Kinsky
Porro
Van de Ven
Romero
Destiny
Spence
Palhinha
Bentancur
Maddison
Gallagher
Kudus
Xavi
Probably
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Management Roberto De Zerbi
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Kinsky
Porro
Van de Ven
Romero
Destiny
Spence
Palhinha
Bentancur
Maddison
Gallagher
Kudus
Xavi
Probably
He won't fuck around if they don't back him , they can't afford to lose him , so I suspect we might see some decent signings .
He' ain't going to play their cheap as chips shitty games .
He will just walk .
He' ain't going to play their cheap as chips shitty games .
He will just walk .
You don't think Danso?
That's too ambitious, notwithstanding than United showed how things can be vastly improved from one season to the next.
Much will depend on the success of our recruitment. [I recall saying on this forum early this season that, with our limited squad and our European commitments, 10th would be a good EPL finish and 13th looked a possibility!!]
If we recruit (at least) a good striker and a technically strong midfielder and we have a fully fit squad (including our 11 or 12 better performed players from this season) then (without the distraction of European football) a top 10 is a reasonable target. With a fair wind we might creep into the top 6 or 7.
Getting into the semi-finals of one of the domestic cups is probably a reasonable target. [It's interesting to think that without a disastrous 15 or 20 minutes in Madrid we would have made (at least) the semis of the Champions League this season]
To many of us where we finish in relation to Woolwich is totally irrelevant. Why waste mental energy thinking about it.
Forgot about him tbh...I mean he'll keep him around as he's a squad player but you're not really gonna push on with Danso being a starter.
I think he likes and rates Danso but maybe not as a first 11 guy long term.
We probably shouldn't take him too literally on the 10-12 thing - he was plucking numbers out of the air and it was a bit of a throwaway comment.
Was he including youth prospects? Loanees? Do squad players count? Are the 10-12 the ones he thinks are first 11 quality, or does he think everyone else is rubbish?
The main takeaway is he clearly thinks we need a clearout.
I think it'd be easier to pick the players he wants to get rid off than those he wants to keep. We have about a 26 man squad and we're hardly gonna lose 14-16 players this summer so he's gonna have to prioritise outgoings to mould the squad.
He's saying and doing all that I could ask for in a manager.
Love the man's passion.
Absolutely box office. No exaggeration thereBrian Fantana Wonderful. I hope he is here for years to come
Maybe a little
Saying we don’t have to change many players, but then going on to say we only have 10,11,12 players he trusts was massively revealing. Needs context though.
I just get the terrible feeling that we will let the manager down like normal. I know Levy has gone but it’s the same owners.
Haha this is the slightly mental side of De Zerbi starting to come out. Apparently he used to fall out with specific media outlets in Marseille quite a bit. Clearly he reads everything about us.
Good on him calling out the Times, though. Alyson Rudd's been on a one-woman crusade to shit on Spurs and our fans since we sacked Frank and De Zerbi seems to be annoyed at Tom Allnutt too who was apparently quite negative.
These journos need to be called out more often imo if we ever want to re-shape the narrative around Spurs.
The whole press conference is worth watching, but here is that bit
View: https://x.com/ChrisCowlin/status/2058709987824705719/video/1?s=61
Yeah it’s going to be exciting to see what we look like next season. I think we will now see him bring his whole coaching staff in and start to implement the style and brand of football he wants to play. We need to change the forwards massively though. Sell Solanke and Richy and bring in a proper striker. Get a player who can actually score over 15 goals from out wide in too. Will be expensive, which is the bit which will scare ENIC.
Our form with this dodgy squad over last 6 games was 7th. That’s Europa.
For our starting 11
We need
left back .
Number 6
Wide left
Centre forward
With Xavi out for a while and Madison unknown I’d be looking for a creative 10
I’d be ok with squad players like tel , Spence , bentancur , odobert but we need more quality in the squad , can’t see Kulu coming back the same player so a back up right forward .
Plenty of work to be done but with no Europe we can get away with a slightly lighter squad .
We need
left back .
Number 6
Wide left
Centre forward
With Xavi out for a while and Madison unknown I’d be looking for a creative 10
I’d be ok with squad players like tel , Spence , bentancur , odobert but we need more quality in the squad , can’t see Kulu coming back the same player so a back up right forward .
Plenty of work to be done but with no Europe we can get away with a slightly lighter squad .
His next mission is to call out the refs and PGMOL or even better call out the club for being pussies and staying silent
Of those, you’d expect Richarlison and Dragusin to move on and Davies to join the coaching staff.
Yeah I suspect so, Dragusin will probably want more playing time. Can see why he didn’t rotate much. Usually managers don’t like to single out players so this was quite refreshing. Not sure we should see it as a slight on those he doesn’t though, because of that except maybe Romero. They are the ones who’ve obviously been crucial at important times
Any player taking that as a dig is soft mentally.
They will then!
I think he might not include Romero after the Argentina thing. He did refer to "people" as in their character too. Romero may have already said he wants out.