With plenty of positives to take from our victory, and the performance, over Wolverhampton Wanderers at the weekend, it’s another quick turnaround for Tottenham Hotspur as we welcome Aston Villa to White Hart Lane on Wednesday for our penultimate Premier League clash of the 2020/21 campaign.
A campaign that started brightly, and faded rapidly as 2021 hit, however, a potential top five finish is on the cards but for that to happen, we have to absolutely take three points from Dean Smith’s side and form is on our side, even though both clubs have wobbled in the second half of the season.
Another big plus is Villa should be without Jack Grealish (cheers Levy), as since returning from injury he’s yet to even play 45 minutes, so hopefully at worst, he’ll only get introduced at the break.
With some confidence returning based on our last performance, you’d like to think we’d be comfortable long before their talisman hits the pitch, and with no fresh injury concerns, only Serge Aurier and Ben Davies should be missing again.
Can Ryan Mason really restore some momentum and get us three wins from three going into the summer?
Right as I said before the annual summer rumour “HK wants to jack in Spurs”, which some fall hook line n sinker! for, I will not believe until I see it! I am open to “I told you so”
So what’s next then? oh yes! Son n Dele they will be off next, Son not having signed his new contract yet, Del playing almost back to normal so as to get a move.
There I have started it, what’s next? COYS
did those 20k+ supporters need a removable turf on tracks that exposes the plans for an NFL franchise beneath it? How much extra did that cost?
What’s wrong with having a multi-functional stadium to maximise income? Playing football alone there means it gets used for just 25 or so days each year for a few hours each time. Not a very efficient use of a facility that even in a basic form would have cost £500-600m .
it’s one thing to build a stadium. It’s another thing to build an ode to Ozmandias.
it’s another thing to let the squad deteriorate so that you can build a monument to yourself.
ENIC constructed a situation in which a man like HH10 has lost hope. Nickle and dimed, as the Americans say.
TK re the stadium, you’re fighting a losing battle m8, I said this some time ago, that a little bit less would’ve been more prudent, I think some here said that they are from totally different budgets.
That may be, at the time my point was that focus had actually gone off a team that was just on the cusp of greatness, and on to a world class stadium, now it may come good and as some have said, how could Mr Levy have predicted COVID and the outcome.
But right here right now, I feel that in many ways we have been hostages to the finances and interests of the new stadium and that has cost us over the last 4 or so years.
TQ2Spurs, in reponse to your response on my original post, Of course harry Kane is irreplaceable. My point was, do you expect this board to sign at least someone who is not only adequate and has at least half of his finishing ability, but actually will fit in to what the new manager wants? I highly doubt it.
None of us know the answer to that right now Spurfect…..we can’t even be sure Harry is actually going to leave yet!
As the song goes ….’I’ve heard tell the road to hell is paved with good intentions … ‘. Why do people always need to find someone or something to blame ALL the time. Sometimes things just don’t turn out the way we hoped. Sometimes it’s just Life/Fate/Karma/Luck. Sometimes we just need to accept it and move on. The ‘blame game’ can often be a frustrating and fruitless exercise.
Niall, I’m not fighting a losing battle because I’m not fighting a battle. lol. I’m doing therapy at our group therapy group. But one thing I take as indisputable–money is fungible, and with the pandemic THFC has wracked up unexpected debits that cannot be contained in one sheet of the books, but necessarily will spill onto other sheets on the books.
The apparent pursuit of an NFL team in London–why else build the stadium with the only fixed pitch being an NFL pitch. The pitch for non-NFL football sits on a floating track that can be rolled in an out when needed, but the NFL pitch is stable and permanent. WFT?
Why has a team that was top 2 top 3 top 4 with some consistency gone all squished squash as the financial reality brought on by speculative spending has come home to roost (a perfectly appropriate trope for a cockeral on top of a ball)?
The financial stresses of investing ass backwards has come back to bite us on the backside, and if Harry really does want out, we’ll know what and who is responsible.
