Tottenham Talk on Thursday 9th Sept
Tottenham Talk on Thursday 9th Sept
Let me tell you a story.
There was this chap who had a belief.
He had written a script, a film script.
He had just been offered $250,000 for it and he was flat broke, so broke that he gave his dog away for $50 to get food.
He was three months behind with his rent.
He had less than $100 in the bank.
He was married, his wife was pregnant.
It had taken him 10 months to keep reworking the script.
He was an out of work actor and he wanted to play the leading role.
Acting agencies for turning him down for parts with excuses.
He visited Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler.
As he was leaving having been rejected for work again, he told them he writes screenplays too.
They liked the script and started talk with film companies to turn it into a reality.
A film company said yes, but they wanted James Caan or Burt Reynolds to play the lead role.
Our out of work actor was offered $100,000 to sign over the rights to the script.
He turned it down.
He was offered $150,000.
He turned it down.
He was offered $200,000.
He turned it down.
He was offered $250,000.
He turned it down.
Eventually he got his way, the agents said he could have the lead part but he would only be paid $25,000 and a percentage of the profits.
When do we start, was his response.
The budget for the film was $1.1m, it grossed over $225m making it the highest grossing film of 1976.
It received 10 Academy Award nominations, winning three, including Best Picture and Best Director.
In 2006, the Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."
The out of work actor had a vision, a belief, a totally unshakeable belief, he absolutely knew without a shadow of doubt that he should play the lead role and that the movie would be a success.
Tunnel vision if you like.
That is part of the formula for success, that totally unshakeable conviction that you re right, that your vision will come true, that you or your product, service will fill a need and be a resounding success.
Without it, your efforts to achieve it are not the same and you give in earlier.
Our out of work actor didn't.
The film: Rocky.
The young actor, Silvester Stallone.
He wrote 6 Rocky film, co-wrote 3 more, starred in them all and Directed 4 of them.
Rocky IV was the highest grossing sports movie of all time.
An unshakeable belief.
He had an absolute and borderline delusional conviction in the goal he had chosen.
This is NOT negotiable.
Everyone has that in them, everyone...
But few show it the light of day.
Lionel Messi did, Cristiano Ronaldo did, Pele did and now Harry Kane does.
I'm not talking here about a hatred agenda you stick with for the benefit of your own ego, that's something entirely different.
I'm talking about the difference between you and someone like Silvester Stallone or even, probably, Daniel Levy.
I'm talking of those with a winning mentality.
Stallone knew where he was going, Daniel Levy knows where Spurs are going and he isn't going to be side-tracked by fans feelings, fans who don't actually know how success is achieved and have lower expectations.
Spurs goal is stated.
To rival Barcelona and Real Madrid off the field (financially) which leads to on the field (trophies).
The two are inextricably linked, one is not going to be achieved without the other.
There are no short cuts.
Spurs will achieve success.
Spurs will win trophies.
It is merely a matter of time.
It is inevitable.
That is how a winning mentality thinks.
They don't think short term, they don't think it must happen now.
They just do everything building the bigger picture and winning trophies becomes a by-product.
It's why fans can't run football clubs, they haven't a clue quite frankly.
Their priorities are all wrong.
They think winning a trophy is success.
It isn't.
Not when your goal is to win trophies consistently.
You have to have the resources for that first.
Winning a trophy is merely a stepping stone.
Which trophy is irrelevant.
A player, a coach, everyone needs to feel it, experience it, to have that unshakeable drive to achieve it again.
Our squad are not Silvester Stallone's yet, at least they haven't been.
They were given a Silvester Stallone and they weren't prepared to do what it takes, they downed tools, they couldn't perform at their top level because they didn't all have an unshakeable belief.
They didn't all buy in.
Everyone has to buy in.
Fans should be a part of that, not fighting against it.
Did Silvester Stallone fight against when he wanted to achieve?
He would never have achieved it if he did.
You have an unshakeable belief in your course of action and you ignore those that don't.
Anti-Levy fans are in fact anti-Spurs fans, even though they don't know it because their actions are anti-Spurs actions.
They are travelling and trying to drag everyone backwards in the wrong direction.
It is why you ignore them, why you block them.
Surround yourself with success mentalities, not failure mentalities.
See the vision...
Assess against the vision.
Understand how the vision is achieved...
Assess against that.
I have a totally unshakeable belief that working with a psychologist will help players improve...
Will help us win trophies...
Will make us attractive to any player who wants success...
Who wants to be the best he can be...
Because for those people, like Stallone, it isn't about the money...
It's about following the vision...
It's about following an unshakeable belief path.
Unless you, as a fan, have that unshakeable belief, then you are of no use on the board, no use at all.
Good morning Top of the Table Spurs folk and welcome to an upsetting for some, Tottenham Talk on Thursday 9th September.
It's 4:50am GMT on Tuesday 7th Sept as I write this, with my own unshakeable belief.
The very people (Spurs fans) who say the European Super League, which basically would shift the money from the UEFA Champions League to the ESL and therefore to the top teams involved, is bad for the whole game are the very same people who want a Sugar Daddy owner!
Sugar Daddy owners are bad for the game, they force everyone to overstretch themselves to compete and the pandemic has brought that clearly to light for everyone.
UEFA have been fighting against it for the good of the game as a whole, they have been fighting against all the big clubs getting all the money.
But hypocritical fans still want a Sugar Daddy.
For selfish reasons, ignoring the good of the game for glory.
Make your mind up hypocrites.
Every club should build its business to grow and the Internet makes that possible...
It's just a question of marketing the right message...
Finding the right angle...
To make it happen.
Spurs have been build the right way...
The sustainable way.
The club are still growing and thus heading in the right direction.
Trophies are the by-product that will follow.
It's why every day is a happy day...
Because every day is a day closer.
There will be ups and downs...
Naturally...
But, trophies will come.
It's being built...
They will come.
We should aim to start a trophy haul with the...
UEFA Conference League.
We should be the best side in the competition...
And thus, we should win it.
We can then take those feelings...
Emotions...
Knowledge...
Experience...
Into domestic football.
Once the 4-minute mile was broken, everyone started breaking it.
The mental ceiling had been removed.
Athletes now believed they could break it, so did.
It is the same with winning trophies.
We have a mental ceiling we have to break through.
What the trophy is is irrelevant.
Once we break that ceiling, more will follow...
Given the club continues to grow off the field...
To have the resources to achieve it.
Snippets
Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has been voted onto the executive board of the European Club Association, just five months after Tottenham were one of 12 involved in plans to form a breakaway Super League.That isn't dead of course but far better to have the chairman involved than ostracised, which would create even more division.
In view of the fact that we have been linked for over a month with a free agent move for Ivory Coast international Franck Kessié, a look at who else would be available for free next summer from Serie A seems worthwhile.
So, who do we want?
Well that's it folks.
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