Match Threads Man City Vs Spurs

[pom aussie spur]

i really hope the rumours of investment/take over are true...

the squad is bang average, the defence outside of Romero second rate. We need to invest 200M in the back five give or take...

As conte said - we need 6 - 7 windows....

Bill gates wouldnt have enough Windows for us!

 

[Trent Crimm]

Sick of the average players. Davies. Dier, PEH. Lloris looks terrified most of the time, son has fallen off a cliff, Kane is house hunting in Alderley Edge. No real cohesion and for sure zero passion.

I’ve tried to stay positive but I’m almost beaten.

 

[bubble07]

Did he say RW or RWB? I'm not worried about our RW position but RWB needs big improvement

Meant RwB

 

[DarwinSpur]

Lol - was at the theatre getting some culture, come out at the interval for a sneaky vape and find out we are 0-2 up at halftime!


SHould never have left the auditorium...

 

[FloridaSpur]

Two things to consider in this debacle.

1: City are still only five points behind Woolwich

2: Will the THST send another "unhappy of North London" letter to the club?


I have spent six thousand, three hundred of my best British pounds over the last three seasons on a season ticket to support this club, and have carried one for over thirty years.

Levy will not get another penny off me.

Not one.

 

[Spurs 1961]

Lol - was at the theatre getting some culture, come out at the interval for a sneaky vape and find out we are 0-2 up at halftime!


SHould never have left the auditorium...

It’s OK. Pep had sussed Conte’s rope a dope tactics and told his team to sleep for the first half. He then brought them out of their slumber at half-time and told his team to play. It completely confused our boss and players. What do you do when you score first and that before half-time? How comes another team runs around more than we do in the second half? Pep should be banned for using such underhand methods.

 

[TonyS]

Fuck me, where do I start. Had a few hours to come to terms with that game and fuck me, how many times have I said that before?? At 2 up, I knew it wasn’t done and dusted, but I felt we should get a draw out of this. Little did I realize that we would fold like a deck of cards.
Like most on here, Tottenham is engrained in me. We live eat and breathe them. We are there through thick and thin. It’s in our blood and however hard we try to distance ourselves from them, in terms of not giving a shit, we get drawn back in quicker than a greyhound chasing a hare. That’s why it hurts so much and that’s why it always will.
This year marks 49 years for me supporting the Spurs. The pain in losing today, is the same as when we were relegated back in the 70s. I always yearned to have a consistent winning team and not just cup runs. Yes, we had spells of some goodness and spells of when we felt we were on the cusp of something good. Again, that was short lived and without much silverware to show.
I remember vividly watching Man U winning one of their first premierships. Watching the celebrations on Sky and hoping it would be us someday. To experience the highs of winning and to be on top of the world. Even then though, I knew we were way off and that it would take a miracle.
We had our best shot under Poch and he was never backed properly.
Are our current crop of players simply not good enough?? Probably, but surely they can raise their game, stop fucking around with stupid mistakes and act like the professionals they are meant to be.
Surely Danny Boy can see the only real answer is to sell while we have something worth selling. Man U and Liverpool are going to be sold soon, so suitors will be somewhat scarce or at worst, knock our valuation down a bit. If nothing else the stadium alone makes us somewhat of a viable option, along with the fact we are in London
To all of you members here, I know the pain and it cuts so deep. Id love to say I’m done with the team for this season and I could not care less, but I can’t. It’s like a drug and we keep going back. There is nothing l want more than to see us winning, winning with a bit of swagger, have players who want to play for us and cross that line with the same passion as we the fans have. A trophy of two will also be nice
If we don’t buck up both on and off the field sharpish, we could be in a very precarious position. Over to you Messers Levy and Lewis.
COYS

 

[rossdapep]

I'm almost beyond caring anymore. People can say I'm a fair whether fan or whatever but I've supported Spurs since the 80s and so lived through plenty of crap teams in my life before.

I think the combination of feeling like we were on the verge of finally being able to fulfil our potential when we got to the new stadium, combined with successive managers who not only serve us up some of the most boring football I've ever seen, but do so almost unashamedly on purpose, is finally just wearing me down.

Let's be honest, whether we finish 1st or 20th, the majority of us here are going to be spurs fans either way. But what I just can't take any more is being bored into submission.

