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  1. Muttley

    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    I used that word "plateau" earlier. Arsenal have come within 5 points and 2 points of winning the league and at the moment they are 5 points off the lead in this early part of the season. That FA Cup win is a while ago now and they haven't added to their cup trophy haul. Have they plateau'd...
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    ENIC

    Thanks, makes sense. As I said, I'm no accountant but do get the concept that we're on this journey and the apples to apples comparison to other clubs don't always work. The £150m equity investment definitely helped that COVID issue as well. Whether we call it against the overall debt or the...
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    ENIC

    This is what I always talk about. A club's job is to have a squad where every player has a current or future 1st team impact. Spurs go in cycles, mostly because of manager change and poor recruitment, where we keep ending up with these bloated squads and players current values are less than...
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    ENIC

    I was always assuming that the amortisation cost is against the P&L. So if we spent £800m on a stadium and amortised it over 60 years then the P&L cost each year would be £13m. Then you add the 2.8% interest on the debt and that is another £22m. So basically to do nothing, we would need to find...
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    ENIC

    Exactly that. The only way we would ever know is if Spurs run 2 P&Ls (football vs non-football) and shared the detail of the one we currently see which is the rolled up version. They've obviously got no incentive to tell us what goes where. Nor should they.
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    Ballon d'Or

    UEFA website.....https://www.uefa.com/ballondor/news/0292-1c2705cb8fd5-8f2dcb111a8a-1000--ballon-d-or-how-are-the-winners-decided/ The Ballon d'Or rewards the best male and female players in the world, without distinction of championship or nationality. The Ballon d'Or is awarded based on...
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    Cann we make the top 4 or 5?

    Out of interest, can you see progress? I keep thinking I can, but that is perhaps because I'm benchmarking against a 23/24 team that had injuries, suspensions, players away at tournaments etc. Spurs have been pretty fit and healthy this season. They've done the business in the EL and have had a...
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    OMT *** Tottenham Hotspur vs AFC Richmond/Crystal Palace - Sunday 27th October 14:00 ***

    If it was "by the time we win a cup", I might ask you to do the right thing and take one for the team. You seem too nice to do the deed just for a quarter final. lol - not worth it !!!
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    OMT *** Tottenham Hotspur vs AFC Richmond/Crystal Palace - Sunday 27th October 14:00 ***

    The irony of course is that Conte won Serie A with a 3-5-2. He then walked into a club with a wanting squad, in a much tougher league and thought that 3-4-3 would work. He even though Perisic could play wing-back in the PL and had to learn the hard way. Saying that, he'd love either of his 2...
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    Ballon d'Or

    I don't get the hype on the Ballon D'Or. It's just a bunch of ill informed journo's deciding on mostly a bunch of attacking players. If you've ever watched a game and then looked at a journo's players ratings, you'd surely come to the conclusion that they're the last ones picking the best...
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    ENIC

    The way I understand it is that big capital projects like our stadium cost a bundle but amortise over something like 60 years. That amortisation is a charge to our P&L. We cover that cost and the repayments of the stadium against the debt by assigning some of our profits from revenue streams...
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    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    Klopp did actually tweak his system, especially the midfield. He totally evolved Trent's role in the side and changed things depending on player availability. He never tried to make Jota play like Mane or Firminho, in the same way he didn't with Diaz or Nunez. On paper, it was still a 4-3-3. The...
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    ENIC

    I tend to not worry about the ratios nowadays. The problem is that the salary bill is compared to all those elements of our revenues that were designed to pay back this amazing stadium we have e.g. NFL or Karting. We won't really have a true comparative until we own our stadium. We're also the...
  14. Muttley

    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    It's a great call. We don't really have to call it A, B, C etc. I guess it's more about what happens in the Ange playbook when certain things happen or are expected to happen on the pitch. I think that is the frustration of some, including myself, when you see games like yesterday. It felt like...
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    Circus ManUnitus - Nobody's At The Wheel

    I won't need any Xmas presents this year if that happens.
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    Mikey Moore

    Is the problem that we have never once under Ange had a period where a midfield partnership could really develop an understanding? Sometimes you don't need elite individuals, you need elite partnerships. When you look at some of the best number 6's, they always could depend on their 8's to make...
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    Mikey Moore

    Not sure I'm aligned with this, but admittedly didn't see the first half hour. By the time I joined the game the pattern was definitely that we were second best in the duels across the park. They looked sharper, more physical and definitely more composed. It did improve slightly in the last...
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    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    My view on Ange is that we can't really make a decision on him until we can see where he can plateau as a Spurs manager. I have a feeling that will be about this point next season. If we get off to a flyer, find a more consistent rhythm to the one we're seeing now, and have added quality again...
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    Mikey Moore

    What's interesting is that you can't just ignore what players have learned from boy to man. Dragu, VDV and Romero all joined Spurs from 3 at the back systems. So did Udogie, and Porro has plenty of "wing-back" experience. Similarly, the boys ahead of them have also played in that system. So I'm...
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    Mikey Moore

    What I find frustrating is that with Son and Odobert unavailable the fans now just assume that we needed to play Werner or Moore. The harsh reality is that we didn't need to play any of them. With a flexible manager we could have played something like this Venom Romero, Dragusin, VDV Porro...
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