5 or 6 new additions and our #Spurs team looks to have a strong starting 11 and a fairly decent support cast (even the likes of Gray and Bergvall are third choice).
A couple of them are free too, so the overall spend might be affordable.
Thoughts on this side next season?
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This was the nadir. The lowest point. Absolutely the worst season of my nearly 50 years of supporting this club. There’s a clear path to now move forwards. The alarms clearer than ever before. Sell the dross, back De Zerbi. Spend big this summer and the only way is up
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Reasons to be hopeful:
✅ It’s not over
✅ A Maddison winner feels inevitable, manifest it folks, manifest it
✅ Solanke might return to help our desperate attack
✅ We have definitely improved under DZ
✅ Everton are on poor form
✅ Home advantage
✅ Our crowd will be febrile
Reasons I’m sh!tting myself…
❌ We don’t win at home
❌ Forward line blunt
❌ Maddison’s 2nd game in a week will reduce his impact
❌ Everton outside chance of Europe
❌ If we concede the home crowd will spread tension
❌ West Ham will be bang up for it
#THFC#COYS#Spurs
One thing for sure; for absolute, 100%, nailed-on, no-fucking-doubts-whatsoever, sure sure sure - is that #Spurs will never, ever, get a dominant, cruise-to-a-clean 3-0 win when we need it do we? 🤦🏻♂️
#CHETOT#THFC#COYS
For Spurs to go down. All now must be true.
- Chelsea, who haven't won in 5, win
- Everton, who haven't won in 5, win
- Leeds, who haven't lost in 5, lose.
A single point for Spurs or dropped by West Ham. And we're safe.
Some positives…
Everton have won only 1 from 8, could be out of the running to finish in the top 6 and on the beach by the time we play them.
Chelsea will be in a similar position when we play them although they will have played a demanding, tiring FA Cup final 3 days prior.
When you look at where our direct relegation competitors are placed in these two tables, it seems as though absolutely everything is stacked against #Spurs right now 😩
Injury table and form table. 👇🏻
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Is it possible that the single biggest move our club has made in its history, building a game-changing stadium in order to break through the glass ceiling and enter the upper echelons of football, turns out to be the thing that’s broken our team and relegated #Spurs?🤷🏻♂️😩
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If Maddison scores a last minute free kick winner for #Spurs against Chelsea, to keep us up, I swear I’ll spontaneously combust. I am ready for and manifesting this Maddison saviour story arc. 🎯
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"I feel James Maddison may have to play a role in terms of keeping Tottenham up. He is the only one I can think of in terms of doing something special. He's got that quality I mention in terms of Jarrod Bowen and Morgan Gibbs-White."
- Jamie Carragher
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List of serious knee injuries #Spurs have suffered in last 3 seasons…
Maddison
Xavi
Oberbert
Dragusin
Bentancur
Perisic
Romero
Kulusevski
UEFA claim that the average for a club to miss a player with a long term knee injury is 0.5 per season.
We have EIGHT.
I believe young players will stay. The better senior players can’t afford to waste a season in the Championship, but the younger ones can be held on to.
As a side note, our seriously injured players can’t be sold, so Kulu, Madders, Odobert, Xavi etc will rip up the Championship
Pete O’Rourke told Football Insider:
“They really wouldn’t want to see Bergvall move to some of their rivals in Chelsea or Aston Villa.
“If they do suffer relegation, it’s going to be a real battle to keep hold of some of their best players, and Bergvall, I’m sure, will attract a lot of interest.
“But I think right now he’s under a long-term contract and it does seem Bergvall is happy at Tottenham and will be happy to stay if they do secure Premier League survival.”
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You could argue that’s 6 starting attackers on that list and almost all our creative players.
This is, I believe, the biggest reason we have struggled all year. It’s unprecedented and any club would struggle with this many injury problems.
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CONSIDER THIS:
With 5 games left to play and 2 points behind safety, if we were 2nd and challenging for the title with a 2 point gap, or challenging for a Champions League position with a 2 point deficit, you’d definitely still remain optimistic.
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