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Dzejkob

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Success is relevant to expectation. If your expectation is that we should win a trophy every year, otherwise rendering us ' loosers and pussys', then you're going to end up disappointed 9 times out of 10.

Success to me is more than trophies, it's about the individual moments as much as anything else - winning away at Chelsea for the first time in a generation, beating Madrid at home, Dortmund away. It's also about seeing the team you support progress, even if that progression ultimately falls short of winning the biggest trophies, something which we've only done twice in over 100 years of history.

Yeah all that was success. I 100% agree with you. But we can't stop there! Look at your last sentence: "It's also about seeing the team you support progress". Our next step in progress is to win trophy.
 

SpursDave88

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Do you think that maybe that has more to do with the fact that they've improved their first XI with genuine quality year on year, rather than a 'loser's mentality', which mysteriously pervades the club at all levels, from the players right down to supporters on message boards?

I'd be interested to learn the mechanics of this mentality. Does it immediately consume an incoming player like Lucas (previously a 'winner', at PSG) the minute he steps out on to the pitch, or do the other more experienced players have to explain it to him?

I think you saw it on the pitch last night as we surrendered the game. Players learn it through a cycle of repeated failure.
 

Primativ

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Do you think that maybe that has more to do with the fact that they've improved their first XI with genuine quality year on year, rather than a 'loser's mentality', which mysteriously pervades the club at all levels, from the players right down to supporters on message boards?

I'd be interested to learn the mechanics of this mentality. Does it immediately consume an incoming player like Lucas (previously a 'winner', at PSG) the minute he steps out on to the pitch, or do the other more experienced players have to explain it to him?


:LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:
 

JCRD

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I think we will hammer Inter at Wembley. They didnt really cause us much trouble in terms of shots on goal etc until that damn volley

I am soooooooooooooooo gutted and we have to beat PSV twice i think now and hope PSV get something from Inter

A win will have done wonders for us
 

DEFchenkOE

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Do you think that maybe that has more to do with the fact that they've improved their first XI with genuine quality year on year, rather than a 'loser's mentality', which mysteriously pervades the club at all levels, from the players right down to supporters on message boards?

I'd be interested to learn the mechanics of this mentality. Does it immediately consume an incoming player like Lucas (previously a 'winner', at PSG) the minute he steps out on to the pitch, or do the other more experienced players have to explain it to him?

Lucas has been saying that he came here to win trophies, and said it after the utd game. He's probably been told since then to be quiet as we don't do that here.
 

OPModric

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Beating Chelsea in March feels like such a very long time ago.

Since then
- we failed to sign a single player despite making noises that now was the time
- the club have failed to communicate appropriately with the fans regarding the new stadium move
- we've had the announcement to playing in the new stadium delayed twice
- our club captain and usual perfect role model has tried to drive a car blind drunk
- our usually composed and calmly measured coach has started ranting and making baffling comments
- our talisman has completely lost his edge
- our fans are completely dismayed and have taken to fighting with each other
- club 'legends' are upsetting fans and belittling them

These bad decisions have to stop immediately and we all need to start to pull together.

If you mean Kane as our talisman, he wasnt playing that game. And we had our best attacking display for the season.
 

gerishep

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Yep, we have a losers mentality as a club.

Winners win, there's no other way of putting it. Yes I want to see us play nice football but when it comes to the important games and crucial times of the season, you do whatever it takes.

Us losing in injury time yesterday and Liverpool winning sums both clubs up. There's not much between our starting 11s and hasn't been over the past few years but if I had to bet on which club would win a trophy next I'd know who I'd be picking.
Agree but I'm wondering who out of our line up would get in their first 11.
 

shelfmonkey

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Beating Chelsea in March feels like such a very long time ago.

Since then
- we failed to sign a single player despite making noises that now was the time
- the club have failed to communicate appropriately with the fans regarding the new stadium move
- we've had the announcement to playing in the new stadium delayed twice
- our club captain and usual perfect role model has tried to drive a car blind drunk
- our usually composed and calmly measured coach has started ranting and making baffling comments
- our talisman has completely lost his edge
- our fans are completely dismayed and have taken to fighting with each other
- club 'legends' are upsetting fans and belittling them

These bad decisions have to stop immediately and we all need to start to pull together.

Our fans fighting amongst themselves? Where? When? Have we sunk so low that we literally are becoming the new Ar5ena1???!!
 

UbeAstard

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Didn't watch the match due to the lack of coverage here in the US, but has it occurred to anyone that Lamela needed to be subbed for fitness reasons? He's among the most injury-prone players in the squad and is coming off of a muscle issue.

That's not to excuse the crisis we're in. The cataclysmic, historically unprecedented failure to sign a single fucking player has cast a spectre over this entire season. The fans were completely shell-shocked and I have no doubt, particularly in light of the of the way we have played thus far, that the players reacted the same way. It was undeniable proof of our lack of ambition on the pitch, and it had to be hugely unsettling to a group of players who thought they were building toward competing for trophies.

Poch is not blameless in all this, but raking him over the coals for what could have easily been a forced substitution seems wrong to me. The problem is not that Lamela was subbed per se, but rather that the squad is so thin that we can't cope with one player coming off without completely capitulating.


I don't agree. When the players are interviewed none of this is coming across. Its suits some people's agenda though to tell us this evidently tight and close group of player players are reacting to no signings.
 

UbeAstard

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Dier needs to be put down. Never let him near a football in a spurs shirt. The guy is a fucking disaster. If it’s not blind back passes, it’s sideways balls, giving the ball away or pussying out of tackles. Bring back Wanyama of 2016-17

Or the Dier of 2015-2016
 

SEANSPURS1975

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Just seen that Icardi goal again. Good strike fair play, but did you see Vertonghen. Instead of throwing himself in front of the ball he turns out of the way.
Maybe abit harsh, but his turning away is wrong.
He’s surely got to take one for the team.
Take it in the face/body/arm whatever. Poor.
 
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