Maybe some people will say it's a weird take after a "thrilling" 6-goal encounter, but I didn't even watch today. I just genuinely can't be bothered half the time nowadays. Slate me all you like, just being hinestt

You're not a fair weather fan, mate.

This club takes something out of us every time. It instills a bit of belief and hope and then rips it away again.

Well, actually, it's not the club. It's the owners.

Before they arrived we were always, on average, about 5 years away from a trophy or a good spell. But ownership changed more frequently, and with that brings something differently. Something to believe in.

We've had ENIC for 20 odd years now and whilst we are no longer that mess of a club in the 90s, I do think ENIC have ripped the soul out of the club with their big off-field ambitions, but haven't brought really the fans along for the ride s a lot of the footballing aspects have had to come second best.

Any time we've had joy or connection, especially with coaches like Jol and Poch, they get ejected instead of supported.

It just leaves you with this numb feeling because you always know despite how good it could get or what hope you can be given, it gets ripped away.

For example, the Jose appointment. How did Levy look at that and think "Jose gets us as a club and what we stand for, the fans will love it" - nope, he was thinking of everything but the fans' feelings with that one. To make matters worse he then did it with Nuno whilst turning his nose up at coaches that would totally be accepted and fit - Ten Hag,

It's just a constant piss take at the fans' expense.

Fans paying all that money to not have the board respect what the fans and club are at heart.

If Levy stayed true to the club's values and got it wrong, you could at least say that he was constant and gets the fans. Yet he doesn't even do that.

So yeah, it leaves you with the feeling of being resigned to 'What's the point?"

Only a change of ownership can change the course of how we are feeling. It's the only answer.

 

[rossdapep]

You're not a fair weather fan, mate.

This club takes something out of us every time. It instills a bit of belief and hope and then rips it away again.

Well, actually, it's not the club. It's the owners.

Before they arrived we were always, on average, about 5 years away from a trophy or a good spell. But ownership changed more frequently, and with that brings something differently. Something to believe in.

We've had ENIC for 20 odd years now and whilst we are no longer that mess of a club in the 90s, I do think ENIC have ripped the soul out of the club with their big off-field ambitions, but haven't brought really the fans along for the ride s a lot of the footballing aspects have had to come second best.

Any time we've had joy or connection, especially with coaches like Jol and Poch, they get ejected instead of supported.

It just leaves you with this numb feeling because you always know despite how good it could get or what hope you can be given, it gets ripped away.

For example, the Jose appointment. How did Levy look at that and think "Jose gets us as a club and what we stand for, the fans will love it" - nope, he was thinking of everything but the fans' feelings with that one. To make matters worse he then did it with Nuno whilst turning his nose up at coaches that would totally be accepted and fit - Ten Hag,

It's just a constant piss take at the fans' expense.

Fans paying all that money to not have the board respect what the fans and club are at heart.

If Levy stayed true to the club's values and got it wrong, you could at least say that he was constant and gets the fans. Yet he doesn't even do that.

So yeah, it leaves you with the feeling of being resigned to 'What's the point?"

Only a change of ownership can change the course of how we are feeling. It's the only answer.

...and to add to this point.

Remember back in 2017 when we were riding this wave of continuous joy under Poch?

Well we all said at the time that we needed to take it count.

ENIC and Levy are precisely why because they were always going to stuff it up to ensure that we didn't stay up there.

Because of there lack of footballing vision and reluctance to accept that others should be directing that.

 

[DenverSpur]

I’m sure there’s many who will have been over critical of our performance because we lost but overall I thought we played quite well. There was some good performances we merely got Mahrezed in the 15 minutes following half time. It happens.
In the first half most of City’s attacks came down their left and Emerson, supported by Kulu snuffed everything out. Second half they switched to attaching down the right and Mahrez killed us. Perisic and Son were not as strong as the right side pair were.
Lloris should do better for the third.

I will say that in the first half we did really well dropping back into a 5-4-1 shape when out of possession and then breaking quickly when we got the ball. Strangely going into the second half with a 2 goal lead we didn’t seem to get into that shape as well as we did in the first half.

 

[Monkey Bastard Hands]

Heavy sigh.

