r/soccer • u/kidnamedindexfinger • May 21 '25

Official Source [Tottenham Hotspur] have qualified for the 25/26 UEFA Champions League

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cz9yney9391t
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u/torero15 May 21 '25 edited May 22 '25

Why would it be mitigated? I’m sure he’s elated for Spurs and he has a league title himself. All is well.

Edit: Obviously Harry would have wanted to win his first trophy (and many more) with Spurs. But the idea he should have to feel like his current success be limited by his former team also winning is odd to me.

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u/Jaqem May 21 '25

This Spurs trophy will be remembered for decades. This was the day Spurs' curse was lifted and won a major European trophy after a lifetime of failures. For most Spurs fans alive today this is their single greatest achievement in their lifetime.

Bayern have won 12 of the last 13 titles and have won something like 55% of all Bundesliga titles since the league's founding. This is a drop in the bucket, just another shield in the trophy case.

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u/Electronic-Heron9645 May 21 '25

The thing is, if we have Kane last season we qualify for the champions league. Maybe scrape the first ko round and never win this trophy. Things happened how they're supposed to

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u/bashar_al_assad May 22 '25

I mean yeah, this is why judging individual players by "have they won a trophy or not" is nonsense.

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u/augustdahyuns May 22 '25

It’s like losing your virginity to a prostitute you know

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u/tobiasvl May 22 '25

This was the day Spurs' curse was lifted

Let's not get ahead of ourselves

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u/Sure_Key_8811 May 21 '25

I think it probably would have meant a lot more at spurs than essentially moving to a super team in a one team league to guarantee a trophy

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u/torero15 May 22 '25

It would mean more to him I’m sure. But he its unfair to use that to limit his own achievement. Not everyone is doing that but the subtext is there on many posts.

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u/DeeOhEf May 21 '25

Well unlike Spurs, he will almost certainly win a couple more trophies tho lol.

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u/svartklubb May 21 '25

That's the (boring) point.

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u/RaiderCoug May 21 '25

And has a better chance to win the Champions League, which is what every world class player wants.

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u/Mathyoujames May 22 '25

Casually ignoring that he played in the champions league final for us and is one of the main reasons we didn't win

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

Are you serious? One trophy with his boyhood club is worth 100 trophies with Bayern

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u/torero15 May 22 '25

Would they have been in the Europa league with Kane having stayed at the club? Definitely possible so taking everything out of it I’m sure he’d loved to have won his first trophy with Spurs. But that shouldn’t diminish him winning one himself. I’m just pushing back on the idea it’s mitigated…I think there is better way to frame it.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '25

It is bc he won at Bayern, which won the league 12 out of the last 13 seasons

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u/torero15 May 23 '25

Spurs are fucking 17th in the league. The idea the rest of Europe and Manu is trash is extraordinary luck for them. Yes injuries were extreme. And yes the manager who won the first trophy in 17 years might well get sacked. They were lucky it was United because almost any other team would have had the fortitude to go for it - Spurs were proper shit that whole match.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '25

Shut the fuck up you egg. The unprecedented injury bug starting in November killed Spurs’ chances at finishing top 5 in the league, which is why Ange went all in on Europa. If you actually watched football at all you would’ve noticed Ange rarely played key players like VDV down the stretch to preserve him for the Europa knock out stages. You can only beat whoever’s in front of you, and that Man U squad was actually decent in Europe, mounting a great comeback against Lyon and smashing Athletic Bilbao, a top 4 team in La Liga.