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    Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

    Less players, but not necessarily less budget. We really need to start operating in a quality over quantity model. I want to see RDZ work with most of this squad and get a few newbies in, including from the younger section. I've never found a good argument why Spurs consistently buy 6 or 7...
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    Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

    I can't be sure what you're saying is the way actually. There was a little hint it was when Ange made that comment that summer transfers were being discussed in rooms that he wasn't in. However, I just felt at the time it was because of his spectacular fail in the league and the biggest hint...
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    *** The official 2025/26 Premier League thread ***

    So turns out PGMOL are untouchable. Even HMRC can't touch them apparently https://www.lewissilkin.com/insights/2026/05/06/football-referees-are-not-employees-hmrc-loses-latest-bout-against-pgmol So the refs don't have to be taxed in the same way as the hard earning fans who pay for them. Gotta...
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    Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

    I'm one who does think it is massively about the manager. I'm not talking about the formal org chart, but when you have an entire club working for the first team manager then you are in a good place. That includes the chairman, the DoF and all of the scouting, fitness, medical, U21's, academy...
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    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    Yeah, I think he will have a big say as he should. However, I think he will also make Lange's job much easier especially if he sticks around for a while. Lange's been bounced around different styles of managers and that will naturally impact how he operates as the guy that sources players for...
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    Next seasons squad

    I think your £130m doesn't cover 2 elite players in today's market. You add the net spending and that probably rounds you up to 3. Is this perhaps why we're after the free signings? Perhaps the bigger problem is the dearth of centre forwards in the market. We could end up paying a premium for...
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    Transfer thread

    I do like the idea of working backwards from the big signings. However, it means you have to be very aggressive and be willing to overpay. What we do is try to grind out a deal over an entire summer and mostly miss out. Not sure exactly what day we're allowed to trade in the PL but I'd already...
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    Alfie Devine

    Don't think so. He never signed a contract as we messed him around for years. He just let his run down. Smart kid.
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    Transfer thread

    Wharton and Ndiaye would be amazing. Who would be our third and final signing of the summer? Apologies, I forgot for a minute that we're Spurs. We need at least 5 more signings and no academy promotions to make sure we stay average.:tearsofjoy:
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    Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

    To be fair, Ange's football was equally as turgid as Frank for periods of his tenure. There were some desperate performances and some seriously bad coaching going on. It was all quite chaotic. The team looked absolutely lost at times under Ange.The difference is that Ange gave us and his players...
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    Andy Robertson

    What I always find amusing is that our players live through these most horrible and character building experiences yet never get any credit for this. They are just labelled leaderless and inexperienced. We have to remember that this group of players won a European trophy last year and had the...
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    Next seasons squad

    What's interesting is that you quite rightly talk about the financial dynamics being unsustainable but you were advocating for 7 different transfers in one summer alone above. The way I think about it is that the day we start making only 2 or 3 signings per window we will discover the secret...
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    Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

    Lange evolved into a data driven football person. Let's be fair to him. In 2009 he started a coaching career and was mostly tagged as an assistant manager for many years. He did the hard yards in coaching way before the recent transition to building these database of players. He is more than...
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    Next seasons squad

    Admittedly, I don't know too much about Senesi but you would have to believe he would join because he's a first eleven player. Otherwise, as a free agent and 29 years old, you would find a place where you play. Also, play out the scenario that Romero leaves. Where is he going and for how much...
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    Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

    But how do you remove roles and responsibilities of an acting CEO before you remove the actual person? Surely, up to that point Levy is in control of all decisions. He's too smart just to step aside, especially as a true financial stakeholder himself. I guess we will never know.
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    Next seasons squad

    Yep, the better question is how do you keep them both happy when you only have domestic football and Spence is no longer utilised as a LB? Ditto with Romero, VDV, Danso, Senesi and Vuskovic which I've seen in some scenarios? Each season poses it's own unique challenges. RDZ seems to be all...
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    Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

    Nope, I think Levy's thought process was "why can other clubs go for so many seasons with one manager when we can't?". That became the shift in thinking so he had a look around and saw Frank as the strongest candidate. Previously, e.g Eddie Howe, he would have just dismissed Eddie as not being...
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    Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

    I can't substantiate this but I think the Frank appointment was a Levy fixation and call, more than a Lange blind spot for his fellow countryman. It was yet another example of Levy not acknowledging his own lack of football operational DNA but overpowering his team to go with what he felt was...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    I think most people know I would always give massive credit to Ange for winning that cup. Our club needed that and he delivered it. Fair play. I've also said I would have loved him to just adopt one philosophy across league and cups for the final third of season regardless of the eleven that...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    What's also being forgotten is that we got more points this season. This season was unprecedented in the amount of points you could have and still finish 18th. You didn't have the comfort blanket of knowing that there were 3 awful teams who were getting relegated and every game from about March...
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