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You can only turn the dishes so long before they fall to the ground and crumble into a hundred pieces. Tottenham Hotspur is beginning to discover it right now.
For a long time that everyone remembers this club, the Spurs are trying to maintain the momentum of a young emerging team, while keeping their ambitious director, Mauricio Pochettino, safe from the clutches of bigger rivals and more rich.
And all this at the same time as we are trying to bridge the gap between the White Hart Lane exit and the installation in the state-of-the-art reconstructed stadium following a temporary stay at Wembley.
In many ways, the Spurs have made the football equivalent of educating a young family in the spare room of a neighbor's house, while the kitchen and the room baths are being rebuilt at home.
Oh, and there is also the not insignificant problem of renovations costing more than double what was originally planned – a reality that has led to a freeze on spending on luxury goods.
The stress and the constraints related to keeping all these plates in rotation, without these collapsing, are now starting to affect the Spurs.
Supporters are now voting with their feet, with nearly 30,000 empty seats at Wembley for the 1-0 defeat against the reigning champion Manchester City, and the pitch shows the inevitable wear and tear inherent in the organization of NFL games 24 hours before a prime minister. League match.
If anything had been designed for the Spurs to realize that their time was up at Wembley, the state of the field was a pretty clear indication.
What spare part do they use? The neighbors want to get it back.
And Pochettino, a man who has hidden his frustration behind his smile, has made public his dissatisfaction with the delays and problems that prevent his team from returning home.
The stadium has fallen behind – the Spurs will not be returning until January at the earliest – and the lack of summer spending, when the club has not recruited a single player, begins to jeopardize the Pochettino team.
"I'm disappointed that we were still waiting for the new stadium when we were hoping to be there early in the season," said Pochettino before the game for the City.
"I do not know, a lot of things happened in the summer, a lot of things that make me less in my best mood or my best humor.
"My feeling is not the best, I've had better feelings in previous seasons."
And then comes the crucial point: the Spurs are now a club compromised by too many distractions.
"I think the club is not entirely focused on victory or victory," added Pochettino.
"The club must be focused to try to win titles.
"But today, we must solve other problems and different circumstances that do not allow the team or club to focus solely on victory."
All problems off the field should not distract a group of well-paying athletes, but sometimes the reality is that they attach to anything that gives them an excuse or reason to fail and that the Spurs have so much now.
The Pochettino players are also a group that worked a lot during the World Cup. Six of the starting team's players have already spent five weeks in Russia after helping their respective nations in the semi-finals and beyond.
Summer fatigue is visible, but the Spurs do not have new faces to share and share the burden.
Physically and physically, Pochettino players already need a break. Perhaps they also feel the stress of playing at Wembley as they expect to perform in front of the packed halls of the new White Hart Lane.
They certainly were not expecting to play on a flat field against City, who had already been beaten by two pairs of NFL players the day before.
"I have to be honest, the pitch has not been good," Spurs' defender Toby Alderweireld said, to put it mildly.
"Both teams like to play at the back and, in these circumstances, playing football was very difficult."
And that's it – a Spurs player citing the reasons for his failure. This is a consequence of the plates that start to fall on the ground.
This is not just bad news for the Spurs. They still sit in fifth place after the loss, conceded by Riyad Mahrez's goal in the sixth minute, but this team of Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Christian Eriksen and others should get better.
Pochettino, a man whose name will inevitably be linked to Real Madrid after Julen Lopetegui's dismissal, must also do better, and that should have started with increased pressure on President Daniel Levy to invest in reinforcements during World War II. # 39; summer.
But speaking of his frustrations, perhaps Pochettino has now decided that the plates were spinning too long and that the Spurs could not match his ambitions.
Some of his players may also think of themselves.
The Spurs need a quick restart, but it may be too late to get them back when they get home.
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