Where it really went wrong?

[Carlito Brigante]

In your opinion?

 

[harrymonk]

spending most of the cash on ice creams

 

[Pairsy1882]

The course of true love never did run smooth.

 

[SchmoodSpur2013]

Can 'none of the above' count?

 

[Carlito Brigante]

Can 'none of the above' count?

If you're willing to add a sensible alternative

 

[cahspur]

Poor acquisitions with the Bale money. All are talented players, but some were just entirely untailored to our needs while we left a couple areas in shockingly bad shape.

 

[Drewinho]

I went with sacking AVB. I think we were forced into sacking 'Arry with the farce that happened. Appointment of AVB showed some ambition. Selling Bale inevitable without Champions League. Should have bought a younger/better striker like Benteke in hindsight (Lamela will still be a good buy). There was no one better than Sherwood after the sacking of Villas Boas, which made his sacking even more of a joke.

I don't agree it's all gone wrong though.

 

[SchmoodSpur2013]

If you're willing to add a sensible alternative

I'd say not splurging enough between getting 4th and the CL season. Needed to have a squad of our size and relative quality now with Bale, VDV, Modric to compete all round that year. Out of the options, the appointment of Sherwood seems the silliest, but not where anything went wrong.

 

[Carlito Brigante]

The course of true love never did run smooth.

There's having the odd tiff with the missus then there's coming home regularly to find her being thrown around your house by Leroy from down the street.

 

[SchmoodSpur2013]

I'd say not splurging enough between getting 4th and the CL season. Needed to have a squad of our size and relative quality now with Bale, VDV, Modric to compete all round that year. Out of the options, the appointment of Sherwood seems the silliest, but not where anything went wrong.

EDIT- so I'd go with selling Bale actually.

 

[yiddo2786]

We're 3 points off 4th.

 

[cahspur]

I don't agree it's all gone wrong though.

Yeah I feel the same, we're not clicking and questionable decisions have been made, but things could certainly be worse. That we're still within shot of fourth despite some of those decisions and some glaring weaknesses is testament to some real individual quality of some of the players.

 

[Parko]

Regardless of the broader context of the Redknapp sacking, we were dangerously close to being one of the most exciting sides in the world.

Spoiler

I'm glad neg rep is no more

 

[Carlito Brigante]

We're 3 points off 4th.

Ha ha if we get forth I will turn up at the first 1882 meet of next season wearing nothing but a "I love the trust tshirt"

 

[Smoked Salmon]

Sacking Redknapp. Said at the time and say it now. He should only have gone for someone better. AVB was not it - he was on the same level at best. Levy should've swallowed his pride and kept Harry on until he could sort out a deal with someone of the vanGaal calibre - however long it took.

 

[Kris]

Ha ha if we get forth I will turn up at the first 1882 meet of next season wearing nothing but a "I love the trust tshirt"

I saw a few blokes at the Dagenham Youth game in expensive coats and thought you may have come to mingle with the commoners.

 

[Carlito Brigante]

I saw a few blokes at the Dagenham Youth game in expensive coats and thought you may have come to mingle with the commoners.

I don't have time to make midweek first team games these days....I wouldn't waste my time on that shit.

 

[AlMacca_]

I 100% wanted AVB in when we sacked Harry as I thought he'd be better, he quite clearly wasn't. It all started from his appointment imo (and I backed him all the way up until till about mid November)

Edit: Although I don't think it's gone completely wrong at all

 

[BushHillSpurs]

If you're willing to add a sensible alternative

The cuntish, fickle, "Top four's our everything", 90% of our fan base... Yes, im willing to think that our fans are contributing to our downfall.

http://spurscommunity.co.uk/index.php?threads/do-you-care-as-much-as-you-did.106548/

 

[CJJ]

I agree that it isn't that bad so far.

I do think that we would have had more chance of further progression under Redknapp, he had a better eye for instant impact players and would deserve recognition for his work with Bale.

His drawbacks are many, but severely outweighed by his advantages