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Belgrano said:
That first half was, tactically, a crime against our club's history. Long balls, not because we were being pressed, but a deliberate ploy to bypass midfield. Incredible. Any coach who can do that isn't right for us.

I don't think our squad is as bad as it has looked. There's a balance to be found. We need more players who can keep the ball and a bit more craft. Less Dele, Moura, more Skipp, Gil. Gio also needs to play, but he has to be central to be effective, not stuck on the flank.
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Move GLC more central, either as the 10 or 8. Have Gil on either wing. Skipp has looked better than Hojbjerg as of late to be honest. Romero absolutely has to play unless he's injured. Royal is good at passing and moving the ball forward. There are things Nuno can do if he wants.
 
AcrossThePond said:
Do you think Spurs just let them use the stadium for pennies? Have you looked up what the arrangement is? How the contracts are handled?

If you haven't, how can you say the boxers and their promoters are taking a large slice? You've got no clue how much they're taking.

We have a publicly owned multipurpose facility near my home. It's state owned, but rented by the university for American football games. Based on my knowledge of those arrangements, I would venture to guess that Spurs arrangement is similar. The boxers likely get a larger cut of the media/PPV, while the host gets a larger cut of the ticket/concessions revenues. Our university gets the tv broadcast money from the games on TV, while the State (who owns the stadium) takes a large cut of the gate (through flat a rental fee that isn't dependent on attendance), they also keep the parking and concessions.

It's perfectly reasonable to question how these events help Spurs. If the info is out there, then just look it up to find out how it helps Spurs. But if you don't have the facts/info, then you have no basis to argue that it hurts Spurs. It's silly to just assume that the boxers/promoters are taking a huge cut, Spurs get crumbs, and because of that, the football team the stadium was built for, is suffering. Mental gymnastics that is.
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Seems to be an unnecessary confrontational argument whereby you're actually adding nothing to it.
If you think it's so easy to find out how much Spurs got from the deal then tell me.
Once you find out, then tell me how that amount of money benefits THFC.
I asked a legit question, you didn't answer, instead choosing to attempt to belittle a stranger on the internet.

Well done you.
 
He's doing shite...he's doing great.
3 games of wins took us too.
3 shite games and now mid table.
Who knows what the end result will be.

What I do know for certain is that this kind of cunt of a thread makes us all seem like entitled arse hats so thanks OP for being a twat.
 
you can't play together with kane son moura alli ndombelè.
it was a crazy lineup.
romero on the bench, again.
gil on the bench, again.
with this coach the players don't know what to do, the only chances are born by individual ideas.
nuno has to re-order his football ideas or can go out of here
 
VirginiaSpur said:
We needed Conte.

Instead Levy decided to faff about over allowing Conte to bring in his own backroom staff, allegedly.
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That was very blatantly a spin from the club. They weren't prepared to back him in the market to the extent Conte demands, which is at least somewhat understandable. Conte wants a lot, almost 200m I believe in Inter's first season, by the time he left the club they were scrambling to sell players. And I'm sure Levy would've had an eye on the dreadful way he spent money at Chelsea.

There's not a chance we rejected an arguably world-class coach because he wanted to bring in his own backroom staff. Levy is hardly known for his undying loyalty to staff members.
 
bk_spur said:
Because Levy has picked awful managers whom the players don’t respect, that don’t treat them with respect, who clearly don’t have a good, desirable plan, and who don’t inspire any kind of feeling worth playing hard for. This is a crisis of leadership and competence at its core, and Levy pretending to be a footballing expert, and apparently having no one else on board that can pass for one either exposes the club as a whole to be a bit of a fraud joke not worth playing for, and one to the outsider best avoided.

What footballing leader at Spurs actually commands any real respect from the players right now? What leader would inspire you with confidence to conduct shrewd football business and make good tactical decisions and understanding? From my point of view, it’s hard to see any real plan or nous at all.

Everyone at the club including the players seems to know this except Levy, who is either ignorant, deluded, or in denial about his abilities in leading this club right now. Employees quit badly managed organizations all the time and this is no different.
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So how does this amount to Jose mentally abusing the players?
 
Raumdeuterz said:
That was very blatantly a spin from the club. They weren't prepared to back him in the market to the extent Conte demands, which is at least somewhat understandable. Conte wants a lot, almost 200m I believe in Inter's first season, by the time he left the club they were scrambling to sell players. And I'm sure Levy would've had an eye on the dreadful way he spent money at Chelsea.

There's not a chance we rejected an arguably world-class coach because he wanted to bring in his own backroom staff. Levy is hardly known for his undying loyalty to staff members.
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WE need that level of investment. And we can't wait to spread it over 5 years worth of windows. We are in trouble.
 
Matt1882 said:
WE need that level of investment. And we can't wait to spread it over 5 years worth of windows. We are in trouble.
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Maybe, but also maybe not in the way Conte would spend it. At Inter he brought in some good, younger players but also signed guys like Vidal, Young, Eriksen, Darmian, Sanchez, Moses, Godin etc.

I can see why Levy would be reluctant to give him total control. As a coach he's very specific about what tools he needs. I agree we need greater investment (although more importantly, the right kind of investment, with a clear long term strategy and probably a DoF in place who is NOT Paratici) but we absolutely have to make sure its with the right person, on the right players. We can't afford to mess it up and Conte is a wildcard.

But appointing him and giving the funds he required would certainly have been a better idea than appointing the abject mediocrity we currently have in place and giving him almost nothing. This just guarantees us being crap.
 
