What was the trigger in our downward trend?

[Bedfordspurs]

Selling kane. Without a decent replacement.

Logically this is correct
But how do you replace the best player on the planet
You need a plan and you need to replace both goals and creativity in the case of Kane

 

[Lilbaz]

Logically this is correct
But how do you replace the best player on the planet
You need a plan and you need to replace both goals and creativity in the case of Kane

You buy some of the best youngsters on the planet and hope a couple come good.

 

[SteveAWOL]

Selling kane. Without a decent replacement.

The fact that even after agreeing a £100m deal to sell Kane we then took 12 months to merely settle on Solanke epitomises the gross incompetence of our transfer planning over the past decade.

 

[glasgowspur]

We're not replacing kane, not a ready made one.
If there is such a thing out there he's not coming to Tottenham.
Just like we couldn't replace or hang on to Modric, bale, son and dembele (although that's for different reasons), hell we've not even properly replaced walker.
Those are unrealistic for us and the sooner the fan base realise it the better.
We have to take a different approach.

 

[SteveAWOL]

We're not replacing kane, not a ready made one.
If there is such a thing out there he's not coming to Tottenham.
Just like we couldn't replace or hang on to Modric, bale, son and dembele (although that's for different reasons), hell we've not even properly replaced walker.
Those are unrealistic for us and the sooner the fan base realise it the better.
We have to take a different approach.

I think most accept that Kane is an irreplacable generational talent.

However with that £100m fee we surely could've at least identified someone like Ekitike who has the potential to become an elite forward that summer rather than dithering for 12 months only to settle on a mid-table player who we know can do a decent job but ain’t going to be anything more than a squad player if we’re truly aiming to become a club which challenges for the very top honours.

Or perhaps we could’ve signed someone like Semenyo who might’ve been able to fill the void left by the imminent departure of Sonny, rather than taking a punt on a couple of youngsters who’ll need a couple of seasons of regular football before we’re even able to determine whether they are of the standard to be starters at a club which wants to be in Top 4.

Then there’s that lacklustre midfield of ours which might’ve been much less turgid with an Anderson or Wharton there, instead of continuing to hope that Bentancur can return to being the player he was before Matty Cash wrecked his career or Bissouma would finally become the new Dembele… thankfully Gray and Bergvall look like great prospects but they’d surely develop better alongside elite established players than expecting them to learn the ropes whilst simultaneously having to carry a struggling team.

I guess that Pochettino fella was on to something with his comments about a painful rebuild being necessary and ENIC’s decision to instead try and extract every last drop out the squad until they’re completely worn out has proved that they know far less about constructing a world class team than they do about property development.

 

[Kane]

We're not replacing kane, not a ready made one.
If there is such a thing out there he's not coming to Tottenham.
Just like we couldn't replace or hang on to Modric, bale, son and dembele (although that's for different reasons), hell we've not even properly replaced walker.
Those are unrealistic for us and the sooner the fan base realise it the better.
We have to take a different approach.

Yes, I think maybe some of the frustration re. Kane is that when he left it took a while for the club to act. It was almost as if they'd been caught with their pants down(?). His departure was always on the cards and his contract was running down, and so they would/should have had plans afoot for quite some time. I don't quite recall all the details, at least not with clarity. Behind closed doors, was there some division in the ranks with some saying yay and others saying nay? How much did Ange want Kane? How much did Kane want Ange? Is there anything they could have said or done or presented differently that would have seen him still here today? What would it have took?

 

[glasgowspur]

I think most accept that Kane is an irreplacable generational talent.

However with that £100m fee we surely could've at least identified someone like Ekitike who has the potential to become an elite forward that summer rather than dithering for 12 months only to settle on a mid-table player who we know can do a decent job but ain’t going to be anything more than a squad player if we’re truly aiming to become a club which challenges for the very top honours.

Or perhaps we could’ve signed someone like Semenyo who might’ve been able to fill the void left by the imminent departure of Sonny, rather than taking a punt on a couple of youngsters who’ll need a couple of seasons of regular football before we’re even able to determine whether they are of the standard to be starters at a club which wants to be in Top 4.

Then there’s that lacklustre midfield of ours which might’ve been much less turgid with an Anderson or Wharton there, instead of continuing to hope that Bentancur can return to being the player he was before Matty Cash wrecked his career or Bissouma would finally become the new Dembele… thankfully Gray and Bergvall look like great prospects but they’d surely develop better alongside elite established players than expecting them to learn the ropes whilst simultaneously having to carry a struggling team.

I guess that Pochettino fella was on to something with his comments about a painful rebuild being necessary and ENIC’s decision to instead try and extract every last drop out the squad until they’re completely worn out has proved that they know far less about constructing a world class team than they do about property development.

I would be looking at ekitike and was it alimouche the lad at Monaco.
However I think we need to be more resilient to the narrative. Sign those two and it would be all about how they're not PL ready, not physically up to, toughest league in world and all that bollox.
So we end up with Richie and solanke. Both fine players, but not necessarily what we need.
Similar with the manager situation after Frank, I mean really Tim sherwood or redknapp is just ridiculous.
There was nothing wrong with tudor as an idea but we allowed a negative narrative form in the press, partially as far as I'm concerned because he wasn't English. What's the highest an English manager has ever finished in the PL? Fourth?
As a club and a fan base we really need to learn to shut out the noise.