Spurs (A) Post match Thread

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

I'm expecting now to be a jittery wreck at the Southampton game!

Definitely hearing now in the media that we are better than last year and there are definitely signs of that but I agree with Pep there's scope for improvement; heaven help the rest if we do keep improving.

The improvement is in the finishing mainly I would say. We miss a lot of good chances and eventually that will cost us in a tight game. It almost did last night although we were the better side.

 

[OB1]

The improvement is in the finishing mainly I would say. We miss a lot of good chances and eventually that will cost us in a tight game. It almost did last night although we were the better side.

We’ve been wasting too many chances for years; it wouldn’t take too much improvement there to make us unstoppable.

I think there are plenty of other things we could improve but mostly fine tuning compared to our wastefullness.

 

[dobingsdobber]

Slick, polished and professional ...but smug as fcuk. He’s made sincerity a high art form.

Reminds me so much of Tony Blair - both in appearance and manner.

Yep,should have stuck to Wheel of Fortune

 

[HarrytheBlue]

Were you at Derby away on the beach ?

The pitch played OK, it obviously looked shite, but it played OK, apart from the odd bad bounce, and it bobbled a bit, Stones said we adapted to it by going a bit longer at times, but we still played our football on it. In the end it hurt spurs more than us.

I did go to away games at the Baseball Ground in the 70s - penalty spot repainting and all. Yep, we went long at times, but Eddie hits a fantastic long pass. Laporte hits a beautiful long diagonal. Keep the opponent guessing.

 

[HarrytheBlue]

To be fair, do you think Gary Neville has much of a clue? Or just friends in high places?

He's had two restaurants that didn't last 12 months. He opened the worst nightclub Manchester has ever known that didn't last 12 months. His hotel is the ugliest building that Manchester has seen in the last 50 years. He's had numerous failed attempts at diabolical proposals for his St Michael's development.

All in all, with the same financial backing, I don't think many people on here would make much more of a pigs ear of it than Neville has. I doubt Carragher would either.

And Neville was talking absolute bollocks in regards to Tottenham as well. He was saying you "can't spend money that you don't have". What the fuck is he talking about? Businesses can't invest? Sounds rather odd, I was under the impression that they can?

Sheikh Mansour has invested £1.5bn and his investment is now worth closer to £3bn. We've won 3 league titles and are set up to dominate for the next half a decade. I'd say "spending what you don't have" has worked out pretty well for us, both in sporting terms, and financially.

Tottenham may well have £400m tied up in the new stadium, but infrastructure costs don't count towards FFP, so they could still invest in the playing squad if they so wished. They have chosen not to. And don't tell me that the owner doesn't have the money. He's just spent £115m on a Bond villian style Superyacht. The first in the world with an indoor tennis court. I don't think he's short of a few bob. He just chooses not to spend it on making Tottenham competitive.

https://yachtharbour.com/news/inside-the-first-superyacht-to-have-an-indoor-tennis-court-2352

Joe Lewis is worth about £6b - can afford to splash the cash. However, they operate with a particular business model and just because the owner is worth X or Y, how much of that is actually tied up in the club ? Spurs have good players, but are stagnating because they aren't freshening up the team.

 

[ancoats]

it was a big big game that we all tended to forget and with what went on at leicester and with the pitch in a right state and the media pressure and spotlight on us and klopps liverpool having a 20 point lead just about makes it impossible to win, but you know what this is pep and new city and this squad never takes 2nd best and the taste of glory has got to us all, we are like a dog with a bone dare you try to take it off us we will bite you

forget the pitch and most of the team having a nightmare ?? but just having pep on the bench sends out the message that nobody else has got and he is the fear factor, i know people say its a team sport and its player based, but nobody i have ever seen manager of manchester city has total power and respect that pep command from everybody its like a composer and his orchestra everything is controlled by him pace timing front and back rows strings its a master at work

any other manager and his team at manchester city over the years would folded and lost that game and by a big score last night, then took the easy way out and blamed the pitch and the players and skysports and the fans and the tea lady, but we are talking about the greatest manager ever and am talking world football and premier league and europe as ever seen, we are so blessed to have pep as manager of manchester city and its like all our Christmases have all come at once

 

[Shaelumstash]

Joe Lewis is worth about £6b - can afford to splash the cash. However, they operate with a particular business model and just because the owner is worth X or Y, how much of that is actually tied up in the club ? Spurs have good players, but are stagnating because they aren't freshening up the team.

I totally agree, mate.

It's so very British that showing ambition and investing in a business is something that is looked down upon (City) and stagnating and just accepting your place in the established order (Spurs) is hailed as "the right way to do things".

 

[brazilians hurt]

And there’s me thinking that it was possibly only me that thought Eric Lamela was a complete ****
Turns out everyone does ergo he must actually be one

 

[taleofbluehalves]

those two fools were on sky debating that it is not pock faces fault as he has spent no money it is because they have bought a new stadium, a bit like the arse where the fans buy the owners a nice shiny new stadium for their portfolio and the fans can feel so generous while watching crap

They could have won the league twice in that time and had 2 semi final appearances. They had their chances but blew them.

 

[taleofbluehalves]

To be fair - Spurs are closer to the likes of Everton, Newcastle and Leicester when it comes to spending money and wages yet the team is way better than them and when you look at what the rags and Arsenal have with circa double the outlay it starts to put it into perspective. Spuds squad is functioning way ahead of its value and wage bill on a comparative basis. That and the fact that a lot of the decent performances come from coaching decent form out of mostly young developing players and I think Poch deserves credit.

If spuds lose Poch they could be in real trouble, stadium issues and mounting debt. In a way they have been lucky to get this far with him.

Those are all fair points. Having said all that they got into position where they could have won the league and got to at least 2 cup finals but blew their chance. Leicester however freaky
got the title and they spent less than Spurs. I wouldn’t want him to go to Utd but in a title run in would he get them over the line?