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  1. DubaiSpur

    Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

    Hard to say, and it could just be a personal decision after thirty-odd years at the club. But either way, I think it bodes well for him, since it's easier for him to have the ear of Levy with DC (and potentially Matt Collecott) leaving. Previous CEO-equivalents, from Munn going back to Paul...
  2. DubaiSpur

    Donna Cullen gone...first of the changes?

    Did she specify? Skim-read it so I didn't catch that - if it's a month, will take your word for it mate.
  3. DubaiSpur

    Donna Cullen gone...first of the changes?

    To be fair, DC also has a handover planned (going by the club statement) - think she'll be here for a few months yet until Venkatesham is settled in.
  4. DubaiSpur

    Donna Cullen gone...first of the changes?

    Defo. I don't doubt his eye for talent, or his talent as a 'fixer' in the market - he has plenty of connections, he uses them, he's very good at what he does, in the true fashion of Italian sporting directors like Baldini, Moggi and Marotta. Given time, I have little doubt he'll emulate their...
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    Donna Cullen gone...first of the changes?

    The one thing that we would need to be wary of, is the role of Paratici in this new structure. In the limited role he had as sporting director (pre-ban), he was imo excellent- but I'm guessing that his total influence was still limited by not being part of Levy's inner circle, with DC, Rebecca...
  6. DubaiSpur

    Donna Cullen gone...first of the changes?

    First thought is, if the rumors are true (about DC disliking Poch), then that's an obstacle removed to his eventual return (though I think it will be post-2026 in any case). So, in that sense, utterly delighted (but only if it's true, mind). In a broader sense, our leadership grew incredibly...
  7. DubaiSpur

    James Maddison

    It's also that people change as they get older. When he was younger, by all possible accounts he was an unlikeable, self-obsessed tit. Becoming a family man seems to have dramatically changed him for the better, and he's a lot more measured and even-toned these days. Glad for him, because...
  8. DubaiSpur

    Contingency planning : we've found our guy

    I think we were a different club back then mate. It isn't just some fans - even Levy was carried away by the phantasmal CL final into thinking we were a bigger club than we were, that we were a white-shirted Chelsea who only needed to sack the man who gave us his heart and soul and hire a legend...
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    Contingency planning : we've found our guy

    It's both. We know for a fact that they stay in touch, they were pictured together not two months ago. He still apparently lives minutes from the training ground, though he probably now also has a base out in the US. My understanding is, others on the board/around Levy don't want him back. But...
  10. DubaiSpur

    Ange departs

    True. But the previous criticism of him was that he only had one, extremely porous tactic. I don't think it's fair to criticise him for changing it up - it's what we wanted him to do, after all. It's that flexibility, that willingness to change his long-held principles, that I think augurs...
  11. DubaiSpur

    Ange departs

    No, but they would mind if they're belittled, randomly frozen out, etc. as de Zerbi likes to do. Or if they're told to get 10 men behind the ball all season and score from advanced Pulisball, which is what Farioli apparently set up with.
  12. DubaiSpur

    Ange departs

    Most of them are. But even the 'professional' ones left ask spectacularly dull/pointless questions - your Barney Ronays and Jonathan Liews, Martin Samuels, Dan Kilpatricks and Alasdair Golds. They write very long-winded articles after to twist what a manager says into a saga - but in the press...
  13. DubaiSpur

    Guglielmo Vicario

    It's less of a 'blunder leading to goal', and more 'defense can't fully trust him, so they compensate, and that has tradeoffs elsewhere'. Like, Van de Ven felt enough uncertainty about Vicario catching a straightforward ball that he had already started to head for the goalline before the ball...
  14. DubaiSpur

    Ange departs

    That implies we're good enough with PR to be that subtle mate. We aren't, we have never been. Genuinely think Levy isn't sure what to do - think the consensus bet was on Ange losing the final and then a sacking post-Brighton. Him winning, and then showing masterful political acumen by using...
  15. DubaiSpur

    Tottenham Hotspur 2025 Europa League Winners !!!!!!!

    We were enough of a competitor to make that tie an extremely close-run thing. Italian teams are known for that sort of verbal sledging, and I have zero doubt he was saying the same things to the players, etc., during the game. Anything to get an edge. It's a jibe that hurts because it's true...
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    Ange departs

    It's not the same everywhere. I'm always impressed by the tactical questions and more intelligent questioning that Dutch/German journalists employ, and while it's more uncomfortable over here for managers to explain themselves, it's pretty accepted over there. England seems to be unique in...
  17. DubaiSpur

    Rodrigo Bentancur

    Given our defensive frailties, it's more that a double pivot with Lolo and someone new holding seems like a pretty solid proposition. I personally think we trigger the option on Cardoso when the window opens - it's too much of a good deal to pass up, and that gives us a 'pure' defensive 6 to...
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    Tottenham Hotspur 2025 Europa League Winners !!!!!!!

    I'm sorry for your loss mate. As Ange said about his own dad, he's still with you, as is your mum - you'll see them looking back at you in the mirror sometimes, hear them in your own voice and know they're there. Football is emotion - it's life personified, with all its ups and downs, and it is...
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    Contingency planning : we've found our guy

    100% mate. Guy has an ego the size of Jupiter and has spent the entirety of the season at Marseille picking fights with his players as they fell into, and then out of his favour on a weekly basis. Marseille feeds his ego given that club in general is a constant drama, but for that circus to come...
  20. DubaiSpur

    Contingency planning : we've found our guy

    Not happening mate. I don't think he's going to take us into the top four/six or whatever, but there is no way this year is replicated - too many things had to go wrong simultaneously, and the learnings from this year will help with the next.
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