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  1. DubaiSpur

    OMT - Tottenham Hotspur vs PSG

    I've seen little moments from him that make me think there's something there. Not many, but there's been moments where he beats a man and whips in a ball that makes me think 'that takes skill'. And frankly, those moments are more than what I saw from Kane at the same age - back then I thought...
  2. DubaiSpur

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Definitely. I think he's one of those victims of the constant tactical shifts that leave managers behind - Mourinho made his name bringing periodisation and Spanish methods of team-building and drilling to the Premier League, at a time when the tactical default was still a largely unstructured...
  3. DubaiSpur

    Pape Matar Sarr

    Fantastic performance - real energy on and off the ball, and was relentless in the press. I still think he needs to bulk up a little, but he's a fantastic player coming into his prime, and I'm excited to see how he grows this season.
  4. DubaiSpur

    OMT - Tottenham Hotspur vs PSG

    For sure mate. But then, it's just banter either way. You win, you get a bit to banter others with. You lose, you get a bit of stick. But if we had won, would I have remembered this evening like I did Bilbao, when I cried my way through the night stumbling through the streets singing my heart...
  5. DubaiSpur

    OMT - Tottenham Hotspur vs PSG

    He's not had a great start to his career, but he's a kid that took a chance to sign for us to begin with, and fronted up to take the blame for some of our atrocious showings last season when he had no right or reason to. Yes he's probably missing some confidence at the moment, and sure, he...
  6. DubaiSpur

    OMT - Tottenham Hotspur vs PSG

    To be fair, it's really hard for those who are more online because they look at all the mockery on social media and get (rightfully) wound up by it. Best thing I ever did was to stop being so online last year. Gave me a much more measured perspective on life, and on Spurs. Yes I still have...
  7. DubaiSpur

    OMT - Tottenham Hotspur vs PSG

    He was the cheap option over Raya. It shows. Doesn't mean he's bad - I think he's a perfectly serviceable keeper. But that's about the extent of it - he's not a Lloris, or even a Gomes with the ability to make wonder saves out of nowhere. He's a slightly shakier Friedel, able to make better...
  8. DubaiSpur

    OMT - Tottenham Hotspur vs PSG

    S'ok - a much better showing than expected, but ultimately the energy ran out and their superior quality showed. At the end they were passing it around with ease and we were just scrambling to get it somewhere, anywhere. With the personnel we had, that wasn't surprising. We lacked midfielders...
  9. DubaiSpur

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    3 is also what Ange said, and more importantly, lived. It's not an easy thing to put into place, in practice. It's easy to say you want players to express themselves, but the proof is in the pudding. If they deviate from your tactical plans to ping a long ball to the other flank with a low...
  10. DubaiSpur

    Transfer thread

    Strange that the club wants a senior centre back, *unless* the plan is to shift to 3-at-the-back. Otherwise, there are far too many already at the club - we have four senior ones plus Takai, and that's not counting the likes of Vuskovic, Dorrington and Phillips who are on the loan circuit...
  11. DubaiSpur

    Eberechi Eze

    True, Eze isn't as pacy as Kudus. As for him not coming here, you're probably right, but I still have a spark of hope that @Bedfordspurs 's take turns out to be the right one.
  12. DubaiSpur

    Cristian Romero

    Romero is more individually talented than Verts or Toby, but the Romero-VdV pairing cannot hold a candle to the Toby-Verts pairing. What made those two great was their telepathic understanding with each other, which elevated both their games. None of our defensive pairings over the last fifty...
  13. DubaiSpur

    ITK Thread

    Doesn't look like it given the windows everyone else are having. On the stadium bit, that's a fair point. There was an element of luck in the timing of it, given it arrived *right* before COVID descended and devastated global supply chains + brought an end to the era of global free trade...
  14. DubaiSpur

    Transfer thread

    Fair, but on the flip side, could be that we overpaid for him - time will tell on that front, certainly not judging him based on his first season here.
  15. DubaiSpur

    Eberechi Eze

    That's exactly what Spam fans say about Kudus, yet we ended up going for him anyway. I don't think that's necessarily an impediment - think the team needs a few lads who can take control of the ball and make the right choice, as opposed to the quick one. Plus, helps that he's a ridiculously...
  16. DubaiSpur

    Transfer thread

    Know a few around here keep mentioning that chap from Middlesborough, Hayden Hackney. It seems he's turned down a move to Ipswich because a Prem club are in for him. Fee agreed at 20m, so that's the price for him. Don't really see it being us, but with Palhinha being 30 and clearly a stop-gap...
  17. DubaiSpur

    Joao Palhinha

    I really don't think he's for the long-term - it seems to me that the club puts a great deal of hope in Bergvall and Gray to be the long-term solutions in central midfield. It's more a loan that acknowledges that a) we have a shortage of first-team-ready central midfielders who can defend well...
  18. DubaiSpur

    Mohammed Kudus

    Nah, he'll be an example. The picture was, is, and will always be of Mousa Dembele. ;)
  19. DubaiSpur

    Ben Davies

    It's super rare - probably the rarest thing in football next to one-club men. To stay at a club for the length of time Ben has (11 years at this point), not only do you have to show that you have the quality for it, but you also have to be adaptable (since your role will inevitably change during...
  20. DubaiSpur

    Cristian Romero

    People really don't give him the credit he's due. The man is a World Cup-winner. And all of his teammates - including the greatest player to have ever lived in Leo Messi - respect and recognize him as one of the best defenders on the planet. Yes he's had fitness issues. Yes he's had the...
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