Ouch!
Pre-seaon deos matter sometimes as barca-madrid!
Hahahha
So? Not as if we played our B team was it?
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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posted 1 minute ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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That's small club mentality. You finished second last season, you should be disappointed with anything but an improvement on that (not necessarily just in the league).
I think what Pep is saying is that he now has the players that he wants and can play totally the way he wants to do so, that's why it was better than any time last season.
comment by Fairer Xhaka (U10303)
posted 12 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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That's small club mentality. You finished second last season, you should be disappointed with anything but an improvement on that (not necessarily just in the league).
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Who said anything about disappointment? I'll be disappointed if we don't win anything. It doesn't mean Poch won't have done a fantastic job to get into the top 4 playing at a different ground with limited spending compared to the other big teams.
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posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Fairer Xhaka (U10303)
posted 12 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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That's small club mentality. You finished second last season, you should be disappointed with anything but an improvement on that (not necessarily just in the league).
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Who said anything about disappointment? I'll be disappointed if we don't win anything. It doesn't mean Poch won't have done a fantastic job to get into the top 4 playing at a different ground with limited spending compared to the other big teams.
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Because you've already set the standards of where you are placed, and provided excuses to soften the blow if you don't. You think Tottenham is over achieving if they get Top 4, when you placed second last year.
Peps opening line
"OK, it is pre-season, but we didn't have a performance last season of that quality and intensity," Guardiola said.
He knows its a pre season friendly.
Pochs opening line?
"They have invested more money than us and you can see we have a lot of young players on the bench," said Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino, who is yet to add to his squad this summer.
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posted 1 minute ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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That's small club mentality. You finished second last season, you should be disappointed with anything but an improvement on that (not necessarily just in the league).
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Who said anything about disappointment? I'll be disappointed if we don't win anything. It doesn't mean Poch won't have done a fantastic job to get into the top 4 playing at a different ground with limited spending compared to the other big teams.
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Because you've already set the standards of where you are placed, and provided excuses to soften the blow if you don't. You think Tottenham is over achieving if they get Top 4, when you placed second last year.
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You don't think replacing the home ground where you didn't lose all of last season and only drew twice, and replacing it with another ground, isn't an excuse? Sounds like a pretty good one to me.
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posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Fairer Xhaka (U10303)
posted 12 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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That's small club mentality. You finished second last season, you should be disappointed with anything but an improvement on that (not necessarily just in the league).
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Who said anything about disappointment? I'll be disappointed if we don't win anything. It doesn't mean Poch won't have done a fantastic job to get into the top 4 playing at a different ground with limited spending compared to the other big teams.
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Surprised by this Spurtle. You said I should've expected Liverpool to go from 8th to title challengers this time last pre season.
Deffo small club mentality
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posted 1 minute ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Fairer Xhaka (U10303)
posted 12 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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That's small club mentality. You finished second last season, you should be disappointed with anything but an improvement on that (not necessarily just in the league).
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Who said anything about disappointment? I'll be disappointed if we don't win anything. It doesn't mean Poch won't have done a fantastic job to get into the top 4 playing at a different ground with limited spending compared to the other big teams.
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Surprised by this Spurtle. You said I should've expected Liverpool to go from 8th to title challengers this time last pre season.
Deffo small club mentality
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1) You didn't have any European football
2) You didn't replace Anfield as your home ground
3) You strengthened your side
I get that we may yet strengthen our side but right now with the sale of Walker, it doesn't look like it.
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 32 minutes ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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Not the mentality you want if you're going to be successful...
comment by Pride of the North (U6803)
posted 31 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 32 minutes ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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Not the mentality you want if you're going to be successful...
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Again, I'm not saying that's what I want out of the season. I want trophies. You simply have to be realistic and realise Wembley should have an impact and therefore Poch will have done exceptionally well again to have overcome that to get a top 4 finish, along with a lack of spending compared to our rivals.
Chequebook Pep is under massive pressure to deliver this season after accumulating a disgusting £380m net spend on players alone so far.
Add to that, at the end of the season around another £500m spent on wages last year and this year, then a couple more big money signings and Pep`s spend will be approaching a staggering £1b in just 2 seasons.
Pep is supposedly `the best coach in the world` and yet needs almost a billion quid to compete.
