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    Igor the Departed

    I don't believe in overall squad quality as amounting to a great deal, you can't put a squad on the pitch but you can put an 11 and thats where the balance comes into play and I think balance is far more important. If a team is unbalanced then you need extreme qualities to compensate for that...
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    Micky van de Ven

    People put too much weight into the emotions and make a ton of assumptions based on body language on people they don't personally know. Thats how you get these assessments about players supposedly not caring, even though clearly from the performances even under Frank we put in tons of effort, we...
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    Igor the Departed

    Depends on the Wolves player. I would gladly and happily take Joao Gomes. I think he would elevate our midfield considerably. Why would Wolves having some better players be shocking? Do you watch teams other than Spurs with cleans eyes? For me, I understand Frank not trying to play through the...
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    Igor the Departed

    Thats fair enough, i'm just a realist and managers almost never pick someone they know (or at least think) is a worse player with no upsides over their bonafide starter.
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    Igor the Departed

    Look at Damsgaard, there in 4th place for all competitions, for through balls. I coudn't find any historical data regarding these but last season under Frank he hit 1.90 key passes per match with a total of 62 key passes, hitting the 90%, this season under Andrews he has played 32 key passes...
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    OMT Spurs v Athletico

    Belief is no replacement for quality or specifically in this match not making fudging bine headed mistakes. Athletico didn't even need to be good, because we literally just gave them free shots on goal due to 2x goal keeper brainfarts and VDV being VDV. None of that is motivation related or even...
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    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    The chairman should not have allowed the coach to make such a decision. What a competent chairman should have done at that point is say "ok, the players we've presented to you are not up to standard, we need to go back to the drawing board and give you the type of players you need to...
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    Igor the Departed

    Ange also played it mostly with width, albeit with he entire pushed up and compressing the space, leaving no space for inside passes. We then either played it out wide for Johnson to aimlessly cross the ball to no one or ended up passing back to the keeper. My point is, neither fudging system...
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    Igor the Departed

    I don't know how much of Simons you watched before he joined us ( I had and rated him as a player) but there are a few obvious reasons if you know his game well. He mainly plays ahead of the midfield, hes a player who receives the ball deeper in the opposition half, rather than someone who...
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    Igor the Departed

    Thfcsteff the person you first quoted and Fernandez both showed 11 as the number of attempted through balls these season, so there is some confusion with the numbers or different sources are counting differently... But as I said a difference in numbers isn't exactly shocking when neither...
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    Igor the Departed

    I get that, but realistically would you pick what you consider as a poor option just to do so. Sometimes that works out for the worse. We had that very situation this week when Vicario who many have called to be dropped was so for the weaker backup option and we saw what happened there. The...
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    Igor the Departed

    Fernadez's numbers show no difference in through balls though. I don't whose numbers are more accurate, but watching it I don't see any difference. We weren't exactly spamming though balls under Ange, we played the same get it to the wide players have them cross it in football largely, to the...
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    Levy's Plan

    ENIC and Levy are one and the same. I'm finding this martyrdom the fan base is trying to erect around him fudging hilarious. The man truly is the Teflon Don.
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    Levy's Plan

    Why would we better off when his leadership is what lead is to this point in the first place? You think Levy maybe putting a plaster on a gaping would and maybe surviving this season would absolve him of the terrible decisions he made to get us here?
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    Igor the Departed

    I suppose the issue with Kudus is the lack of quality depth. Putting aside B Johnson for the moment because he's not capable of playing in the manner Kudus was then we had a squad depth problem whereby Frank simply didn't feel he had an option to rest Kudus. In retrospect Odobert starting...
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    Igor the Departed

    The numbers don't seem to back up what you're saying but I think it's fairly obvious why. The only 2 players who you would expect to play such passes are Kulu and Maddison and neither has been available this season. I'm not really surprised to see Bentancur, Sarr, Gray, Bergvall, Gallagher and...
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    Igor the Departed

    We weren't capable of it under Ange that's the point. You've actually forgotten what the football was like under Ange last season. At times we were basically the 'Kulu team' if he wasn't rampaging around we had nothing. You've even forgotten one of Ange's primary tactics was also playing with...
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    Igor the Departed

    Because we don't have players capable of passing through the middle well. If we had Nordgaard or Damsgasrd then I think we would have seen a different approach. He decided not to try something he didn't think would work. Whether he was correct in that assessment is up for debate, obviously as...
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    Igor the Departed

    We've had many of them over the recent years I've lost count. I don't even bother with the "it's the worst I've seen since xxx" because it's usually just recency bias. I ont k ow if we have more than 5 good performances in the last 2 years in the league. Weirdly in Europe both this and last...
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    Antonin Kinsky

    I'm not writing his career off due to the performance. Like you I was a keeper also to a decent level. I'm just not convinced by his brick stopping in general, he never seems to get his spread right, a lot of shots appear quite savable to me at times. If you look at the first goal as an example...
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