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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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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Haven't read on yet so perhaps others answered this well. For me, it's quite simple. We have a stacked squad with 2 players per position. That includes LB where Davies takes the second slot. We cannot afford to bring new players in unless we sacrifice 1st teamers in the same process. That...
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    Xavi Simons

    What you talk about in your first paragraph is why Howard Webb wasn't the right replacement for Mike O'Riley who was absolutely useless. As a referee we all saw that Webb would happily ignore the laws, even when he saw it clearly. Just ask any Spanish fan in 2010. That has now permeated into his...
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    Xavi Simons

    I think you have to look at the laws. I'm no expert but I have never read that it matters what part of the pitch we're in. It also doesn't matter which minute of the game we're in. Most decisions that the refs get wrong are the ones not given. Easiest example is when the entire world knows it's...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    My bad. Been crazily business and not seen all these links. I mean that some exits are just expected. Davies as an example is end of contract. Richi will only have a year left and we're not providing him a new contract. So I don't see any surprises about him leaving. Others though are more...
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    Xavi Simons

    I think my challenge has always been that VAR has been setup in a way that 80% of decisions are subjective. The "clear and obvious" determination nonsense is the best example of that. In reality at least 80% of decisions are not subjective, but only if your official is only using the laws of the...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Why do you think Johnson is leaving in Jan? Personally, I'd love to see some brave exits by the club. Vic, Bents, Dragu, BJ, Odobert are clear candidates above the obvious Davies, Richi and Palhinha. I often wonder whether Frank benchmarks Vic against David Raya. The latter was clearly a top...
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    Fabio Paratici - Also Sporting Director

    All I can think is that a couple of years ago we wouldn't have been talking about those other players in the PL like we do now. That means there exists another pipeline of players coming through. Perhaps having a fantastic data model approach under Lange could help us become incrementally better...
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