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JAMIE CARRAGHER was spot connected - Tottenham simply ne'er triumph large shot matches.
They mightiness beat Manchester City for amusive and adjacent scope a last erstwhile each bluish satellite - but erstwhile silverware is connected the line, Spurs are obscurity to beryllium seen.
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"There's a intelligence artifact with the club" - Carragher said.
He's right. This goes backmost years and is acold deeper than Ange Postecoglou and his existent flops.
Not adjacent serial winners Jose Mourinho oregon Antonio Conte could ace it, truthful what anticipation does the Aussie brag have?
Managers and players person changed, but the type of abysmal show we saw astatine Anfield has been seen clip and clip again.
ZERO shots connected people successful a large semi-final? It's nary wonderment Tottenham haven't won a trophy since 2008.
They'll beryllium waiting different 17 years astatine this rate.
Carragher said aft the 4-0 Anfield surrender: "It was ne'er successful doubt. It's Tottenham!
"When bash Tottenham ever triumph a large game? When bash Tottenham ever spell and surprise, triumph against the odds?
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"It's not conscionable this Spurs team. They ne'er daze you, ne'er bash thing retired of the ordinary.
"Whenever they spell into a large game, cipher ever believes they're going to win."
Postecoglou bemoans Tottenham's lacklustre effort against Liverpool
In their flimsy defence, Tottenham's wounded list is astir unheard of, and adjacent astatine afloat strength, they person perfectly nary close to stone up astatine Anfield and win.
But that wasn't Carragher speaking with his Liverpool chapeau on, his brutal appraisal of Spurs was connected the money.
Since lifting the League Cup successful 2008, Tottenham person been thing abbreviated of pitiful successful knockout football.
Excluding the miracle of Amsterdam successful 2019, erstwhile Lucas Moura's hat-trick against Ajax took Spurs to the Champions League last nether Mauricio Pochettino, it's been atrocious.
Burnley, Sheffield United and Brentford - each extracurricular the Premier League astatine the clip - are the lone semi-finals oregon finals Tottenham person won during that play - successful 2009, 2015 and 2021 respectively.
Even then, they needed other clip to bushed Burnley contempt being 4-1 up from the archetypal leg.
Spurs' grounds with trophies connected the line
2009 - League Cup last - Manchester United 0-0 - Pens
2010 - FA Cup semi-final - Portsmouth 0-2
2012 - FA Cup semi-final - Chelsea 1-5
2015 - League Cup last - Chelsea 0-2
2017 - FA Cup semi-final - Chelsea 2-4
2018 - FA Cup semi-final - Manchester United 1-2
2019 - League Cup semi-finals - Chelsea 2-2 - Pens
2019 - Champions League last 2019 - 0-2
2021 - League Cup last - Manchester City 0-1
2022 - League Cup semi-final - Chelsea 0-3
2025 - League Cup semi-final - Liverpool 1-4
And tried their champion to cock-up the 2nd of those aft squandering a 2-0 aggregate pb earlier Christian Eriksen yet sent them to Wembley.
Basically, immoderate clip Spurs travel up against half-decent absorption successful a high-pressure knockout game, they lose.
Take retired that trio, who they were expected to bushed anyway, they've mislaid each different semi-final oregon last necktie successful the past 17 YEARS.
That is immoderate going, particularly considering Wigan, Portsmouth and Swansea - each presently extracurricular the Prem - person won silverware successful that period.
Even Newcastle... yes, Newcastle, are conscionable 90 minutes distant from ending their 70-year drought.
How humiliating would that beryllium if the Toon, dubbed serial losers for decades, person won a trophy much precocious than Tottenham?
Tottenham's apical 10 biggest signings: Hit oregon miss?
1) Tanguy Ndombele - £52.7m
Ndombele joined from Lyon successful 2019 with immense expectations aft shattering Tottenham's transportation record.
But helium would spell connected to play conscionable 91 times for the club, scoring 10 goals and is present acceptable to permission 1 twelvemonth earlier the extremity of his contract.
2) Richarlison - £49.3m
Richarlison astir broke the £50m people erstwhile helium arrived from Everton successful 2022 arsenic Harry Kane's back-up.
And portion his tally of 12 goals this play was a important summation connected the 3 from his opening Spurs campaign, helium is being linked with a departure this summer.
3) Brennan Johnson - £46.8m
Johnson was signed by Ange Postecoglou past summertime and has impressed successful patches during his archetypal play successful North London.
He scored 5 goals and 10 assists successful 38 games and volition look to physique connected that successful the 2024/25 campaign.
4) Cristian Romero - £44.2m
Romero initially joined connected indebtedness from Atalanta successful 2021, earlier his awesome displays saw him unafraid a imperishable woody the pursuing year.
He is 2 games shy of 100 for Spurs and, portion helium tin beryllium reckless with his tackling astatine times, is opening to signifier a promising concern with Micky van de Ven.
5) James Maddison - £39.4m
Maddison was handed Kane's No10 garment aft arriving astatine Spurs and deed the crushed moving with 3 goals and 5 assists successful his opening 11 matches.
But aft getting injured against Chelsea successful October, helium failed to instrumentality with the aforesaid sharpness - managing conscionable 5 extremity contributions successful 15 league matches arsenic helium missed retired connected England's last 26-man squad for the Euros.
6) Davinson Sanchez - £35.7m
Sanchez joined Spurs from Ajax successful 2017 and played much than 200 games crossed a six-year spell.
But helium was ever considered a somewhat erratic defender who did not play much than 20 games successful a Premier League play from 2020 onwards.
7) Pedro Porro - £34m
Porro was different signing who primitively arrived connected indebtedness successful January 2023, earlier helium signed permanently past summer.
He has 54 appearances for Spurs nether his belt, scoring 7 goals and impressing nether Postecoglou this season.
8) Micky van de Ven - £34m
Rapid Dutch centre-back Van de Ven was named Spurs Player of the Season successful his archetypal run astatine the club.
His pace, athleticism, and method quality connected the shot person made him arguably Postecoglou's champion signing to date.
9) Moussa Sissoko - £29.8m
Sissoko came to North London for a important interest aft being relegated with Newcastle and went connected to bask 5 years astatine Tottenham, playing much than 200 games.
Unfortunately for the French midfielder, helium is best-known for giving distant a arguable punishment for handball successful the archetypal infinitesimal of Spurs' 2-0 Champions League last decision to Liverpool successful 2019.
10) Giovani Lo Celso - £27.2m
Lo Celso joined connected indebtedness from Real Betis successful 2019 - a woody that was made imperishable the pursuing season.
He has 10 goals and 8 assists successful 108 games, with immoderate Spurs fans inactive unsure astir the Argentine.
And it's not similar Spurs haven't had their chances.
For each the instrumentality they get astir being trophyless, they've had plentifulness of heavy cupful runs.
Thursday's embarrassment astatine Anfield was conscionable the latest successful a achy database for Tottenham, which includes 1 against Portsmouth, 1 different against Liverpool, 1 against City, 2 against Manchester United and FIVE against Chelsea.
That's present 11 defeats from a imaginable 11 against Premier League clubs successful semi-finals oregon finals since 2008.
It's nary wonderment nary 1 successful the footballing satellite takes Tottenham seriously.
Somehow, Spurs inactive person 2 chances near this play - the FA Cup and Europa League - and truthful could yet extremity their trophy drought precise soon.
But if caller past is thing to spell by, you tin deliberation again.
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