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Pre Season Thread

Legohamster said:
Someone on line mentioned Solanke is injured again?
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"Danso, van de Ven, Solanke, Jan Paul van Hecke, I thought today they were not ready yet to play without risk," Roberto responded. "Maybe some of them can play the next game, on Saturday against Chelsea. Maybe not in the beginning, maybe at the beginning (Andy) Robertson and Sandro Tonali. It is about managing the players, especially after the World Cup or after big injuries like Udogie or Solanke had. They suffered long injuries last season and after a long trip, after the jet lag, ahead the beginning of the season, I wouldn’t like to take any risks."

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De Zerbi's update on absent players

Roberto De Zerbi provided an update on the group of players who missed our pre-season win over Sydney FC on Wednesday.
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Yiddo.1882 said:
"Danso, van de Ven, Solanke, Jan Paul van Hecke, I thought today they were not ready yet to play without risk," Roberto responded. "Maybe some of them can play the next game, on Saturday against Chelsea. Maybe not in the beginning, maybe at the beginning (Andy) Robertson and Sandro Tonali. It is about managing the players, especially after the World Cup or after big injuries like Udogie or Solanke had. They suffered long injuries last season and after a long trip, after the jet lag, ahead the beginning of the season, I wouldn’t like to take any risks."

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De Zerbi's update on absent players

Roberto De Zerbi provided an update on the group of players who missed our pre-season win over Sydney FC on Wednesday.
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Happy for them to take this approach.
 
I think RDZ is thinking this trip is a bit of a burden. Surely managers would prefer their players playing at home, there is no better prep than in the same country you are going to be playing all of your football in next season.
 
Yiddo said:
I think RDZ is thinking this trip is a bit of a burden. Surely managers would prefer their players playing at home, there is no better prep than in the same country you are going to be playing all of your football in next season.
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Think he said as much. A few weeks ago.
 
robp135 said:
The point is that often the left and the right winger in modern football are just attacking midfielders.

Under Poch who was playing RW and who was playing AM out of Dele & Eriksen in his 4231?
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Eriksen was principally narrow right, with Alli ACM. But they switched about during games sometimes to mix things up.
 
Yiddo said:
I think RDZ is thinking this trip is a bit of a burden. Surely managers would prefer their players playing at home, there is no better prep than in the same country you are going to be playing all of your football in next season.
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I love that he's sacking it off and playing mostly the kids and departure lounge crew. We shouldn't be burning out our serious players for the sake of commercial commitments.
 
Yiddo said:
I think RDZ is thinking this trip is a bit of a burden. Surely managers would prefer their players playing at home, there is no better prep than in the same country you are going to be playing all of your football in next season.
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It’ll be interesting to see what happens next year, excluding the Covid years it think this must be approaching 8-10 years of heading out to the Asia Pacific region, it’s obviously for commercial reasons but if the manager is not keen on it will the club listen.
 
Would not surprise me if all of this was arranged back when Ange was the manager, I assume this sort of thing takes a fair amount of forward planning
 
billyiddo said:
With the world cup this summer we should have skipped the long haul preseason jaunt.
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They should be banned on climate ground for starters. Flying 100 people on private jets for us to play Chelsea in Sydney is climate vandalism. Let alone the fatigue they create in players.
 
Yiddo.1882 said:
It’ll be interesting to see what happens next year, excluding the Covid years it think this must be approaching 8-10 years of heading out to the Asia Pacific region, it’s obviously for commercial reasons but if the manager is not keen on it will the club listen.
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Absolutely no chance. All managers hate them. If any Spurs manager had the chance to design pre-season, it would look something like:
Leyton Orient (A)
QPR (A)
Schalke (H)
Fiorentina (H)
 
I miss the days of 10 pre season friendlies at various different lower league teams, some are Spurs XI and other first team.
 
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