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Manager Thomas Frank
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More so is that our recruitment has been modelled in a very un spurs like manner.
Part of what attracts players managers and fans to this club is the association of having highly technical players, mavericks, flair, geniuses, flash of brilliance and imagination.
Slowly over the years that has been eeked out and we're left with basically athletes. And injured ones at that!
Now I'd say it's the case of modern football and analytics that it's turned like this but part of why it's boring is that there's very little freedom allowed for players to express themselves anymore.
But certainly a Tottenham team should not be bereft of skill and quality in the way it is currently.
January will be the litmus test for the summer though.
We desperately need a left footed LB and a striker in January. No excuses.
And if Everton are interested in Richarlison the flog him in Jan to fund it. Hopefully Solanke and RKM are back by then.
But we know the same excuse will come out. Nobody does any deals in January blah blah blah.
I'm stating a fact. Funnily enough they made the exact same comparison on MOTD a short while after I posted this.
My point is that recruitment is the biggest single factor in the success or failure of a team.
Look at Liverpool , champions with klopp' s team , struggling in comparison because of bad recruitment and sales , ie : Diaz.
I have never seen you criticising Frank ,not even just a tiny bit , only defending him to the hilt , no matter what. As if he's perfect.He certainly wasn't yesterday , he got the starting line up all wrong.
Could be that both Frank and Andrews are very good managers or they are both bang average or worse. But they are getting identical results with the same club, although one has a worse squad and is a rookie manager.
Make of that what you will.
Thinktank ready to wade in
Or Brentford's recruitment team built it.There’s an argument that their rookie manager inherited a club that Frank built, and Frank inherited…
Look at MOTD comparison after I posted , identical actually at this stage of the season. The eye test says they are doing better though as Brentford have played a lot of the big guns and beaten some of them, which is impressive, with a worse squad/ team.
Same points , results and even GA with a much worse starting eleven , so yeah they are doing better and have taken some big scalps after some tough fixtures as well.
They've beaten Newcastle, Liverpool , Utd and Villa. Drawn with Chelsea as well.
If you don't think losing Mbeumo , wissa and Norguard makes their squad worse then there's not much else I can say.
I couldn't give a crap what players they lost.
Our team is a fecking mess, that struggles to put two passes together or get the basics right. Far to many of our players are over rated, and we look down our noses at other team players... But at least they can get basics right.
I have a list of upto 15 players, some depending on they play for the rest of the season.
Frank took over a cluster-fuck, the guy at Brentford took over a well organised and displined team. and seem to have spent the money wisely.
Where we spunked £160 million up the wall for Richi, Johnson, and Solanke...
Don't blame me for you seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't.
Silly boy.
Now, this is your post:
That seems clear to me.
*Brentford are doing better than they did under Frank*
Reasonable for me to challenge that, as they have only played 11 games and are 12th in the league.
Can you explain your reasoning to me?
Why, in your mind, does only 11 games, exclusively, constitute "doing better" than Frank, when Frank has FINISHED seasons at Brentford at 10th and 9th?
Or are you just on the wildest agenda ever and talking all sorts of crazy?
You are unhinged.
Why does that post constitute me being "unhinged"?
What an odd thing to say.
Is this SpiderSpurs' multi btw?
Suspiciously just as batshit.
Same ludicrous tone to each insufferable post.
Thought so.
It's not really an excuse though is it. Nobody wants to sell their best players in January. If they do, the compensation is usually at a premium which means dropping 60m on a gamble type player. Quite frankly I'd rather we kept our powder dry. If we we can find a loan/buy option for a player we've all heard of and who can improve the starting eleven then I'm all for that. Im talking about a Theo Hernandez type player but sadly that ship has sailed and he took Saudi money. But that's the sort of player I'm interested in. Unfortunately there aren't too many available in the summer let alone January.
Genuinely believe he started Spence LB to stop the threat of Mbuemo, unfortunaltly for frank he started on the otherside.