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  1. Muttley

    OMT *** Tottenham Hotspur v Brentford FC ***

    I think Frank knows he won't be able to make like for like subs in this game in midfield. This first half is about the clean sheet. As the game goes on then he'll have to switch to 3 at the back or do something different.
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    OMT *** Tottenham Hotspur v Brentford FC ***

    Unlucky Richi. If that goes in then you're the hero.
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    OMT *** Tottenham Hotspur v Brentford FC ***

    That's revisionism. He would have been inverted into the central space for most of Ange's tenure. Porro has been good tonight. He has every right to give the guy in front of him a round of fux and get his head into the game.
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    Transfer thread

    I think you've missed the main problem though. Spence rejects using his left foot when he should be crossing. He's also put in bad crosses with his left when he has chosen to do that. He also compresses the play by coming on the inside when his team mates need him sprinting on the overlap. I...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    All I remember is Biss being our best player from the quarter to the final. He wasn't playing to Ange ball instruction either where he was expected to press high. I saw Ange's midfield 3 split left, right and centre many times and hunt together on the press. For me in those final stages of that...
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    Manor Solomon

    Could it be that for once we're gonna see Spurs do some fast business in a January window?
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    Archie Gray

    Worth remembering that Gray was out for a while as well. His inclusion feels like a recent thing, but that injury probably slowed down that process. My guess is Frank is working really hard with Xavi and Bergval to get some similar breakthroughs.
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    Transfer Forum Now Open

    Just to think this time tomorrow we'll have all our Jan transfer business done.
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I think that's my point that people aren't getting. Frank and any manager will have a philosophy. The reactive part to the strengths and weaknesses of the opposition is at the fringe, not the core of their tactics. It's the tweaking that gets best of both worlds. You seem to talk like Frank...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I think it is way more than that. Poch and Frank are about nurturing. They are about complete trust and having the right relationship with their players. When you look at the long term nurturing project of Mbuemo, that's where Frank and Poch are similar. Poch did amazing things with his 2...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Yeah, perhaps even feels a little more solid than before when I think about it. For me 16/17 was the peak side and then we went into decline. It's been a really rough post-Poch era at the club. More recently, we've invested in a younger group of players and we're in total nurturing mode. Since...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    But you should also perhaps understand that Frank is the proactive one in the way a lot of us think. Identifying strengths and weaknesses of your opposition is proactive especially when you blend them into your own philosophy. Frank's the one that is building processes and strong foundations...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Not sure what you mean by this. We're the same club, on the same project. We've just moved a couple of chairs around.
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    With 2, I think it was a major reversal in tactics that won us the trophy. It wasn't a tweaking from the normal Ange philosophy we'd seen for 18 months. It was a switch to sitting deep and playing on the counter, as opposed to the high press. It worked a treat as well. The problem seem to be...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I think you've labelled Frank way too early, as if he cannot be a different Spurs manager to the one we saw at Brentford. Pragmatism is proaction. You build your proactive football philosophy into your squad and then you tweak game for game based on what opposition you face. Proactive is the...
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    OMT ** Tottenham Hotspur v Palace **. 28.12.25 4.30pm

    Reading your post got me thinking that one of the biggest changes the players have gone through is prepping differently for games this season. It was strongly implied that for 2 years Ange was getting his players to follow his game plan and didn't seem to focused on the opposition as other...
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    The Current State of Spurs (and some sympathy for Thomas Frank)

    I think you're perhaps being a little harsh on Frank. Palhinha wasn't a "primary" target of the club. He was a late summer stop gap loan that Frank agreed to so he had enough bodies to tackle a busy season. I can't imagine Spurs coping with the workload with just the other 4 options. That's...
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    Yves Bissouma

    Captain and playing in the 10 role for Mali. There is clearly a parallel universe.
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    Radu Drăgușin

    Late to your b'day party here. Hope you're having a fantastic day? lol - at least [fill in the blanks] didn't play today and ruin it :cool:
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    The Game Is About Glory Podcast

    Is it too early for new year resolutions? I think mine would be to start listening to this pod after it is released. I had to binge listen to 3 last week in one sitting :cool: Genuinely, keep up the great work guys.
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