Yiddy said:
What I mean is they was so bothered about building a world class stadium that they can hold such events but not interested in building a world class team to put into that stadium. New whl has been built for the same reasons new Wembley has and it's to make money for the owners not for the team or the fans.
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Well yes and no, but I'm not going to make this yet another financial debate on this forum.

Our scouting has been pretty poor for quite some time, and its shown up with the severe regression of our squad. Particularly in the midfield. We've tried to replace what we've lost in Dembele and Eriksen but we've failed - if we'd spent the money we spent wisely, we'd be much better off.

We're not going to spend at the United level that people want us to, not much sense complaining over it. Shouting at the wind. We absolutely can succeed at our spend level though. So its not an excuse.

The important distinction is that even within the scope of our self-defined budget, we're failing. Throwing money at the problem won't sort anything out, as we're wasting the money we do spend.
 
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MemphisWill said:
Well yes and no, but I'm not going to make this yet another financial debate on this forum.

Our scouting has been pretty poor for quite some time, and its shown up with the severe regression of our squad. Particularly in the midfield. We've tried to replace what we've lost in Dembele and Eriksen but we've failed - if we'd spent the money we spent wisely, we'd be much better off.

We're not going to spend at the United level that people want us to, not much sense complaining over it. Shouting at the wind. We absolutely can succeed at our spend level though. So its not an excuse.
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Spot on. We're never going to spend like an oil club and I'm okay with that, yes more investment at points was needed (especially when they basically just rested on their laurels with Poch) but since then we've spent decent amounts here on there, it's just been on garbage.

How the hell did we spend 100m+ on midfielders in a summer yet still have it as our weakest area of the pitch, where the brightest light is arguably a kid coming through the youth side? It's shockingly incompetent.

Then you look at us spending 60m+ on Clarke, Sessegnon and Bergwijn. Throwing loan fees at a non-entity like Gedson Fernandes. Another 15 on one of the worst right backs I've ever seen in Doherty, a man who was an inverted wing back in a 5 then arrived here and was asked to play for Jose in a 4.

Even going further back we had 40m on the clumsy mess that is Sanchez, 20 on Janssen and money down the drain on N'jie and Nkoudou. All clubs make crap signings but christ, when money is tight you'd think you'd spend it more effectively. I don't wanna judge Emerson too quickly but so far it's 22m on a right back and the youth player who is a cb looks better there.

I'm almost scared of us actually going on a legitimate splurge, because there's a very good chance under this lot we'll just be left with an entirely different pile of mediocrity.
 
Raumdeuterz said:
Spot on. We're never going to spend like an oil club and I'm okay with that, yes more investment at points was needed (especially when they basically just rested on their laurels with Poch) but since then we've spent decent amounts here on there, it's just been on garbage.

How the hell did we spend 100m+ on midfielders in a summer yet still have it as our weakest area of the pitch, where the brightest light is arguably a kid coming through the youth side? It's shockingly incompetent.

Then you look at us spending 60m+ on Clarke, Sessegnon and Bergwijn. Throwing loan fees at a non-entity like Gedson Fernandes. Another 15 on one of the worst right backs I've ever seen in Doherty, a man who was an inverted wing back in a 5 then arrived here and was asked to play for Jose in a 4.

Even going further back we had 40m on the clumsy mess that is Sanchez, 20 on Janssen and money down the drain on N'jie and Nkoudou. All clubs make crap signings but christ, when money is tight you'd think you'd spend it more effectively. I don't wanna judge Emerson too quickly but so far it's 22m on a right back and the youth player who is a cb looks better there.

I'm almost scared of us actually going on a legitimate splurge, because there's a very good chance under this lot we'll just be left with an entirely different pile of mediocrity.
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If we spent £300M in the summer, I'm not sure it'd do much except bankrupt the club.

Hopefully Paratici will turn the recruiting department around. I sure as fucking hope so. Because we're gonna get a big fat Kane injection in the summer, and hopefully we don't just set the cash on fire. We need more Dembeles than Sissokos.
 
Raumdeuterz said:
Spot on. We're never going to spend like an oil club and I'm okay with that, yes more investment at points was needed (especially when they basically just rested on their laurels with Poch) but since then we've spent decent amounts here on there, it's just been on garbage.

How the hell did we spend 100m+ on midfielders in a summer yet still have it as our weakest area of the pitch, where the brightest light is arguably a kid coming through the youth side? It's shockingly incompetent.

Then you look at us spending 60m+ on Clarke, Sessegnon and Bergwijn. Throwing loan fees at a non-entity like Gedson Fernandes. Another 15 on one of the worst right backs I've ever seen in Doherty, a man who was an inverted wing back in a 5 then arrived here and was asked to play for Jose in a 4.

Even going further back we had 40m on the clumsy mess that is Sanchez, 20 on Janssen and money down the drain on N'jie and Nkoudou. All clubs make crap signings but christ, when money is tight you'd think you'd spend it more effectively. I don't wanna judge Emerson too quickly but so far it's 22m on a right back and the youth player who is a cb looks better there.

I'm almost scared of us actually going on a legitimate splurge, because there's a very good chance under this lot we'll just be left with an entirely different pile of mediocrity.
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Its actually quite frightening reading that. We have wasted a huge amount of money and basically got fuck all to show for it. If we put them all up for sale now we wouldn't get half what we paid for them.
 
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