Disgusting.
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by Pride of the North (U6803)
posted 31 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 32 minutes ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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Not the mentality you want if you're going to be successful...
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Again, I'm not saying that's what I want out of the season. I want trophies. You simply have to be realistic and realise Wembley should have an impact and therefore Poch will have done exceptionally well again to have overcome that to get a top 4 finish, along with a lack of spending compared to our rivals.
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you said Liverpool should be challengers despite the fact City Chelsea and Utd spending a lot more and already far bigger and vastly more expensive squads and also Chelsea not having european football etc. Oh and we were in profit in the transfer market.
Make your mind up on being realistic
comment by Billy The Yidd (U3924)
posted 4 minutes ago
Chequebook Pep is under massive pressure to deliver this season after accumulating a disgusting £380m net spend on players alone so far.
Add to that, at the end of the season around another £500m spent on wages last year and this year, then a couple more big money signings and Pep`s spend will be approaching a staggering £1b in just 2 seasons.
Pep is supposedly `the best coach in the world` and yet needs almost a billion quid to compete.
Disgusting.
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Not known as bitter Billy for nothing.
comment by Inbefore (U20589)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by Pride of the North (U6803)
posted 31 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 32 minutes ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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Not the mentality you want if you're going to be successful...
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Again, I'm not saying that's what I want out of the season. I want trophies. You simply have to be realistic and realise Wembley should have an impact and therefore Poch will have done exceptionally well again to have overcome that to get a top 4 finish, along with a lack of spending compared to our rivals.
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you said Liverpool should be challengers despite the fact City Chelsea and Utd spending a lot more and already far bigger and vastly more expensive squads and also Chelsea not having european football etc. Oh and we were in profit in the transfer market.
Make your mind up on being realistic
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What are you talking about? What is your point?
I said both Chelsea and Liverpool should be challenging without European football. Chelsea went on and won the league comfortably, and Liverpool squeaked through to 4th place, yet they still strengthened and should have done better in the league.
Spurs are guaranteed at least £120m in TV money and have just got £45m for Walker.
If Poch doesn't want to spend that money, that's fine but failing to do better than last season with all that money available will be seen as failure.
comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted 28 seconds ago
Spurs are guaranteed at least £120m in TV money and have just got £45m for Walker.
If Poch doesn't want to spend that money, that's fine but failing to do better than last season with all that money available will be seen as failure.
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It's Levy that doesn't want to spend the money
On a personal note I just like the novelty idea of a keeper that actually makes some saves.
Spurtle
Spurs have had plenty of seasons without European football at WHL. What's the excuse for not challenging for the league in over 50 years?
comment by Coutinho's Happy Feet (U18971)
posted 2 minutes ago
Spurtle
Spurs have had plenty of seasons without European football at WHL. What's the excuse for not challenging for the league in over 50 years?
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Liverpool the season before last, like Chelsea, were bigger and better clubs than their PL positions would have you believe. Liverpool had CL only the season before didn't they, or was it in that same season? They had spent a shed load on players and then brought in one of the top managers in the game. You could not say that about Spurs any time they were achieving mediocrity in mid-table and avoiding Europe.
comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted 3 hours, 7 minutes ago
Spurs are guaranteed at least £120m in TV money and have just got £45m for Walker.
If Poch doesn't want to spend that money, that's fine but failing to do better than last season with all that money available will be seen as failure.
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It's not as if Spurs have anything else to spend it on is it?
Lottery winner in council houses should not throw stones
Arsenal 2.0
Billionaire owners who don't like to spend and fans who blame everyone else when they don't.
comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
Arsenal 2.0
Billionaire owners who don't like to spend and fans who blame everyone else when they don't.
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Who is blaming anyone? . Last time I looked at a league table, we were well above ya.
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posted on 30/7/17
Ouch!
Pre-seaon deos matter sometimes as barca-madrid!
Hahahha
posted on 30/7/17
So? Not as if we played our B team was it?
posted on 30/7/17
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
posted on 30/7/17
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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That's small club mentality. You finished second last season, you should be disappointed with anything but an improvement on that (not necessarily just in the league).
posted on 30/7/17
I think what Pep is saying is that he now has the players that he wants and can play totally the way he wants to do so, that's why it was better than any time last season.
posted on 30/7/17
comment by Fairer Xhaka (U10303)
posted 12 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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That's small club mentality. You finished second last season, you should be disappointed with anything but an improvement on that (not necessarily just in the league).
