The on topic thread

[chef]

Posting history. Lol looks like its getting to you too. Got a big one!

You only discovered that word after Conte said it. Gosha has been rustling your jimmies for a fair while now. He seems to be under your skin.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

You only discovered that word after Conte said it. Gosha has been rustling your jimmies for a fair while now. He seems to be under your skin.

I think typeclub is a parrot and, now that he's heard that word for the first time, he can't stop repeating it.

 

[Gosha]

typeclub has been salty ever since we stole Morata

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Im not fussed by things like finances, its not why i follow my footy clubs.

Well that’s lucky given the woofies are only just a tad less skint than lolnorf

 

[FAITH]

There’s some pretty good rivalries on the bored lately.

Gosha v Typeclub
WC v Moomba
You v Faith
SM v Everyone.

Entertaining shit

Fake News! Im a fan of Chefs, just acts like a pussy sometimes.

 

[FAITH]

typeclub has been salty ever since we stole Morata

But isnt he doing shit for you guys?
Sell him back to Real and get someone better.

 

[Zidane98]

Ban hammer falling in 3....2....1....

 

[kangaspurs]

Well that’s lucky given the woofies are only just a tad less skint than lolnorf

Oi! Enough of that.

 

[chef]

Well that’s lucky given the woofies are only just a tad less skint than lolnorf

Wouldnt have it any other way.

 

[chef]

Fake News! Im a fan of Chefs, just acts like a pussy sometimes.

I dont mind giving you attention when you need it.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Oi! Enough of that.

2nd time now someone’s responded to bait set out for Bojan.

 

[kangaspurs]

This is an interesting article. I think it will be polarising, but definitely worth a read.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...mauricio-pochettino-model-club-cannot-succeed


Spurs have done everything right: if they cannot succeed, who can?

If football is not merely to be the propaganda wing of petro-inflated billionaires, Tottenham must be the model – yet they face Liverpool on Sunday with their position precarious.

There is an awkwardness to the situation in which Tottenham find themselves, a hollowness that should reverberate around all of modern football. Over the past three seasons they have probably been the best side in the Premier League. They have improved each year under Mauricio Pochettino. Their squad is perhaps better than ever before, certainly than it has been for half a century. They are a young, developing side, with an impressive young manager. They play progressive, modern football. They can press high or sit off and look to play on the break. And yet everything they do exists in a vacuum of impossibility; success a staging post to a destination that may lie for ever out of reach.

Once they had found their equaliser at Newport, last week could not have gone much better for Tottenham. Not only did they beat Manchester United but two of their top-six rivals slipped to surprising defeats. The gap from Spurs in fifth to United in second could have been 11 points; instead it is five, while Arsenal are six behind. Having broken the jinx last season, those days when Spurs finished behind their neighbours look to have been consigned to history.

This has been a memorable season. They have taken four points off Real Madrid and six off Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League. They have outplayed Manchester United at home. They are averaging almost two goals a game. Twenty years ago, their average of a fraction under two points per game would have had them in the thick of the title race. This season they are 20 points adrift and, for all that has gone right, they risk missing out on Champions League qualification.

Their position is precarious. Without Champions League football, how many of this squad might consider their options? As Danny Rose made clear in the summer, the players are very aware that they could follow Kyle Walker in leaving the club to double their money elsewhere. Without the revenue of Champions League football, it will be all the harder for Tottenham to offer the pay rises that might placate those whose heads are turned. Without Champions League football, how easy will it be to maintain the belief this is a project worth sticking with?

That question should concern everybody involved in football. Tottenham have done just about everything right. They have not overspent. They have developed talent they either bought young or produced themselves. They have sought to increase revenues with investment in infrastructure. If football is not merely to be the propaganda wing of petro-inflated billionaires, that must be the model clubs are encouraged to follow. Fans used to dream of salvation through a great generation of young players or a messianic manager; now advancement comes by catching the eye of a passing oligarch or sheikh.

Yet Tottenham exist constantly in earshot of a ticking clock, of players and perhaps a manager who cannot be expected to resist the lure of greater financial rewards for ever. Perhaps the fleetingness of the moment enhances its appeal but from a pragmatic point of view the best they can hope for is that this generation is raising funds and the club’s profile for a title challenge in a few years’ time, when Manchester City are no longer elevated by the combination of Abu Dhabi’s wealth and Pep Guardiola’s genius.

Liverpool’s situation is not entirely dissimilar, although they are far less constrained by a rigid wage structure. Both sides are capable of hammering opponents. Get a lead, and they can tear sides apart with rapid counters. But a major doubt remains about both. For Liverpool, it is the sense that once an opponent gets beyond the press there is a profound fragility. The signing of Virgil van Dijk may help remedy that vulnerability but, as West Brom proved, it has not erased it.

