10 Deflating Things That Always Seem To Happen To Spurs

5. Big Players Leaving

This really shouldn't come as a surprise, given the lack of success at the club in recent years, but Spurs really struggle to hold on to their better players - especially when bigger clubs try to unsettle them and the players in question set their minds on leaving. The likes of Michael Carrick, Dimitar Berbatov, Luka Modric and Gareth Bale have all starred for Spurs in recent years and the Lilywhites were absolutely helpless when it came to preventing them from leaving. The same is going to happen with the likes of Hugo Lloris - who has already attracted the interest of Real Madrid - and Christian Eriksen, if the club don't start to win trophies or qualify for the Champions League. And how deflating would that be?