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    Xavi Simons

    Get your head out of your confirmation bias. Please. I am absolutely willing to give Frank credit when due, and indeed have done so. You might not notice. As for some of your other accusations, come on, do better! 'Introducing the defensive coach to try and move any credit from Frank'? My...
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    Xavi Simons

    Admit it. Unless I keep my (admittedly often long) posts to a minimum, you lose interest and just assume 'Frank hater, I'll bang on that gong again in my reply' LOL!
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    Xavi Simons

    Can you explain to me what he has added to Xavi's game in terms of development skill-wise that was previously not part of the player's make-up? BTW, I would question Nørgaard as having been turned into an 'excellent' PL midfielder. Had you said Damsgaard and turned it down to 'quality PL...
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    Xavi Simons

    100% but whisper it, because actually, the truth is that there is ONLY ONE MAN responsible for the player we're seeing (and who in fairness has always been there).
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    Xavi Simons

    I am pretty fluid in how I view things generally, including our season. My ‘logic’ is fairly simple. When Xavi Simons as the chance to play a freer role and within a framework where teammate are closer at hand, then he shines. Look at the first-half yesterday; the shape wasn’t working, and Xavi...
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    Xavi Simons

    I think in Xavi’s case it is about how you use him and how we set up to allow him to be the best he can be! In fairness, this is true of most players other than Harry Kane, who affects football matches wherever he is on the pitch!
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    You’re like one of our glorious hounds with a bone!!!
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    Xavi Simons

    I think the main thing with a player like that is to give them the freedom and support to go where they need to go to influence the game. I have consistently said this about him since he arrived. He is someone who prospers when he can drift into half spaces.
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I think so. It is a period of some uncertainty as a new regime tries to implement a new structure replacing that monolithic micro-management culture of the DL/DC era. It is hard for us to imagine just how fullsome their range and scope was over everything the club did, and the ramifications of...
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    Xavi Simons

    Nah, it’s a fact re: Xavi. As a player, the way he plays the game, his best work is when we’re more compact going forward and allowing him to use that large space between the touchlines called ‘the middle’. Doesn’t matter who the manager is, this is about Xavi’s skillset. BTW, and not related...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    The club are entering a vulnerable time. ST renewals will be due, and statements of intent will have to arrive sharpish to avoid what I think could be a huge drop-off in renewals. Whether that comes from an on-pitch revival (results-wise, I stand by my assertion that we will not see the sort of...
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    Transfer thread

    The deal to be done for him was in the summer, when we simply didn’t push hard enough.
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    Transfer thread

    This a true dialectic. It is, at once, easy to feel critical of his style of football and have great sympathy for the tools/support he appears not to have been given. I think if the window shuts today with no incomings uptop, it’d be great to know who sanctioned the sale of Johnson. If it was...
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    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v Emirates Marketing Project, Sunday Feb 1 KO - 4.30pm***

    What? You had a mullet at the final whistle???
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    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v Emirates Marketing Project, Sunday Feb 1 KO - 4.30pm***

    He's right. How he stayed on the pitch after committing two yellow card fouls which would've led to a red is beyond me. And you didn't work hard enough to get the game back. Has anyone reminded him that they were still a goal ahead after that goal. Toss-pot.
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