For Tottenham, the flaw is an occasional flatness. That may in part this season have been caused by their evolution into a more flexible side, one that does not need to dominate possession to dominate games and occasionally struggles, particularly against lesser sides, to get the balance right. But it is also down to a reliance on Christian Eriksen, a problem exacerbated by Dele Alli’s suspect form this season and Moussa Sissoko’s unreliability.

The Dane has missed only seven games this season: two straightforward Champions League wins over Apoel and an FA Cup victory over AFC Wimbledon, but there has also been a grim 1-0 win over Barnsley in the Carabao Cup, defeat by West Ham in the same competition and draws against Southampton and Newport. When Eriksen is not there, Spurs look short of creative flair. The return from injury of Érik Lamela and the signing of Lucas Moura should ease that, but the dependence is at least in part an issue of a lack of squad depth.

Eriksen is back and Liverpool’s high press means his capacity to unlock massed defences is anyway less likely to be relevant on Sunday, but the feeling that none of it really matters, nags that this is all a fantasy of jam tomorrow. Spurs have to glance four miles to the south to see those dreams can be sustained only for so long.

 

[WealstoneRaider]

This is an interesting article. I think it will be polarising, but definitely worth a read.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...mauricio-pochettino-model-club-cannot-succeed


Spurs have done everything right: if they cannot succeed, who can?

Brilliant article and says it all.

City and PSG are at the point of destroying football imo. I couldn’t feel proud following those teams no matter what success they have. FFP has failed us, and this is what we are left with.

 

[moomba]

 

[RPCB]

The absolute state of superstar love from commentators. Kroos takes a shot on goal that the keeper parries in front of Ronaldo, who takes a chipped shot that hits the keeper in the face and then ricochets off Ronaldo’s knee out for a goal kick. Ronaldo argues the point and asks for a corner.

But because in the meantime Ronaldo picks the keeper up and apologises for kicking the ball in his face, the commentator concentrates on Ronaldo’s “sportsmanship behaviour”. So nothing about Ronaldo wanting another goal scoring opportunity from a corner that wasn’t there.

Edit:

From the above tweet. Lol.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVH_cZpW0AAf2tz?format=jpg

 

[Zidane98]

Has nothing on "The Chosen one" banner

 

[chef]

Barkley becomes the 8th Chelsea player to do his hamstring this season. We aren't handling the extra work load this season.

 

[Zidane98]

This is an interesting article. I think it will be polarising, but definitely worth a read.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...mauricio-pochettino-model-club-cannot-succeed


Spurs have done everything right: if they cannot succeed, who can?

Agree with a lot of it but it doesn't explain Spurs not winning the title in 15/16 when there was the perfect storm of every major rival having a poor season at the same time.

 

[Thistle]

Agree with a lot of it but it doesn't explain Spurs not winning the title in 15/16 when there was the perfect storm of every major rival having a poor season at the same time.

Geezus man, Leicester were too good that season. Get over it.

 

[Zidane98]

Geezus man, Leicester were too good that season. Get over it.

What a bizarre response. The article says Spurs aren't winning trophies because their competition have too much of a financial advantage. If pointing out that wasn't the case in 15/16 upsets you perhaps you need to get over it.

 

[kreglze]

This is an interesting article. I think it will be polarising, but definitely worth a read.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...mauricio-pochettino-model-club-cannot-succeed


Spurs have done everything right: if they cannot succeed, who can?

Have they improved this year?

They aren't 5th by some divine intervention.

 

[RossFC]

Brilliant article and says it all.

City and PSG are at the point of destroying football imo. I couldn’t feel proud following those teams no matter what success they have. FFP has failed us, and this is what we are left with.

PSG haven't even won the Champions League, Lost their french pub league last season to Monaco.

Man City have never won the Champions League and are likely to win their first league in 4 years.

Personally I think this is blown way out of proportion. If Man City don't spend, Man United who spend just as much would win the title and they had a monopoly on this league for ages which I consider ruining football.

In closing Man United can get f'd.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Have they improved this year?

They aren't 5th by some divine intervention.

We’re 2pts fewer at the same stage of the season.
That said 86pts and 17-2-0 at home is damn hard bar to raise.

 

[RossFC]

They nearly won the title with those cooked ones. Brodgers must be better than cooked Kloppo

On the exact same points now (50) as we were at this stage in 13/14. Klopp doesn't even have Suarez to carry us either.

 

[WealstoneRaider]

PSG haven't even won the Champions League, Lost their french pub league last season to Monaco.

Man City have never won the Champions League and are likely to win their first league in 4 years.

Personally I think this is blown way out of proportion. If Man City don't spend, Man United who spend just as much would win the title and they had a monopoly on this league for ages which I consider ruining football.

In closing Man United can get f'd.

I don’t like Man U’s spending either, but at least their money is by and large self-generated. The two Manc clubs spending spree’s have led us to this unhealthy situation we are at now. Something has got to be done because it’s becoming silly.