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  1. DubaiSpur

    Ange departs

    True. But the previous criticism of him was that he only had one, extremely porous tactic. I don't think it's fair to criticise him for changing it up - it's what we wanted him to do, after all. It's that flexibility, that willingness to change his long-held principles, that I think augurs...
  2. DubaiSpur

    Ange departs

    No, but they would mind if they're belittled, randomly frozen out, etc. as de Zerbi likes to do. Or if they're told to get 10 men behind the ball all season and score from advanced Pulisball, which is what Farioli apparently set up with.
  3. DubaiSpur

    Ange departs

    Most of them are. But even the 'professional' ones left ask spectacularly dull/pointless questions - your Barney Ronays and Jonathan Liews, Martin Samuels, Dan Kilpatricks and Alasdair Golds. They write very long-winded articles after to twist what a manager says into a saga - but in the press...
  4. DubaiSpur

    Guglielmo Vicario

    It's less of a 'blunder leading to goal', and more 'defense can't fully trust him, so they compensate, and that has tradeoffs elsewhere'. Like, Van de Ven felt enough uncertainty about Vicario catching a straightforward ball that he had already started to head for the goalline before the ball...
  5. DubaiSpur

    Ange departs

    That implies we're good enough with PR to be that subtle mate. We aren't, we have never been. Genuinely think Levy isn't sure what to do - think the consensus bet was on Ange losing the final and then a sacking post-Brighton. Him winning, and then showing masterful political acumen by using...
  6. DubaiSpur

    Tottenham Hotspur 2025 Europa League Winners !!!!!!!

    We were enough of a competitor to make that tie an extremely close-run thing. Italian teams are known for that sort of verbal sledging, and I have zero doubt he was saying the same things to the players, etc., during the game. Anything to get an edge. It's a jibe that hurts because it's true...
  7. DubaiSpur

    Ange departs

    It's not the same everywhere. I'm always impressed by the tactical questions and more intelligent questioning that Dutch/German journalists employ, and while it's more uncomfortable over here for managers to explain themselves, it's pretty accepted over there. England seems to be unique in...
  8. DubaiSpur

    Rodrigo Bentancur

    Given our defensive frailties, it's more that a double pivot with Lolo and someone new holding seems like a pretty solid proposition. I personally think we trigger the option on Cardoso when the window opens - it's too much of a good deal to pass up, and that gives us a 'pure' defensive 6 to...
  9. DubaiSpur

    Tottenham Hotspur 2025 Europa League Winners !!!!!!!

    I'm sorry for your loss mate. As Ange said about his own dad, he's still with you, as is your mum - you'll see them looking back at you in the mirror sometimes, hear them in your own voice and know they're there. Football is emotion - it's life personified, with all its ups and downs, and it is...
  10. DubaiSpur

    Contingency planning : we've found our guy

    100% mate. Guy has an ego the size of Jupiter and has spent the entirety of the season at Marseille picking fights with his players as they fell into, and then out of his favour on a weekly basis. Marseille feeds his ego given that club in general is a constant drama, but for that circus to come...
  11. DubaiSpur

    Contingency planning : we've found our guy

    Not happening mate. I don't think he's going to take us into the top four/six or whatever, but there is no way this year is replicated - too many things had to go wrong simultaneously, and the learnings from this year will help with the next.
  12. DubaiSpur

    Contingency planning : we've found our guy

    Wow - thanks mate, that's news to me. But - if Paratici wants to get a bloke who failed in the Eredivisie, he can do it next summer too when Ange's contract is up. No rush.
  13. DubaiSpur

    Contingency planning : we've found our guy

    I hope not mate. Even if the rumors are true and Paratici does want one of his chaps in, I hope he has the sense to realize that neither Farioli or de Zerbi are going anywhere fast right now, given their struggles. They'll still be around next summer when Ange's contract ends. Hell, Farioli...
  14. DubaiSpur

    Contingency planning : we've found our guy

    Doesn't his ban end on July 20? That's what I recall - not sure he can officially start before that, though I have zero doubt he's already been integrated into decision-making in other ways. I will say this - if the reported replacements Paratici seems to want are true (Francesco Farioli, who...
  15. DubaiSpur

    OMT: European Champions v Brighton - Sunday 25 May

    Take care mate. You're a warrior, and I'm glad your old man has you there for him.
  16. DubaiSpur

    Tottenham Hotspur 2025 Europa League Winners !!!!!!!

    The day we lost the Champions League final, I took a long, very drunken walk that led me...well, I don't know where, really. Eventually I remember finding myself in some woods hours from home. Lost in the wilderness, trudging around in a dress shirt and a Spurs scarf, no doubt looking extremely...
  17. DubaiSpur

    OMT: European Champions v Brighton - Sunday 25 May

    It's mystifying. What message will we send to managers if we sack the guy who ran the gauntlet to win us something, for some bloke whose qualification is that he's good at treading water in the Premier League? The message is, 4th-6th place will save you. Winning something will not. Why would...
  18. DubaiSpur

    ENIC

    Fair dinkums - very, very well done to Dan. Whatever happens with Ange in the post-season (and I think the chairman's message @tommysvr posted is pretty non-commital in that regard), Levy saw us tumbling to the worst league finish in nearly a century, and held his fire long enough for that to...
  19. DubaiSpur

    Ange departs

    So, I said at the start that we had appointed an average journeyman. When we were flying high, I said that we had appointed an average journeyman. When we were terrible and people were laying into him, I kept saying that he was not as bad as the results showed, that he had been dealt a bad...
  20. DubaiSpur

    Tottenham Hotspur 2025 Europa League Winners !!!!!!!

    I'm sobbing. I'm sobbing, and laughing, and crying, and running, and jumping.... ...and flying. Tears running down my face, and I am that kid again spritibg down the sandy streets of Dubai in 2008, singing my heart out.
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