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  1. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Fingers crossed. Although Gallagher, Sarr, Gray and Palinha is a pretty good group of options for central midfield. Gets tricky when thinking about whether we’ll need one of them to also play the 10.
  2. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    I genuinely just think we’ve tried to play this way a number of times and actually played ok and probably deserved more from the 30 minutes that we do it. But I agree that last night the quality was much higher, the aggression off the ball but also the intent and the incisiveness of the passing...
  3. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    I’m not sure you can say the team was galvanised by having better players back when we played Spence on left wing, Odobert and Simons have been routinely described as not good enough yet and played a lot with us and Solanke back. Solanke is also a weird one because I swear I’ve seen a ton of...
  4. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    I genuinely don’t think much changed in the intent. We start so many games ‘well’, in the sense that we press high and play to a fast tempo. We’ve done that repeatedly under Frank. The difference today was that we scored and could then play the game on our terms. Maybe there was an added layer...
  5. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ****Tottenham Hotspur v BVB********* OMT Official

    I agree. We have played like it plenty of times but we haven’t finished well or made the right final boss when we should have. Essentially a lot of Porro examples on the counter tonight. If the players actually execute then Frank’s football can actually work.
  6. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ****Tottenham Hotspur v BVB********* OMT Official

    Actually scoring when we intend to be on top and actually defending well and with intensity when we sit back. It’s not complicated but when it works it works. So many recent games have been dreadful because we fail to execute in the moments where we need to, where we have planned to, and we give...
  7. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Will be an all timer football story if Frank turns it around and leads us to some success based on this game. And also classic Spurs if we still sack him after he wins the game that everyone said he was dead man walking.
  8. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Agreed. I really think it is not that these players aren’t good enough, it’s that they are low on confidence and expected to execute perfectly on a smaller number of opportunities they get presented with. And if that’s how they’re used to playing, it’s fine. But RKM is now being referred to as...
  9. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    No doubt that’s a strong squad.
  10. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Indeed. Maybe it’s not that these players are ‘kids learning the ropes’ which I think is an unfair way to describe players we’ve spent 10s of millions of pounds on. Maybe it’s because our players are lacking a lot of confidence right now and not executing effectively. I’d also add Richy failing...
  11. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v West Ham FC ***

    Did it push it into his path? I feel like Gallagher was about to make a move onto the ball and the hand touch totally changes what the movement needs to be. Defender gains an advantage all day long for me. I think VAR has meant we’ve just gotten totally away from what handball originally was...
  12. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    I don’t think ‘strikers missing a hundred chances when we’re on top’ can be applied to us unfortunately.
  13. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    And my point on whiplashing the squad when there is no need comes down to, if you put us in a huge transition style wise when the squad isn’t desperate for it, I think you suffer a crisis of confidence if things don’t immediately click or we get some bad luck. I don’t think the squad were crying...
  14. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    I will say I think one of the things that Levy got right towards the end of his time was sensing what we needed and making that appointment. My two examples of this are swerving from Ten Hag due to a lack of charisma and appointing Ange. This is not a post to say that Ange was the long term...
  15. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Mathys Tel

    Personally I’m not trying to add to the negativity, and I totally get the calculation in isolation that you’d rather have Solanke than Tel all things being equal. I just don’t think things are all equal, and I think the relationship with the player is also an important thing to consider.
  16. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Mathys Tel

    No it’s a decision Frank made. He confirmed it today.
  17. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Didn’t he say he had lunch with Vinai and Lange and talked about life? Suggests to me that they were open about the fact it’s probably coming to an end, and that they don’t blame him per se, but it is what it is.
  18. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Mathys Tel

    I think ‘needs minutes’ in your post is the key point. That’s probably why Tel is more upset this time. He seemed to take the original squad list news at the start of the season quite well. About as well as a professional being told he wasn’t going to play in Europe would take it. And then he...
  19. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Mathys Tel

    I think it’s just the sort of thing that probably torches his relationship with Tel, and I’m not sure the positives of Solanke starting the final game outweigh that. You’re basically saying to Tel that you don’t believe he can be more effective than a guy that can’t play those 180 minutes. And...
  20. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Mathys Tel

    It is a choice, Frank confirmed it.
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