Seems we had this convo last year and you thought I was wrong in saying we needed new players. Either way, welcome aboard the recognition train. We are happy to accommodate your late arrival this time but next time we'd like to depart on time.
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Transfers Summer 2020 Transfer Thread
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He’s honestly horrible that A&C. Seems to thrive on the lemmings on there licking his ass and laughing at his pathetic unfunny jokes. Begs for donations, yet threatens everyone with the ban and locks threads regularly. A complete tosspot of a person and someone with a weird power fixation on an Internet forum, ridiculous.
the annoying thing about his lopsided back 4 is that I genuinely believe if he flipped it the team would be better off., because it puts less players at a disadvantage.
Sessegnon high with Tanganga/Foyth narrow. Play Sanchez in the left channel with his recovery pace. Toby can hold the middle.
this let’s son be a proper inside foward off the left, Bergwijn is fine as a more orthodox RW.
the team/squad is so obviouly built for a 4-3-3
“Now it’s about creating another chapter and to have the clear idea of how we are going to build that new project. We need to rebuild. It’s going to be painful.”
“We cannot live like we lived in the last five years — on the perception side and on the reality side. We achieved a lot of things, we overachieved maybe. Because of our ambition and the way that we work, we’re here now in a very good position.
“But what next? I cannot guess because it’s a club decision. What can we expect now? One question the other day was, ‘is the depth of the squad not at the quality of the new stadium?’
“If we start next season talking about that, nothing good is going to happen in the future. The perception and the feeling are not going to be right.”
“Can we repeat [our achievements] next season? I cannot guess. When we finish the season, I think it’s a moment to close a five-year chapter, to analyse, to talk a lot and to give the real value of that period. It was amazing.
“The problem is: what do we want for the next chapter? Now we’ve finished the training ground and the stadium, what does the club want to achieve in the next one, two, three or five years and what are the fans expecting
"There’s many things to talk about and put on the table, and then try to be realistic.”
Pochettino warns of 'painful' rebuild ahead of summer transfer window
Mauricio Pochettino warned Tottenham that a "painful" rebuilding job is required to bring their squad to the same level as the new stadium.www.standard.co.uk
This gets trotted out every window like it's some kind of prophetic Nostradamus-esque piece of visionary thinking. Every fucking club needs to continually evolve. Every manager whines about new players, Redknapp made a career out of it. Some of us were calling for it long before Poch made this statement and realised some of his favourite's needed part-exing.
He was an integral part of a process that brought in around 24 players during his 5 years, and shipped out about the same.
When he made that statement did he expect that the club was going to buy and sell 20 players in one window? Did he think the club within a month of completing the stadium and saddling itself with 800m of new debt had suddenly turned itself into an oil state that could circumnavigate FFP?
Does the fact that the owners run the club as a sustainable business, you know, like nearly every other club in Europe, mean Poch gets a free pass for his part in poor decisions, or for what he does in his job as head coach?
Levy fucked up in terms of how and who he has trusted to lead the recruiting and the structure and process. But throughout the process Poch had a significant influence (especially from2016 onwards) on when to and how to rebuild, it took Pochettino 2-3 years too late to realise that some of his favourites needed evolving and he was part of the process that bought players and sold them.
For a guy who's ethos was built around energy, dynamism, intensity he also completely ignored the on tap supply of those qualities he had at his disposal within the academy who's coaching he'd had influence over. Regardless of whether some of them were ever going to be good enough (just like players Poch had influence over recruiting) they could have at least enabled him to maintain energy, dynamism, aggression and some intensity - in the same way that people like mason, bentaleb, Kane had when they were used instead of superior talented footballers at that time.
Regardless of. whether Poch got bought what he wanted (how many managers do) he continually chose to use players who were completely counter-intuitive to his ethos in remits that were counter-intuitive to their skills. That has fuck all to do with Levy.
At the end of the day, Levy is choosing the players we buy. Anyone arguing otherwise is living in cloud cuckoo land.
He is presented with video clips, pie-charts/stats/graphs (like the print-out we saw Mou? looking at in the Amazon documentary) and moneyball data/projections from the data scientists. He may even watch the player on TV once he has been brought to his attention by Hitchen or whomever (like this Zaniolo kid he has had a tremendous erection for, going back to last summer).
Daniel Levy knows jackshit about football but that does not stop him having an opinion on players.
By setting the financial parameters he pulls out of his ass, that is his way of going after the players he has a personal preference for. Or he negotiates in bad faith for players that he does not want.
And it is not just about the players we buy. That's only half the problem. He also decides who leaves/does not leave, and who gets a contract extension/does not get a contract extension.
The reason the squad is full of crap is that he thinks there is more value yet to be squeezed out of terribly average players. Or it's cheaper to hand out contract extensions than flush the toilet, and bring in some quality.
And for the players he is willing to let go, nobody wants them at the prices he is setting. And that goes back to his lack of football expertise. Why is a guy that knows as much about football as a fucking lizard in human form setting the valuations for these players?
He is presented with video clips, pie-charts/stats/graphs (like the print-out we saw Mou? looking at in the Amazon documentary) and moneyball data/projections from the data scientists. He may even watch the player on TV once he has been brought to his attention by Hitchen or whomever (like this Zaniolo kid he has had a tremendous erection for, going back to last summer).
Daniel Levy knows jackshit about football but that does not stop him having an opinion on players.
By setting the financial parameters he pulls out of his ass, that is his way of going after the players he has a personal preference for. Or he negotiates in bad faith for players that he does not want.
And it is not just about the players we buy. That's only half the problem. He also decides who leaves/does not leave, and who gets a contract extension/does not get a contract extension.
The reason the squad is full of crap is that he thinks there is more value yet to be squeezed out of terribly average players. Or it's cheaper to hand out contract extensions than flush the toilet, and bring in some quality.
And for the players he is willing to let go, nobody wants them at the prices he is setting. And that goes back to his lack of football expertise. Why is a guy that knows as much about football as a fucking lizard in human form setting the valuations for these players?
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So the best signings this summer have been a world class striker for the women’s team and someone called Valencia Yid?
Having Valencia yid on here a lot more exciting than being linked to Sørloth
Is SC run by the same guys that run 'We are Tottenham TV' on YouTube?
Yes, there are levels but Everton are balanced. This win will bolster their confidence and in a couple month's time we should check back in with this statement. I have a very low opinion of many of our players based on their individual 'skillsets'. Many should have been gone in the painful rebuid.
that’s what I mean! What the hell is going on, we are showing more invention than the overpaid fools that run our club
I've been looking at a brand new Audi RS6.Morning guys.
i hear we have been defo looking at Jimenez and Edouard
Can't afford to buy one, or keep it, but it doesn't stop me looking longingly.
Audi are overrated either way.
Does this Hitchen creature have any background in real football?
Morning guys.
i hear we have been defo looking at Jimenez and Edouard
... bet we will end up with Deeney or Dwight Gayle on loan
Nope, I drive one and they certainly aren't. Used to think they were, then got one.
Season saviour is here! Had to blink twice, thought we had finally done a deal for leandro damiao
Good argument.
No you’re right - it’s because we have bad players like Kane, Son, Ali, Ali Lo Celso, Bergwin and make bad signings like Hoejberg who clubs like Everton would never have been interested in. l
Are you dissing the Audi Cup too? No need to kick us when we're down Stop.