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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v AFC Bournemouth ***

    For sure, it's ultimately more sustainable in the long-run. You want a manager to be here for 3/4 years, you sort of need to hew towards pragmatism by default. For a long time, Werder Bremen were a devil-may-care side under Thomas Schaaf, gung-ho in pressing and in the attack. 'You score 4...
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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v AFC Bournemouth ***

    What we need, and what we will get, are not always the same things mate. :) There's merit in giving players enough rope to metaphorically hang themselves. Take them off too early and they feel aggrieved and hard-line by. Board will ask questions about if he isn't using them correctly, etc...
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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v AFC Bournemouth ***

    For sure. It's reminiscent of early Poch, but I think the key difference is that Poch had the time and space to adapt his approach to become less gung-ho while still being one of the most fearsome pressing teams in the league, until Klopp brought in his system. Iraola doesn't, because the...
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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v AFC Bournemouth ***

    Tel isn't meant to be a full-time left-winger. He's meant to be a striker that can also provide width on the left, when needed. I think he's the long-term replacement for Richy - believe the latter will have one year left on his deal after the World Cup, and it would be a good time to sell...
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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v AFC Bournemouth ***

    Fact is, Iraola does this to all teams - at the start of the season, Bournemouth press with manic intensity because they have energy. By the end, they're dragging themselves to the finish line because others have saved up more energy than them over the course of a season, and injuries (a natural...
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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v AFC Bournemouth ***

    He used most of them, didn't he? Bergvall, Odobert, Udogie, Tel - we didn't have anyone else left on to affect the game in an attacking sense. In general, it's just one of those pre-international break games where the players look disinterested and are trying to protect themselves from injury...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    What's amazing is that, not only did we beat City, we outplayed them. I think out of the last 19 games against City, this is only the second time we had a higher xG than them. This wasn't us sitting back - we completely nullified them, pressed aggressively, set up high, and won nearly every...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I feel sorry for him having to swim upstream for the entirety of his time here so far. But this is an excellent answer that I think we all needed to hear. If someone doesn't want to be here, fudge 'em.
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    Daniel Levy - Chairman

    Fair enough mate - I just noticed she was next to Levy the Burnley game and Ally Gold had an article highlighting it, so I figured maybe it presaged a change. If not, then on we go as we always have done. :)
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    Daniel Levy - Chairman

    Sure mate, but they haven't spent 100m - they've spent close to 300m and counting, and have also been spending prodigiously since well before their return to the CL. They've been consistently heavy spenders since 2020, and it's pretty widely acknowledged that a significant chunk of that is...
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    FFS...it's happening again!!!

    Clearly, the trick to appeasing the football gods is more pictures of models in the stands at the Lane. You missed that here - fatal mistake on your part my friend. ;)
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    Ben Davies

    The strange thing is, Seamus Coleman looks no different to how I remember him looking when he was first linked with us - in 2009!
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    Daniel Levy - Chairman

    They're just an extremely decisive club since Josh Kroenke took the reigns, representing his dad - that coincides with the Kroenke acquiring full control of the club in the aftermath of Usmanov being booted. The bigger issue lies in that disparity - Arsenal have invested owners, so if Josh...
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    Eberechi Eze

    They have mate. The article by Miguel Delaney is pretty authoritative in that respect - they agreed a deal in principle for him 10 days ago, and our interest only started after that. As per Delaney, Palace used us to get Arsenal to up their bid, but both they and Eze knew that Arsenal were in...
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    Eberechi Eze

    I think we have *decent* options, but 'really good' is pushing it a little, I think. For example, compare the forward lines of the top six clubs and I think we're probably bottom of that group. Likewise, our midfield isn't really comparable to the others we call our peers. Our defense is great...
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