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Who said anything about disappointment? I'll be disappointed if we don't win anything. It doesn't mean Poch won't have done a fantastic job to get into the top 4 playing at a different ground with limited spending compared to the other big teams.
posted on 30/7/17
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Fairer Xhaka (U10303)
posted 12 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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That's small club mentality. You finished second last season, you should be disappointed with anything but an improvement on that (not necessarily just in the league).
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Who said anything about disappointment? I'll be disappointed if we don't win anything. It doesn't mean Poch won't have done a fantastic job to get into the top 4 playing at a different ground with limited spending compared to the other big teams.
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Because you've already set the standards of where you are placed, and provided excuses to soften the blow if you don't. You think Tottenham is over achieving if they get Top 4, when you placed second last year.
posted on 30/7/17
Peps opening line
"OK, it is pre-season, but we didn't have a performance last season of that quality and intensity," Guardiola said.
He knows its a pre season friendly.
Pochs opening line?
"They have invested more money than us and you can see we have a lot of young players on the bench," said Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino, who is yet to add to his squad this summer.
posted on 30/7/17
comment by Fairer Xhaka (U10303)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Fairer Xhaka (U10303)
posted 12 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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That's small club mentality. You finished second last season, you should be disappointed with anything but an improvement on that (not necessarily just in the league).
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Who said anything about disappointment? I'll be disappointed if we don't win anything. It doesn't mean Poch won't have done a fantastic job to get into the top 4 playing at a different ground with limited spending compared to the other big teams.
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Because you've already set the standards of where you are placed, and provided excuses to soften the blow if you don't. You think Tottenham is over achieving if they get Top 4, when you placed second last year.
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You don't think replacing the home ground where you didn't lose all of last season and only drew twice, and replacing it with another ground, isn't an excuse? Sounds like a pretty good one to me.
posted on 30/7/17
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Fairer Xhaka (U10303)
posted 12 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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That's small club mentality. You finished second last season, you should be disappointed with anything but an improvement on that (not necessarily just in the league).
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Who said anything about disappointment? I'll be disappointed if we don't win anything. It doesn't mean Poch won't have done a fantastic job to get into the top 4 playing at a different ground with limited spending compared to the other big teams.
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Surprised by this Spurtle. You said I should've expected Liverpool to go from 8th to title challengers this time last pre season.
Deffo small club mentality
posted on 30/7/17
comment by Coutinho's Happy Feet (U18971)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Fairer Xhaka (U10303)
posted 12 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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That's small club mentality. You finished second last season, you should be disappointed with anything but an improvement on that (not necessarily just in the league).
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Who said anything about disappointment? I'll be disappointed if we don't win anything. It doesn't mean Poch won't have done a fantastic job to get into the top 4 playing at a different ground with limited spending compared to the other big teams.
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Surprised by this Spurtle. You said I should've expected Liverpool to go from 8th to title challengers this time last pre season.
Deffo small club mentality
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1) You didn't have any European football
2) You didn't replace Anfield as your home ground
3) You strengthened your side
I get that we may yet strengthen our side but right now with the sale of Walker, it doesn't look like it.
posted on 30/7/17
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 32 minutes ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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Not the mentality you want if you're going to be successful...
posted on 30/7/17
comment by Pride of the North (U6803)
posted 31 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 32 minutes ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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Not the mentality you want if you're going to be successful...
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Again, I'm not saying that's what I want out of the season. I want trophies. You simply have to be realistic and realise Wembley should have an impact and therefore Poch will have done exceptionally well again to have overcome that to get a top 4 finish, along with a lack of spending compared to our rivals.
posted on 30/7/17
Chequebook Pep is under massive pressure to deliver this season after accumulating a disgusting £380m net spend on players alone so far.
Add to that, at the end of the season around another £500m spent on wages last year and this year, then a couple more big money signings and Pep`s spend will be approaching a staggering £1b in just 2 seasons.
Pep is supposedly `the best coach in the world` and yet needs almost a billion quid to compete.
