I see I have another Gooner numpty to add to my ignoreTime for Harrods Nuno to finally give the club signing a chance
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She echoes what a lot of spurs supporters feel and are sick of seeing
im a little concerned Conte will just double down on Persic as RWB when Doherty doesn't play or is not very good.
I feel Conte is being a little stubborn regarding Spence, it's not like he's super raw like Pape Sarr. He's proven himself against prem opponents, and been an outstanding leading figure in a team promoted to the top.
I feel Conte is being a little stubborn regarding Spence, it's not like he's super raw like Pape Sarr. He's proven himself against prem opponents, and been an outstanding leading figure in a team promoted to the top.
Conte didn’t buy Djed, tbf - Levy and his accountants did
I moaned all summer about our right side being neglected in the transfer market but was told we’d be fine and couldn’t find anyone to improve it.
Yep Spence will only play if Doc/Emerson/Perisic are all unavailable.
Well if Doherty and spence can't play and all we are left with is fn Emerson then we better be selling some rwb in Jan and buying some new ones because, if totally honest, Emerson has to be one of the worst players I've ever seen. Ever noticed him showboating 30 yards out with nobody near him - sunday league impressive..... Wooooo
We need to start buying sound technical players, who have the right attitude and work ethic and have a high degree of football intelligence. The boxes need to be ticked. We keep ending up with 2 out of 3 criteria players who either give the ball away, get sent off or fail to read the game - in Emerson's case it's all three... Sometimes all in one go.
We need to start buying sound technical players, who have the right attitude and work ethic and have a high degree of football intelligence. The boxes need to be ticked. We keep ending up with 2 out of 3 criteria players who either give the ball away, get sent off or fail to read the game - in Emerson's case it's all three... Sometimes all in one go.
Top post.
Coaching?
Tactics?
Strategy?
Man management/motivation?
Team selection?
Match-day (team talks, substitutions and in-game management)?
Press duties?
etc.
etc.
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Not too sperate from this is Klopp's own admission that he in-fact didn't want to sign Salah and them doing so was down to their recruitment team.
In the same vein; last season we hired a DOF and our recruitment has taken a turn for the better.
In the modern game managers don't have the time to be scouts. However, none of this is to say that in a modern structure, the manager doesn't still have influence.
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Spence was scouted and signed on the basis that our DOF deemed him to fit the bill of the kind of WB we required; not cos Levy and "the accountants" thought it would be a money-spinner.
Ali Gold: "it was Fabio Paratici who drove Tottenham’s pursuit of Spence, having watched the right-back closely during his loan spell at Nottingham Forest last season."
Alasdair Gold reveals what some at Spurs have said about Djed Spence signing - The Spurs Web - Tottenham Hotspur Football News
Football London’s Alasdair Gold has revealed that Djed Spence was identified by Tottenham as a player tailor-made for Antonio Conte’s system and the club would...
Conte: "The club wanted to do it..... I said ‘OK,"
Antonio Conte admits it wasn't his decision to sign Djed Spence
Tottenham manager Antonio Conte has admitted Djed Spence was a ‘club’ signing rather than his own. Spurs’ busy summer continued as they made their sixth deal of the window earlier…
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Andy Robertson was signed from Hull the season they got relegated from the EPL.... He wasn't plucked from the "lower leagues".
Around the same time we signed Trippier from Burnley; who fits the exact same mold as Robertson.
On the contrary; in recent seasons we've signed 2 'hot' young FBs from the champo.
This summer, we also just signed another young, highly rated LB from Italy; not unlike we did for Jose 2 years ago......
More broadly, we've also signed Gil & Sarr, but whenever we make such signings we get the same dweebs spinning the same conspiracy theories about them being unwanted Levy signings with no other consideration beyond selling them on for a profit.
Coming back to your orignal question about why managers don't exclusively drive the recrtuiment process? ......If you want undiscovered rough diamonds (something you've just bemoaned us not doing), then you can't realistically expect the manager to be the one to unearth them.
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I think Perisic might be saved as an option for the front three with kulusevski out.
Spence was a classic Spurs english lower league signing, wasn't he. We had success in the past with guys like Dele, Walker and Lennon. But less recently (Rodon).
I think it probably really pissed off Conte, because it's a sign that the club haven't changed their mentality as much as they told him they would and aren't ready to behave like a 'big club', as he sees it.
We made a mistake selling Trippier, and then not going back in for him when he came back to England.
We all knew better than Nuno though. So the idea that we as fans can't know better than a manager is false.
It happens all the time. Look at Southgate. We all know Maguire shouldn't be picked. He doesn't.
Sorry but no.
If you think I'm trusting any single one of you lots opinion over Conte, you are high as a fucking kite my friend.
Conte has forgotten more about professional football than you or I will ever know, and that is a straight fact. Goodbye. The end.
Also imagine comparing Nuno to Conte - put some respect on Conte's name ffs
Do you not think that Conte also has eyes and sees what Spence is like in training every day ?
But you are saying that someone who see's training day and day out can't be wrong.
Yes or no, did Nuno make mistakes? Because if you believe he did, you're being hypocritical and saying that you knew better than him.
Also, stop being a baby with all this ''my opinion is fact and your opinion is false'' nonsense. It's just a friendly debate.
Yep.
With the predicament Forest are in I'm sure they'd love him back. In hindsight, he should have stayed there.
Exactly.
Most famous example, Capello banished Beckham to the under 19s. Soon realised he made a mistake, reintegrated him and he was an integral part of Real's success that season.
The difference between the good managers and the great one's is being able to put your ego to one side and see what is best. Guardiola does it all the time. Ancelotti too.
But you are saying that someone who see's training day and day out can't be wrong.
Yes or no, did Nuno make mistakes? Because if you believe he did, you're being hypocritical and saying that you knew better than him.
Also, stop being a baby with all this ''my opinion is fact and your opinion is false'' nonsense. It's just a friendly debate.
Nope, not what I was saying at all.
I was saying that I value the opinion of the person who see's training day in day out more than I do a random fan. At no point have I said mistakes cannot be made. Literally nowhere have I said this.
Learn to read and stop putting words in my mouth.
Friendly debate but you insert that childish gif? Yeah...ok then.
If you can find me a post where I've said Conte is infallible and never makes mistakes, then feel free to quote me and I'll apologise.
End of story.
Spence situation is similar to what Lego head did with Saliba