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  1. Muttley

    Merry Christmas ya filthy animals!

    Merry Xmas one and all.
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    What would YOUR priority signing be in the Jan transfer window?

    Yeah, you obviously still need a buyer for that equation to happen. I think many of us have cited the lack of outgoing transfer fees to rebuild our transfer kitty over the years when compared to other clubs.
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    The Current State of Spurs (and some sympathy for Thomas Frank)

    It's a great shout. Fresh external investment would have distilled everyone's share. Eventually. Levy / ENIC plus the shares of the external investors together would have been a bigger voice against the holding Tavistock group. Who knows whether Levy's external investment was a power shift, a...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Yep, and we're not playing one game a week having loads of time on the training ground to embed new philosophies. Also, not forgetting that Frank, like any new manager, has had to untangle the prior manager's systems and rebuild his own. For me, the biggest and most single thing that Frank...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Do you think we would have said this about Poch in December season 1? We only really knew about his attention to detail and nurturing skills way after in my opinion. At this stage of Poch's journey some were still saying we should have got Frank de Boer from Ajax. My guess is we will see some...
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    The Current State of Spurs (and some sympathy for Thomas Frank)

    It's as I said above, the biggest single determination of the club changing will be the squad strategy and it's evolution. Groundhog day could be at the end of August where we've seen another major overhaul and we've gone down the quantity over quality route again. Then we should expect exactly...
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    The Current State of Spurs (and some sympathy for Thomas Frank)

    I'm still not convinced Levy leaving has changed a single thing at the club. What do people think is running differently under the new regime? What would Levy have done better or worse? What decisions would he have made differently?
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    My feeling is that as long as we see periods in games where things look good and we are still accumulating points then we need to stick with it. Against Liverpool there was more than enough evidence to support Frank's case whether we had 11, 10 or 9 men. There were periods in all of these spells...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    That's fair. As you know, I'm a massive fan of looking forward rather than backwards. I'm mostly intrigued about what Frank thinks of his new squad. It his job to optimise what he has been given to work with but I get the feeling he'd churn a quarter or third of it given a chance.
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    That was my point about comparing Ange in season 2 to Frank in season 1. Ange just had the league and 2 domestic cups to worry about in season 1. As a new coach he had all the time in the world to nurture his squad on the training ground. Frank has been on a crazy match schedule and it will...
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    The Current State of Spurs (and some sympathy for Thomas Frank)

    Wasn't it just a one year trigger clause that was already written into the contract anyway. If I was Frank and my new club have told me that they can't bring me in another LB/LCB what am I going to say? I'm not going to leave myself short, especially knowing the lack of lefties to work with...
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    What would YOUR priority signing be in the Jan transfer window?

    What's interesting is that I just wrote about Tanguy on another thread, but in the context of the new Spurs. In 2014 to 2018 we had minimal net spending and Poch did amazing running on a shoestring whilst other bigger picture things were happening. Then we got a load of CL revenues and Levy...
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    The Current State of Spurs (and some sympathy for Thomas Frank)

    I don't want this to become a thread about the strengths and weaknesses of Frank. We have one for that. Let's talk about the health of the club. I think we're missing some important pieces. The main one is really about the financial model of the club. We did something amazing in 2019 when the...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Finished the season as a RCB in a 3 from memory. We were lethal in that system in the last 5 or 6 games. Hugely underrated player in my opinion.
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    lol - the question becomes whether this would have been the best defence under Frank Romero, Toby, VDV, Jan
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Probably not. The Poch squad was never deep enough and we're in a CL season. The first eleven would be the best in this current league though.
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Porro over Trips all day long. For me, not over Walker who was part of the 16/17 season. The merged squad would be scary though. Hugo, Vic, Kinsky Walker, Porro Rose, Udogie Romero, VDV, Toby, Jan Dembele, Wanyama, Dier, Gray, Bergval Eriksen, Dele, Madds, Kulu, Kudus, Xavi, Lamela Kane...
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    What would YOUR priority signing be in the Jan transfer window?

    However, when you think about it more the core of Ange's team has become the core of Frank's team. I think as long as you buy well these players can morph into the next manager's philosophy. I have a feeling the opposite applies as well. The ones that Frank will want to offload will be the same...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    It feels to me that Frank in season 1 is unfairly being benchmarked to Ange in season 2. What we need to remember is that in the middle of season 1 there was hardly an Ange detractor. Guys like me were still building data that eventually became a mid season decision point that he wasn't up to...
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    Cristian Romero

    Probably, but if it was deemed as a kick in the chest then why isn't it deemed as violent conduct? That was my only point. It was perhaps one that should have been referred to a VAR review to clear it up either way.
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