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Nayim
Who's the predictor Agatha Christe?
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Igor the Interim
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Who's the predictor Agatha Christe?
Didn’t someone put together an analysis which showed 80% of our injuries occour at home?
Daisuk
Barry Daines
He looks proper chuffed. Just like I do when someone gives me something I didn’t want and want me to look happy. Sorry, Igor!
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
I think you are slightly remembering chronology wrong. We played that systen long before Wanyama and Alder arrived, or before Dembele switched to CM from LAM.
It was back in the season where Bentaleb and Mason were the CMs and Fazio was the other CB
No we didn’t play it until Poch 3rd season. The first time was against Watford away before we played Chelsea at home who had been playing it successfully for most of the season.
monkeybarry
Dimitar Berbatov
So what you're saying is, Christian Gross wasn't that bad.....
Bullet
Jimmy Cantrell
Justine Cochrane's wife died recently, so I don't think he cares all that much about rivalries like Goons v Spurz any more.
Bullet
Jimmy Cantrell
They (football.london) said at lunchtime that goalkeeping coach Fabian Otte will stay at Spurs, so are we having two?
Bullet
Jimmy Cantrell
That video from Sheringham really stank of xenophobia, it was ugly to watch; sneering at some Johnny Foreigner.
Daisuk
Barry Daines
He's a bit of a clam though, isn't he? Whenever his name comes up, people who have met him or know someone who has met him seems to not think too fondly of him.
I also don't like it when former players, supposedly fans, talk about the club as "they" instead of "we", although there's nothing wrong with it, of course.
Haha. What Mitchell of course forgets is that there wouldn't be a bloody club without its supporters, so it bloody well is a WE.
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Bishop
Jimmy McCormick
Hopefully he doesn't invert the FBs something that I felt was a big issue with Ange's system. Neither FB was actually particularly good when inside having fewer passing options neither being particularly suited in that space. Keeping the FBs wide and pressing should suit better.
Bishop
Jimmy McCormick
TBF the season isn't over yet so you can't actually write that one off.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/70...hared_gift_article_copylink&smid=url-share-ta
Udinese were on a 10-game losing streak in April 2018. They were sliding towards relegation for the first time in almost a quarter of a century. Luigi Delneri got the sack. Massimo Oddo couldn’t revive them. Udinese were flat-lining. Tudor found a pulse. They had four games left. The first one was dramatic. Udinese were seconds away from beating Benevento, only for Bacary Sagna to score an equaliser for Roberto De Zerbi’s team in a dramatic 3-3 draw. But then Udinese beat Verona and Bologna, both 1-0, and Tudor was their saviour.
The Croat left, only to return a year later. Udinese had not learnt their lesson. They needed him again. A point was all that kept them out of the relegation zone. Not even Davide Nicola, the coach best known for rescuing Serie A teams in times of trouble, managed to shock Udinese back to life. Only Tudor could do that. Udinese took points off both Milan clubs, beat the teams around them and ended in 12th place, their joint-highest finish in the past 13 years.
In the interim, Tudor has tried to shrug off the stereotypes and step out of the pigeonholes. Italy has a tendency to place coaches in categories. He was, for a long time, portrayed as an escape artist, like Nicola and Davide Ballardini. A Harry Houdini figure from Split. To leave it behind, he did something unexpected. When Juventus fired Maurizio Sarri in 2020 and promoted Andrea Pirlo, Tudor was invited to become his assistant.
Not many head coaches accept becoming a No 2. But this was Juventus, the club Tudor served as a sharp-elbowed centre-back for the best part of a decade. Pirlo had never coached before. He’d been hired, initially, to take charge of the under-23s. Il Maestro lacked experience. Tudor, by contrast, didn’t, and Juventus’ executive team, which included Fabio Paratici, later of Tottenham Hotspur, thought he might be able to lend a hand.
While Juventus’ nine-year title-winning streak ended that season, they played a modern hybrid style of football with Rodrigo Bentancur and Dejan Kulusevski (the pair made more than 40 appearances each and their now Tottenham team-mate Radu Dragusin played four times), beating Barcelona at the Camp Nou and winning the Coppa Italia. Since that 2020-21 campaign, Juventus have not bettered the 78 points they racked up in the league. Some thought Pirlo deserved more time. He was fired after only one year.
But Pirlo’s career since at Fatih Karagumruk in Turkey, then Sampdoria in Italy’s second division, and now Dubai United has raised questions: how much of that season at Juventus was down to him and the presence of players such as Cristiano Ronaldo? And how much of it was down to his assistants, Tudor and Antonio Gagliardi?
