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I don't have the energy to complain or argue about Levy anymore. I don't give a fuck who owns the club. I don't give a fuck if we're in the Champions League, or the Europa League, or the Super League, or the fucking National League. I just want to watch football that doesn't make me want to stab out my eyes. Could care less if we win anything or not, sign anyone or not. Spurs are dreadful to watch most times out, and haven't brought me a drop of joy in fucking ages.It’s time we accept that this just simply won’t happen under our current owners.
They have absolutely no idea what direction they want this club to go, what philosophy they want to engage in. They’ve been here 20 years now and theyve flip flopped from an up and coming coach, old savvy coach, past hero player coach, coaches that have won it all in the past, current world class coach, coaches that play attacking football, coaches that play reactive counter attacking football.
Then you have the Director of Football shambles. We’ve had Directors of Football, Sporting Directors. DOFs with an attacking philosophy, DOFs that sign young talent, DOFs that sign a bit of both.
Daniel Levy is forever and a day preaching about “The Tottenham way” and playing “free flowing attacking football” but the guy hasn’t a clue what he’s talking about. There’s hasn’t been an on field vision from ENIC in 20 years and one isn’t going to magically appear.
The vision from ENIC has and always will be, how can we keep making as much revenue as possible by plodding along and continuing to trick the fans into thinking we actually care about what happens on the pitch.
Agree pretty much totally but my question is more around style than personnel (or the owners who i certainly wish would fuck off as thats why we've had three managers in a row under their watch who do not fit the club at all, and then havent backed them anyway)
I like your style sirLess focus on the football , more focus on the real estate wing of the empire
It’s time we accept that this just simply won’t happen under our current owners.Continuity in the footballing identity and philosophy of the club, above all else. Hard to blood academy players, or buy high potential youngsters, when you have no fucking clue how you'll be playing in 16 months.
Do that and make that identity something with some attacking drive and ambition and I'm happy, whether we're 1st or 7th.
I just don't enjoy Spurs anymore. It was more fucking fun a decade ago when we were total fucking chancers.
ENIC OUT!
Agree pretty much totally but my question is more around style than personnel (or the owners who i certainly wish would fuck off as thats why we've had three managers in a row under their watch who do not fit the club at all, and then havent backed them anyway)New owners, no more of the same players that have failed here for years (I don't mean players who havent won, I mean players who fail at the basics of their job for manager after manager).
Unless that happens, it hardly matters who the new coach is, you could get Klopp here and ask him to work with Davies, Sanchez etc and it'd go to shit.
Yeah, this thread has already twisted into a "new owners/bash Levy" exercise again. We can't force him to sell. We can coerce him into sacking the manager and finding someone we appreciate more.I'm of a similar mind as MemphisWill .
I want a clear identity for Spurs. Both on and off the field.
I want a focus on attacking football. It doesn't have to be entertaining tiki taka, a fierce direct attacking style can work as well depending on the manager. But Spurs should always look to play on the front foot.
We also need to go back to focusing on recruiting young, hungry players that come here to grow into stars (TBF to Paratici and Gabannini, that seems to be the recruitment MO already), and sprinkle in some key veteran signings. We also need to get more out of the academy.
In short, we need to abandon this idea that we can be a Real Madrid style club and go back to being a English Dortmund/Leipzig equivalent. Playing good football and developing young stars. And hopefully we can combine that with winning some cups or maybe a EL or ECL if we end up in it. The last sentence is the cynic in me speaking since realistically winning the league or CL will be very hard given the money at the top of the PL. We definitely have the money to at least be competitive. We just need to be smarter and maybe find a bit of a cup mindset to get the silverware.
There's no reason that top 4 participation and cup titles cannot be combined if we are savvy enough.