Disgusting.
posted on 30/7/17
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by Pride of the North (U6803)
posted 31 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 32 minutes ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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Not the mentality you want if you're going to be successful...
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Again, I'm not saying that's what I want out of the season. I want trophies. You simply have to be realistic and realise Wembley should have an impact and therefore Poch will have done exceptionally well again to have overcome that to get a top 4 finish, along with a lack of spending compared to our rivals.
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you said Liverpool should be challengers despite the fact City Chelsea and Utd spending a lot more and already far bigger and vastly more expensive squads and also Chelsea not having european football etc. Oh and we were in profit in the transfer market.
Make your mind up on being realistic
posted on 30/7/17
comment by Billy The Yidd (U3924)
posted 4 minutes ago
Chequebook Pep is under massive pressure to deliver this season after accumulating a disgusting £380m net spend on players alone so far.
Add to that, at the end of the season around another £500m spent on wages last year and this year, then a couple more big money signings and Pep`s spend will be approaching a staggering £1b in just 2 seasons.
Pep is supposedly `the best coach in the world` and yet needs almost a billion quid to compete.
Disgusting.
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Not known as bitter Billy for nothing.
posted on 30/7/17
comment by Inbefore (U20589)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by Pride of the North (U6803)
posted 31 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 32 minutes ago
If Pep doesn't win the league then he's flopped big time. Meanwhile if Poch gets Spurs into the top 4 then he'll have done a fantastic job.
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Not the mentality you want if you're going to be successful...
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Again, I'm not saying that's what I want out of the season. I want trophies. You simply have to be realistic and realise Wembley should have an impact and therefore Poch will have done exceptionally well again to have overcome that to get a top 4 finish, along with a lack of spending compared to our rivals.
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you said Liverpool should be challengers despite the fact City Chelsea and Utd spending a lot more and already far bigger and vastly more expensive squads and also Chelsea not having european football etc. Oh and we were in profit in the transfer market.
Make your mind up on being realistic
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What are you talking about? What is your point?
I said both Chelsea and Liverpool should be challenging without European football. Chelsea went on and won the league comfortably, and Liverpool squeaked through to 4th place, yet they still strengthened and should have done better in the league.
posted on 30/7/17
Spurs are guaranteed at least £120m in TV money and have just got £45m for Walker.
If Poch doesn't want to spend that money, that's fine but failing to do better than last season with all that money available will be seen as failure.
posted on 30/7/17
comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted 28 seconds ago
Spurs are guaranteed at least £120m in TV money and have just got £45m for Walker.
If Poch doesn't want to spend that money, that's fine but failing to do better than last season with all that money available will be seen as failure.
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It's Levy that doesn't want to spend the money
posted on 30/7/17
On a personal note I just like the novelty idea of a keeper that actually makes some saves.
posted on 30/7/17
Spurtle
Spurs have had plenty of seasons without European football at WHL. What's the excuse for not challenging for the league in over 50 years?
posted on 30/7/17
comment by Coutinho's Happy Feet (U18971)
posted 2 minutes ago
Spurtle
Spurs have had plenty of seasons without European football at WHL. What's the excuse for not challenging for the league in over 50 years?
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Liverpool the season before last, like Chelsea, were bigger and better clubs than their PL positions would have you believe. Liverpool had CL only the season before didn't they, or was it in that same season? They had spent a shed load on players and then brought in one of the top managers in the game. You could not say that about Spurs any time they were achieving mediocrity in mid-table and avoiding Europe.
posted on 30/7/17
comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted 3 hours, 7 minutes ago
Spurs are guaranteed at least £120m in TV money and have just got £45m for Walker.
If Poch doesn't want to spend that money, that's fine but failing to do better than last season with all that money available will be seen as failure.
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It's not as if Spurs have anything else to spend it on is it?
Lottery winner in council houses should not throw stones
posted on 30/7/17
Arsenal 2.0
Billionaire owners who don't like to spend and fans who blame everyone else when they don't.
posted on 30/7/17
comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
Arsenal 2.0
Billionaire owners who don't like to spend and fans who blame everyone else when they don't.
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Who is blaming anyone? . Last time I looked at a league table, we were well above ya.
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