Villa or West Ham would be good choices. Recent success plus good history. If you want Champions league and trophies: Chelsea - low bandwagon for a top club right now. Spurs - Lot of Notre Dame similarities Liverpool, Arsenal, Newcastle, Man U - Will be good next 5-10 years and win some trophies. City - bandwagon too high.
Spurs will give you interesting highs and embarrassing lows. As of today we have no manager, no director of football (essentially head of strategy/recruitment), entering the final year of Harry Kane’s contract (best England player, top 3 striker in the world, yet never won a trophy; will club loyalty to extend his contract override any hunt for silverware?), the best Asian player, Heung-Min Son, who has just slumped very hard after tying for most Premier League goals the previous year. <=25-year-old first-team players that all have high potential (Romero, Porro, Udogie, Skipp, Sarr, Bentancur, Kulusevski). State of the art stadium and training facilities. 10th richest club. After an embarrassing two straight transfer windows with zero incoming signings in the 2018-19 season, the owners have been decent about spending (net spend of €85m 19-20, €97m in 20-21, €61m in 21-22 [covid downturn across the market], and €139m in 22-23). The bank is not unlimited (unlike oil clubs of Manchester City and Newscastle United, or the insanity that is Chelsea), but we aren’t slouches. Results on the pitch have declined since we were runners up in the 2018-19 Champions League final as we tried capturing glory by hiring serial winners Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte (but their inflated egos and outdated football tactics never meshed with us). Spurs stand at the precipice of being a perpetual mid table laughing stock (see: hiring Brendan Rodgers/Marco Silva/Ryan Mason) or reentering the conversation for perennially competing on Europe’s biggest stage again. The next two weeks are critical to seeing which direction the club takes.
Lol the honest truth is erotic fiction to rivals, it’s true. Also, Beeds, Arsenal are our biggest rivals. You might consider them, as they held the record for longest time in first place this past season, although not in first at the end. It was really impressive.
This is my real answer. Or Brentford, which is funny since the owners of those particular clubs hate each other.
next years Brighton is not going to look much like this years. Look at Leicester and Southampton. These clubs can’t produce top guys year after year after year
Fair, have to give Europa a run. Two years left on his contract. Btw, apparently only on £520k… per year.
Their fans are awesome and they have some fun young guys(Eze and Olise) assuming they don’t sell. Brentford is a good choice too IMO.
I get it. And under Viera it seemed like there was a change. I've seen that there's rumors that Potter may get the job, which seems like a perfect landing place to me.
Brentford and Brighton play attractive soccer but are certainly at all time highs right now. Lose a couple key players and they could be in the relegation battle in a few years. They are probably your best picks for ethical fun but you are unlikely to get any European football. West Ham and Villa - old breed, have been to the heights, are not the glory clubs they used to be. Could compete for lower level Europe and make a run in those competitions. Fulham - great little London club (you have to go to their stadium for a game, right on the Thames in a great neighborhood). Shouldn’t be near the drop as often as they are. Fulhamerica. Two American starters and Clint Dempsey had a legendary season there. Palace - another good London club. Good atmosphere. Mid table. Despite never being great, also never seem to be in a lot of trouble with relegation. Only club that have cheerleaders. Forest - definitely relegation fodder but could be an exciting pick. Leicester - going down to the Championship, but will come back up. Hard to explain their story in a short way. All time fairy tale champions in 2015. Club owners have enough money that if they are good, they can afford to stay good. Arsenal - self loathing club that has been mid table for a decade plus but made an exciting challenge for the title this year with some young inexperienced talent before fading late. Some upside and an excitement for first time since iPhones were invented. Might be able to continue it, might not.
This is all great. I tend to move around the NFL a lot because my teams always move (Cardinals, Oilers, Rams) so I dont want to mess with regulation to start. I think it’s going to be Tottenham. Thanks for all the advice.
Just noticed the St Louis teams you follow. Can we interest you in a Stan Kroenke team? They probably won't move. Probably.
Need to get the new soccer team added to my fan of, but he did my hometown dirty so add Arsenal to the no list.
If Everton actually get bought out, I’d tell you to at least give us a chance. We have a brand new stadium being built, one of the original founders of the English league. Tons of history. But until we do get bought out I can not, in good conscience, tell anyone to live this life
Arsenal, Everton, and Liverpool in here begging for fans. You’d expect it from Arsenal and Everton, but I thought Liverpool was above it. Sad!
If you don’t want to root for a team that could be relegated soon you should pick someone other than Tottenham. If they lose their best player the rest of that squad would struggle to finish top half in the championship.
I’ve thought about this a lot and I think Tennessee is a better analogy for Spurs than ND. Proud history but not one of the blue bloods and not a lot of recent success. Farcical coaching searches. All the resources necessary to be wildly successful but incredibly inept leadership.
You’re more like Oklahoma state. Never won shit but at the end of the season it’s like oh yeah I guess spurs did ok this year but were pretty much irrelevant