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MemphisWill said:
I whole heartedly want City, Newcastle, Chelsea, United, and Liverpool to piss off to the ESL. Even if it means they take the gooner cunts along as the misfits. I've said for years, a Spurs competing in a British League (surely it would be the impetus to bring Rangers and Celtic into the fold) would suit me just fine. Even if I had to pay a premium to get a second rate streaming experience. At least we'd be well shot of the Neville's of the world. Competing with Everton, Celtic, Rangers, Villa, etc. for an actual fucking trophy thats not prebought? Fuck me, does that ever sound great.


Spurs are the only London club without a cringey as fuck supporter base. Thats why they attract the non-London fans, by and large. Anyone without a conscience is a Chelsea fan, unless they came to the sport in the mid-00s in which case they drank the Wenger kool aid. Tottenham feels like the right thing to do, and they always feel like they're on the cusp so you feel like you're buying Netflix stock right before they dumped DVDs and launched the streaming revolution.
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And we still wouldn't win the league or fuck all else so nothing changes let's do it.
 
Raumdeuterz said:
Yes, there is doubt. Go ask Juventus fans what they think about Paratici and the state he left them in. And of course they've not been good since he left, they're saddled with all his shit or mediocre signings in the team with no money because their wages are fucking them over!

Yes, they are. But they were successful abroad. Paratici completely fucked over Juventus in many ways in an easier environment, but we expect him to be a success at Spurs based on what? A reputation that is out of date? At one point he was rated very highly, but not when he joined us.

We shifted to Emerson because he suddenly became available IIRC. I highly doubt we gave Nuno any power in the market, why would we? You saw how quickly he was sacked, this was not a manager who was given backing or respect by the club. He was there because we (at the time) couldn't get Conte.
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Personally I think he's in bed with numerous agents. He gets a generous bung for his services. Bent as a boomerang!
 
FightingIllini said:
Paratici developed a well deserved reputation for scouting and making deals as Beppe Marotta’s #2 man at Juve and before that Sampdoria.

When he was elevated to CEO and was more in control of the big picture, he still showed an eye for a player (McKennie and Chiesa most prominently) but his overarching management wasn’t great, especially sacking Allegri for no good reason.

That’s what’s so frustrating about Hitchen still being here. Hitchen’s scouting role is exactly where we want Paratici to have his hands in the dough.
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For every McKennie and Chiesa though you've got Bentancur, Ramsey, Morata, Arthur, De Ligt, Danilo (Getting rid of fucking Cancelo!), Rabiot, Bernadeschi, Higuain etc etc. So many overpaid players Juventus want rid of, still, De Ligt for example was signed for huge money, massive wage packet and hasn't come close to justifying it. The ridiculous wages on offer (Also bringing in Ronaldo) also backs you up when it comes to the poor management.

He had a very good run of signings where he was getting a lot of credit, and then an awful one where Juventus dropped off a lot, and a lot of those signings are why they're in their current state. We brought him in off the back of that. I know he had a good reputation as a scout and you're probably right, we need to change his role, but to me it screams a bit of Levy seeing a 'big name' whose reputation has waned somewhat, and going for it.
 
NorseYid said:
Not defending Paraciti here (I really dont know what to think of him), but what you describe of Emerson is the exact MO which ENIC have been running for years and years.

As it; it doesn't seem like we do scouting nor planning nor vetting at all.
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Yeah it does, but it does sound like Paratici was keen on Emerson. And surely coming in his job is to improve that side of things? Maybe it's not his fault at all, and it is all Levy/ENIC still dominating everything, but we have a man in place meant to be fixing the issues and thus far he isn't.
 
Raumdeuterz said:
For every McKennie and Chiesa though you've got Bentancur, Ramsey, Morata, Arthur, De Ligt, Danilo (Getting rid of fucking Cancelo!), Rabiot, Bernadeschi, Higuain etc etc. So many overpaid players Juventus want rid of, still, De Ligt for example was signed for huge money, massive wage packet and hasn't come close to justifying it. The ridiculous wages on offer (Also bringing in Ronaldo) also backs you up when it comes to the poor management.

He had a very good run of signings where he was getting a lot of credit, and then an awful one where Juventus dropped off a lot, and a lot of those signings are why they're in their current state. We brought him in off the back of that. I know he had a good reputation as a scout and you're probably right, we need to change his role, but to me it screams a bit of Levy seeing a 'big name' whose reputation has waned somewhat, and going for it.
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Have you seen much of Bentancur? I see Villa are very interested in him. Is he worse/better than what we have?
 
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