Spurs' revolving door policy is the reason for our current plight, no ifs or buts about it.
I have no idea if this post will even work or if anyone will read it, but figured it can't do any harm, so here goes.
Just thought I'd throw in a theory as to why we've been so abysmal thus far.
Looking at the team we put out last night, the thing that stood out was that so few of them had been at the club for anything approaching a decent length of time.
I decided to have put together some stats to back this up, so I've taken the average period at the club for the first team squads (22 players) of Spurs, Arsenal, Man U and Chelsea.
I've got the full Excel spreadsheet I used if anyone's interested, but the averages are below.
Man U: 1744 days (4.78 years)
Chelsea: 1257 days (3.44 years)
Arsenal: 1010 days (2.77 years)
Spurs: 616 days (1.69 years)
It's a pretty damning indictment of our revolving door policy if you ask me. How can we expect sustained success when we can't even sustain a squad?
Year in and year out we supposedly get rid of the deadwood and replace it with shining new stars, and though this is a great way to keep the fans buying replica shirts (after all, who wants a dependable, talented player like Steed Malbranque when you can have the 'next big thing' Luka Modric), it's evidently not the best way to go about mounting anything approaching a top four challenge.
Until the "chairman", "director of football" and all their associated underlings can bring something approaching stability to the club, there will be no progress, it really is that simple.
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