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il Cecchino said:
Sack him. He wasted incredible money and his scouting is very limited: he doesn't know european market. And then bring back Paratici.
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Bergvall
Vuskovic
Kinsky
Yang

(Not to mention the multitude of players he bought at Villa..... At a time when some here reckoned he was "embarrassing" us.)

Players on loan in Belgium and previously Italy, France & Poland.

Basically; that's bollocks.


It's funny tho..... I remember people complaining Paratici "only knows Italy".
 
Airfixx said:
Bergvall
Vuskovic
Kinsky
Yang

(Not to mention the multitude of players he bought at Villa..... At a time some here reckoned he was "embarrassing" us.)

Players on loan in Belgium and previously Italy, France & Poland.

Basically; that's bollocks.
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Agree, the squad was well set up for success and resilient enough to cope with the extra 15 games

Blokes clearly a high achiever. Yang
 
Airfixx said:
Bergvall
Vuskovic
Kinsky
Yang

(Not to mention the multitude of players he bought at Villa..... At a time when some here reckoned he was "embarrassing" us.)

Players on loan in Belgium and previously Italy, France & Poland.

Basically; that's bollocks.


It's funny tho..... I remember people complaining Paratici "only knows Italy".
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Two of those havnt even kicked a ball. The keeper has played 2 games.

Its way way to early. All it takes is one or 2 mistakes and people will be on Kinskys back. At the moment it feels fresh because he can play with his feet and Vicario and Forster couldnt. After more games Kinskys weaknesses will become more apparant, whatever they are. So we just dont know whether he is a success yet.
 
PatagoniaPhil said:
Two of those havnt even kicked a ball. The keeper has played 2 games.

Its way way to early. All it takes is one or 2 mistakes and people will be on Kinskys back. At the moment it feels fresh because he can play with his feet and Vicario and Forster couldnt. After more games Kinskys weaknesses will become more apparant, whatever they are. So we just dont know whether he is a success yet.
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The squad is a disaster. A broken clock is right twice a day
 
Ionman34 said:
You are right, but there's definitely a correlation between form and injuries, particularly when it's injuries to key players.

You only really need to look at the teams at the top to see this. Liverpool haven't really suffered them this season so far. Yet go back to when the lost VVD and you'll see their form dropped off.
Woolwich when they lost Saliba, and now when they had Odegaard out, then Rice and now Saka.
City you've already mentioned.
Newcastle last season.
With us, losing VDV, Romero for long spells, along with Bentancur and Vicario, not to mention Richarlison who, pre injury, was on a Purple patch, it adds up.

Injuries to one or two key players can have a big impact, as the above examples show. Losing four or five will have a greater impact, as Newcastle clearly showed last season, and as we've shown both last season and this. You also need to factor in the knock on effect it has on the rest of the team. We've had multiple posters here going on about how our players look knackered, well when you are missing half of your squad, is it any wonder?
Let's also not forget that any long term injured player doesn't just magically return in top form. They're not match fit, they'll have lost that match sharpness. That takes time to get back, and it's exacerbated by them playing against others who are both fit and sharp.

I'm really not sure how this can be overlooked or cited as "just part of the game."
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Football has changed and with so many teams adopting Pep's pressing, possession based style there are a lot more injuries and not just for Spurs. Teams used to have different types of presses for different parts of the game and would essentially slow down and regroup during games. If your approach is to go all out for 90 minutes you have to have the depth to sustain that style. Man City has deep pockets and can afford that kind of depth and rotation, most teams don't.
 
TonySoprano said:
He hasn’t really left, still an unofficial advisor by all accounts.

And half his signings that were being lauded are now being called fucking shit. Sarr, Udogie, Porro, Romero etc all being cunted off.

But people want him back. It’s a strange world.
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I don't think any of those players are shit. There's a mixture of drop off in form, exhaustion from lack of roatation and injury. But they're not shit.
 
PatagoniaPhil said:
Mate you are deluded.
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You idiots aren't capable of reading a post and considering WHAT i was responding TO.

" [Lange] doesn't know Europe"

Go and look at how much business the guy has done with European clubs (regardless of Spurs).

He's also beaten off the likes of Bayern & Barca to score players he's targetted.

I made no comment upon whether I think enough players were bought this summer.

Zomb is the guy that slagged Gray off as a "nothing player" after less than 180mins of football..... Much like he does just about every player that comes through the fucking door.

Same fool also insisted that none of the young players would be good enough to contribute for a number of years.



There's also a reason we have bought a fair few HG players over the last 2 years.... It's because we had fuck all of them and even now we need more CT as we have found out to out cost when putting together the Europa squad...... No suprise that joined-up thinking is beyond the usual TFC shit-clowns.
 
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Rebrov_Likes said:
You pay world class wages you get world class players…
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Man U not sharing your optimism today as they can't shift Rahsford due to his 325kpw wage... (Just one of countless examples of this nature)

Does Mbappe rock up at West Ham instead last summer if they'd miraculously bested Madrid's offer?

Nah....


"Pay and they will come" is just a superficial meme.... The real world is more complicated than that.
 
dudu said:
and Woolwich.....

Havertz on 280k
Jesus on 265k

Neither even close to being World Class
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I remember Woolwich being so "ambitious" that they gave Callumn Chambers (!!!!!) a payrise to 130kpw when that was still a lot of money...... A 5 year deal.... They were stuck with him being utterly shite for 5 years until he left on a free.
 
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