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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I take your point and I'm not disagreeing, but for me, it's both a question of quality in terms of technical standard and of quality in terms of character (which includes style and the other factors you allude to). I think those things are convolved.
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    Rough highlights of Prem teams' transfer windows

    I'm sure I was reading/watching something recently (I think it was on here, actually) talking about the level of control Emery has now at Villa and how he'd be unlikely to move anywhere else for that reason. Don't think I dreamt it, but that's not impossible :)
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    The Case for the Attacking play

    Mac Nivicent!
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    Rough highlights of Prem teams' transfer windows

    It sounds to me as though Emery has got himself into a more traditional managerial role at Villa, so has more say than most, rather than running around trying to negotiate the layers of the corporate onion.
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    He never really looks fully engaged to me, but perhaps that's just how he is. I'd say I need to see more from him before I'd be overjoyed with our acquiring his services on a permanent basis, though. Well done to all concerned for finishing in the top 8, but that doesn't really tell us...
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    The Case for the Attacking play

    I remember reading (I think it was in the book The Numbers Game) that there's a statistical argument that goals you don't concede are worth more points-wise than goals you score. Whether that's really true or not, I couldn't really say.
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    Transfer thread

    The obvious danger is that they underestimate the scale of the emergency (perhaps thinking it's just the same as last season). Things may look a lot more precarious come 1 March, by which time it'll be too late to do anything but sack the manager and hope for a dead-cat bounce. Just saying....
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    Transfer thread

    How about Sadio Mané? Great player in his pomp and he still looked pretty decent for Senegal. Getting on a bit now, so probably wouldn't break the bank. Or has he been too long in carpet slippers for a return to the Prem?
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    Transfer thread

    Can't say for sure, but I think we might be seeing it.
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    The Case for the Attacking play

    It is puzzling, to say the least, why Frank's words are so at odds with the way the players appear to be coached to play. The only conclusion I've been able to come to is that he doesn't really trust them to play football, because he thinks that, as soon as they come under the slightest...
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    ***OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Burnlio, Sat Jan 24th, 3pm***

    I respectfully disagree. "Champions of Europe," my hole.
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    ***OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Burnlio, Sat Jan 24th, 3pm***

    There's no need to ignore anything. We've basically been on a downward trend quality-wise for five or six seasons. Where we are now is just about on the line. Kane and Son carried us for years.
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    ***OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Burnlio, Sat Jan 24th, 3pm***

    You'll be waiting a long time for Muani's chops to rescue you from a relegation scrap. I believe it's called desperation. It was the same with Solanke being absent for so long. If only we could get him back, he'd be the saviour. Then, when he just puts the ball straight at the keeper, the same...
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    ***OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Burnlio, Sat Jan 24th, 3pm***

    Absent in the second half, I noted.
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    ****Tottenham Hotspur v BVB********* OMT Official

    The only thing missing was him gobbing on himself after it was given. That was like a breath of fresh air tonight, and boy, was it welcome.
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