Puddings and Monkeys

Well said sir. I wish we could transfer some of our fans to teams like West Brom or Sunderland - then they could really see what a lack of ambition looks like. No other team/club has had anything like the growth and development that we have over the last 7 years. The club's stated aim for next year is to improve on this year. Also to be playing regular European football and get into the CL. What more do some people want ffs???!! Ambition is not spunking stupid amounts of money on over-hyped players.

Please show me the quotes from Koeman about our lack of ambition. Thought not.

There's some very good goals in there; they break really fast too which is encouraging.

The article posted about him a while back would suggest he is a very capable and talented manager.

I think we've pulled out after speaking to them rather than the other way round.

Yes..........., the sort of luck that will hopefully bring Puel to us manager who will then bring Nice's Nampalys Mendy - who is a major upgrade on Victor.

I don't understand why people keep pooping their pants when things like this happen - haven't you seen what we've achieved over the last 3 years??? The club will have been aware of this for a while and so will already have been putting our exceptional scouting system into action to find a suitable (and better) replacement. This process that found Wanyama in the first place. Plus, it will probably give opportunities to a very promising young player we have called Harrison Reed who seems to have been frozen out and forgotten recently. This is likely to keep him tied to the club for longer. We really do have some soppy fans who cry for their wet-nurse at the earliest opportunity.

Yesterday you said it would be announced on Tuesday. Kind of gives the impression you have no idea at all.

These are wise words that I hope don't get lost. Until we have grown our revenue, we will always need a Shaw, Walcott, Bale, Chamberlain etc to come through the academy every couple of years so we can sell them for mega bucks. This then must be reinvested. Rather than this being a lack of ambition, it's actually a strategy to fulfil our ambition. If the club felt that the likelihood of this wasn't there under Koeman and therefore this would be a car crash waiting to happen and derail our plans long after he had left (he was always going to leave us for an Arsenal, Barca, Netherlands job) then they were right to address this now. There are very few clubs who have continued an upward path by splashing loads of money on transfers fees. Even the big ones get it massively wrong (Liverpool and Man U recently) plus how much did Villa and Newcastle spend to get relegated, probably more than we did to get to 6th place?. Without the correct structures and plans within a club, jizzing large sums of money like Everton are about to do, is a recipe for disaster. Much as I hate them, Spurs are trying to do it correctly by building a club and model like ours that moves forward regardless of who the manager happens to be at the time. But Spurs are just trying to catch up with us. Our next manager is likely to be here for just 2 seasons and hopefully will continue our upward trajectory. He'll then go to a "bigger" club but that's fine because we would have seen some great football and maybe even won a cup. In doing so we're a step closer to where we want to be as a club which is brilliant. We have far more chance of sustained challenges at top 6 finishes than teams like WBA, Sunderland, Stoke etc. For that we have to thank people for the way our club is run and the way we do our business; of course no one is perfect and we can always improve, and getting the next appointment right is so very crucial. But we are better run and have a far better chance of achieving our ambition than most clubs in the PL.

Spot on sir.

Yes I'm looking forward to match day 17 fixtures. Or. I'm looking forward to the Boxing Day fixtures.

"Match day 6". All that is wrong with modern football in one phrase.

Only just seen this so probably no use now but Southampton Publick House in Southampton is a great place and the beer they brew on site is amazing.

An opinion from a player is that he is very talented and will be a huge success for us, but isn't yet strong enough physically for the PL. Seeing him day in day out gives a better picture than any of us here have. I suspect the League Cup followed by longer periods on as a sub will be the route that the club take to get him to the level they believe he needs to be at. He is very highly regarded though.

A very reasoned view. Which won't be welcomed on here - you'll need to have a bias, an agenda, predisposition to a particular viewpoint and look for things that aren't there to fit in I'm afraid.

You're not very good at this are you.

Pat Murphy on 5 Live said some interesting things. He put on Twitter that the Spuds offer for Berahino was an initial payment of £4.5 million with the remainder spread over 5 years. I would assume he got this from WBA where he has close links with their Chairman. Apparently Spuds got in touch with him to say this was nonsense as their initial payment was "much higher". He asked them to send him details so he could put the record straight and tweet their information. That was this morning.................. He's still waiting....he asked them again to send him the details........tick tock.....still waiting What a vile, bullying, tosspot of a club Spuds have turned into. I wish them nothing but failure.

Especially when he has two years left on his contract.

They will make an extraordinary offer, then haggle to pay it off at a fiver a week. It's their new modus operandi.

Long length of contract left for Stones and Berahino makes it easy for their clubs to take a hard stance. But they both will go at some point - hope we then start slagging their clubs for being selling clubs.

Very well written post and sums things up perfectly for me....esp the bit about 99% of the people on here not having a clue what they're talking about.

Sensible comments not welcome. So many ****ing tarts on here it's hard to know where to begin....

Easy to do when the player has 4 years left on a contract. Try doing it Mr Kenwright when it's down to 18 months.

Can't wait for us to get the drummers from Selhurst and those clappy things from Leicester. Going to make all the difference. Let the good times roll!!! But MK is a better ground.

Spot on. Until FFP changes (which is unlikely) we can't really compete on a consistent basis.