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    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    It's his press conferences mate. For example, in his latest one where he remarked he'd never coached a team like ours that is so unstable mentally - that is your job, the thing you were brought in to fix. Complaining about it is a warning sign, imo, that he may not actually know how to fix it...
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    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    To be clear, it isn't the chance creation that concerns me. We are creating a little more now than we did last season, and not converting them - that's 100% true. Though, our xg is still middle of the pack, so it's not a dramatic amount. But there's wider weaknesses here that bother me, and...
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    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    Honestly, he looks and sounds massively out of his depth. Just something I'm sensing here. It feels like he made a major misstep this summer, and now is seeing no way to pull us back out of it. At the end of last season, he had us playing stolid but effective football, with a team of battlers...
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    Jan Paul van Hecke

    This is going to be bad news for Savinho whom we're signing as a winger, but I'd be inclined to go with a back three for now that includes Danso. I actually think a back three of Van Hecke (passer) - Danso (aerial bully) - VdV (recovery pace) is very well balanced. But I think any combination...
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    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    Personally I feel it's the reverse. Fundamentally Brentford had a very simple game plan. They constantly hit the ball into the channels where their forwards won headers and held off our defenders with ease. And then, behind those forwards, they pushed 4-5 men up very close to the ball, so there...
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    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    Ye Yeah, I hear you mate. Personally it's been a worry with me for a while now. Think we lack physicality across that backline, and it will hurt us this season unless VdV somehow learns to win a header every now and then. The weakest possible combo is Porro-van Hecke-Senesi-Robertson. Short...
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    Jan Paul van Hecke

    He was poor at what he's always been poor at -physical duels and aerial battles. His stats from last season bear this out - don't believe he was close to the top percentile in either. We signed him to be the line-breaking passer in the CB pairing, with someone else being the battler. Problem...
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    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    Put Danso on and switched to a back three with Fernandes and Tonali in the pivot, Tel and Rich up top, Maddison in behind. Throw on Solanke for Tel at the 60' mark if we need even more physical presence. Danso on means we possibly don't concede that silly third, or look so weak defending...
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    ***Tottenham v Brentford OMT***

    Sure, but I don't think the injury-prone players would have helped all that much. Fundamentally, we lost all the physical battles today, and de Zerbi said as much in his presser. Why, then, did he not play Danso, whose main attribute is his physicality? Not like he wasn't fit, he played in...
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    ***Tottenham v Brentford OMT***

    Too many w*nkers in general, Brits being no exception. Don't blame the Thais for tiring of tourists in general, be it drunk Western sexpats or Russians/Indians/whomever.
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    ***Tottenham v Brentford OMT***

    As they should.
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    ***Tottenham v Brentford OMT***

    We know he wasn't a fan of that Australia tour, but the players looking this ill-prepared is not a good sign. And it's not just the players - I saw that lineup and thought 'weak in the air, Brentford will hit the channels', and that's exactly what they did. Shocks me that de Zerbi's opposition...
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    Mateus Fernandes Official

    If there was a positive from that brickshow, it's that he looked pretty good today. The press resistance and ability to knit the play was streets ahead of Bergvall. Think his passing got us 2 of Moore's three identikit chances, too.
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    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    Now he's deservedly under the microscope. Terrible lineup, terrible subs, terrible result. He's been backed more than any manager in Spurs history. He has to demonstrate that he's worth it, and boy has he started off poorly.
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    ***Tottenham v Brentford OMT***

    Bit unfair given they had six signings done before pre-season even started, for over £232m. Yes the attack looks brick, but that was the lesser problem today compared to how awful that defense looked, and that's the one that was reinforced first, midfield following after. All on de Zerbi today...
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