Toby Alderweireld

[metalgear]

And the fading Eriksen and dele too. All about the same time where we had a transfer embargo, meaning no competition for players and of course nor replacements.

I think a lot of our fall from grace is down to him and Verts ageing. They were both top class players and worked brilliantly together. Losing both around the same time has given us huge issues which as of now have still not been resolved.

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[ricky2tricky4city]

Yep. Neither have been replaced and now we have to put up with fudging Dier and Sanchez. It’s like going from Kane to Frazier Campbell.

We had a succession plan. None of the players have proven good enough.

 

[Mosquito_Coasting]

Yep. Neither have been replaced and now we have to put up with fudging Dier and Sanchez. It’s like going from Kane to Frazier Campbell.

Plus CBs seem the hardest player to buy. Look at the amount of dross United, City, Arsenal, Liverpool and us have bought for high prices.

 

[Gazza Dazzla]

We has a succession plan. None of the players have provided good enough.

Exactly, we spent 40m a few years ago on part of a succession plan and he’s turned out to be average.

 

[Raziel]

How did we not manage to win any silverware with these 3 phenomenal Dutchmen in their prime at the core of our team

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+Eriksen, +prime Lloris, + Kane, + Son
And for a short while +Walker +prime Rose

Yet some people think that team overachieved ...

 

[parklane1]

+Eriksen, +prime Lloris, + Kane, + Son
And for a short while +Walker +prime Rose

Yet some people think that team overachieved ...

Going to upset s ome folks i am sure but we bottled it in far to many games.

 

[Bishop]

I think you're overrating them if you think we didn't overachieve.

 

[Raziel]

I think you're overrating them if you think we didn't overachieve.

Like everything there is nuance in the answer

- That team failed when it mattered (as we tend to)
- We got to top 4 and Finals, but never really made it count

Let me give you some weird stats

- Poch's team got the most points in a calendar year but not in a season
- Jose's team got the 4th number of points in his time here, yet finished 6th and 7th ..

We did well in a general way, but when it mattered (having done all the hard work), we didn't, time and again ..

 

[Finney Is Back]

Like everything there is nuance in the answer

- That team failed when it mattered (as we tend to)
- We got to top 4 and Finals, but never really made it count

Let me give you some weird stats

- Poch's team got the most points in a calendar year but not in a season
- Jose's team got the 4th number of points in his time here, yet finished 6th and 7th ..

We did well in a general way, but when it mattered (having done all the hard work), we didn't, time and again ..

Small squads with big drop offs in quality between the first choice players and their reserves are always likely to fall short. As the season goes on injuries and tiredness (though it being difficult to rest the players) increase and then at the business end of the season the clubs with the deeper reserve of quality players are more likely to come out on top in games against us.

In some ways we were quite uniquely unlucky as well.... as when we were at our very best we first had Chelsea with the advantage of no Europe at all and then had a huge disadvantage of giving up a fortress of a home stadium for Wembley.

 

[Raziel]

Small squads with big drop offs in quality between the first choice players and their reserves are always likely to fall short. As the season goes on injuries and tiredness (though it being difficult to rest the players) increase and then at the business end of the season the clubs with the deeper reserve of quality players are more likely to come out on top in games against us.

In some ways we were quite uniquely unlucky as well.... as when we were at our very best we first had Chelsea with the advantage of no Europe at all and then had a huge disadvantage of giving up a fortress of a home stadium for Wembley.

Lots of circumstances, think we all know that, Spurs has a way of finding the bricky luck ..

I'd leave at that team was capable of more, we just never got the timing right.

 

[RunTMC]

Like everything there is nuance in the answer

- That team failed when it mattered (as we tend to)
- We got to top 4 and Finals, but never really made it count

Let me give you some weird stats

- Poch's team got the most points in a calendar year but not in a season
- Jose's team got the 4th number of points in his time here, yet finished 6th and 7th ..

We did well in a general way, but when it mattered (having done all the hard work), we didn't, time and again ..

It was actually worse than this. There was a 2 year calendar span where we got the most points but not in a single season.

I think the worst was that year where we scored the most and conceded the least and still came up short. We just couldn't quite get over the line

 

[Bishop]

Lots of circumstances, think we all know that, Spurs has a way of finding the bricky luck ..

I'd leave at that team was capable of more, we just never got the timing right.

I agree it was capable of more and got pretty close. The 2nd title run was the serious one, but I don't think we bottled it or even failed. Chelsea were just better than we were. Not a surprise really, they had a well invested side, deeper squad, genuine WC players with a winning coach and a significantly lighter schedule.

If you looked at the two sides on paper Chelsea would always be expected to finish ahead of us.

 

[DubSpur]

Small squads with big drop offs in quality between the first choice players and their reserves are always likely to fall short. As the season goes on injuries and tiredness (though it being difficult to rest the players) increase and then at the business end of the season the clubs with the deeper reserve of quality players are more likely to come out on top in games against us.

In some ways we were quite uniquely unlucky as well.... as when we were at our very best we first had Chelsea with the advantage of no Europe at all and then had a huge disadvantage of giving up a fortress of a home stadium for Wembley.

Or lack of rotation, not taking players off when games were won and not knowing when to ease up on the double training sessions.

 

[SteveAWOL]

It was actually worse than this. There was a 2 year calendar span where we got the most points but not in a single season.

I think the worst was that year where we scored the most and conceded the least and still came up short. We just couldn't quite get over the line

We truly are cursed aren’t we!!

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