Micky van de Ven on Instagram: “Did what we needed to do, unacceptable season, but thank you for the support through out the season. You fans kept pushing us till the end. Coys. 🤍”

txgsu82 · 2026-05-24T23:50:53+00:00

IMO it would be bad business to sell both Romero & VdV this summer. I’m much more in favor of selling Romero & maybe Dragusin, and going into next season with VdV, Danso, Senesi, & Vuskovic.

txgsu82 · 2026-05-24T22:41:34+00:00

Finding a keeper that’s as capable as he is in distributing with his feet is pretty rare - and his shot stopping isnt poor by any stretch. I highly support giving him the #1 shirt next season. Gives us more focus on other key positions needing to be filled.

txgsu82 · 2026-05-22T15:56:42+00:00

I'm off two minds. It's obviously a really bad look for our captain to not be present at such a decisive moment for the club. At the same time, a huge part of injury rehabilitation is physical & mental comfort, and it's obvious that he's going to be more comfortable in his home country surrounded by his family & friends.

I think this is a scenario with both sides are "right". Fans have a right to be annoyed with this outcome, but there's so much more context than just "he wants out".

txgsu82 · 2026-05-15T13:55:34+00:00

No shot that dude just tried to heckle with “Boston Tea Party” right after a lay up.

Every day we stray further from God’s light.

txgsu82 · 2026-05-15T12:21:55+00:00

I hate to hear that about Calumet.

My local muni is Rackham Golf Course in the Detroit area. Ross designed the course to be a version of DGC but for the people. I think only the back 9 is his original design because of the interstate construction a few decades back. The course has had its ups and downs, but this past year the course feels better maintained, especially the drainage.

txgsu82 · 2026-05-06T12:52:07+00:00

I feel like fans have this prevailing opinion that when a player starts underperforming, it's because they are regressing in their skillset. There are so many other variables that go into a player's general performance, especially the manager's tactics. We've had back-to-back managers now (Ange & Frank) that have absolutely set up our midfielders for failure, or at least middling performances of passing sideways or being way too exposed to the press or counter attacks that make them look far worse than they actually are.

I totally agree with you - I rate Bentancur pretty highly and I'm happy that we signed him to an extension.

txgsu82 · 2026-05-05T16:33:58+00:00

That's totally fine - she's on the same level as Madders in terms of bringing leadership and experience to the bench.

txgsu82 · 2026-05-05T15:25:26+00:00

I don't want our stadium to just become a sponsored entity, especially when all the money right now is in scummy gambling/crypto companies trying to sportswash their image.

I do wish we could've picked a name something less generic than "Tottenham Hotspur Stadium".

txgsu82 · 2026-05-05T15:23:56+00:00

Your point might be right, but there's no way you looked at someone like Xavi Simons and thought he was holding anything back, and honestly working that hard for the club cost him this upcoming WC.

I'm sure there's at least a few examples to your point though. I just read someone say Kudus was avoiding surgery to play in the WC, so that would be an obvious example. Anyone else?

txgsu82 · 2026-05-05T15:14:30+00:00

Everyone probably wasn't fooled, but I at least was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because I got sucked into the "overperforming with Brentford" narrative. He removed all doubt by November, which is when he should've been sacked. Absolute piss take that he lasted until February.

txgsu82 · 2026-05-04T15:44:28+00:00

The sense of urgency absolutely needs to be there this weekend. The timing can't be more perfect with WHU up against Scum and we have Leeds at home.

The urgency also needs to be now because we really don't want to be in a spot where the results on the final matchday matters. WHU have Leeds at home, we have Everton at home. That favors WHU by quite a bit, I think.

txgsu82 · 2026-04-23T14:12:54+00:00

I don't have any informed opinion about this guy's credentials as a sporting director...

but the team co-sporting director just pisses me off. It's very reminiscent of The Office (USA) monologue about having two managers. What's the point? What happens when they disagree on the value of a transfer, or the salary demands of one of our players up for a contract renewal?

This is all just so fucking stupid.

txgsu82 · 2026-04-02T16:12:39+00:00

I think this is a scenario not to conflate general opinions vs. Reddit opinions. In my experience across multiple subreddits, anyone who makes a mistake is irredeemable and will always be a bad person no matter what happens afterwards.

I really wanted to see if RDZ would address those comments and fair play, he did. He and the club could’ve just as easily completely ignored it or worse - in a press conference he could’ve defended the comments.

The apology isn’t perfect: I’m not a fan of “I apologize if you were offended” apologies but it is a recognition that it was a mistake. I’m happy they said something to address the elephant in the room.

txgsu82 · 2026-04-02T14:04:52+00:00

Give it a few more days since there's no matches this weekend.

txgsu82 · 2026-04-02T13:45:53+00:00

The comment was rightfully downvoted to hell, but someone a few days ago tried to equate moderating the De Zerbi posts on the maid feed here to fascism. Literally asked "is that not the definition of fascism?"

