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2025/26 pre-season

For me the difference is that I'm not even seeing Spence get beaten. The times he's exposed are of his own doing alongside a failure to react.

If he played with Porro's intensity I think Spence would be a good full back defensively. Issue is that he defends like a winger
 
Lilbaz said:
No we can bring academy players in.
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Turns out that BM had 14 subs on the bench and made 10 outfield subs. We had 9 which made me think the match day structure was like a normal match. It wasn't. So 2 keepers on the bench would have been standard for this friendly. We just had a reduced bench because of our injury list. It's possible that Solanke and Udogie were in Germany but they couldn't make the match day squad.

So Spurs got back from Seoul and the squad disseminated. Some U21s have been loaned since. 1st team then took a much smaller group to Germany and the U21s had the game against Enfield on the 5th Aug. I think the academy players you mention were probably wrapped up in that U21 game. We couldn't have called any up at short notice because it was a different country.
 
Muttley said:
Turns out that BM had 14 subs on the bench and made 10 outfield subs. We had 9 which made me think the match day structure was like a normal match. It wasn't. So 2 keepers on the bench would have been standard for this friendly. We just had a reduced bench because of our injury list. It's possible that Solanke and Udogie were in Germany but they couldn't make the match day squad.

So Spurs got back from Seoul and the squad disseminated. Some U21s have been loaned since. 1st team then took a much smaller group to Germany and the U21s had the game against Enfield on the 5th Aug. I think the academy players you mention were probably wrapped up in that U21 game. We couldn't have called any up at short notice because it was a different country.
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We didn't think we needed to. Probably better for the academy players to get a full 90 than be 9th choice sub.
 
Lilbaz said:
We didn't think we needed to. Probably better for the academy players to get a full 90 than be 9th choice sub.
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Exactly, but when I saw a 20 man squad with 9 subs I just reverted to natural thinking. Then I saw 2 keepers, hence my earlier post.

Turns out it was all business as usual in pre-season.
 
It is clear what went wrong in Germany: WE DIDNT CREATE A MATCH THREAD. This needs some attention by the club and moderators, we can not take such a lackadaisical approach to a fundamental component of how we play!
 
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