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Elias said:
That chronology is probably correct (again without checking in detail).

I do remember it took some time for Poch to work out what to do with Dembele, before he became the heart of our midfield & sadly, like Wanyama, (& Sandro & Palacios) crocked too soon.

This also shows that there was quite a long evolution before the peak Poch era arrived.

As well as purging the Kaboul / Capoue / Adebayor group, Bentaleb also got binned for his attitude when coming back from injury, IIRC.

Mason, on the other hand, was a model professional identified by Poch as a key part of the Spurs culture he'd created. But ultimately judged not quite good enough, and sold to Hull.
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There was a BIG leap between season 1 and season 2 where we'd shed a lot of dead wood and bad attitudes (also taking a while to realise than Kane was the future). The signing of Toby & Vic seemed to book-end the blooming process (one either side of the Leicester season.

3 peak years 15 - 18 (Leicester season, Goodbye WHL and 1st Wembley year).... Even 18-19 we were in title mix until January, meaning that even though our form fell off a cliff after that; we still finished top 4.

Kane, Mason(*), Carrol & Bentaleb (despite how it ended) were massive for Poch's first couple of years as they helped re-set the culture. As was the arrival of Toby re-juvinating Jan in more way that one.

(*I can't abide the way Mason gets so disrespected by the cunty element of our fan-base.)
 
MemphisWill said:
The cult of the manager is so fucking weird. In no other walk of life, other than perhaps theoretical academia, are people fawned over for rigidly sticking to ideals and principles in the face inadequate talent/materials to complete the task at hand per those ideals and principles.

They even get people blaming their bosses for not buying them a nail because they failed trying to hammer in a screw while the screwdriver was sitting there the whole time.

Fuck managers with a "style". Give me a manager smart enough to figure out the best style for the players they have available.
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We should have gotten Gallardo, then.
 
Elias said:
I seem to remember Bentaleb playing CM, and then Mason too, as the injuries piled up.
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Bentaleb and Mason were first choice in Poch's first season after Capoue blotted his copybook after about 6 matches. Mason had looked the best cm in preseason but picked up a knock just before last game of preseason leading to him missing first half dozen matches,

Then played a come back match for u21's on Monday night (full 90 mins) before coming on for last 30 mins with Kane on Thursday night v Notts Forest in League cup at 2-0 down at home, both scored along with Townsend making it a 3-2 win ........ Capoue and a few others dropped after that match through lack of effort with Mason and Bentaleb selected as CM's for NLD on Saturday. That pair kept Dembele on bench or sometimes playing at RW, not sure Capoue played again before being sold to Watford..
 
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BROCKVILLE said:
Point is they are a well run club. They have a great season and the invest substantially in the squad to get even better.

We have a great season, nearly win the league, and we do nothing.

Levy is a parisite.

And guess what - this year will be the same. For the last two summer windows I have said to people on this forum saying “we won the window” to wait till Christmas. And how right I was each time. Shambles of a club.
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But they didn't win the league.

What a stinky turd of a post.

Even got the dodgy slightly antisemitic parasite line in there.

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