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  1. Muttley

    Transfer thread

    To think we wouldn't even have looked at him if we got Damaio.
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    The Case for the Attacking play

    For me our best season was 16/17. 86 goals in the league and big contributions from Kane, Dele, Son and Eriksen. I'm not sure how you accommodate Dele's 50 goals in your lists above but that false number 9 was relevant. Way more relevant than a 1 in 6 scorer like Moura to be fair. What's...
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    *** OMT Cursed FC v Eintract Frankfurt ***

    When you add up the suspensions, smaller injuries and rotation with league eligible players, there's actually a few that have sat out recent games. The problem becomes when the manager thinks he can't use 16 players across the 95 mins and only uses 12 or 13. That is what happened last week with...
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    Rough highlights of Prem teams' transfer windows

    No doubt the benchmarks would show us all that we've spent more money than them based on most timeframes. We've also got a higher wage bill than them as well. Aren't we 4th highest spenders and 6th wage bill or something like that? Surely one manager can't make the difference we're seeing. You...
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    Corners in matches

    I found Pep's interview this week intriguing. He mentioned what you talk about. I can't pinpoint exactly when or whether it came in piece by piece. What I would say is that the PL is at an interesting point of inflexion. I think it will lose it's fanbase as a league unless it becomes more...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    To be fair you read a detailed post of mine, found one tiny bit of it that you could latch onto and then turned a Harry nickname from another forum into me creating a "Harry persona". Now you play the hypocrite card on me. You should perhaps understand why you are getting push back. That is...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I still think Trevor Birch in 2019 was his big play on releasing football ops. Birch was more of a GM as he's showing with the EFL where he has taken the senior position. The other guys were more DoF's based around recruitment. Birch would have been much bigger in club impact at a time where the...
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    Pedro Porro

    Yeah, it's a good point about the passing and distribution. Frank has also had some stick for only playing down the channels. Now when you have Spence and Udogie either side, I'm guessing channel play will be prevalent. I'd be intrigued to know whether he adopts the other option where the full...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    That's also such an important piece. It's why we're frustrated right now. When that stadium opened and we transitioned to a new cashflow model I thought our biggest challenge would be to get from our more natural position of 6th or 7th into that top 4. Perhaps we could then dream of even higher...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    OK, so it comes down to definitions of ops. I think Levy grew the balance sheet unbelievably as other similar clubs flailed around. It's why our turnover is a "safe" half a billion. When I talk about football operations I think about things like manager hires and have a continuous squad...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Tommy, you probably should just block me. It's all too petty for me. I'll still bleed Spurs either way.
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    When I play it back in my mind, Levy went through a long period of being great at some things but not so good at others. He made one play in 2019 to address this with Trevor Birch who didn't hang around long. He then spent the next period trying to remove himself from the football operations...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Not at all. What I'm feeling here is that it is easy to play that narrative rather than discuss the counter arguments I've raised which seemed to get liked by other posters to be fair. There has to be quid pro quo on forums. Look closely and I have given my opinion on why I don't think Harry...
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    Pedro Porro

    It's interesting that Frank said that his half time substitution was physical implying that Porro was playing laboured. He then went on to say that Spence had more running in his legs for the second half. We obviously had Udogie on the bench and the comeback trail. Then we find out that Porro...
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    *** OMT Cursed FC v Eintract Frankfurt ***

    I still think Howard Webb's PGMOL lot not officiating correctly has been a major factor in the PL becoming what Gordon says. You often hear commentators say that wouldn't have been given in the PL. That is fundamentally wrong if we have different countries applying the laws differently. Webb...
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    Antonin Kinsky

    I don't think the bar set by Vic is important in some ways. Perhaps the bar set previously by David Raya when he worked for Frank is a better benchmark for the pair of them. I think it's incredibly difficult to know Kinsky's runway. What I would say is that if we did pay £12.5m for him and he...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    To be fair, I think it depends on the context of the conversation. There was a very serious side to the Levy/Harry thing where the PL squad quota rules were changing in his tenure. We never got to 25 with the right mix of overseas and homegrown and were always closer to 35 players. We couldn't...
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    Wilson Odobert

    Was the turning at a crossing?
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    LOL, I get what you're saying. In this hypothetical situation where Harry at our club he would go to the board and demand Steven Pienaar in and give him £200k per week in today's money. He would then realise he didn't rate him at all and didn't really want him in the first place and then loan...
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    *** OMT Cursed FC v Eintract Frankfurt ***

    So the full squad would be something like.... Vic, Kinsky, Austin, Spence, Udogie, Romero, Danso, Gray, Palhinha, Sarr, Simons, Odobert, Muani, Solanke, Scarlett Inj: Madd, Kulu, Porro, VDV, Davies, Bents, Bergval, Kudus, Richi, Ineligible: Dragusin, Tel, Gallagher, Bissouma, Souza 12...
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