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The real challenge IMO is to start winning trophies.challenge now is to kick on and compete for the title every season
The real challenge IMO is to start winning trophies.challenge now is to kick on and compete for the title every season
The real challenge IMO is to start winning trophies.
I can't see anything but a trophy being a step forward from this season. Maybe a really good run in CL, too.Agree with both, was hoping JJetset would offer some insight into any change in priority/expectations for the seasons ahead. Poch has appeared to have moved the goalposts.
We need to model ourselves on Atletico. For a long time they were also rans in Spain and forever in the shadow of their city neighbours. Now they win titles and hit Champions League finals despite having far less in terms of resources.
They are proof it can be done with right management and emphasis on team over individuals.
How do we do that? I kind of hope our plan is already to beat teams wealthier than ourselves.
We need to model ourselves on Atletico. For a long time they were also rans in Spain and forever in the shadow of their city neighbours. Now they win titles and hit Champions League finals despite having far less in terms of resources.
They are proof it can be done with right management and emphasis on team over individuals.
Staying in the top 4 and this are one and the same in my book. Unless you are right up there, you don't get top 4 either. We were competing for the title till last week and we still could have lost top four even then. The margins are often tiny.challenge now is to kick on and compete for the title every season
If they lose and end up 5th that would just be incredible..
The real challenge IMO is to start winning trophies.
100% this.
Was in Barcelona last week, and did a tour of Camp Nou. Just seeing all that silverware lined up for what seemed like a mile, then 5 European cups laid out on the other side made me just a tad envious. Alright, I know its Barcelona, and they have more money than just about anyone else in world football, but it shows how much we fell from grace as the 1990's began.
We had, and actually still do have a proper footballing pedigree, and have had some fantastic players in the past. But we've shown nothing for it really in the last couple decades. This has to change.
With the new stadium containing a "Tottenham Experience" Museum, its going to look quite sparse with only a handful of major honours, and nothing at all very recent. We need to start winning silverware again, and soon.
Here's another way to look at this season: when was the last time we entered the month of May with a chance of winning the championship, even if it was only a slight chance? 1985? 1982? For all the progress we've made and the success I hope we'll achieve, I hope we never acquire that sense of entitlement you see from the fans you mention.Not bad going into the final weekend knowing that 3rd is the worst we can get. Wouldn't want to be a city/utd or Arse fan.