You want an owner whose first flirtation is with the NFL? At least the Glazer’s have invested a bit in players who wear the kit on the pitch. Under the steering of DL, it’s done on the cheap. He buys contracts so he can sell them. It’s just awkward luck on his part that we ended up with the best player in the world. And DL doesnt know what to do with it. This will get Bolloxed, most likely.
TK….there were many technical reasons why the NFL pitch is fixed below the football pitch and has nothing to do with potential NFL franchises.
Geof, good argument for a barrister to make in front of jury, mate. As for me, I’ll blame DL for now. Lol.
More than anything I’m galled by his flirtation with the NFL. Isn’t football good enough for him? It’s an unavoidable truth, the NFL pitch is fixed on the ground at WHL. The football pitch can be rolled in and out. A perfect trope for DL and THFC.
Relax, “everything is gonna be alrite” 3 to 4 quailty players should improve the squad as a whole, its not the end of the world. Even with kane at times we were to predictable. We will just have to change it up different tactics etc. We survived without while he was injured and we can do it again. Coys
Harry Kane has become THE Harry Kane that we all know know and love, whilst being at THFC, for coming up to 17 years this summer… 17 YEARS!
This is not about luck!
If he goes, he goes! I don’t understand the problem or the concern… After 17 years! LOL!
We could replace Harry and all his goals and still not win titles and cups! We could be Harry-less and then win titles and cups… It is not about just the one player… And it’s not all about titles and cups, either.
Who knows, maybe the next top Spurs striker will be better than HK… Whatever. He doesn’t have to be… It’s all about the team!
Relax all….. It’s just football… 😉
123, I agree that the team can be improved with a few additions, alterations, and a decent manager. I’ve been arguing this for some time.
But that’s a separate issue from the “crimes” of DL. And I’m a person who spent several years defending DL from complaints of others on this site. but my ability to be sympathetic to him have been shattered.
DL allowed this team to fall apart. He failed to provide the basic care to what Poch was building. then he hired a manager that even an idiot like me could see clearly would end disastrously.
Harry? One of the best in a Spurs shirt, for all time. One of the best, period!
I blame Levy! He shoulda sold him to Millwall all those years ago. While he still had the chance…
Then again, He didn’t do that well at Millwall (on loan), did he? Or Leicester. Or Leyton. Or Norwich!
lol HT. Harry was not magic until he returned to Spurs.
Harry Kane needed Spurs and WHL as much as Spurs and WHL need Harry Kane. A match perfect in under the heavens.
A union for the ages.
Relax guys…..we have a new Harry in the making in Dane Scarlett. We can always give Troy Parrott a go in the meantime.
The main factor for me with him possibly leaving is the effect it could have on the decision of a top quality manager to join us knowing our best player is going before he arrives. The only positive would be if he were promised a decent transfer fund as a result.
Just 7 or so years ago, I can remember arguing with posters about us needing to keep hold of “Championship” Kane. The man who was apparently never gonna be good enough to even be a PL player. And certainly not a top, top 4 PL player…
Just before this, similar negative stuff was said about Bale leaving, that is now being said about harry (possibly) going… And yet we got better….. We got Kane!
And yet, here we are in what could be our worst PL season since Bale left and since Harry’s rise in the world. A season in which between them, they both still have a pretty handsome return of goals and assists each… And yet, here we are… Both at the club. Both in the team and yet no better off than before or since…….. There’s a moral to the story, somewhere to be had in all this… I think.
Up the Spurs!
It’s all about the team! Oh, and the manager too….. And luck! And……. ?
Wow TQ2. Nothing like putting impossible burdens on the shoulders of Dane and Troy. We’re letting them start with the expectation that they will equal Harry Kane. Might as well demand that they lead England the way that Pelé led Brazil to the WC in 1958. Anything less and they’ve let us down.
I hope that either one of them turns out as well as… well, I don’t know. I hope only that they’re pleased with their careers when they retire. And I hope their successes are with us.
TK…….the comment was made tongue-in-cheek, I don’t expect either to replace Kane anytime soon but who knows……with the right development either could turn out to be as good as or even better in time.