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Management Johan Lange - Technical Director

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Kaz Hirai said:
Still don't understand that January window, why would you dare risk relegation?
A club of this size just buys it's way out of it. And you worry about the squad or lack of summer transfer budget at the end of the season but at least you're in the league.

The last time we looked like we had a real chance of relegation we just splurged on Defoe, Keane, palacious, and chimbonda
Like the equivalent of spending 100 million today
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More than that, Keane and Defoe would be minimum £50m each, and Palacios's modern day equivalent would probably be Baleba at peak value so he'd be pushing £100m on his own.
 
Sir Archibald Crooks said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Tottenham target Dougie Freedman in sporting director search as concerns grow over Igor Tudor's position

Tottenham are interested in appointing Dougie Freedman as the club's new sporting director.
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A good appointment so one we probably won’t end up doing and we’ll get the bloke from Chelsea their fans are desperate to be rid of. Whatever the worst choice is will be the one we make. We can be certain of that.

There’s no way Freedman would be coming in other than to head everything up either.
 
Brian Fantana said:
A good appointment so one we probably won’t end up doing and we’ll get the bloke from Chelsea their fans are desperate to be rid of. Whatever the worst choice is will be the one we make. We can be certain of that.

There’s no way Freedman would be coming in other than to head everything up either.
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Yeah if Freedman comes in then Lange is either sacked or making his tea, although i suspect he'd fuck that up somehow.
 
Distaste for scouse said:
It's everything.

Who would sell Son when you know Madders and Kulu are injured. I can't remember the timings on the Solanke injury but I think he was out for the start of the season as well.
Between Madders, Kulu, Son and Solanke we were missing something like 75% of our goals and assists from the season prior. I can't remember the exact stat.
And then we sold BJ in Jan who scored a fair few including the winnner in the EL. I can remember certain individuals on here telling me it was good business selling him for the money we got. But the key point is we didn't replace the goals.

We brought in Kudus and Simmons to make up for all of those lost G&A's.

Its so badly run, The football side of this club is run like a tuck shop at a Primary school.

I'm just a fan but this was all painfully obvious to me back in the summer and then my fears confirmed at the end of the January window, and plenty of us on here can see it. So why can't the people in charge see the bloody obvious?

We have nobody at this club that has a fucking clue about football.
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One thing I'll say about this, and it's in no way a defence of this absolute cabbage.

You don't lose those players and then simply play with 7 men, you simply don't expect that the players taking those places from them are going to provide absolutely f-all. Like you don't sign a previously £80m striker, who's scored goals in Germany, scored goals in France, scored goals in Germany, scored goals for France, and expect him to contribute a solitary league goal.

You don't sign a £60m+ attacking midfielder with Barca/PSG heritage from his youth, who's been putting up consistently good g/a numbers in Germany, a guy who seemingly had a tunnel vision view of his career, who was destined for one of the "big boys", who had an arrogance that many thought would see him turn his nose up at signing for Spurs, and expect to get an absolute wet-wipe who has no fight in him, would get blown over by a mild breeze, and looks like he's going to cry most of the time.

Of all the potential ways the last summer TW could have turned out, we're living in the absolute worst possible timeline.

Despite that, hos overall squad building has been a joke, and January was an absolute shambles of the highest order.

That I somewhat welcome relegation as bringing a needed cleanse of the club, to cast off the overpaid wasters we've amassed, is a damning indictment of his tenure at this club. (And Paratici to some degree, he only saves some face by virtue of not being his predecessor Hitchen, or his successor Lange, who both were somehow even worse).
 
Herclueless said:
One thing I'll say about this, and it's in no way a defence of this absolute cabbage.

You don't lose those players and then simply play with 7 men, you simply don't expect that the players taking those places from them are going to provide absolutely f-all. Like you don't sign a previously £80m striker, who's scored goals in Germany, scored goals in France, scored goals in Germany, scored goals for France, and expect him to contribute a solitary league goal.

You don't sign a £60m+ attacking midfielder with Barca/PSG heritage from his youth, who's been putting up consistently good g/a numbers in Germany, a guy who seemingly had a tunnel vision view of his career, who was destined for one of the "big boys", who had an arrogance that many thought would see him turn his nose up at signing for Spurs, and expect to get an absolute wet-wipe who has no fight in him, would get blown over by a mild breeze, and looks like he's going to cry most of the time.

Of all the potential ways the last summer TW could have turned out, we're living in the absolute worst possible timeline.

Despite that, hos overall squad building has been a joke, and January was an absolute shambles of the highest order.

That I somewhat welcome relegation as bringing a needed cleanse of the club, to cast off the overpaid wasters we've amassed, is a damning indictment of his tenure at this club. (And Paratici to some degree, he only saves some face by virtue of not being his predecessor Hitchen, or his successor Lange, who both were somehow even worse).
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Coming to Spurs seems to take players down a level or two from their previous club performances. Leaving Spurs, players seem to perform better. Many players that left Spurs have picked up trophies and have been playing really well. Players that didn't always get injured come to Spurs and are always injured. Players with injury records leave Spurs and are miraculously healed e.g. Sessegnon (he plays against us more than he played for us!)

There's just something rotten to the core at our club.
 
MCSpurs said:
Coming to Spurs seems to take players down a level or two from their previous club performances. Leaving Spurs, players seem to perform better. Many players that left Spurs have picked up trophies and have been playing really well. Players that didn't always get injured come to Spurs and are always injured. Players with injury records leave Spurs and are miraculously healed e.g. Sessegnon (he plays against us more than he played for us!)

There's just something rotten to the core at our club.
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There's some truth to this yeah.

You could argue a large part of the downturn in performances on arrival here indicates a poor selection of mentality form the likes of Lange, or that he/they in are responsible for the coaching staff that have ruined these players.

They're responsible for the medical set-up that cripples these players, they're responsible for signing players that don't suit the managers at all, Dragusin for Ange's high line? Danso for any type of footballing venture?

Regarding players leaving and winning stuff, that's overblown, much was made of it as yet another way to banter Spurs and our trophy drought. Emerson Royal went back to Brazil and won a trophy, after a pit stop in Milan, Toby won something in Belgium, Lucas Moura maybe won a cup in Brazil? These players aren't leaving and then suddenly doing great things, they're going to lesser leagues and winning the odd cup.

Only Harry Kane has left the club and definitively gone on to bigger things, and it's arguable that even that so far has come in a massively weaker league (see us comfortably handling their second place side who have lost only 2 in the league all season), so has his level really increased on leaving?
 
You'd think Lange's reputation would become so damaged after relegation that he wouldnt get a top tier job again.

The incompetence is unbelievably bad that you would assume he is an inside agent working for Woolwich.

When you hire an ex Villa DOF that thinks hes working at Brighton and Brentford in terms of resources, this is what you get.

Lange is a disgrace.
 
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