What to do now......?

[andyp8080]

So no Champions League for us. We could give various reasons for this, e.g. stupid UEFA rules, a German missing a penalty at last, the England Fiasco distraction. I could go on.

At the end of the day we are not in the CL because we screwed up. We had such a firm grasp on it it was almost choking but we let it slip. And when we went on a bad run there seemed to be a severe lack of ideas how to stop it. The same team were picked week after week in the assumption that it would sort itself in the end. For me, Harry took his eye of the ball a bit due to the England thing and struggled to get the players to respond. But whats done is done.....

So what now. Lets presume that Modric and Bale are both off. That should see us with about £80m in the bank ignoring any other sales and any money put aside by Mr Levy for this summer. The question is who do we want to spend it. Do we give it to Harry? Or do we look at this at a time to take stock. Harry might want only want to do the job for another year or two. Would it be better to give that money to a new man to start a slight rebuild or do we risk there not being so much money when the time does come to say goodbye to Harry. We might not be that cash rich again for a long time and how and where that money is spent is crucial to the future.

I am not sitting here and saying Harry must go and i'm not saying that he must stay.......but what i am asking is what is the right step to ensure a bright future at Spurs for years to come

 

[Gbspurs]

Modric is a goner we all know that. Bale isn't going anywhere this window. Hopefully we will still be able to strengthen. What I hope for most of all is that we have a bloody good go at the Europa next season. It's worth winning and this team needs to start winning trophies. VDV was quoted as saying he just wants to play in Europe, and he doesn't care if it's CL or Europa as all important. Maybe others feel this way.

 

[kazzah9]

Weep gently.

 

[andyp8080]

Modric is a goner we all know that. Bale isn't going anywhere this window. Hopefully we will still be able to strengthen. What I hope for most of all is that we have a bloody good go at the Europa next season. It's worth winning and this team needs to start winning trophies. VDV was quoted as saying he just wants to play in Europe, and he doesn't care if it's CL or Europa as all important. Maybe others feel this way.

yeah i agree with the Europa League. Winning a trophy would be great, regardless of how much money goes with it. Football seems to lose sight of that fact that at the end of the day its about winning things!

 

[EastLondonYid]

I am not against Harry, no one can argue with his league record since he has been here, what concerns me is if Harry has really got the desire to push us on, does he really want it, is he hungary to make us really great, or will he kid us or himself if it goes pear shaped with all the ' we should be gratefull ' jargon.

I am really split tbh, i think there is some more milage in Harry here, but do the players really want Harry or is it because they get an easy ride with him?

 

[sim0n]

Let's split the difference, keep Bale and sell Modric for 30 mil to fund buying Loic Remy and Luuk de Jong (yep, the 2 "Lukes" strategy).

OR, we could spend more time with our families and rightfully turn our backs on these overpaid millionaire footballers as it is our shared addiction for this rubbish that empowers/funds them...

...nah, clearly we're all junkies here...

 

[Spurvert]

I hope we take the Europe League seriously.

It's all well and good being in the CL but I still don't think the likes of us and Arsenal will ever win it. It's great to be involved in for sure but it wasn't meant to be this year, mainly our own fault.

Players will come and go. Harry will probably stay, right?

Whatever happens I'll still be here, regardless of who wears our shirt or what competition we're in. We'll go again next year, boys!

COYS

 

[EastLondonYid]

I hope we take the Europe League seriously.

It's all well and good being in the CL but I still don't think the likes of us and Arsenal will ever win it. It's great to be involved in for sure but it wasn't meant to be this year, mainly our own fault.

Players will come and go. Harry will probably stay, right?

Whatever happens I'll still be here, regardless of who wears our shirt or what competition we're in. We'll go again next year, boys!

COYS

Did you think the likes of Chelsea would win it? ....amazing desire, but a disgrace to football.

But the rest i agree with.

 

[Spurvert]

Yes. Chelsea have spent A LOT of money to win it and will spend heavily this summer.

I'm upset but that's football. We're still a great club.

