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  1. DubaiSpur

    Andy Robertson

    Sigh. Not a promising start to the summer. The lesson you need to learn to get better - sign a player *better* than the one you have, so he takes their place and the older one drops to the bench. If we want a left-back, sign a top one and drop Udogie. But we seem to prefer signing cheap...
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    Suggestions Pls

    Fair play mate, and I'll second this - happy to chip in to support a good cause if anyone knows one, to commemorate staying up in a grim year. :)
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    ENIC

    To be fair, of the comments I saw, most were respectful, even if they were profoundly negative towards the owners (as is natural). I'm not sure I would have been as respectful if comments had been open on some of Levy's past chairman's messages - club would probably have put in for an ASBO...
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    ENIC

    Pretty much. Though, the thing that gives me a smidgen of sympathy for Viv Lewis and her brother (and really, I mean an infinitesimally small smidgen here), is that there really does seem to be a generational passing of the torch going on at ENIC, from 90+ year old Joe, to his kids. The ENIC...
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    ENIC

    Anyway, I hope no one reminds the club that they have left the comment section on, on both the ENIC statement and Carrington's letter from y'day. :D
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    ENIC

    Thanks for sharing mate. Again, all the right stuff, but I'd rephrase the last sentence to say, their words in particular are worthless. Levy is gone. The ills he was responsible for are now your responsibility. You only get to blame him for your own incompetence once. This club deserves...
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    Johan Lange - Sporting Director

    Absolutely mate. That last point is key - without Tudor's month of fitness drills, de Zerbi couldn't get the team pressing the way they did against Brighton, Villa and Everton. A lot of things came together to both put us in the relegation mire and get us out of it. Tudor had a hand in both...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Bayern, to a lesser extent PSG, and Chelsea. Hear me out here - Bayern - basically win the league every year even with a plank of wood in charge. Kompany isn't exactly Conte in terms of emotional intensity. PSG - see above. Their elevation to European success came with Luis Enrique, but...
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    Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

    Some of the ills at the club are undoubtedly down to Levy - they didn't appear overnight, and will not disappear overnight. But yes - very much a 'blame my predecessor' thing going on with ENIC and Vinai right now, and you only get one bite at that cherry. Like the joke goes - a new prime...
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    ENIC

    Here you go mate!
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    ENIC

    And this paragraph sums it all up - it really is an excellent read. "Tottenham’s collapse has been a tale of the players who left and were never replaced and of the directors too complacent to notice. They are an example of how corrosive a culture of apathy can be and how far it can spread...
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    ENIC

    The Times article by Tom Allnutt really paints a picture of total chaos behind the scenes. Some of it is absolutely insane stuff - like Dier, now of AS Monaco, taking it upon himself to lecture Spence on timeliness and attitude, only for Lange to wander past and, self-satisfied, remark 'at...
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    ENIC

    Also, sorry, reflecting on this and can I just say - '[...]the qualities that make Spurs distinct, our football, our ambition, the connection between the team and its supporters, had been allowed to fade. Football success had not been driving our decisions.' Levy is gone. You had January to...
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    ENIC

    I say this as someone who absolutely loathes them - it's a fair statement, honest about how far they've fallen short and identifying the areas they want to fix. But - words are worthless. They have let this institution crumble to the point of being moments from disaster. Unless this summer sees...
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    Cristian Romero

    That isn't the whole story mate. Like I said, it's been three years now (iirc) where Spurs have had the highest number of touches in the box without a penalty awarded. That is very hard to explain away as generalized bias - either we're bad at conning the refs by diving, or the refs don't feel...
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    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    I think he'll surprise you with both of them mate. Gallagher is, fundamentally, a pressing machine. First touch of a concrete wall, but he has about twenty sets of lungs and keeps the team pressing super-high. Everything about de Zerbi's tactics indicates this is what he wants from his side. I...
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    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur FC v Everton, Sun May 24th, 4.00pm, The Lane***

    Honestly, I think the experience of playing for their lives will benefit some of these players. They came close to the abyss. They had to claw themselves out of it. It's a rude wake up call for a group of men who thought themselves a lot better than they turned out to be. But what that does...
  18. DubaiSpur

    Next seasons squad

    For sure mate, but the issue to my mind is, the 'good at everything, great at nothing' guys are the ones who typically get cut when we need to thin the squad and raise money for incomings. That's where we're at now. In an ideal world I'd love to keep the guy, but we have 6 midfielders already...
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    The Goon Thread

    Amidst the spunking over the Goons' unprecedented, never-before-seen, incomparable achievement, it remains amusing to me that they won the title with fewer points, fewer goals scored, and more goals conceded, than we secured when finishing 2nd in 2016/17. That Toby-Jan defensive pairing outdid...
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    Canning Town Bingo Club

    A Spam fan I know summed it up quite poetically - where we were, you are. And where we are, you will be. We're on the same path they are, we're just a few years behind them (and a lot richer, so more chances for our lovely owners to stumble out of the pit through sheer luck). But beyond...
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