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    Interim Manager Discussion - Igor Tudor joined until end of season

    I'm more than a little concerned by this Tudor appointment, tbh. Yes he seems like the sort of hardass to inspire some discipline, but he comes in as a largely Serie A-focused journeyman with no experience of the Premier League, and the fact that every single one of his tenured has ended badly...
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    Interim Manager Discussion - Igor Tudor joined until end of season

    Paul O'Keefe and some guy called Chef Sarrpreme 2.0 on X. Yes, this is exactly as it sounds.
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    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    Honestly lots of food for thought here. There's two things that I would argue with, though. The first is that our transfer spending under ENIC has followed a rough trajectory as follows - 1) 2001-2009 - high net spend, low wages, focused on acquiring young talent. 2) 2010-2019 - low net...
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    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    It's not really news, but it is the first open admission of this. Up until this year we've had allusions and insinuations from the likes of Danny Rose ('buying players I need to Google'), Poch ('building a mansion and filling it with IKEA furniture') and Conte ('20 years the owners here and...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    He's apparently a great coach - Liverpool players credit him with improving their games, not least of all Gravenberch. Just a brick head coach - that happens sometimes, the jobs are very different.
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Dunno why, but in my head, when I'm reading Steff's posts, I always subconsciously think he sounds like Dan Louw, the guy who made all those Spurs Away Days videos in the mid-2010s. Just something about the often poetic way he writes. First time listening to him on the podcast was certainly a...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    This is exactly right. So much of football, life, and leadership, is about self-belief - not just your own, but giving the people you lead and look after the self-belief to feel like they matter and that they can take on the world and win. Do that, make them feel like you're in their corner...
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    Next Manager Thread (2026 Edition)

    Well, he didn't start with many of those players, and others who were here hadn't reached the levels they would in subsequent years. Of the all conquering 2016-2017 team of Lloris, Walker, Verts, Toby, Rose, Dier, Dembele, Eriksen, Alli, Sonny and Kane - Dier, Toby, Alli and Sonny were bought...
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    Interim Manager Discussion - Igor Tudor joined until end of season

    Noted, and I appreciate that is true. But - too much at the moment is dependent on intangibles. It isn't about records anymore. Simply put, you need a manager that will put bums in seats, that will sing to support the team, and you need someone who can make the players run their hearts out and...
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    Interim Manager Discussion - Igor Tudor joined until end of season

    Maresca, but he's a systems coach and that isn't what we need. We need a motivator type for the last 12 games - rules out most of those. Maybe Brendan Rogers. Otherwise it's back to Ange. Or, just get Poch early, but not sure he's leave the US before the WC. Still, we should try - we are in...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    The silver lining, if we can avoid getting relegated, is that the squad actually fits Poch's 4-2-3-1 quite well, though of course it needs major strengthening in several specific areas. For example, take that attacking midfield three. If you assume Xavi moves to the left, Kudus when he returns...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Kinsky did a hard-to-interpret one, but that's all, I believe. No one in the squad seems particularly bothered by Frank going, which compares badly against their voluminous emotional posts when Ange left.
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    Interim Manager Discussion - Igor Tudor joined until end of season

    Hope it isn't Heitinga, too. Did an atrocious job on his last run out as head coach. Also hope it isn't de Zerbi - man is an utter nutcase and an absolutely detestable human being. Guy like that has a 50:50 chance of saving us or dragging us under.
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    Interim Manager Discussion - Igor Tudor joined until end of season

    As an interim, I actually wouldn't mind Harry, with his age and lack of recent experience being the only question marks in my mind. He knows how to get instant results, he dragged us out of the muck before, he can motivate players and let them do what they're best at. All we need is someone...
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    Next Manager Thread (2026 Edition)

    The problem is always that these appointments from smaller clubs are viewed in an idealistic sense, with the manager given time, money, and full support from fans and players to bring over whatever worked for them at their smaller clubs. We don't work that way. We almost never have. Any...
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