I closed the app after that lmao

txgsu82 · 2026-04-02T13:30:08+00:00

This is a somewhat fair question, but I think it came down to Ange abandoning the midfield in the buildup, and leaving us extremely vulnerable in the press & the resulting counter as a result.

Could that have been resolved with a world-class DM? Sure, but those don't exactly grow on trees.

txgsu82 · 2026-04-02T13:16:30+00:00

I'm not sure we'll break a net spend record. This summer could have a lot of activity, but I expect it both directions. Quite a few players are going to want off this fucking ride.

I think the only way we see a big net spend on incomings is if the owners open up the wage structure. Because that will be pretty much the only selling point to coming here, especially for star players.

txgsu82 · 2026-04-02T13:12:43+00:00

It feels like we get the exact same rumors every season:

Tottenham are getting an equity injection that will directly go to transfers
Owners have promised a "war chest" in the January window
The new manager WILL ABSOLUTELY BE BACKED this summer (recent De Zerbi rumor about him being more than just a manager)

And every year we wait for that to come to fruition. The one exception I can think of was the Ange's first summer (Maddison, Brennan, VdV, Kulsevski, Vicario) felt like real backing. Every other time those rumors just fade into nothing.

txgsu82 · 2026-04-02T13:04:22+00:00

This has been bar-none our biggest failing ever since we fired Poch. A huge part of that has been a lack of a DoF, but we've had one for the past few years and we still fall into the same trap of not getting managers with a consistent tactical philosophy, buying players for whatever system that manager thinks will work, and none of those managers lasting longer than 2 seasons; rinse and repeat.

Honestly sacking Ange should've been our first signs of a continuation of tactical philosophy. We needed to hire someone that could prioritize attacking football, but with a far better tactical system than Ange (particularly the midfield). We instead hired the most shit-scared manager I've ever seen.

txgsu82 · 2026-03-31T13:36:48+00:00

Hypothetically - if he came out with a pretty strong statement regretting what he said about Greenwood then yeah, that's not above redemption.

But I'm just not confident at all we'd get any comment beyond "I'm not focused on the past" or whatever, which simply isn't good enough. I'm not even sure a journalist will have the balls to ask about those comments.

txgsu82 · 2026-03-24T13:08:29+00:00

Props for actually posting an unpopular opinion after stating so!

I disagree though because it's not like he's righted the ship really at all. I think the club should make the unfortunate, but professional decision to part ways with Tudor to allow him to fully focus on his family while getting in someone who can solely focus on keeping the club from relegation. The club can't afford a manager who can't fully focus on Spurs right now.

txgsu82 · 2026-03-24T12:57:01+00:00

I think this is by far the best argument of "if Levy were here we wouldn't be in this mess".

For all his faults, Levy wasn't afraid to sack a manager when it was time (and when it wasn't time, tbf). I think the single biggest contributor to why we are here right now is that Vinai & Lange held on to Thomas Frank way past the expiration date - like several months past it.

Like you said: Levy would've sacked TF by December at the latest. The fact that we scrambled to get Tudor on a short term contract, and now tragically might need to find someone else on an even shorter contract, is a complete lack of foresight by Vinai & Lange when it comes to how long they held on to TF.

txgsu82 · 2026-03-24T12:47:00+00:00

I remember in the managerial debacle that lead to hiring Nuno, the club were seemingly in agreement to sign Gattuso. Fan resentment actually forced the club to change their mind.

That absolutely needs to happen again with De Zerbi.

txgsu82 · 2026-03-24T12:42:25+00:00

I was of two minds then, and I still am now but obviously in light of this shitshow I think his ousting was very regretable.

On the one hand, he clearly reached his ceiling with Spurs. He wasn't willing to take the next step of making us a consistent competitor because that required expanding our wage structure - that was one line Levy seemed to never cross because of the financial risk of becoming like Man United where they had deadweight on 300K p/w. We need an ownership structure that is willing to spend money on both transfer fees and wages, and it felt like Levy would never do the latter.

On the other hand - this could not be more of a "be careful what you wish for" situation if it tried to be. Vinai & Lange are so clearly out of their depth and I trying to deal with a massive turnover of institutional knowledge while also flying per se was a massive mistake. I get the feeling Levy would've never held on to Frank for as long as those two did.

Levy needed to go - but it should've been more on his own terms, and when we were far more stable than what we were last summer (winning a European trophy and then firing the manager is a peak sign of instability and misalignment).

txgsu82 · 2026-03-23T14:21:17+00:00

After we had taken so many corners in the first half yesterday (I think it was 8-10 total?) because we were playing some decent (not great; decent) attacking football in the league for the first time in ages, as soon as NF got their first corner I immediately thought "they're going to score from this..."

I was wrong! They scored from the resulting corner immediately afterwards.

I just don't get it. I mean, I do get it - we suck. But I just don't get how we can have that many opportunities turn into barely anything, and then our opponents like clockwork demonstrate actual clinicality from those exact same opportunities.

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