Fans wonder how this team didn’t win anything and clearly the players do too, based on Victor Wanyama’s insight from an interview in The Athletic.
Over the course of the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons we accumulated more points than any other Premier League team, conspiring somehow to not win the title on either occasion. The Kenyan midfielder was a key figure in that second campaign, starting 35 games as we pushed Chelsea all the way.
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That feels a long time ago now, and I imagine it does for Wanyama too considering his injury-ravaged decline in the interim. The 28-year-old has been vocal about his time at Spurs since leaving for Montreal Impact on a free transfer in March. Much of what he has said has been negative, sadly yet understandably. Bitterness over how it ended for him, and now his frustration over the club’s failure to get over the line for a major trophy.
He told The Athletic of the group’s ambitions prior to the 2017-18 season: “We thought we could win the league the next season but it didn’t go as well for me. I was injured (starting only eight league games). It frustrated me a lot that we didn’t win anything at Spurs. We had strong players in every position. We had the best defence, the best midfield, the best attack. We had the best team but we couldn’t win. I wonder why it didn’t happen for us.”
I know why it didn’t happen for us in 2017-18 – Man City racked up 100 points. The two seasons prior though, it is difficult to see where it got away.