I'm talking about why this Club has become absolutely pathetic since the mid 80s and since then only won one trophy of note.
The issue is selling our best players which we have done constantly over the last 32 years.
That is the reason why we have one fa cup to our name in 32 years.
The list is endless and if we actually had some ambition and a backbone from 85 onwards we would have likely won a few league titles, some more fa cups and a European cup/CL.
But instead we have a small club mentality that has resulted in an absolutely pathetic trophy haul in the last 32 years.
But don't worry I've got this bought for 9m and sold for 59m thing to hang onto and also a lot of people on here keep saying 'onwards and upwards'.
So when their all bragging about their trophies I will firstly quote the 9m/59m thing and if that doesn't work I will hit them with the 'onwards and upwards'.
Cheers
That's your interpretation of history, and the only thing you got right was our lack of success in that period
We struggled from the time of Sugar buying us, (we regularly finished in top 4 in ten years prior) until Levy, basically how the club was run/decisions made in the 10 years under Sugar has cost us 16 years post to recover from and get back to similar position (i.e. actually contending).
However in that time, two things have changed, PL/CL money cam along and completely changed the rewards for a small group of clubs (United/Scum & Pool made the most of it) and money doping clubs arrived (City/Cheat$ki).
Lack of revenue has cost us, not "small club mentality", this is a fact, look at the revenue stream of everyone we compete with consistently and we are generally earning 50% or more less.
As per above, United, Pool & Scum took advantage of early PL years and CL revenue to build a buffer and grow their brand, City/Chelsea cheat, who else is even close to our level? West Ham, Everton, Saudi Sportswashing Machine, Southampton, Leeds, etc. have all tried your "big time" mentality, did they get anything? are they better off for their strategy vs. ours?
I would argue we probably should have fluked a trophy or two more along the way, but what difference would it make? If we won 2 FA Cups in last 10 years, would that have satisfied you? I'm a Spurs fan through and through, but you might as well argue why hasn't every club outside of City/Cheat$ki/Scum/Pool/United won anything regular in last 20 years, answer is the same for all, i.e. = money.
The difference for us (right now) is there is light at the end of the tunnel, the 2nd/3rd places, the current squad, Poch, the stadium, NFL, sponsorship deals show its possible (still a lot could go wrong) that in 2 or 3 or 5 years we will be closer to a competitive footing with those other clubs. No other club can say that, I'd argue no other club in Europe is closer to breaking the establishment than us.
If you think onwards and upwards is dismissible, I don't know what to say. I will say 4 years ago, I couldn't see how Spurs would compete (even with Bale/Modric/etc.) for the PL in my lifetime (certainly not in immediate future). Yet I have watched a club you accuse of "small time mentality" being the only legitimate challenger for the title two years in a row.