Living in Singapore I was two minds on whether to watch this live, record it and watch it with my cornflakes, or not bother and just check the scoreline when I woke up. As it turned out the kids woke up at 5am and so I caught the last 20 mins or so. We were already 3-2 down by that stage but I didn't realise we were 2-0 until I read the report afterwards. From what I saw, we played well. We were quick, attacked with intent, and actually looked creative for the first time in a while. But fuck me what a shit defence we've got.

We make it so difficult for ourselves and that's the thing that frustrates me the most. It's the individual errors, the poor first touches, the wayward passes. We can't afford to do that in this league and it's costing us dearly. Clearly the players are not up to it, in terms of ability and mental strength. We are a shambles.

The only positive is that it closed the gap on the scum.

 

[DenverSpur]

The reason we lost that game is the same reason we haven't achieved anything in years. Can't handle pressure. It's ingrained in the club. Everyone wilts when the heat gets turned up.

It’s in our DNA. Has been for a long long time.

 

[DenverSpur]

I like to find little silver linings when I can - it’s nice not to see a steady steam of Royal bashing after a game. Man has been massively mistreated by supporters.

He was excellent in the first half especially defensively.

 

[BuryMeInEngland]

And after every game the club has the brass balls to post "highlights of the game" on their Facebook page. What a fucking god awful job that must be, picking out the 'highlights'.

 

[DenverSpur]

This is my issue with Conte. Its never 'us' it's always the 'club' or 'i'.. Case in point his statement after a 2 nil becomes a 4 - 2 loss. 'I'm disappointed because 1st time in my career I'm losing a 2 goal lead'. Then bloke asks what yyou need to do to close gap = 'this is question for the club". Never the right fitfor THFC and this is for the anti-Levy crew... HE NEVER WILL BE!
Balancing the books.. Levy and ENIC can fuck off too.

He has a point though. They continually ask managers about transfers but managers don’t make transfers. They should, as Conte suggested, be asking the chairman about transfers because they are the people who ultimately decide on a transfer (in and out).

 

[DenverSpur]

You have to admire a coach who lays into his players and fans just after what turned into a comfortable win. Thats the voice of a manager that knows he is the main man at the club and has the confidence and backing of the hierarchy to do and say whatever the fuck he wants.

What did he say?

You have to admire a coach who lays into his players and fans just after what turned into a comfortable win. Thats the voice of a manager that knows he is the main man at the club and has the confidence and backing of the hierarchy to do and say whatever the fuck he wants.

As if that would ever be true at Tottenham as long as Levy is in charge

 

[Dakes]

So painful having gone from watching elite players like Vertonghen, Alderweirald and Dembele to Dier, Davies and Hojbjerg.

When one sees the names side by side like this, my our my. We've really regressed starkly.

 

[FibreOpticJesus]

I just don't know what else to say tbh.

Will start with the positives.....

- Romero is a very good defender and the only player good enough defensively moving forward if we want to actually achieve something.

- Bentancur was very good and it's fantastic to have him back.

- Kulusevski caused them plenty of problems and again is finding some form again following his injury.

Now the negatives....

- Lloris as we already knew is gone, but Forster is hardly an upgrade so we are fucked for the rest of the season.

- Every other defender we have just aren't good enough. They just create constant panic and I cannot believe just how many defensive errors there are every single fucking game. Let's hope there is something in this takeover/investment because we need a new RB and two new CBs at the very least.

- Son I'm afraid is gone, it's extremely sad but I just don't see how he turns this around. He needs to be dropped for Richarlison.

It's an extremely sad time to support Spurs right now. Our neighbours are flying and we are self-imploding. Please please please let this takeover/investment happen. Just bloody pay Gvardiols release clause and get Porro/Zaniolo in. We are now almost 2/3 of the way through the month with no incomings and no outgoings. It's a sad state of affairs to feel done with the PL in January after only 20 games but unless something significant happens very soon, I fear it's going to be a very toxic few months at the club.

Agree with all that you say except on Romero. His attitude hasn’t been right for some time. Too many times he passes the ball back or across when under the press and just stands still or walks slowly and therefore is not an option for to receive the ball from the goal keeper or other defenders. When you see other teams who play out from the back they run around creating options. Plus he is always a yellow card away from a red during the first half. Yes he is better than the other defenders but not top draw for us this season.

 

[Bilko]

Pep's half-time talk. "Hey it's only Tottenham lads."

 

[djhotspur]

He was excellent in the first half especially defensively.

Can’t see much wrong second half. All the issues came down our left