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BBC News
16 hours ago
- Sport
- BBC News
'Disaster written all over season' or 'cautiously optimistic'?
We asked for your views on whether Tottenham are ready for the new season as they prepare to face Paris St-Germain in the Super Cup on Wednesday and then kick off their Premier League campaign at home to Burnley on are some of your comments:Stephen: This season already has disaster written all over it. In general, we have the same players who threw Ange/Conte under the bus. Going into a season of Champions League and Premier League with only Richarlison up front and Solanke to come back, - neither of them exactly pull up trees - is criminal. The midfield is so lightweight it's unreal, and the defence is only one injury away from catastrophe. Positivity is flowing!James: I'd say so. With Thomas the Frank engine I think we could finish top seven, hopefully qualifying for Europe next For the first time in a long time, I'm worried about the team going forward. Son was on the wane, but losing an experienced forward, plus injuries to Maddison and Kulusevski, leave us looking woefully short of creativity, with a group of young or inconsistent wingers the current hope for this at present. Hoping for reinforcements - the money to be spent on Gibbs-White is still there so hopefully someone can be found. Not overly confident for the season at I am cautiously optimistic. Frank will adopt a more pragmatic style of play than Ange. We have good defensive individuals but they need to defend as a team. My main concern is who will be our It looks like all we are ready for is mid-table mediocrity. We have desperately needed more creative cut and thrust up front. With Maddison out, all we have now for quality up front is Kudus. We have not even tried to get Eze or Grealish. Why? They are players who make things happen in the last third, are still both available and both can play wide or as number 10s. If we don't go all out for one of these two, the Thomas Frank honeymoon will be over before the season even gets going. I feel sorry for the I was feeling pretty optimistic after the Arsenal and Newcastle games, but the Bayern Munich match has shattered that confidence. Frank really needed to land some ambitious signings early in the window to build momentum, but now it feels like no top player wants to join a team that only just scraped 17th in the league - and is now staring down Bayern-level opposition in the Champions League on a regular basis. Right now, our chances of winning anything next season feel close to zero unless we bring in at least three big signings. But who's actually coming? Morgan Gibbs-White thinks he's better off staying at Nottingham Forest. He might be right.
BBC News
7 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
The 'difficult' spot to 'kick-on' from
Tottenham ended their wait for silverware but what now?The team on Monday Night Club have discussed what might be the next target and how the challenge may get even tougher."I don't think it's a squad that's in the top four in the league," said The i Paper's Daniel to The Overlap in an interview released this week, Spurs chairman Daniel Levy said: "Nothing has changed in terms of our ambition. Having won the Europa League - thank you to Ange - you get a taste of it, but it's not enough."It's never been enough. We've been in 16 or 17 semi-finals, seven finals, and we haven't won enough. We know need to use that as a springboard to keep winning. We've won two trophies in the last 20-plus years. We've been so close, so many times. I can't really answer (why), because I'm not the one that picks the team, motivates the team."Listen to Monday Night Club
Glasgow Times
7 days ago
- Sport
- Glasgow Times
Tottenham chief Daniel Levy on Ange Postecoglou sacking
The former Celtic manager was sacked after finishing 17th in the Premier League, despite delivering silverware in his second season. The Australian's dismissal came after two years at the club, with the team finishing just one place above the relegation zone. Mr Levy explained his decision on The Overlap, saying: "Ultimately, the decision sits with me, but it's always a collective decision. "We have a board of directors, but under the board, we have a group of technical staff, and they advise. Read more: "We had to explain the decision to part ways with Ange. "Ange just won us a trophy – a European trophy – highly significant and he's always going to be in our history. "However, we couldn't lose sight of the fact that we finished 17th in the league, we lost 22 Premier League games, and it's impossible for Tottenham to be in that position. "And so we had to take the emotion out of it and we had to give some data points as to why we decided to do what we did."
The National
7 days ago
- Business
- The National
Levy speaks out on Ange Postecoglou's Tottenham sacking
The Tottenham owner and chairman took the difficult call to get rid of the former Celtic manager despite the fact he had just won them the Europa League, delivering on his promise he always wins a trophy in his second season. However, the Premier League giants had also finished 17th in the league, just one place above the relegation zone, which is well below their lofty ambitions. Levy decided he had to part ways with the Aussie, who only lasted two years in North London after heading there from Glasgow. The businessman has now spoken on the sacking and explained his thinking. Read more: 'Ultimately, the decision sits with me, but it's always a collective decision,' he told the Overlap. 'We have a board of directors, but under the board, we have a group of technical staff, and they advise. 'We had to explain the decision to part ways with Ange. Ange just won us a trophy – a European trophy – highly significant and he's always going to be in our history. 'However, we couldn't lose sight of the fact that we finished 17th in the league, we lost 22 Premier League games, and it's impossible for Tottenham to be in that position. 'And so we had to take the emotion out of it and we had to give some data points as to why we decided to do what we did.'
The Age
11-07-2025
- The Age
If someone like Erin Patterson could do this, how well do we really know anyone?
The Vienna hostel room was heaving with gals when I showed up in 1991. Mostly blonde, all eyeing off the newcomer. And, it turned out, all from Melbourne. Being barely into adulthood meant where we went to school was still a valid navigation signpost in the getting-to-know-you process. Turned out these girls went to the same bayside place where my brother's then-girlfriend (now a mum of two AFL young guns – love you, Ange) had gone. I told them her name. There were two, then three beats of silence. 'Wait. Is your brother Craig Halfpenny?' said one, speaking for all. 'But … he's so good looking.' Sure, I was trekking around Europe in practical shoes and a bad fringe. I'd eaten a lot of Milka chocolate on trains. But I was hardly Quasimodo. Had good ankles and small ears. Yet how I saw myself was clearly out of whack with the new homies. Apologies if I've told that story before, but its disconnect between how we see others – or what we let others see – came back to me with the death of Peter Russell-Clarke late last week. This masthead ran a prominent obituary; social media was awash with tributes to the man who made 'Where's the cheese?' a catchcry for anyone who grew up in Australia the 1970s and '80s. He was as famous for his outbursts and use of colourful language as he was his recipes. I met Russell-Clarke only once, for a magazine interview over lunch at his place, but it was enough to convince me he was a vile man. With a short fuse. Who bullied his wife in front of me. When you experience the outbursts close up, they're not all that funny. I left terrified of this household-name dairy spruiker. Another Melbourne radio and TV star coerced a friend into sex after they met at a media dinner. She felt humiliated, confused. His obits talked endlessly about what a great family man he was.
