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Brian Fantana said:
I’ve got a feeling they’ve realised the game is up on the “itk” front now. Nobody on there posts anything that even represents a 1 on the bullshit scale. They’ve change to a “so and so mentioned it back of house last week but couldn’t share” which Is obviously bollocks. Plus condescend any info posted anywhere else. Those that run it hate this forum, presumably because we actually have fun and don’t take it all seriously than them posting passive aggressive shit in every thread. All the decent posters left to either here or gave up.

Edit: I just checked and my blocked list on there has 37 people on it. Suspect it wasn’t for me!
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A lot of it was genuine leaks though. Pretty sure that SC was the one where Joshua Levy was posting on it, and at one point there were others who were related. There is a certain amount where stuff will leak. I mean BushHillSpurs BushHillSpurs is Harry Kane's wife's (Katie) cousin, so I suspect his aunt/uncle would know well in advance about Germany. I say this having had interactions in a job, must have been 10 years ago, that I shared on here. Not at all the case since then, but just saying that you could be working or visiting somewhere where you see Frank enter a conference room with Lange and Paratici, for example.

Now that isn't the same as some of the caricatures that have persisted and end up doing Septic Peg impressions regularly. There are some people who had connections. I've been reading but not posting on there for years so not full familiar but wasn't it greyfox and rebrav (?) who were well connected and then stepped back when they lost their info. Not the same as like 'dragon1' or 'trix' or 'hercules' or 'gards' or some of the other COYS guys who seem to like the reverence. Don't get me start on twitter.

I think a lot of the "ITK" factor of SC and COYS dried out through the club fixing the leaks. It's absolutely no surprise to me that it was peak during the Redknapp days, as I bet he would be getting petrol on the services telling random people who he fancied signing, or who was in for a medical on a given day.
 
Richard Arlison said:
I guess the plan has been successful for Levy then. The stadium was meant to be what made us challenge to win the PL and CL

But he’s slashed the wage bill and dropped expectations so far that we’d be happy just to get back to where we were under Poch before the stadium move.
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What are you on about? Wage bill has grown year on year, but for the 2020/21 season when we had £30m/yr of Bale on loan
 
Richard Arlison said:
Howe is a decent comparison too

So if Frank achieves what Howe has at Newcastle, is that enough for everyone?

Is that the club’s targets?
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Howe has embraced physicality at Newcastle having fielded some pretty lightweight teams as Bournemouth manager. A sign of adaptability. But it has proved a good call.

Frank is already sold on athleticism, so I assume he will look for that kind of player if he comes. It's a bit against the grain for our club though. Hope he can find a balance there.
 
Belgrano said:
Howe has embraced physicality at Newcastle having fielded some pretty lightweight teams as Bournemouth manager. A sign of adaptability. But it has proved a good call.

Frank is already sold on athleticism, so I assume he will look for that kind of player if he comes. It's a bit against the grain for our club though. Hope he can find a balance there.
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Agreed

Tbh Bergvall and Gray are units already but technically very good. Maybe that’s where Frank and Brentfords heads were at when they were after them.

Porro is an underrated one that people haven’t clocked might benefit from Frank because he loves crosses. They cross more than anyone I think and Porro might be the best crosser in the league now.

Kulusevski as well, with that KBD style inverted cross.

Also expect Solanke to score more under Frank because of crosses. Ange loves the low crosses, whereas Frank will want them mixed up more
 
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Richard Arlison said:
Agreed

Tbh Bergvall and Gray are units already but technically very good. Maybe that’s where Frank and Brentfords heads were at when they were after them.

Porro is an underrated one that people haven’t clocked might benefit from Frank because he loves crosses. They cross more than anyone I think and Porro might be the best crosser in the league now.

Kulusevski as well, with that KBD style inverted cross.

Also expect Solanke to score more under Frank because of crosses. Ange loves the low crosses, whereas Frank will want them mixed up more
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His teams like to cross from the half spaces, expect a lot of "Eriksen-esque" crosses from the midfield 8s aswell.
 
Richard Arlison said:
He’d definitely keep his job if he did what Howe has done?

If not then what does Levy actually want?
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If he does what Howe did last year, he'd keep his job. If he does what Howe did last year, he'd likely get sacked.

I don't know why people act like its mysterious or debatable. 5th is considered the minimum acceptable performance.

Every manager who has achieved that has come back the next season.

Every manager who has been on track to fail that objective (or has failed it in Ange's case) has been sacked.

That doesn't mean 5th is the goal, merely that its the bare minimum.
 
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