CosmicHotspur
Better a wag than a WAG
- Aug 14, 2006
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After the whirlwind events of the past few weeks, some thoughts.
Yesterday, some of us may have had ultra-high expectations. We have seven new quality players with perhaps even a last minute addition to come. However, they will need time to gel as a cohesive team and that will take patience. We are sometimes short of that because we are hungry for success and it has been a long time coming. Yesterday brought us down from a high and it certainly made me take stock of our situation.
We want to compete with the top teams and become one of them but when a player like Bale goes elsewhere for glory and medals, we lose someone who could have helped to make us into a super-team. I don't bear him a grudge, I'm not bitter or angry and I don't blame him for living his dream although another season, with the players we have now acquired, could have turned Tottenham into something really special with him in the squad because of his creative talent which we seem to be lacking at present. Timing is everything in life and his leaving, for me, is a heavy blow and a huge disappointment because he is really stating that he wants better than we can offer and he wants it now. His talent is such that once he settles in, I'm sure he will make a success of it and I sincerely hope it works out for him.
On the positive side if we can get CL next season, we could do well because by then the team should be firing on all barrels. In the meantime, we have Europa and doing our utmost to win that should be taken seriously because it will lift our players, new and old, and prime them for better things. With the new squad, we should be able to cope with that as well as aiming for the top four which I believe we can do with the right training with a strong emphasis on correcting our weaknesses. The new squad will need time together on and off the field to begin to communicate well on the pitch.
If we want to play with the big boys, we have to shed players who aren't of the right calibre and we have made excellent progress in this window to begin the process but we still have a lot of work to do. We may differ on who is or isn't good enough and players some have written off as inferior could still come good this season.
I tend to look at life as a glass half full but I am flavouring my optimism with a sharp little slice of reality in that glass and a little ice to cool any unrealistic expectations.
We will come good, I have no doubt of that, and this season will bring interesting developments as the squad gets its act together which we have to accept will take time. The training schedule and direction from our coaches will be of primary importance if we are to achieve the results we crave on the pitch. I hope the players will be given everything they need to develop into a positive and confident unit that will bring us some long overdue success.
Yesterday, some of us may have had ultra-high expectations. We have seven new quality players with perhaps even a last minute addition to come. However, they will need time to gel as a cohesive team and that will take patience. We are sometimes short of that because we are hungry for success and it has been a long time coming. Yesterday brought us down from a high and it certainly made me take stock of our situation.
We want to compete with the top teams and become one of them but when a player like Bale goes elsewhere for glory and medals, we lose someone who could have helped to make us into a super-team. I don't bear him a grudge, I'm not bitter or angry and I don't blame him for living his dream although another season, with the players we have now acquired, could have turned Tottenham into something really special with him in the squad because of his creative talent which we seem to be lacking at present. Timing is everything in life and his leaving, for me, is a heavy blow and a huge disappointment because he is really stating that he wants better than we can offer and he wants it now. His talent is such that once he settles in, I'm sure he will make a success of it and I sincerely hope it works out for him.
On the positive side if we can get CL next season, we could do well because by then the team should be firing on all barrels. In the meantime, we have Europa and doing our utmost to win that should be taken seriously because it will lift our players, new and old, and prime them for better things. With the new squad, we should be able to cope with that as well as aiming for the top four which I believe we can do with the right training with a strong emphasis on correcting our weaknesses. The new squad will need time together on and off the field to begin to communicate well on the pitch.
If we want to play with the big boys, we have to shed players who aren't of the right calibre and we have made excellent progress in this window to begin the process but we still have a lot of work to do. We may differ on who is or isn't good enough and players some have written off as inferior could still come good this season.
I tend to look at life as a glass half full but I am flavouring my optimism with a sharp little slice of reality in that glass and a little ice to cool any unrealistic expectations.
We will come good, I have no doubt of that, and this season will bring interesting developments as the squad gets its act together which we have to accept will take time. The training schedule and direction from our coaches will be of primary importance if we are to achieve the results we crave on the pitch. I hope the players will be given everything they need to develop into a positive and confident unit that will bring us some long overdue success.
