Five Reasons Why Spurs Can Challenge For the Title Next Season

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Just over a year ago, Tottenham had been dumped out of the FA Cup by Championship opposition, had defended their way to a 1-0 loss in the Champions League, and highly divisive manager Antonio Conte had left the club in an explosive manner.

The rest of the season died with two caretaker managers. It died with a wimper. For a club so recently in the Champions League final, we were in another crisis. The club finished outside of Europe for the first time in many fans’ memories and the hunt for a new manager seemed to echo the fiasco that ended in Nuno a couple of seasons before. Added to this, the club’s all time leading scorer, Harry Kane was looking more likely than ever to leave.

Then the club hired Ange Postecoglou, and things began to change. This brings me to the first reason Spurs can compete next season.

1. Belief

You only have to look at the 4-1 defeat against Chelsea to see that Big Ange has the respect and belief of his players. Down to 9 men, injuries to Van de Ven and Madison, and yet Spurs were storming forward with a crazy high line.

The team spirit at Tottenham appears to be incredible. Making Son captain seems to have been popular, and the rest of the team are relaxed and happy.

I believe with a pre-season, the team will be back even stronger in the 24/25 season

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2. The Players

The 23/24 season has seen huge changes in the Spurs squad, with some of the standout stars being new faces. Consider the impact of Vicario, Udogie, Van de Ven, Maddison, Sarr, and Johnson after having a full season behind them.

Add the maturity of senior players like Son, Romero, Kulusevski, and Bentancur to the mix and Spurs fans can definitely be excited by the squad depth.

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That’s before we even talk about new signings.

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3. Other Clubs Decline

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This one might sound a bit out there, but I don’t feel that the rest of the challengers are as strong as they have been in previous seasons. Liverpool are top of the league as it stands, despite failing to impress in many of games. Manchester City are always going to be scary, but big players are getting older. How long until Haaland begins thinking about Real Madrid? Manchester United need a huge rebuild and the fact that Villa are still fourth shows that there is a gap that Spurs could and should be filling. The local rivals will put the pressure on again before bottling it.

Tottenham need to capitalise on this.

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4. Youth

Despite a few outliers (Ledley King, Harry Kane etc), Spurs have struggled to match other top 6 clubs in way of youth development. Yes, we’ve had a few decent players, but we need more than a Jake Livermore or Harry Winks to be successful.

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I do believe this year will see the emergence of Jamie Donley. He has already played a few minutes under Postecoglou and has been performing incredibly for the youth team. Watch this space.

While Dane Scarlett has been scoring for fun for England U20s, time will tell whether he can make his name for the senior Tottenham team.

What is sure is that Lucas Bergvall looks like an awesome prospect, and should be making a big impact next season.

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5. Momentum

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If Tottenham can start next season like we started the last, I genuinely think we can get excited. Without the mayhem of the Chelsea game, who knows where we would be now.

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We see it every year – a team wins one, then another, and another. It just takes a bit of all the above, and suddenly momentum takes over. We have seen it a bit this season, but I think we’ll see more in Ange’s second full season.

Am I saying Spurs are going to win the league? Of course I’m not. Can we? Let’s wait and see.

COYS!

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