 

[StockSpur]

We lose modric, we should buy the winger from city, a new cb and a forward.

its enough, oh a plan b would also be nice!

 

[Super Tottenham]

I hope we take the Europe League seriously.

It's all well and good being in the CL but I still don't think the likes of us and Arsenal will ever win it. It's great to be involved in for sure but it wasn't meant to be this year, mainly our own fault.

Players will come and go. Harry will probably stay, right?

Whatever happens I'll still be here, regardless of who wears our shirt or what competition we're in. We'll go again next year, boys!

COYS

Europa League is very hard to win and will hurt us in the league if Harry take's it seriously as he doesn't rotate.

 

[Graysonti]

We must be decisive and act with pace

 

[Montasura]

For me the two big things are the new training facilities and the new stadium. It indicates a real desire to grow this club into something big and drag it into the 21st century, and I actually feel quite excited to be a spurs fan right now.

So in line with that I think we need a management structure that reflects the forward momentum with a young enthusiastic manager who really wants to be part of a long term vision. I also think this manager then needs to be supported by a DoF......on the understanding that it's not Commoli though!!

 

[Allen]

Lot of good happening at Spurs and we need to think carefully about how we can elevate that.
When Bale and Modric go it's not the end of the world. We'll have good money to find replacements. We aren't ladened with money but we have enough to be competitive.
To me, right now as a club/fans we're asking questions that bring us full circle:
What's stopping us from going the next step?
Is there a next step - some think we are being overly ambitious?

We need a manager with a believe and an ethos to flow through the club. Youth, scouting, all the basics that money cannot buy. Utd are still built on it and our neighbours do it.
New manager for me.
HR has done well but England thing showed just how committed he is.

 

[Allen]

For me the two big things are the new training facilities and the new stadium. It indicates a real desire to grow this club into something big and drag it into the 21st century, and I actually feel quite excited to be a spurs fan right now.

So in line with that I think we need a management structure that reflects the forward momentum with a young enthusiastic manager who really wants to be part of a long term vision. I also think this manager then needs to be supported by a DoF......on the understanding that it's not Commoli though!!

I so agree until the DoF bit... I'd say it doesn't work, certainly not on these shores. I don't know why. Strong scouting network for me.

 

[Locotoro]

I think that we have a large enough squad to go for the UEL and still maintain league challenge. If we remove our current first 11 we can still put forward a fairly strong side:
Cudicini
Naughton
Rose
Dawson
Caulker
Livermore
Krancjar*
Pienaar
Bentley*
GDS*
Saha.

Obviously some players may be sold* but tests a side without even blooding our youth players. If we play the team together they will improve and gain sharpness and eventually challenge for first team spot or at least be ready to step into the fold when needed.

 

[buttons]

Make the most of a bad situation. Sort the squad out early, if people want to go, f*ck em, let them go.

Harry has to stay for me, setting the disappointment of not getting 3rd aside we have finished 4th, 5th and 4th under him. We need continued consistency.

And let's go and win the Europa League. It's not the CL but it can still provide some great European nights at the Lane, and who on here wouldn't be excited at the prospect of winning a European trophy?

 

[EastLondonYid]

I think that we have a large enough squad to go for the UEL and still maintain league challenge. If we remove our current first 11 we can still put forward a fairly strong side:
Cudicini
Naughton
Rose
Dawson
Caulker
Livermore
Krancjar*
Pienaar
Bentley*
GDS*
Saha.

Obviously some players may be sold* but tests a side without even blooding our youth players. If we play the team together they will improve and gain sharpness and eventually challenge for first team spot or at least be ready to step into the fold when needed.

Cheers ... thats really cheered me up.

 

[Spurs in Belgium]

Pick ourselves up, take the Europa League seriously and prepare for some good European away jaunts. Final in Amsterdam which would be fun!! Maybe Chelsea won't need to advertise their season tickets for next season now, should be able to attract a whole new generation of plastic fans.

 

[adiepf]

We lose modric & we will finish between 6 & 8....mark my fuckin words