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The Champions League Final - Spurs v The Other Lot.

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Gareth Gibson said:
Yup.

Until we start spending big we won't make it into the top 4, let alone the final of the CL.
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Humm, Spurs has the second lowest net spend on transfers in the premiership. Yet they've qualified for Champions League, made it to the final and a stunnimg stadium.

Lazy thinking like we have to spend big to win trophies isn't enough. We have to come up with far more imaginative ideas to improve our squad such as tactics, philosophy, travel of directions and getting our transfer targets right. Otherwise we'll end up pissing the money in the wind.
 
catcherintherye said:
Hard to see Pochettino not going to a club with far greater resources mate. In spite of the David V Goliath nonsense of Liverpool, their team cost hundreds of millions more than Spurs team last night (about 4 times as much) and pay them double the wages. The gap between the two is probably akin to the gap between Tottenham to the sides in the championship. He has done a remarkable job. I doubt it will be his last serious chance.
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I'm not quite as convinced by Pochettino. He's done a great job in terms of consistent league finishes on a budget, but I still haven't seen much evidence of him being a manager that will go out and win on the biggest occasions. They were largely battered by both City and Ajax, lost an FA Cup semi last season and finished third in a two-horse title race in 2016.

I know it's harsh, and the net spend/wage bill arguments are completely valid, but to me, he's being propped up as this generation's equivalent of Mourinho at Porto, and I think the younger Jose gets over the line at least once or twice with those players.
 
Carlito said:
I'm not quite as convinced by Pochettino. He's done a great job in terms of consistent league finishes on a budget, but I still haven't seen much evidence of him being a manager that will go out and win on the biggest occasions. They were largely battered by both City and Ajax, lost an FA Cup semi last season and finished third in a two-horse title race in 2016.

I know it's harsh, and the net spend/wage bill arguments are completely valid, but to me, he's being propped up as this generation's equivalent of Mourinho at Porto, and I think the younger Jose gets over the line at least once or twice with those players.
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As I think I've said a few times, I see quite a few similarities with Moyes and Moyes's Everton. It was what underpinned my prediction for them to lose the final (and they lost it as much as Liverpool won it). That was as poor as Liverpool had played, and a whole host of teams would have taken advantage.

You have an inherent contradiction at it's core. On the one hand his recruitment and ability to improve players means he has done very well on a budget. However when you consider what he has built on such a tiny small budget, to not win a trophy is an enormous under achievement. I downed if he went elsewhere whether he would have the same success, as for Moyes that really was the beginning of the end.
 

catcherintherye said:
As I think I've said a few times, I see quite a few similarities with Moyes and Moyes's Everton. It was what underpinned my prediction for them to lose the final (and they lost it as much as Liverpool won it). That was as poor as Liverpool had played, and a whole host of teams would have taken advantage.

You have an inherent contradiction at it's core. On the one hand his recruitment and ability to improve players means he has done very well on a budget. However when you consider what he has built on such a tiny small budget, to not win a trophy is an enormous under achievement. I downed if he went elsewhere whether he would have the same success, as for Moyes that really was the beginning of the end.
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Couldn't agree more. In the end, Moyes clung onto the safety blanket of net spend/'knife to a gunfight' talk until it smothered him, and I get the impression that Pochettino is another who has fallen in love with a narrative that may not wash with another club's fans.
 
catcherintherye said:
Hard to see Pochettino not going to a club with far greater resources mate. In spite of the David V Goliath nonsense of Liverpool, their team cost hundreds of millions more than Spurs team last night (about 4 times as much) and pay them double the wages. The gap between the two is probably akin to the gap between Tottenham to the sides in the championship. He has done a remarkable job. I doubt it will be his last serious chance.
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Man Utd could have had him, it would have taken him a couple of years but he had got a pot of gold to rebuild them.
 

The City Centre was full of mutants still today walking round with their tat. It looked like a meeting of the Josef Fritzel Appreciation Society.
Should just let it go over my head, but I keep wanting to shout "Hysel" at them. Throw in Rupert's Tower and the Steve McMahon commets. They really are classless even in victory.
God, if only Hicks and Gillette had been allowed to carry on their magic for a bit longer!
 
shagpuss said:
The City Centre was full of mutants still today walking round with their tat. It looked like a meeting of the Josef Fritzel Appreciation Society.
Should just let it go over my head, but I keep wanting to shout "Hysel" at them. Throw in Rupert's Tower and the Steve McMahon commets. They really are classless even in victory.
God, if only Hicks and Gillette had been allowed to carry on their magic for a bit longer!
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What's that fake hard man said?
 
The thing that proper hurts me the most is that we could have taken six points off them this season with a tiny, tiny bit of luck, yet they've gone and played their worst game of the season and comfortably won the Champions League. Sickening. The money they've won would pay our new stadium two times over.
 

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