Tottenham Hotspur Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2024/25

Glebee

Jose experiment has to be put down as a complete disaster area. Unless he walks no way is Levy getting rid of him. Smilely happy Jose is a distant memory at this stage. Not sure where Spurs go from here but going nowhere with the majority of this team.

Charliebull

crossroads has been reached

do we go left into mid table obscurity again and sell Kane, half empty stadium and fcuk all to shout about,

do we go right and invest in the team to get us back up into the top positions

ENIC decision and unfortunately I have a fair idea which way this will go

Chelsea reached that point 3 years ago and turned right
Liverpool reached it 4 years ago and turned right
Man Utd maybe 7 years ago, farted about for a few years but have now turned right
Arsenal- well they are still trying to decide and TBH that is the only saving grace at the moment

Now is the time when will see how serious ENIC are about this club,

Ormus

ENIC run the club on a business model and that’s not going to change.

Charliebull

Ormus wrote: »

ENIC run the club on a business model and that’s not going to change.

yes true, but one would hope rather naively maybe, enic might say well to make money you have to spend money

bums on seats make money
a half empty stadium watching a stinking pile of horse ****e
or a full stadium watching a team challenging

but unfortunately that is not what will matter, sky money, stadium rental, that will be the income stream

greenspurs, i think you are wearing off on me

Ormus

Charliebull wrote: »

yes true, but one would hope rather naively maybe, enic might say well to make money you have to spend money

bums on seats make money
a half empty stadium watching a stinking pile of horse ****e
or a full stadium watching a team challenging

but unfortunately that is not what will matter, sky money, stadium rental, that will be the income stream

greenspurs, i think you are wearing off on me

Well obviously at the moment the stadiums are completely empty, but I think Spurs fans are generally pretty loyal in attending games even in the bad times.

Covid + stadium debts = it’s really not the time to play fast and loose with money

Charliebull

Ormus wrote: »

Well obviously at the moment the stadiums are completely empty, but I think Spurs fans are generally pretty loyal in attending games even in the bad times.

Covid + stadium debts = it’s really not the time to play fast and loose with money

yes I agree to an extent, but there is a big difference in selling out a 32k stadium and a 62k stadium

I was in London during the Graham, Pleat, Hoddle, Santini and Jol years and there was never much problem getting a ticket, stadium very rarely at full capacity apart from the big games, most days it was 90-95%

of course they need to be prudent but we also need some investment, one decent player, look what BF has done at Utd
worst thing we could do is go into next season with the same squad

for the remainder of the season, why not give sessognon a run at left back
give ndombele game time

2nd Row Donkey

Ormus wrote:

We were soundly thrashed. Jose out.

Damn. Ormus wants Jose out. Sh1t just got real, fast.

Ormus

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Damn. Ormus wants Jose out. Sh1t just got real, fast.

Haha I’ve always been in the Jose out camp.

LostArt

True it's not the time to blow a ton of cash but Enic only have a couple of options as I see it;
1. Back Jose with at least few astute signings, rb, dm and cb at a minimum. Personally I'd sell Alli, Lucas and Lamela to finance this.

2. Put us through the inevitable ****show next season will be if he doesn't get the players he wants, which will lead to sacking him mid season and Kane leaving when he's had enough.

(my preferred option would be sacking him but that's not going to happen, have a feeling my season ticket will be on the exchange a lot next season if anyone needs a ticket!)

Charliebull

Credit to solkskear and UTD board for backing him

joeguevara

Charliebull wrote: »

Credit to solkskear and UTD board for backing him

Very recently United fans wanted him out. Wouldn't say the overly backed him.

Huge similarities between them and us.

joeguevara

Charliebull wrote: »

Credit to solkskear and UTD board for backing him

Very recently United fans wanted him out. Wouldn't say the overly backed him.

Huge similarities between them and us.

2nd Row Donkey

I guess none of us are expecting much here. Strong team out. I think the team will react tonight...
... And then go back to been **** as usual

MonkieSocks

lo Celso

2nd Row Donkey

That was flukey.

Glebee

A good dollop of luck, well take what we can. We just seem so flat and dead. Huff and puff but no end result a lot of the time.

2nd Row Donkey

What the hell was that with Son and Lloris?

Glebee

A row going off the pitch at the end.... clear the lot of them out.

spurshero

Glebee wrote: »

A row going off the pitch at the end.... clear the lot of them out.

Jesus if this is entertainment I don’t know . Would put you to sleep . Only bit of life was when loris was having a go at sonny going down the tunnel

Glebee

If lloris wants to bollick son fair enough, but keep it for the dressing room you clown. Harmless enough in the end. Brutal bad football match...

deisedevil

joeguevara wrote: »

Very recently United fans wanted him out. Wouldn't say the overly backed him.

Huge similarities between them and us.

