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  1. BrainOfLevy

    Nuno Espírito Santo - Sacked

    Id be stunned if Nuno didn’t spot it last week, as it was obvious to everyone. And I think this is where the ‘we need to be solid’ on the pitch stuff comes from. If we’re under the cosh, we need to just dig in and not concede while the coaching staff get the new plan ready. But pretty quickly...
  2. BrainOfLevy

    Nuno Espírito Santo - Sacked

    I think it’s neither here nor there personally, but I’m not going to criticise someone for taking their share of the blame. Maybe a leader does need to at least create the perception of infallibility, but yesterday clearly part of the problem was the plan didn’t work. He can either acknowledge...
  3. BrainOfLevy

    Nuno Espírito Santo - Sacked

    Seems the players are coming out and suggesting the tactics were to blame. To be fair, at least Nuno is saying it too. Lucas saying we tried to play long. Hugo saying we were too far apart from each other. Clearly there was a game plan that was poorly suited to the opposition or the players we...
  4. BrainOfLevy

    OMT - Tottenham Hotspur - Woolwich tossers

    I think a lot of the talk against Nuno is harsh. I don’t think he’s in over his head. I think he’s smart and he’s capable, and has had to deal with a lot of problems. A performance like today’s first half doesn’t happen just because of a manager, his tactics, or his motivational ability. We...
  5. BrainOfLevy

    Nuno Espírito Santo - Sacked

    I feel like this really nails it. When you consider the amount of crap he's had to deal with, and it's laid out like you just did so, you can see he's had a really tough job and as you say, hasn't remotely had a fair crack of the whip.
  6. BrainOfLevy

    *** Tottenham Hotspur vs clams***

    I think today was an interesting example of what can go wrong when you really go for it from the start of the game. You need to score. If you don’t, it’s hard to recover the same intensity when the opposition inevitably switches it up, particularly when we need two goals rather than merely one...
  7. BrainOfLevy

    *** Tottenham Hotspur vs clams***

    GHod we’ve been bad today. Bad luck aside; this second half is just horrible. We’ve not done one good thing.
  8. BrainOfLevy

    *** Tottenham Hotspur vs clams***

    And like with the red card last week and the deflection this, some awful luck goes against us.
  9. BrainOfLevy

    *** Tottenham Hotspur vs clams***

    Gah, feel this is another like last week, in the sense we just haven’t executed when we needed to. We pressed in the first half, hard. We needed to score then otherwise we’d tire. And we didn’t. Chelsea switched formation to control the midfield at the start of the second half. They’d always...
  10. BrainOfLevy

    Nuno Espírito Santo - Sacked

    We are fit enough, but it’s about spikes in the intensity. You can play a consistent level all the way through, or you can choose when you spike. It’s a principal applied to many things other than football, but you trade off an element of randomness for more control of when you do it.
  11. BrainOfLevy

    Nuno Espírito Santo - Sacked

    Well, if we were actually able to bring Gil on maybe that would have been the moment we really went for it? Or maybe it was just a brick day? They will happen.
  12. BrainOfLevy

    Nuno Espírito Santo - Sacked

    I don’t think we are. It’s no more likely to win than trying to go in half time a couple ahead, but failing to score, draining the players and playing into the opposition’s hands by leaving us open on the break. No strategy is ultimately totally right or totally wrong. Sometimes it goes for...
  13. BrainOfLevy

    Nuno Espírito Santo - Sacked

    If you accept Nuno’s strategy is to win the game in the second half, you can understand why yesterday could have gone either way. I’m not for one second saying that we were good, but I am saying I bet we will have a lot of first halves this season where we look average, where we’re sizing up...
  14. BrainOfLevy

    Nuno Espírito Santo - Sacked

    I really just think today was one of those just majorly brick days at the office, and not much can be read into Nuno’s aptitude for the job around it. Reason being, his whole strategy comes down to winning the game in the second half, and being solid in the first. Given the injuries, we pretty...
  15. BrainOfLevy

    Fabio Paratici - Unemployed DoF (ban ends 30 June)

    I agree. This coming right after the ‘Nuno is Brent’ story. Same publication. We clearly have someone with an axe to grind at the club. Maybe it is Charlie trying to enact a very tiny amount of pathetic revenge. It’s also quite jarring as a story because it doesn’t seem to add up to what we...
  16. BrainOfLevy

    Giovani Lo Celso

    You’re ignoring the fact that there is a global pandemic, with travel restrictions and quarantine periods that make this something way beyond playing for your national team in normal circumstances. The rules as it is means that Argentinian players were not able to enter Brazil. I feel like we...
  17. BrainOfLevy

    Giovani Lo Celso

    I get it all, but I kind of come down on the side of people saying it’s a global pandemic, people have made massive sacrifices in all walks of life. People have missed funerals. Their parents dying. I missed my best friend’s wedding this weekend because of international travel restrictions, and...
  18. BrainOfLevy

    Giovani Lo Celso

    I’m not sure you can blame the club much here. Seems like we did what we could to try and be somewhat understanding (given we don’t have a legal right to deny players wanting to go) and tried to work with the rest of the PL in a united stand. The reason being, FIFA might try and punish one club...
  19. BrainOfLevy

    Nuno Espírito Santo - Sacked

    I’m trying to think back to the Berbatov and Modric summers, because in my head I feel like the sheer volume of high quality young players coming in is higher now, where as before we made a statement, and then filled around them with cheaper options. When Berbatov came, I’m remembering also...
  20. BrainOfLevy

    The Rebuild

    And given the resurgence of Harley and Dier, I see no reason why Winks couldn’t do the same. Doherty is a newcomer, but him too. I think what we needed was enough of a clear out that we could claw back some feeling of freshness that we lost from the best years of Poch. And certain players had...
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