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    Contingency planning : we've found our guy

    I don't know what qualifies as a 'nice chunk' but according to transfermarkt, Mourinho got Bergwijn for 30m when he arrived and in the only summer transfer window he spent at the club, he signed for 110m of players (minus 13m he recouped from selling). In my opinion, he got the short straw but...
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    ***OMT TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Liverpool***

    They're very demanding, there's no doubt about it but, quite frankly, the last 4 results have been okay, considering the list of injuries we've had. I haven't checked but I think we've done better than last season in a similar situation, injury-wise. So, that's already a positive! I honestly...
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    ***OMT TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Liverpool***

    It's never nice to concede 6 goals at home but I think the players did well to score two goals at 5-1. Quite frankly, this game hasn't moved the needle one bit for me. The problem isn't the tactics per se, it's the number of injuries. If anything, Postecoglou has managed the current crisis...
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    ***OMT TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Liverpool***

    Shows there's no room for feelings in football!
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    ***OMT TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Liverpool***

    Sometimes, it's as simple as that!
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    The Official 2024/25 Premier League Thread

    I remember Guardiola saying after the Bayern gig that he couldn't see himself staying for too long at the same place because his demands on the players are such that they're not sustainable in the long run. If I remember correctly, then the question is rather: why did he stay so long at City...
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    ***OMT TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Liverpool***

    I've got a good feeling about this one. We're going to win. Liverpool have yet to go through a rough patch and everybody has one of those over the course of the season.
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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United ***

    Time will tell about the value of his legacy but, from where I'm standing (which is admittedly very far away as I rarely watched them), he paid a lot of money for some average players and the quality of play was only getting worse. He stayed there for what? Two years, I believe and sure, he did...
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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United ***

    We beat them comprehensively at their place a couple of months ago though (albeit with an inept manager). The main difference between now and a decade ago is that there aren't that many United players who'd walk into our first XI. It used to be the other way around. It's true that we won't be at...
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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United ***

    I for one am really curious to see how this one will turn out. I couldn't pick a result if my life depended on it but let's hope it will be entertaining!
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    Ange departs

    No, it's the opposite: it's demanding. If the original opinion was so poor, it should be easy to prove it wrong. Being patronising doesn't prove anything, it's just a rhetorical technique used to polarise a conversation and take the attention away from the original point. Judging a player's...
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    Ange departs

    In my book, belittling football fans and denying them the right to critise the manager is roughly the same thing. Again, there are some perfectly valid arguments for not playing Spence but a) Mourinho, Espirito Santo and Conte (or anybody else for that matter, bar Pochettino) weren't...
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    Ange departs

    Yeah and people know more about tactics than Mourinho and Conte. Even that clown at Southampton knows more about football than all of us put together but if I were a Saints fan, I'd still want him out. Same goes for Postecoglou: he's got a long career in football. So what? With that line of...
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    ** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton ** Sunday 15 December 7pm.

    Everything went right this time and it's nice to see underutilised players having a good game but let's not get ahead of ourselves. We've had quite a few 'statement wins' this season already and we're still looking for some consistency. Also, this Southampton team was the best opposition we...
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    ** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton ** Sunday 15 December 7pm.

    We are going to win and win big, which will buy us some time but the turning point will be the Manchester United game.
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    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    But you can't claim to be the most uncompromising person on planet Earth and 'take a new approach' all of a sudden. That's the problem with the character he's built for himself: if he doesn't want to slow the pace of the game down even for 15 minutes and if he won't make subs because we don't...
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    Ange departs

    It's a detail but while Mourinho undoubtedly needs quality players and is a chequebook manager, he's by far the more flexible of the three. He used an asymetric 4-2-3-1 in order to accomodate Aurier and also tried various solutions in order to bring Dele in (until he decided he was brick and...
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    Ange departs

    Goes without saying! I might add that this isn't something I'd hold against him. It's just that because of his attitude and playing style, I expected him to be bolder on that front but that's not the biggest deal at the moment.
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    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    I'm not saying this will necessarily happen but we all said the same thing last season: when everybody's back, we'll make a push for top 4. In the end, they came back but we never recaptured our early form. So, I'd go so far as to say that for Ange to not only survive but get anywhere, these...
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    Ange departs

    You're obviously entitled to your opinion (and Postecoglou to his) but I strongly disagree. The scrutiny thing is just an excuse. Dorrington or anybody else will make a lot more than one mistake and the social media will bury him but that's something all players have to go through now, no matter...
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