Maddisons now out for a few months, Udogie and Romero out for a bit, City coming up. Ultimately I don’t think they have the squad depth to keep the charge going.

But sure they undoubtedly had a good run but I guess people were right, City are inevitable…

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    They were never going to challenge for the title. Whoever thought that was the case is new to football.

    Titles are won in February onwards, not in September and October

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      When Liverpool won it was their ridiculous start that got the title, by February they had a 20 point lead on city.

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      Pundits who have fill x minutes of dead air per hour latched onto this “Spurs Title Challengers?” narrative and unfortunately it seems to have stuck.

      Meanwhile we’re over here happy to be kicking off the total rebuild we’ve needed since the Poch era.

      Spurs are hoping to regain European football and hopefully have a strong 2024/2025 season once we’ve got a couple transfer windows and a season of squad / tactics gelling under our belt. Which I think is plenty ambitious compared to the time frame of other successful rebuilds (e.g. Klopp at Liverpool or Arteta at Arsenal).

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        The comparison to Klopp’s rebuild if insanely far off. The team he took over didn’t have a 1/4 of the talent of this spurs team.

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          Hey, I’ll take your word for it – I’m not an expert on that rebuild.

          Was just talking timeframes, not asserting deep equality. I can’t imagine any two rebuilds could ever be comparable apples to apples.

          Those were the first two rebuilds that came to mind when thinking of rebuilds that I’d ultimately consider successful which were tactically driven and not bolstered by a petrodollar takeover.

          I don’t think that invalidates my point that a two-season rebuild timeframe is decently ambitious, and winning the league within the starting season isn’t a reasonable benchmark or priority for a successful rebuild.

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        Its the same with us and the UCL.

        Yes, we qualified and yes we battered PSG. Does that mean we have the depth to make a deep run? No.

        Right now, we’d probably be best off aiming for 3rd and UEL competition.

        Yet there’s frequent articles, videos, etc, of “Newcastle’s UCL charge in doubt!”. Like bruh, stop.

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      If we stayed 95% healthy, which was going to be about a 1/25 chance, could absolutely have challenged.

      But obviously most seasons, you take knocks. And most Spurs fans were warning this roster is very thin, especially in year 1 of a rebuild.

      A top 4 finish would be a big success, and top 6 would still be a really good year considering…and I think 90% of Spurs fans would agree.