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    What was the trigger in our downward trend?

    Yep. This also tracks in terms of the departure of experienced and successful staff to other clubs - Michael Edwards was poached by Liverpool, Alex Inglethorpe left our youth setup (also for Liverpool), John McDermott went to the FA. In all those cases, they also took subordinates with them...
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    What was the trigger in our downward trend?

    Far from it. I'd break our transfers down into roughly 3 periods - 2001-2011 (ish), 2011-2016, and 2016-present. That first period, our transfer logic was absolutely scattergun, though the rough common thread was trying to buy undervalued young talent. The market dynamics worked in our favour...
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    What was the trigger in our downward trend?

    Not replacing players with others of equivalent quality. To pinpoint the moment this started, it's when we sold Walker in 2017 and replaced him with Aurier. That was a downgrade in quality, which showed as Walker went on to become a consistent part of one of the most dominant teams of all time...
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    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    It's clear he was brought in as a panicky last bet. From everything that's going on, it looks like we approached him after Frank, he said no to our offer, we said fine and appointed Tudor thinking we would survive and reapproach the issue in the summer. Seven games on, we finally realized the...
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    The *WHEN* we go down thread

    Well, the long-term benefit is the investment tanks and the owners probably have to sell. On my end, I suppose it will be harder to catch the games in Canada, but there's always a way in the modern world - will still be sat there on the weekend, laughing, yelling with joy, or shaking my head...
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    ENIC

    https://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/news/scott-munn-opens-up-tottenham-33500542 Interesting from Scott Munn, particularly as it pertains to his recommendations for a medical team overhaul not being adopted in full. ""We did a review into every department – the academy, medicine...
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    Interim Manager Discussion - Igor Tudor joined until end of season

    I'm more than a little concerned by this Tudor appointment, tbh. Yes he seems like the sort of hardass to inspire some discipline, but he comes in as a largely Serie A-focused journeyman with no experience of the Premier League, and the fact that every single one of his tenured has ended badly...
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    Interim Manager Discussion - Igor Tudor joined until end of season

    Paul O'Keefe and some guy called Chef Sarrpreme 2.0 on X. Yes, this is exactly as it sounds.
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    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    Honestly lots of food for thought here. There's two things that I would argue with, though. The first is that our transfer spending under ENIC has followed a rough trajectory as follows - 1) 2001-2009 - high net spend, low wages, focused on acquiring young talent. 2) 2010-2019 - low net...
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    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    It's not really news, but it is the first open admission of this. Up until this year we've had allusions and insinuations from the likes of Danny Rose ('buying players I need to Google'), Poch ('building a mansion and filling it with IKEA furniture') and Conte ('20 years the owners here and...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    He's apparently a great coach - Liverpool players credit him with improving their games, not least of all Gravenberch. Just a brick head coach - that happens sometimes, the jobs are very different.
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Dunno why, but in my head, when I'm reading Steff's posts, I always subconsciously think he sounds like Dan Louw, the guy who made all those Spurs Away Days videos in the mid-2010s. Just something about the often poetic way he writes. First time listening to him on the podcast was certainly a...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    This is exactly right. So much of football, life, and leadership, is about self-belief - not just your own, but giving the people you lead and look after the self-belief to feel like they matter and that they can take on the world and win. Do that, make them feel like you're in their corner...
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    Next Manager Thread (2026 Edition)

    Well, he didn't start with many of those players, and others who were here hadn't reached the levels they would in subsequent years. Of the all conquering 2016-2017 team of Lloris, Walker, Verts, Toby, Rose, Dier, Dembele, Eriksen, Alli, Sonny and Kane - Dier, Toby, Alli and Sonny were bought...
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    Interim Manager Discussion - Igor Tudor joined until end of season

    Noted, and I appreciate that is true. But - too much at the moment is dependent on intangibles. It isn't about records anymore. Simply put, you need a manager that will put bums in seats, that will sing to support the team, and you need someone who can make the players run their hearts out and...
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