Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

[thfcsteff]

The scale of the change that needs to happen at the club is the sole reason. It’s not a June/July in a World Cup year fix with an eye on the first game. There is a massive cultural reset going on and this period is about setting the foundations for what comes over the next 5 years. I’d say that takes 18 months at least to get properly to where we want to be.

Agreed!

I seriously doubt Spurs fans have the backbone for it though.

No point going there. Speak with the ones who have?!!!

 

[thfcsteff]

There has been so much change at the club in the last 6 months. Anyone expecting us to look anything special against a settled and comfortable Brentford team on day one was likely just riding the optimism of a new season and nothing more.

There was no logic to suggest we’d go there and look like the team we want to be. We’ve had an extremely disrupted pre-season, more about avoiding injuries than anything. Combined with the World Cup, a whole lot of ins and outs, a manager who is effectively brand new (at least in terms of the style he wants to now bed in) and there’s still clearly a lot more work to do on the squad. I’d be surprised if we are in the top half before November/December, but after that I would expect us to start really picking up the points.

You even liked the post where I basically predicted what’s happening (let’s hope the transfers are to follow quickly)



As ever, our fan base has the collective temperament of a 5 year old so once again my biggest fears are that the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and all the idiots with a YouTube following ensure we do the same thing to this manager that we usually do.

So enjoy the ride you're on and ignore the one you're not on...I get it, we've all been on similar rides with previous managers...but hopefully (as the years creep into our lives) we find the serenity to accept that some of the football circus is simply not worth our valuable time and energy. I think what you've predicted is very reasonable with regards to our season. I have a tendency to be over-optimistic and 'in the moment of emotions' with football, so was humbled a bit by yesterday. A quick spot of homework for the pod we just did offered me both balance and the reality that I know the practical stuff and should probably engage it a bit more...naysayers and doom merchants? Yeah. No. I don't watch any of the youtube crap or read X or that sort of rubbish.
Thankfully, all I'm seeing here is disappointment and some bewilderment as to how that result happened, which seems wholly appropriate. Anyway, here's to the season COYS

 

[monkeybarry]

I have serious question on his judgment from what I've seen this week.

....he joined Spurs.... wasn't that a serious enough question?!