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    *** The official 2025/26 Premier League thread ***

    With the cheat-mode clubs, I think it's as much about depriving potential rivals as anything else. That was certainly the case with Abramokunt's Chelsea.
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    ***Official Match Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool Sat. 20th Dec. 5:30pm***

    At least they showed a bit of fight for once.
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    Guglielmo Vicario

    I don't think any of us are on different pages, really. As I said in an earlier post, though, there's risk, and there's stupid risk. I'm not necessarily against the former.
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    We do pass forward ...sometimes, it's just that when we do, we're very likely to lose possession, which is why it's understandable if Frank wants to be more cautious about who is committed up the pitch at any given time. Unfortunately, as you say, that doesn't make for the most attractive...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I wouldn't say we never play the ball forward, but from what I've been seeing recently, to a first approximation, a forward pass equals a turnover, which is why I think he has tended to be so cautious in his approach. What's a bit worrying is that, if anything, that appears to have got worse as...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    This is why my current hypothesis is that Frank simply doesn't trust the current squad to play with more risk, because their limitations, and particularly their collective lack of ability to resist a press mean the dice are always going to be loaded against him. He is "big" on bravery, he says...
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    Guglielmo Vicario

    I accept that's the case. At the same time, I don't think we're at a stage of being press-resistant enough to be taking those sorts of risks 20 yards from goal. Far from it.
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    Guglielmo Vicario

    That sounds great if you say it real fast, but the idea only makes sense if the movement triggered in said attackers draws them towards Gray and away from the other two, rather than closer to all three of them (and more importantly, as it turns out, to our goal). I think, in this particular...
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    Guglielmo Vicario

    I agreed with Carragher's take. Even if Vicario hadn't played it to Gray's weaker foot and he'd managed to pop it off first time, where was he going to go with it, other than to Romero or van de Ven, either of whom Vicario could have passed to more safely in the first place—instead of inviting...
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    *** Tottenham Hotspur Vs Forest *** OMT

    I was going to make the very same comment. It was his biggest selling-point as far as I was concerned, his rep for being tactically flexible and able to pivot from one system to another in-game, so it's been a big disappointment that we've seen such precious little evidence of it in action. It's...
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    Micky van de Ven

    No, I didn't miss that, but what else would he say? I mean, how else would it ever have worked, "in meetings"? Were van de Ven and Romero going to start doing the team talks? It was clearly instigated by the players themselves. They gave him the "permission" he needed to abandon all his...
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    Xavi Simons

    We are the opposite of press-resistant.
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    ENIC

    I think that was "Head of Football Matters." All we need now is the "Grand Pooh-Bah of Football Manoeuvres," and we'll be all set.
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    Micky van de Ven

    That's because it never was an evolution; it was a step-change instigated by two senior players, because they knew that, if left to his own devices, the manager would end up losing them the trophy. I thought that was quite explicit in the interview.
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    Micky van de Ven

    The bit from around 43:10, where he talks about just "walking through" ... has Frank impressed on them that's not what they're supposed to be doing in the actual games?
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