Spurs fans think like employees

A section of Spurs fans think like employees, they think they have to get paid well first then they will work.

I will add that not all are like that but many are. This is a lazy mindset and if you think of Emmanuel Adebayor you can see it in action, he won't put himself out for anyone, even if they do pay him well. He thinks he is doing a club a favour by wearing their shirt, that he is special and should be pandered to, he isn't, he is lazy, fight for a place, you must be joking, I'm Emmanuel Adebayor.

It's the give me a job, pay me well, then I’ll work hard syndrome, except that in his case or Paulinho they won't work hard, they'll do what they have to do and that's it. There are people like that in every organisation up and down the country, you may well know one yourself.

If a player wants money, then he'll work hard on his game to get good enough to get it, then he'll either do one of two things. He will either maintain and improve that level to justify his salary and even grow it or he'll switch off and go through the motions thinking he has made it he doesn't have to try anymore. Which player do you want Spurs to have?

If we accept that we want the player who keeps getting better then shouldn't we be doing everything we can to firstly ensure he is that type of player before we buy him?

It may seem obvious but can the club honestly tell me they did everything they could to mentally assess, Adebayor, Lamela, Soldado, Capoue, Paulinho etc? Those signings suggest we didn't and there is room for improvement. As I have said previously we need a winning mentality both on and off the pitch, we need to look for improvements in every facet of the club. The improvements off the pitch affect the improvement on the pitch, improve one and yu improve the other because you improve your purchases.

For Lamela I would have immediately hired an Argentinian interpreter on a full-time basis to help him settle in a new country as fast as possible, not just to interpret and help him learn English but to introduce him to life outside the club. Ensuring a player settles in the quickest possible time will get him confident and performing his best in the quickest possible time, it doesn't work the other way around.

Our recruitment has been poor because our scouting has been poor, amateurish in fact. Paul Mitchell has been brought in to scout and analyse players yet the word is he found an archaic scouting system that uses agencies to find players. The theory is fine, someone else does all the looking for you but it isn't the same as doing it yourself. It appears he is having to build a scouting system, hence the two scouts concentrating on Southern Europe, mainly Spain and Portugal.

Again it's an off the field improvement that will impact on the field performance. The new stadium, the NFL deal, increasing the company income, they all impact on the field, you can't have one without the other.

However we have a bunch of fans, the 'jealous of Chelsea' cluster who want a fairy godmother to wave her a magic wand and pay for everything for them, they don't want to actually have to work for something. Which mindset are they?

Is that the mindset of a winner or is it an employee mindset, give me the money and then I'll work, they want to live on handouts. Arsenal showed there is another way, that something can be built by a club with the vision to get off their butts and work for it. Manchester United was built not bankrolled as well. Pochettino made that clear when he spoke to a Spanish radio station last week.

"We finished fifth last season but our project is different to their project [of the top four and Liverpool]. We have young boys, mainly English people and what we are trying is to create a team for the future, to set the base of the following years."

Spurs are embarked on the building route, fans should appreciate that is the mindset of the successful, of sustainable success and we should all be behind it. You could liken Spurs fans support of the club to the approach of two players, Harry Kane and Emmanuel Adebayor.

One works his butt off, one wants it on a plate by divine right. Which camp does your support fall into, are you Harry Kane or Emmanuel Adebayor?

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