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The Game Is About Glory Podcast

The truth is we will have more information by the weekend. And (as ever) you'll find us making the case from the middle. We have our own personal views, and there is also the reality that he is the manager of the football club we support, so somewhere there has to be a reconciliation.
 
Spurs 5 Biggest Mistakes Since The Europa League Final
Season 6 - Episode 42

Steff, Milo and Gareth try to identify the five biggest mistakes the club has made since winning in Bilbao and packing the streets of N17 celebrating that Europa League win. We also discuss the appointment of Roberto De Zerbi, the club's finances and share some memories of Victor Wanyama.

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Spurs 5 Biggest Mistakes Since The Europa League Final
Season 6 - Episode 42

Steff, Milo and Gareth try to identify the five biggest mistakes the club has made since winning in Bilbao and packing the streets of N17 celebrating that Europa League win. We also discuss the appointment of Roberto De Zerbi, the club's finances and share some memories of Victor Wanyama.

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Spurs 5 Biggest Mistakes Since The Europa League Final
Season 6 - Episode 42

Steff, Milo and Gareth try to identify the five biggest mistakes the club has made since winning in Bilbao and packing the streets of N17 celebrating that Europa League win. We also discuss the appointment of Roberto De Zerbi, the club's finances and share some memories of Victor Wanyama.

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What do you think are the 5 biggest mistakes that Spurs have made since the Europa League final?
 
Haven't caught up with the pod yet, but my thoughts would be

1) Signing a manager who wasn't a stylistic fit. No probs with moving Ange on though. We probably should have canned Frank earlier and gone straight into a permanent replacement like De Zerbi.
2) Not listening to Scott Munn's recommendations in the medical strategic review. We needed to staff up. We didn't. Another season of injury misery.
3) Not having a fit enough squad. That has impacted us in so many ways in the game situation. We've often been out-competed.
4) Over playing flair players e.g. Kudus and ultimately missing Madds and Kulu for an entire season. The attacking area in the squad has been too light. Under utilising someone like Tel fits into this area as well.
5) This one sits in the grey space, but clearly there is a cultural and competence issue at the club. Losing clearly doesn't hurt as much as it should in a Spurs culture. That may even permeate from the board level where there seems a lack of true football DNA. Nothing to do with Levy leaving as I'm not sure he had so much anyway.
 
Good pod chaps and can't fault the list. The issue for me hasn't necessarily been the individual items, as we are never going to get everything right, but the compounding effect of the issues. Taken in isolation, they are unfortunate, all together though, disastrous.
 
Haven't caught up with the pod yet, but my thoughts would be

1) Signing a manager who wasn't a stylistic fit. No probs with moving Ange on though. We probably should have canned Frank earlier and gone straight into a permanent replacement like De Zerbi.
2) Not listening to Scott Munn's recommendations in the medical strategic review. We needed to staff up. We didn't. Another season of injury misery.
3) Not having a fit enough squad. That has impacted us in so many ways in the game situation. We've often been out-competed.
4) Over playing flair players e.g. Kudus and ultimately missing Madds and Kulu for an entire season. The attacking area in the squad has been too light. Under utilising someone like Tel fits into this area as well.
5) This one sits in the grey space, but clearly there is a cultural and competence issue at the club. Losing clearly doesn't hurt as much as it should in a Spurs culture. That may even permeate from the board level where there seems a lack of true football DNA. Nothing to do with Levy leaving as I'm not sure he had so much anyway.

Interesting...you've likely hit three more there which could've left us with 8 total :-)
 
Good pod chaps and can't fault the list. The issue for me hasn't necessarily been the individual items, as we are never going to get everything right, but the compounding effect of the issues. Taken in isolation, they are unfortunate, all together though, disastrous.

I think that's a great summary.
 
If, as ange has suggested, we knew ange was getting sacked in the summer we should have been able to come up with better than Frank.
I was fine with sacking or keeping ange, didn't know how either would work out, both were gambles, but when levy did the interview and said that the reason he was sacked was because we wanted to challenging on multiple fronts and produces Frank, well tbh I was flabbergasted.
Frank was never, ever that guy.
 
If, as ange has suggested, we knew ange was getting sacked in the summer we should have been able to come up with better than Frank.
I was fine with sacking or keeping ange, didn't know how either would work out, both were gambles, but when levy did the interview and said that the reason he was sacked was because we wanted to challenging on multiple fronts and produces Frank, well tbh I was flabbergasted.
Frank was never, ever that guy.

It's always a good conversation whether top drawer managers would join Spurs. It's also a good conversation whether some of them are even top drawer. Frank clearly was gettable. I reckon some others weren't.
 
It's always a good conversation whether top drawer managers would join Spurs. It's also a good conversation whether some of them are even top drawer. Frank clearly was gettable. I reckon some others weren't.

I'm not sure there is a manager out there who can have us challenging on multiple fronts, not with a realistic chance of winning the bigger prizes.
Certainly not under the constraints of ENIC.
That is one of the fundamental problems we face, it's not just an identity we lack, it's a proper sense of where we are in the grand scheme of things.
I'm 57,fast approaching 58, I do not believe I will ever see us be champions of England.
I'm cool with that, what you've never had you never miss, what I'm not happy about is that the club and the fan base are in and contribute to a negative aura around the club.
We can strive to be better, we should aim for glory, but it should not be fudging chore while doing it.
Let's get soon life and fun back into our club and our lives.
Let's get a SM team with a sense of humour, stop taking everything as life and death, get some life about the place, get some smiles on faces, lift people, it will, imho pay dividends.
 
I'm not sure there is a manager out there who can have us challenging on multiple fronts, not with a realistic chance of winning the bigger prizes.
Certainly not under the constraints of ENIC.
That is one of the fundamental problems we face, it's not just an identity we lack, it's a proper sense of where we are in the grand scheme of things.
I'm 57,fast approaching 58, I do not believe I will ever see us be champions of England.
I'm cool with that, what you've never had you never miss, what I'm not happy about is that the club and the fan base are in and contribute to a negative aura around the club.
We can strive to be better, we should aim for glory, but it should not be fudging chore while doing it.
Let's get soon life and fun back into our club and our lives.
Let's get a SM team with a sense of humour, stop taking everything as life and death, get some life about the place, get some smiles on faces, lift people, it will, imho pay dividends.

Such a great post. Getting that fun back is so, so important.
 
Such a great post. Getting that fun back is so, so important.

For a club that prides it's self for flair on the pitch, having mavericks wearing our colours, doing it differently, we aren't half a bunch of po faced, stick up the arse, miserable fudgers.
Whatever we do, can we not at least try and make it enjoyable.
We are Tottenham, we are different, we want to do it our way, let's embrace it, celebrate and enjoy the ride.
As a young man once said, "I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring".
 
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