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  1. DubaiSpur

    Contingency planning : we've found our guy

    Sure mate - I was more reacting to the 'he might be cheap enough for us to swoggle' bit. He might, but that doesn't mean he would want to come here, is all. You're right that it would be a terrible move for him, and I think most coaches worth their salt see that now.
  2. DubaiSpur

    Contingency planning : we've found our guy

    I also think good coaches time their moves more deliberately these days. If you're Iraola, why would you move to Spurs when the outcome is almost certain? You manage against the odds for 1-1.5 years, are rarely backed, and crucified when you hit a bad spell - tossed for the next bloke, because...
  3. DubaiSpur

    Radu Drăgușin

    I don't think so. Because Romero will be off this summer, provided he stays fit. Selling Dragusin as well would mean we would be two senior right-sided centre backs short. That's a lot of risk to be taking in one window. I think he stays until 2026. And honestly, he's not that bad. Pace has...
  4. DubaiSpur

    ***OMT TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR v nottingham forest***

    Pretty much. Graham failed at it. AVB failed at it when Bale left. Mourinho failed at it. Nuno managed it for a bit, then failed at it. Conte failed at it. Ironically, the person who got closest to it was Redknapp, in 2008-2009 - I remember a lot of tight games where our defense was rock solid...
  5. DubaiSpur

    Ange departs

    If he eventually gets sacked, tactically, this is where it will have happened. A lot of his approach, tactically, makes intuitive sense to me. Press high up, compress the space, get comfortable playing in that tight space, don't let opponents breathe. You can see the underlying sense there - if...
  6. DubaiSpur

    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    They will always laugh at us, because we are no great threat so the laughs are safe. With clubs that actually have ambitions and are a threat to win things, you always have to be cautious in laughing too hard because they can go and spend 500m and win something and make you look a mug. Like blue...
  7. DubaiSpur

    Ange departs

    I think it's mainly fatigue with managerial changes and a growing recognition that the problems at the club run far deeper than him. Though, there's also a charisma and a sort of everyman charm to him that I think has gotten part of our fanbase in a tizzy. He's the sort of guy fans irrationally...
  8. DubaiSpur

    Ange departs

    I saw that mate. I feel like of all the things he's said and done here over the last two years, that one might have been the most dangerous. Because it ignores that the club's objective is not to have the best squad - it is to keep the wages-to-revenue ratio the lowest in the league (by far)...
  9. DubaiSpur

    Ange departs

    It's not acceptable to concede six at home, agreed. But, any manager that comes in will at best effect only marginal improvements. Because ultimately, we will not get better players. We will get the same category of players the club has (mostly) looked for, largely without exception, for 24...
  10. DubaiSpur

    Ange departs

    He's not the main problem. Sack him now, and you only address the symptoms and not the root cause - nothing will change if we sack him and appoint Iraola or some other yes-man chump, and we'll be here again in 1.5 years shouting about the next guy losing with the patchwork squad and a poor set...
  11. DubaiSpur

    ENIC

    A year or two ago, iirc - I've heard it from their crowds multiple times since 2022. Hell, Gooner knobheads are even going up to Levy and saying it to his face... ...and while I want Levy out, I also think this Goon is a prime plonker, so I'm not about to give him credit for it. Just...
  12. DubaiSpur

    ENIC

    It's singularly ironic when one of the number one chants delighted Goons and Chelsea fans throw at us derbies these days is 'Daniel Levy, we want you to stay'. When your rivals delighting in your misfortune are pleading for your chairman to stay, it should tell you something. But sadly, the...
  13. DubaiSpur

    ENIC

    I've said it before, but when he first came in, all the way up until roughly the mid-2010s, Levy had some genuinely ground-breaking ideas and an eye for talent. He was one of the first to bring the Director of Football model to English football, only for his pick, Arnesen, to be stolen by...
  14. DubaiSpur

    ENIC

    More that the summer window finally brought an end to many people's patience with the way they do things. This current run only exposes those inadequacies - buying a bunch of cheap 18 year olds and one bloke from Bournemouth is predictably backfiring as injuries take their toll, but hey, at...
  15. DubaiSpur

    ENIC

    That's fair. I think it's a difficult situation where the chairman and his boss are almost entirely responsible for the state of the club, so just chanting support for the manager and the players is letting them get away with it. Yes it does create a less positive atmosphere when people chant...
  16. DubaiSpur

    ENIC

    Like I said mate, this is how it should be - I acknowledge this is not how it presently is. If we arrive at a happy medium where the crowd back the manager and the players, but make the owners miserable, to me that's the healthiest and happiest outcome. Let's hope that happens.
  17. DubaiSpur

    ENIC

    Sure, you can see it that way mate. Though, given the same crowd were also signing 'we want Levy out' with gusto, not sure that tracks to me. On the whole, I enjoy this direction the away crowd has taken - support the manager, support the players, (imo) detest the owners. It's the way it...
  18. DubaiSpur

    ENIC

    Whomever came up with that chant, take a bow. :tearsofjoy: "I don't care about Levy, he don't care about me, all I care about, is Kulusevski!"
  19. DubaiSpur

    ENIC

    Three men have hit Levy with the truth about Spurs - and he’s ignored them all (The iPaper) Decent read, this. Not posting the full thing here out of respect for the author, but there's some great excerpts, and it's good to see the media (including Sky) start rounding on our dear Daredevil Dan...
  20. DubaiSpur

    ENIC

    I'd suggest yes, a little bit of a disservice to him. Fact is he signed for us under Nuno in 2021 - at the end of this year he will have given us four years of his career, despite us being in perpetual chaos and finishing 8th, 5th, now languishing in 11th, etc. He's a World Cup winner and...
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