How do we get players to love our club

[yido4life]

Morning all

Ive been thinking alot lately about the ingredients at top clubs. One of them seems to be the fact that the players love their club. I think this is most evident at Utd, Arsenal and Chelsea. The players seem to have a genuine belonging. I know Fabregas has recently left Arsenal but he still has some very good things to say about them and I genuinely believe he would not have left for any other club. I know RVP is stalling on a new contract but you always get a sense of his passion for the club (and hes been there a fair few years!)

I think we are starting to develop that with some players, I think VDV seems to have a genuine passion for Spurs, Bale seems to be heading that way and obviously Ledders. I thought it with Modders until the summer.

Does anybody understand what im trying to say ad see any sense in it or just think that players like Terry, Lampard, RVP, Ferdinand, Rooney etc. are purely in it for the money

 

[donny1013]

VdV said positive things about our fans with regards to our reaction to Modric but it's harder these days with all the money in the game for players to genuinely love the club. You will get players like Parker and VdV that are immensely passionate but thats because their natural winners/leaders. It's a job for them in reality, do many people genuinely love the company they work for? Success and money are what it comes down to.

 

[whitelightwhiteheat]

Winning major honours. That would do it, I think. It's no coincidence that trophy-laden players = happy players.

No trophies = move on. Like Fabregas.

 

[tototoner]

play the fans

 

[yido4life]

play the fans

LOL id be well up for that!!!

 

[sam1972]

Get em hooked on drugs without them knowing about it.
When they are not at the club they have a need to be there.

 

[jonnyp]

Not booing them or slagging them off no end at games would be a good start.

 

[depeche222]

Original songs for players - a start?

 

[Leachie]

Pay them lots of money and win lots of trophies. Easy.

 

[rebrab]

A bit of success, and a manager that makes them feel welcome

 

[antiloqus]

pay me £120,000 a week and I will love you unconditionally.

 

[orkneyspur]

Loving the club is all about belonging. This team played at the end of the sixties, early seventies. Look how many appearances they made for us. That's love!

Pat Jennings ; 472
Cyril Knowles; 400
Phil Beal; 330
Mike England; 300
Ray Evans; 132
Steve Perryman; 475
Alan Mullery; 312
Martin Peters; 189
John Pratt; 307
Alan Gilzean; 335
Jimmy Greaves; 379

 

[JimmyG2]

I'm always being shouted down for going on about two way loyalty, one club players and longing for the old days when players and fans were local.
You know the old 'wake up and smell the coffee Grandad'

It won't ever come back, football is a business first now, players including foreign players are completely mobile, and the rewards for success are too great.

Scott Parker is a case in point. Of course he's happy at Spurs, he's an automatic selection, the fans and manager love him, he 's at the end of his career and has got a good final pay day. But you could hardly accuse him of loyalty in the latter stages of his career. He turned us down twice or more to chase the money. I don't blame him it's the nature of the game which is where we started.

But we did lose something important when we threw the bath-water out



I always take players love of the club and especially of the manager with a pinch of salt.
Adebayor will leave us like a shot if he can find someone to pay close to his current wage, nomatter what sentiments he expresses in the meantime.
As will all the others except Ledley, we all know why, when our current run of success ends, or Harry leaves or whatever.

 

[spursontheloose]

We simply kidnap their Girlfriends, wifes and kids! They will love spurs soon enough :up:

 

[sim0n]

Loving the club is all about belonging. This team played at the end of the sixties, early seventies. Look how many appearances they made for us. That's love!

Pat Jennings ; 472
Cyril Knowles; 400
Phil Beal; 330
Mike England; 300
Ray Evans; 132
Steve Perryman; 475
Alan Mullery; 312
Martin Peters; 189
John Pratt; 307
Alan Gilzean; 335
Jimmy Greaves; 379

A little off topic, but it's funny that Jennings, Knowles, and Perryman didn't need a player behind them "pushing" for their place in the starting 11 to perform... perhaps a bit of a myth the "competition for places" theory? Not fussed either way, just found it interesting.

 

[CosmicHotspur]

I agree that success is a key ingredient.

However, every new player coming to Tottenham (including schoolboys and Academy players) should be given a session on the history of the club including some film footage of past successes and glory as well as meeting and talking to veteran players who are still around the club in one capacity or another like Cliff Jones, Phil Beal, Clive Allen, Pat Jennings, etc. and players like Ledley King who have been at the Lane for a long time.

If you work for a new company, don't you get an induction of some kind so you know their culture and who you are working for and with?

Spurs have a rich and glorious heritage and making a player feel he is a part of it and perhaps a part of more great history in the making could possibly instil a sense of belonging and build a sense of loyalty. It certainly couldn't do any harm.

 

[yido4life]

I agree that success is a key ingredient.

However, every new player coming to Tottenham (including schoolboys and Academy players) should be given a session on the history of the club including some film footage of past successes and glory as well as meeting and talking to veteran players who are still around the club in one capacity or another like Cliff Jones, Phil Beal, Clive Allen, Pat Jennings, etc. and players like Ledley King who have been at the Lane for a long time.

If you work for a new company, don't you get an induction of some kind so you know their culture and who you are working for and with?

Spurs have a rich and glorious heritage and making a player feel he is a part of it and perhaps a part of more great history in the making could give possibly instil a sense of belonging and build a sense of loyalty. It certainly couldn't do any harm.

Good shout cosmicspur

Ive often wondered what the dressing room looks like but if I were in charge I would have lots of very classy pictures hanging up of the greats like Kimmy Greaves et all, holding trophys etc.

 

[DEFchenkOE]

play the fans

There should be a fans playing league, I'd sign up for the Spurs trials lol

 

[Dundalk_Spur]

One of the problems we seemed to have over the years is the ghost of the 60/61 team hanging over those that came after.

Every Spurs team will be compared to that team, which is unfair as they were a one off collection of individuals moulded into a great team by a one off manager.

Instead of trying to be better than that team maybe we should try and channel the spirit and determination that team and manager had and push us on instead of letting it be a millstone around out necks.

To be fair, if we keep on as we have been, that may just happen sooner rather than later.

Sorry for being slightly off topic.

 

[OmarsComing]

Its a lot harder nowadays due to the bosman rule and the game has moved on. If you get a player who supported us as a boy and now plays for us then he will probably show loyalty unless we're not competitive and some of the huge clubs come in for him; like what happened with Rooney.

Wilshere's a gooner through and through, I cant see him leaving Arsenal ever.