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[r0cafella]

Spurs spanking them and them being out of excuses is amusing as hell. 

[Groundhog63]

Both us Groundhogs said, before KO, that a draw would be better for us. Then both, when they scored the 1st, agreed "this could get hilarious" 

 

And it did. 

[r0cafella]

@Froggy

 

Why didn’t Sir Jim buy the entire club btw? 

[Groundhog63]

Just now, r0cafella said:

@Froggy

 

Why didn’t Sir Jim buy the entire club btw? 

 

Probably because the Glazers weren't selling the whole club. Why would they when it's a canny cash cow for them? 

Brexit Jim takes the heat. 

 

Bonus for the Glazers is he's got connections to those in power, hence the new stadium crack. 

[Froggy]

2 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

@Froggy

 

Why didn’t Sir Jim buy the entire club btw? 

 

Glazers didn't want to sell the whole club. They'd have taken the Qatar offer otherwise.

 

Don't think Ratcliffe could have afforded it either.

[r0cafella]

Just now, Froggy said:

 

Glazers didn't want to sell the whole club. They'd have taken the Qatar offer otherwise.

 

Don't think Ratcliffe could have afforded it either.

Ahhh fair enough, Glazers were happy to continuing milk whilst potentially enjoying any upside which maybe created. 
 

Do back when this all broke, the story of the club being for sale was bullshit? 

[Froggy]

3 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

Do back when this all broke, the story of the club being for sale was bullshit? 

 

No I think they would have sold but at a ludicrous asking price. £6b was their figure. Qatar offered £5b and refused to go higher. Bear in mind this is when the club had a market valuation is under £3b.

 

They basically priced everyone out of a full sale because they wanted to keep milking it. Ratcliffe was the better option for them.

[r0cafella]

Got it. 

 

what did you make of the game yesterday Frogman?

[Froggy]

6 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

what did you make of the game yesterday Frogman?

 

 Do we have to? I would struggle to think of many performances that were worse.

 

Spurs aren't even good. That's the worst bit about it all. It's not like you've been blown away by a top class Liverpool or City. You've been hammered by a team that is distinctly average, and it would have been much, much worse if Son was playing instead of Werner.

 

Last few years the team just has it in them to completely collapse and perform like a league two side. 

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Froggy

[r0cafella]

1 minute ago, Froggy said:

 

 Do we have to? I would struggle to think of many performances that were worse.

 

Spurs aren't even good. That's the worst bit about it all. It's not like you've been blown away by a top class Liverpool or City. You've been hammered by a team that is distinctly average, and it would have been much, much worse if Son was playing instead of Werner.

 

Last few years the team just had it in them to completely collapse and perform like a league two side. 

Of course we have to   

 

Jokes aside, from what I saw it pretty rotten aye, was so bad I had to put on Goldbridge for half an hour this morning to compound it. 
 

Think you will get it right eventually (not with ETH) your resources are simply too vast not to. You will need a manager who can transform you though as well as time and money to get it done. 

[Magpie]

Ten Hag's surely got to go though, he's absolutely shite

[Conjo]

He always finds a way to stay it seems  Wouldn't be surprised if he gets an undeserved narrow win or boring draw against Porto, lose narrowly against Villa and get an undeserved narrow win against Brentford that will keep him in the seat into November. If he manages to tip toe for another few games he might actually get another transfer window to fix things, at which point it doesn't make sense to sack him until the end of the season.....but can they if he gets another trophy, like the league cup or the Europa League, even if they end up 8th in the league?

[Froggy]

15 minutes ago, Conjo said:

He always finds a way to stay it seems  Wouldn't be surprised if he gets an undeserved narrow win or boring draw against Porto, lose narrowly against Villa and get an undeserved narrow win against Brentford that will keep him in the seat into November. If he manages to tip toe for another few games he might actually get another transfer window to fix things, at which point it doesn't make sense to sack him until the end of the season.....but can they if he gets another trophy, like the league cup or the Europa League, even if they end up 8th in the league?

 

Nah. He had a very good first season. Second season was poor, but we had awful injuries and he still managed to win a cup so I think he fully deserved to stay in the job.

 

This season he has pretty much a full squad to choose from, and it's his team. The only starter missing is Shaw. Scary thing is that we have improved in every metric, but we've had two bad defeats against teams we should be able to compete with. It's a results game for him now, and the results aren't good enough. I wonder before the end will he realise that playing Rashford is his biggest mistake.

[RodneyCisse]

Agent Ashworth?

[gbandit]

It’s never been pretty under ETH but in his first season they had a really good defensive shape and could shut games down pretty easily. He’s now added in a leaky midfield to the poor football that he’d already got down to a tee. There are few managers that have had the resources he’s had and produced such poor football 

[Froggy]

52 minutes ago, RodneyCisse said:

Agent Ashworth?

 

Blaming Ashworth for this start is almost as bad as blaming Mitchell for your transfer window.

[Bimpy474]

1 hour ago, Froggy said:

 

Nah. He had a very good first season. Second season was poor, but we had awful injuries and he still managed to win a cup so I think he fully deserved to stay in the job.

 

This season he has pretty much a full squad to choose from, and it's his team. The only starter missing is Shaw. Scary thing is that we have improved in every metric, but we've had two bad defeats against teams we should be able to compete with. It's a results game for him now, and the results aren't good enough. I wonder before the end will he realise that playing Rashford is his biggest mistake.

 

I know you will know better than us mate, you will watch them obviously far more closely than most of us, but seeing as the only wins are against Southampton, Fulham and Barnsley so far, what are you seeing that we aren't ?

 

It just looks the same as its been. Too easy to play against, too many chances conceded, no real pattern of play etc.

 

And I'm baffled why he hasn't stuck with the box midfield which gave Man City such a hard time, I just don't know why he hasn't used it again, or maybe he has and it's just been a mess.