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  1. DeanoAustin

    *** The official 2025/26 Premier League thread ***

    That’s astonishing. No doubt, if he’s not on a yellow, he’d be getting one for that. It’s a yellow “+ a bit”. Shocking.
  2. DeanoAustin

    *** The official 2025/26 Premier League thread ***

    Was he on a yellow?
  3. DeanoAustin

    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    I'm very, very skeptical too and have been since they booted Levy out. However, the public scrutiny is ramping up big time, it's absolute chaos on the pitch and in the stands, we've no one in the dugout and we're sliding towards the Championship. The asset is in danger of massive depreciation...
  4. DeanoAustin

    Spare a thought for Mousa Dembele

    Which one? The one I recall was Juve away. He had the ball for some insane amount of time. It was like an adult playing against little kids at times.
  5. DeanoAustin

    Our signings since the Champions League final

    I hear this said quite a bit as if it's a recruitment problem. For me, primarily, it isn't. You can't replace the likes of Verts, Toby, Walker, Dembele, Eriksen, Son and Kane on the money/wages we are willing to spend. Our recruitment and development was insanely good for a period where we got...
  6. DeanoAustin

    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    It really feels like a bit of a watershed moment at the club right now. Levy has gone and the facade that we can truly succeed under ENIC's model of the last 25 years is being relentlessly exposed from within and from outside the camp. It's utter chaos and utter disarray. Fans booing players...
  7. DeanoAustin

    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    It's a great question generally. I don't know how any manager can be successful if successful is winning trophies regularly or challenging for the league regularly. We've won 2 league titles in almost 150 years and it seems like some of our fans won't be happy unless we are regularly winning...
  8. DeanoAustin

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Dour isn't the problem IMO. Being dour is fine - you don't have to be Mr Charisma in front of the camera. You just kind of need to avoid pitfalls and talking down expectations or talking up your rivals are two of them. Ferguson was never particularly engaging with the press, nor was Wenger, nor...
  9. DeanoAustin

    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    Ah that'd make sense. They have to fill next week's episode with something they recorded yesterday. I'm looking forward to listening to Ange in a bit of detail. I don't rate him as a manager at the very top level but I always found him to be a brilliant speaker with a very, very big picture...
  10. DeanoAustin

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    As you say, PR will only get you so far but you've got to do the PR bit right. If you don't, you're f**ked particularly at a club like Spurs where the scrutiny is ridiculous. The same thing happened Hodgson at Liverpool. You start talking negatives or dampening expectations and it feeds through...
  11. DeanoAustin

    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    They record two podcasts every fortnight and put them out weekly. They were scheduled to have Ange for next week's podcast but I'd imagine with what happened yesterday, they couldn't hold off that long so shoehorned him into this week's podcast.
  12. DeanoAustin

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    That's not how any manager should talk. A manager's job is to get the best out of players - the message to them can't be that "we will lose games". There is truth and there is how you articulate the truth. You need to get both right to get players onside. If I was a player listening to that...
  13. DeanoAustin

    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    Levy was operating within a model, I don't believe he was the sole architect of the model. That's my read of it and if that context is correct, he did very well. The problem has always been the model because it has a ceiling which is below where we now want to be. By removing Levy, we've no one...
  14. DeanoAustin

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    This is it
  15. DeanoAustin

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    They have been. Our board are a fudging disgrace but I've been very, very disappointed in some of the stuff I've read over the last 24 hours. To get beaten by Woolwich, embarrassed really, and be read the riot act afterwards regarding standards and to then turn up late the next day. That's...
  16. DeanoAustin

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Go watch the quote. I read it first and thought, "ah it probably wasn't as bad as it reads" but it was bizarre. And then he goes on in the same breath to praise Arsenal 2003/2004 for not losing a game before realising he shouldn't be praising Arsenal as the Spurs manager. It was really, really...
  17. DeanoAustin

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    IMO you are absolutely right Steff. I don't know when it started to happen, I think it's a fairly recent thing, but managers' pre-match press conferences are now big events where things get dissected and analysed like never before.
  18. DeanoAustin

    Interim Manager Discussion - Igor Tudor joined until end of season

    You'd have thought Dyche would be a solid choice and keep us out of trouble on paper. He's sort of the modern day Allardyce or Pulis. However, given the rumours of player discontent with the limitations of Frank's football, it wouldn't seem a great fit. So we need someone who will instill...
  19. DeanoAustin

    Interim Manager Discussion - Igor Tudor joined until end of season

    Can't understand the number of people clamouring for Robbie Keane. I loved Keane as a player and he's had a decent start in management. But he's managed in Israel and Hungary. The standard is not great. It's 10 million miles from the PL in terms of standard, scrutiny and pressure (given the...
  20. DeanoAustin

    25/26 Injury and illness thread

    By the time he comes back, the interim and his successor will likely be gone.
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