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    Radu Drăgușin

    It's a dilemma really. I'm not sure of your age, but I have decades of watching Spurs defences that were never strong and deep. Poch had his 2 great centre halves but I would have never called Wimmer or Sanchez fantastic backup even though they did well in spells. Ditto Dier in the days Poch had...
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    The Current State of Spurs (and some sympathy for Thomas Frank)

    Fantastic post. I guess when you add the pieces you talk about to the intelligence, comms and defensive awareness and physicality I was talking about we really were looking for one hell of a player. Perhaps even a unicorn as not even Carrick passing through all those years ago ticked all this...
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    Merry Christmas ya filthy animals!

    lol, I'll PM you as this conversation could become the music thread :cool:
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    Merry Christmas ya filthy animals!

    Gutted today for PL fans. It seems every other English league has some Boxing Day football on. I will watch the 8pm game though. Enjoy Egypt, a country I've never been to. Love watching PL football in bars abroad. No interesting pressies here. Best I got was a new gig bag. Chuffed to bits with...
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    The Current State of Spurs (and some sympathy for Thomas Frank)

    Yeah, agree with most of what you say. I don't think we're totally disorganised though. I saw moments under Ange where we looked scarily that but clearly weren't. I think it's more a case that the manager is giving the players some organising principles but they are struggling to adhere to them...
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    Xavi Simons

    Nah, I'm not expecting perfection. I'm expecting higher standards and they come from a couple of things. The first is to admit there is an issue with the quality of the officiating and putting a get well plan in place. That is something PGMOL have not done in a 5-10 year period which smacks of...
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    What would YOUR priority signing be in the Jan transfer window?

    For me, Sarr needs to stay along with Gray and Bergval for at least 18 months. Perhaps as we head into the next AFCON, if he hasn't found a new gear including consistency then we could consider moving him on. By the end of August we need to see both Pal and Bents upgraded to go with these 3...
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    Radu Drăgușin

    Radu appointed him. He needs to be held accountable for his agents words. Shame for Radu that we got the FA Cup draw we did. He'll need to fight his way back into the equation another way.
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    The Current State of Spurs (and some sympathy for Thomas Frank)

    I could see a scenario where new buyers just put him back in charge to be fair.
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    The Current State of Spurs (and some sympathy for Thomas Frank)

    btw, wasn't saying you individually were being dismissive. I have read posts doing that though. Quite ironic really after everyone putting up the big fight that Ange's career in other leagues was credible and shouldn't have been questioned. Then Frank gets dissected like a lab rat for operating...
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    The Current State of Spurs (and some sympathy for Thomas Frank)

    Frank spent years and years in youth coaching and assistant roles. It's really only been 2018 since he's been a 1st team manager. I would say this last bit is not dissimilar to Klopp at Mainz 05. Jurgen was 7 years there with the smallest stadium and the smallest budget and built his reputation...
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    The Current State of Spurs (and some sympathy for Thomas Frank)

    The EL trophy means a lot to me. I do agree that we shouldn't be so dismissive of Frank's amazing achievements though. You can have both at the same time.
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    Cristian Romero

    As I've said many times, things will not change until Spurs flex their muscles like both Pool and Gooners did. We need to wait for the right incident this season and go in very strong on Howard Webb and PGMOL. Start acting like a big club and demand he turns up at Lilywhite House for a...
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    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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