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The premise of this article is not that far off the mark, he's saying our chairman and boards handling of this fiasco is poor, well he's right. As far as the average comments go, yes compared to Preston or Ipswich we are certainly not average, but he is probably comparing us to the Pool, Utd and the scum, where we are most definately average in comparison.
He's not saying we shouldn't aspire to match the big three, but equally, Everton, Villa and Citeh will have similar aspirations to us and give or take have a similar trophy haul to us as well.
Read it again mate...
That's exactly what he's saying. He thinks fifth are the limits of our aspiration. "Jol took Spurs to the boundaries of their legitimate ambition, to fifth place"
"Jol was perfect for the club, being an average coach..."
Is an average coach good enough? Maybe we should only buy average players? In fact let's get shot of Berbatov immediately... how presumptious to think a club graced by players of the calibre of Greaves and Lineker, Ardiles and Ginola, Hoddle and Gascoigne should aspire to have the best!
"The Dutchman was not in the league of Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger or Rafa Benitez but then neither are Tottenham in the same realm as Manchester United, Arsenal or Liverpool."
We failed to qualify for CL by a mere point due to food poisoning, for a calendar year we were the fourth best team in the country, indeed we hovered between third and fourth. Perhaps Sevilla should have accepted their lot too? How dare they try to challenge the Valencia's, Barca's and RMads of this world, didn't they know they were only an average club?? And remind me where Utd were in the 80s? or Chelsea until the 2000s. There's a gap, but not in the same realm?? Come off it!
"[Levy] has delusions of grandeur if he believes Spurs have Champions League potential."
Not even expectations mind you, even potential is absurd to Winter.