A partial answer came when Tudor stepped in for Eusebio Di Francesco at Hellas Verona in September 2021. They had lost every game and, as happens every year since they were last promoted, pundits had taken one look at their squad and predicted relegation. Tudor instead made them a revelation. It was their best season in years, a ninth-place finish, 53 points.
Verona’s attack was the joint-fourth best in the league in Tudor’s time. Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone’s son, Giovanni, scored 17 times, his best goalscoring season, and got a move to Napoli soon afterwards. Other players’ careers were launched by Tudor, as was his own.
The same executives who picked De Zerbi to coach Marseille in 2024 picked him two years earlier. Only once in the past eight seasons have Marseille collected more points than under Tudor in 2022-23. Yet he was not made to feel welcome.
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Clubs turn to Igor Tudor when they’re on a cliff edge – Spurs will not daunt him
Igor Tudor knows better than to think he is your first choice. It is the story of his coaching career. In 12 jobs, he has only been hired at the start of the season three times. His reputation is like that of The Wolf in Pulp Fiction. If you’re hiring Tudor, it’s because someone’s in a panic and there’s a bloody mess to clean up.Udinese were on a 10-game losing streak in April 2018. They were sliding towards relegation for the first time in almost a quarter of a century. Luigi Delneri got the sack. Massimo Oddo couldn’t revive them. Udinese were flat-lining. Tudor found a pulse. They had four games left. The first one was dramatic. Udinese were seconds away from beating Benevento, only for Bacary Sagna to score an equaliser for Roberto De Zerbi’s team in a dramatic 3-3 draw. But then Udinese beat Verona and Bologna, both 1-0, and Tudor was their saviour.
The Croat left, only to return a year later. Udinese had not learnt their lesson. They needed him again. A point was all that kept them out of the relegation zone. Not even Davide Nicola, the coach best known for rescuing Serie A teams in times of trouble, managed to shock Udinese back to life. Only Tudor could do that. Udinese took points off both Milan clubs, beat the teams around them and ended in 12th place, their joint-highest finish in the past 13 years.
In the interim, Tudor has tried to shrug off the stereotypes and step out of the pigeonholes. Italy has a tendency to place coaches in categories. He was, for a long time, portrayed as an escape artist, like Nicola and Davide Ballardini. A Harry Houdini figure from Split. To leave it behind, he did something unexpected. When Juventus fired Maurizio Sarri in 2020 and promoted Andrea Pirlo, Tudor was invited to become his assistant.
Not many head coaches accept becoming a No 2. But this was Juventus, the club Tudor served as a sharp-elbowed centre-back for the best part of a decade. Pirlo had never coached before. He’d been hired, initially, to take charge of the under-23s. Il Maestro lacked experience. Tudor, by contrast, didn’t, and Juventus’ executive team, which included Fabio Paratici, later of Tottenham Hotspur, thought he might be able to lend a hand.
While Juventus’ nine-year title-winning streak ended that season, they played a modern hybrid style of football with Rodrigo Bentancur and Dejan Kulusevski (the pair made more than 40 appearances each and their now Tottenham team-mate Radu Dragusin played four times), beating Barcelona at the Camp Nou and winning the Coppa Italia. Since that 2020-21 campaign, Juventus have not bettered the 78 points they racked up in the league. Some thought Pirlo deserved more time. He was fired after only one year.
But Pirlo’s career since at Fatih Karagumruk in Turkey, then Sampdoria in Italy’s second division, and now Dubai United has raised questions: how much of that season at Juventus was down to him and the presence of players such as Cristiano Ronaldo? And how much of it was down to his assistants, Tudor and Antonio Gagliardi?
A partial answer came when Tudor stepped in for Eusebio Di Francesco at Hellas Verona in September 2021. They had lost every game and, as happens every year since they were last promoted, pundits had taken one look at their squad and predicted relegation. Tudor instead made them a revelation. It was their best season in years, a ninth-place finish, 53 points.
Verona’s attack was the joint-fourth best in the league in Tudor’s time. Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone’s son, Giovanni, scored 17 times, his best goalscoring season, and got a move to Napoli soon afterwards. Other players’ careers were launched by Tudor, as was his own.
The same executives who picked De Zerbi to coach Marseille in 2024 picked him two years earlier. Only once in the past eight seasons have Marseille collected more points than under Tudor in 2022-23. Yet he was not made to feel welcome.
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Unless there is a different video isn’t his issue that he doesn’t know the league and not that he is not English?
Why would Vinai have a clue? He is meant to follow the advice of the “experts” working for him.
You'd hope the CEO has a clue wouldn't you? Not a great look scrabbling around and appointing someone recommended by our ex sporting director.
Bullet
Jimmy Cantrell
The CEO isn't supposed to be a football expert. He is supposed to be a business expert, hiring football experts into key roles.