Supporters Mentality Needs To Catch Up With The Clubs

Supporters Mentality Needs To Catch Up With The Clubs

The club mentlity and supporter mentality is not in tune

I can tell you the club were well aware of the unwarranted abuse Micky Hazard received and I was the recipient of vile, disgusting and grossly Tweets from the scum element of our support on his timeline.

Quite why this element should turn on former players and club ambassadors like Micky and Graham Roberts, simply because they support the football club and how it's trying to achieve it's aims and have a greater working knowledge of Daniel Levy than supporters do, you'd have to ask those responsible, if they are the type of people you choose to associate with.

I don't, I block them. They are set in their ways, leave them to it.

I wrote when AVB took over that the club mentality had to change, from top to bottom, both on and off the playing field. It had to change within the club but that supporters mentality had to change with it.

All it has changed to is one of expectation and demand, it hasn't changed to one of excitement and support, that seems to have gone out of the window. Fans know better, well, sorry, but they don't.

To be fair to Daniel Levy, he has always shown a winning mentality. He demands the best, he demands things done to his standards and if you don't achieve, you go.

We had someone dismissed after a year on the commercial side if my memory serves me right. The masses will disagree, but who cares, quite frankly they don't know what they are talking about.

Football today is first won off the field, then it is won on the field. He has that vision and has developed a strategy to create something to rival Barcelona. Of course he wants to win every game, of course, he wants to win every trophy, but his job is to build us to compete on a financial even playing field to win the trophies regularly that the fans want, that he wants.

He knows how to do it, fans generally don't.

We have not yet won the game off the field. Let me use this analogy, our total income is still a Europa League size compared to our rivals Champions League size income. That balance MUST be addressed before we spend Champions League size income.

And before I get people yelping we are in the Champions League, we are talking metaphorically, not literally, we are talking clubs total income and thus what they have to spend.

We are building a new stadium, it will take time for that revenue to kick-in and for commercial and sponsorship income to arrive as a result and in the meantime, we need to keep qualifying for the UEFA Champions League on the playing field.

Then we have a chance of winning things regularly, then we will be in the position some of you think we are in now, we aren't, we are working towards it.


Christian Eriksen said at the beginning of the window, it is only the English who think you have to spend huge amounts to improve. That was borne out by our fans response to this transfer window, very few of us stood up and said being brave does not mean spend spend spend, it does not mean throwing cash to support a manager.

Pochettino was supported by the board doing exactly what he wanted, only going for top targets and if we couldn't get them then don't waste money on signings for the sake of it.

Going back, Pochettino was supported in freezing out Adebayor and Kaboul, the club captain at the time. Levy continually supports Pochettino, just that as it doesn't their pre-conceived perception of spend spend spend they can't see it.

Those of us without that encumbrance can.

It is a great time to be a Spurs supporter and everyone should be enjoying it, not being bitter and twisted because Mauricio Pochettino and Daniel Levy wish to pursue growing this club their way and not your way.

Give me true supporters any day of the week, not fair weather supporters or football season supporters, support is a year-round thing,12 months of the year.

And don't think moaning and whinging is support, it isn't, it's just moaning and whinging. Constructive criticism taking factors into account, not just criticism is support.

I have asked many times what the anti-Levy crowd want as a replacement for Daniel Levy and not one in 5 years has given has been able to give an answer, let alone a well thought out one with a vision of how we rival Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester United. Indeed they laugh and say that isn't possible, well that's a failure mindset!

Sugar Daddies can no longer buy players and pay for wages, Financial Fair Play stopped all that, clubs have to be self-sufficient, they have to break even over a three year period.

That is the real world, your support should be based around that real world, not a fantasy world where an owner can spend how they like and money appears to be no object.

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