He said the United board backed him. And they did. Gave him plenty to spend too.

abff

This is painful to watch.

abff

That’s a relief.

spurshero

abff wrote: »

That’s a relief.

Up there with worst games I ever seen.

Charliebull

A lot of respect for Hugo after that interview ,
Can see why he is skipper

LostArt

spurshero wrote: »

Up there with worst games I ever seen.

think that was worse than last week tbh

spurshero

I dunno . 7 months in or so it’s hard to see what Jose is bringing to the table . It was probaly time for poch to go but I can’t see mourinho been a success. He’s not gonna have much money to spend you would imagine so not sure where the improvement is going to come out of to get us challenging top 4 again .he will have to get next season as this season was half over when he came in but to be honest I will be suprised if he’s still manager this time next year . At the moment you wouldn’t even be excited sitting down to watch a match .

seamie78

very well said

MrKingsley

Everyone could see that the squad needed a massive reshuffle. We paid the price for a couple of years of no investment.

But everyone also knows that Mourinho needs money to change things. He always has. And we will have very little(in any) to spend.

It will be interesting/embarrassing/incredibly frustrating to see how it plays out publicly with Levy and him

Dublin Spur

how have we fallen so far so fast ?

18 months ago we were in a title race with one of the best young coaches in world football

those windows with no investment are haunting us now

it's a hell of a way back now but at least the Guns n' Roses gig has been rescheduled for next summer

#fúckoffenic

joeguevara

Thought we were decent in the second half. Sissoko was very good as was Lo Celsco. Harry Kane was poor. Lamela as ususal was good when he came on.

jobeenfitz

Eric Dier banned for four games.

abff

jobeenfitz wrote: »

Eric Dier banned for four games.

That’s pretty harsh, but I guess there’s no point in appealing it. Another fallout from a dire FA cup performance.

MrKingsley

abff wrote: »

That’s pretty harsh, but I guess there’s no point in appealing it. Another fallout from a dire FA cup performance.

4 games sounds about right to me. Very little by the way of precedent though.

Just a really stupid thing to do and deserves to be punished

abff

MrKingsley wrote: »

4 games sounds about right to me. Very little by the way of precedent though.

Just a really stupid thing to do and deserves to be punished

It was slightly reminiscent of Trevor Brennan going after an Ulster fan after a Toulouse-Ulster game in 2007. Of course, Trevor actually hit the fan. And he got a lifetime ban, which was subsequently reduced to 5 years.

So I guess 4 weeks is relatively short when looked at in that context.

Glebee

Fully deserved, no arguement. You cant take off into the stand fighting FFS.

Charliebull

Fully deserved but pity cause the guy was actually playing ok

Glebee

10th place, behind Burnley:o

Kiith

Glebee wrote: »

10th place, behind Burnley:o

Wolves losing is good for us, even if it probably doesn't matter anymore.

2nd Row Donkey

Don't fall for it lads.

Who wants europa league **** next season anyway, we need to go flat out for a league Cup win next season.

MonkieSocks

For those on FREESAT we are on live tomorrow 5.30 PICK Channel

Mr. Guappa

MonkieSocks wrote: »

For those on FREESAT we are on live tomorrow 5.30 PICK Channel

It's on Sky One too.

Dr. Tottenham to fix all Bournemouth's problems?

Charliebull

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Don't fall for it lads.

Who wants europa league **** next season anyway, we need to go flat out for a league Cup win next season.

Would we not be better going flat out for a Europa league, might be our best chance for CL qualification

joeguevara

This is the game to blow out our cobwebs. As far as Im aware Bournemouth have lost 5 on the bounce. I know I know, I said that Sheffield were on a bad run, but my god we should be putting these away in our sleep. Dier being banned will make for an interesting back 4 decision. Will Toby and Jan play together for the first time in months.

Kane needs to hit the ground running tonight. My wish is we go all guns blazing. Stick SIssoko as our holding mid and blitz mid and attack with pure striking players. We need a bit of swagger. Going for 3 nil.

Glebee

It cant be possible that we dont pick up 3 points this evening Are we actually that pooor?? I just dont know anymore
1-1 draw...

Charliebull

Glebee wrote: »

It cant be possible that we dont pick up 3 points this evening Are we actually that pooor?? I just dont know anymore
1-1 draw...

LOL, spoken like a true spurs fan

joeguevara

If we don't win tonight I will wear a West Ham Jersey (if donated for the rest of our matches this season).

Charliebull

joeguevara wrote: »

If we don't win tonight I will wear a West Ham Jersey (if donated for the rest of our matches this season).

Jayus joe, that’s a fate worse than castration

joeguevara

Charliebull wrote: »

Jayus joe, that’s a fate worse than castration

Just showing my commitment

MrKingsley

Haven’t watched a minute of football since it’s been back. Might change that this evening though.

This seems to me like a game where we turn on the charm and win 3-0 or piss about and lose 1-0 and get a man sent off