy feels as bad as everyone of us and wakes up tomorrow, like Scrooge on Christmas morning, and begins to sort this bloody mess out. It’s on him, not just the manager ( or is it coach ?)
To end my ( pointless rant ) It’s a fucking mess. And a disgrace and could end in relegation, but then “We are too big to go down!” ? Are we not ?
Silence.
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