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  1. DubaiSpur

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    No doubt, and well said.
  2. DubaiSpur

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Frank on switching up his tactics - "When did you decide to use that 3-5-2 system and what specifically did you work on to help the players adapt to it? Probably decided that the day after Bayern. I knew we had to do something a little bit different against PSG. It was a special operation...
  3. DubaiSpur

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Oh, no doubt. I still think he's the best manager in my lifetime (SAF aside) - even above Guardiola, because he achieved things with teams that weren't favorites, like Porto in 2004 and then Inter winning the CL in 2010 when no one expected them to. We got him at the tail end when his magic had...
  4. DubaiSpur

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    For sure mate. To be honest, I think he was always a narcissist, but as you say, it's the players that have changed. Even in just the last ten years, the difference in terms of acumen, wisdom and maturity amongst players in 2025 compared to 2015 is huge. And a lot of that comes from the people...
  5. DubaiSpur

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    For sure. And it makes a lot more sense now why we're after a senior center back, if his plan is to play three at the back more often. Kudus as a striker also surprised me in a positive way - him and Richy were menaces in that first half, clearly something they'd been working on. Lots of good...
  6. DubaiSpur

    OMT - Tottenham Hotspur vs PSG

    I had help mate. I didn't realize how bad it had gotten until someone very close to me told me she didn't recognise me anymore. That's when it clicked. After that I closed nearly every social media account I had, took time off work and spent time with her and the people I loved. They helped me...
  7. DubaiSpur

    OMT - Tottenham Hotspur vs PSG

    Wasn't even the only one to miss, but Van de Ven won't get a fraction of the stick he will. Eze had a very perceptive interview a while back where he explained that what he eventually learned was that social media doesn't mean anything. The abuse, the stick, the repulsive racism - none of it...
  8. DubaiSpur

    OMT - Tottenham Hotspur vs PSG

    Ha! Even them - I even took down that picture of his I had plastered on my dartboard, and boxed up that voodoo doll that @parklane1 keeps reminding me of. ;) I think that night in Bilbao brought a lot of healing to a lot of people, and I count myself among them. It's why I'll always be...
  9. DubaiSpur

    OMT - Tottenham Hotspur vs PSG

    Well said. I think there's lots of little things that should give us confidence. Danso's long throws, and more generally, our newfound threat at set pieces (which is credit to Andreas Gregson as well as Frank). The ease with which we kept PSG at bay for so long. The instinctive ease to our...
  10. DubaiSpur

    OMT - Tottenham Hotspur vs PSG

    Thanks mate - I did take a break last year. Not just GG, online in general. Kept an eye on everyone here, but otherwise refrained from pitching in. Didn't know how deep I was in a spiral of online misery until I did - and once I stepped away, I realized so much of what I was getting angry about...
  11. DubaiSpur

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Style of play - not really. But it wasn't the style that marked him out as different, it was the pre-match prep and the in-match game management. Mourinho brought two things to the Premier League from his time at Porto and previously at Barcelona - tactical adaptation to the opponent (involving...
  12. DubaiSpur

    OMT - Tottenham Hotspur vs PSG

    I've seen little moments from him that make me think there's something there. Not many, but there's been moments where he beats a man and whips in a ball that makes me think 'that takes skill'. And frankly, those moments are more than what I saw from Kane at the same age - back then I thought...
  13. DubaiSpur

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Definitely. I think he's one of those victims of the constant tactical shifts that leave managers behind - Mourinho made his name bringing periodisation and Spanish methods of team-building and drilling to the Premier League, at a time when the tactical default was still a largely unstructured...
  14. DubaiSpur

    Pape Matar Sarr

    Fantastic performance - real energy on and off the ball, and was relentless in the press. I still think he needs to bulk up a little, but he's a fantastic player coming into his prime, and I'm excited to see how he grows this season.
  15. DubaiSpur

    OMT - Tottenham Hotspur vs PSG

    For sure mate. But then, it's just banter either way. You win, you get a bit to banter others with. You lose, you get a bit of stick. But if we had won, would I have remembered this evening like I did Bilbao, when I cried my way through the night stumbling through the streets singing my heart...
  16. DubaiSpur

    OMT - Tottenham Hotspur vs PSG

    He's not had a great start to his career, but he's a kid that took a chance to sign for us to begin with, and fronted up to take the blame for some of our atrocious showings last season when he had no right or reason to. Yes he's probably missing some confidence at the moment, and sure, he...
  17. DubaiSpur

    OMT - Tottenham Hotspur vs PSG

    To be fair, it's really hard for those who are more online because they look at all the mockery on social media and get (rightfully) wound up by it. Best thing I ever did was to stop being so online last year. Gave me a much more measured perspective on life, and on Spurs. Yes I still have...
  18. DubaiSpur

    OMT - Tottenham Hotspur vs PSG

    He was the cheap option over Raya. It shows. Doesn't mean he's bad - I think he's a perfectly serviceable keeper. But that's about the extent of it - he's not a Lloris, or even a Gomes with the ability to make wonder saves out of nowhere. He's a slightly shakier Friedel, able to make better...
  19. DubaiSpur

    OMT - Tottenham Hotspur vs PSG

    S'ok - a much better showing than expected, but ultimately the energy ran out and their superior quality showed. At the end they were passing it around with ease and we were just scrambling to get it somewhere, anywhere. With the personnel we had, that wasn't surprising. We lacked midfielders...
  20. DubaiSpur

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    3 is also what Ange said, and more importantly, lived. It's not an easy thing to put into place, in practice. It's easy to say you want players to express themselves, but the proof is in the pudding. If they deviate from your tactical plans to ping a long ball to the other flank with a low...
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