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  1. DubaiSpur

    Fabio Paratici - Also Sporting Director

    One small thing I'll note - Paratici repeatedly name-checked the love he got from the fans in his interview, as one of the reasons for him rejoining. It almost certainly is good PR to frame it that way, so I'm not surprised he did - those interviews are mostly PR anyway. But I think there's...
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    Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - Licence To Stand

    I think their plan is to up the capacity to 70,000, so 10k increase. We don't know much beyond that - reporting on it is very recent.
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    Other leagues around the world

    There's also the reality that a match featuring Barcelona or Real Madrid, anywhere in the world, will functionally be a home match because 90% of the crowd will show up just to cheer them on. It's fundamentally an unfair advantage to other teams in a title race. The reason the rest accept it...
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    Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - Licence To Stand

    One thing that strikes me about the Premier League arms race - new stadiums, and plans for new stadiums, are rapidly accelerating. Whether it's Everton's new gaff, the 100,000-capacity circus tent they're planning at United, or the Emirates rebuild. It's a prompt for us to think about the...
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    *** The official 2025/26 Premier League thread ***

    To be fair, Arse made them look like brick. So far the Goons seem to be the only team in the league that are firing on all cylinders. For most teams that would mean lots of goals and flowing football - for the Goons it's scraping a lead off a set-piece and then just locking down the game...
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    Johan Lange - Sporting Director

    Sure, him too, though by then data-driven scouting had become more of the norm. His 'black box' methodology worked brilliantly at Southampton, but by the time he came to us, others had started up competing models (most notably Edwards, who had by then left us for Liverpool). Still, it was a...
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    Johan Lange - Sporting Director

    Agreed. The other thing about this is, at least it's trying something new and innovative when it comes to the backroom staff part of the operation. Under Levy, there was a period when we were the most forward-thinking club in the Premier League when it came to appointing backroom staff, even in...
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    Johan Lange - Sporting Director

    It's sort of much of a muchness - in England, what today is called a 'technical director' (which Lange functionally still is, promotion aside), would generally have been called a Chief Scout in the old days. What's changed has (as I've heard it) a general decrease in clubs having teams of...
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    Johan Lange - Sporting Director

    Right, sure, but it took 18 years for that to happen in Paratici's case - I don't think any of us would care if Lange usurped Paratici 18 years from now. Especially if in the interval, we achieve the things Paratici + Marotta did at Sampdoria and Juventus, which were absolutely stunning...
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    Johan Lange - Sporting Director

    Well. it very well could end up an ego-driven disaster, but I wouldn't be that sure about it. The thing is, this is not uncommon in the environment Paratici knows best, i.e, Italy. He himself played the 'Lange role', for lack of a better term, at Sampdoria and Juventus - working on the scouting...
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    **** OMT Tottenham Hotspur FC v Bodo Glimt ****

    Agreed, and I would like that experiment to end once Maddison and Kulu are back as options. But that's what I mean - our lack of options for players outside the starting 11, through injury or transfer missteps, are forcing these sorts of choices. Problem is, he's also the only vaguely defensive...
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    **** OMT Tottenham Hotspur FC v Bodo Glimt ****

    It was pretty much as expected - Bodo are a damn good side, and played us off the park for the first 60 minutes. The key problem was ball retention - we absolutely could not retain the ball under pressure, because: A) neither Danso nor Van de Ven offer passing capabilities to beat the press, B)...
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    Mohammed Kudus

    Vitor Pereira said post-match that the reason top teams spend huge money on players strong in the one-on-ones, is that you effectively need three players to shut them down - one to stop them going down the outside, one in case they go inside, and one to cover the spade behind in case they get...
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    OMT Mighty Spurs vs Hungry Wolves

    Haha - fair play mate, not really something I'm good at just yet. ;) Genuinely though, I'm very serene about things at the moment. I was the same in Poch's first season as well - if you see the fundamentals falling into place, then the actual results don't matter too much because they'll...
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    OMT Mighty Spurs vs Hungry Wolves

    Ultimately a fair performance, tbh. Two tactical issues I can see that Frank will hopefully resolve, and one personnel issue that we can't really resolve until January at the earliest, and more probably next summer. Tactical issues - 1 Benta-Palhinha midfield - it's very solid and is a great...
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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/news/inside-daniel-levys-tottenham-tenure-32430501.amp Really interesting interview with BMJ about Levy - this is probably one of the most in-depth pieces Ally Gold had put out in a long time. Lots of great insights into how...
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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    For sure. Much will depend on the financials changing, which we will only be able to see going forward. If it turns out there was indeed an injection of funding this year, it marks only the second or third time they've done this in their 25-year history, the previous one being in summer 2022...
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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    For sure mate - and remember, him leaving doesn't mean he can't also get his narrative out. Counter-snippets emerging from Martin Samuel at The Times that Levy apparently feels he was operating with one hand tied behind his back in terms of owner backing from the Lewises, which forced him to be...
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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    Feels like it mate. Too much smoke for there not to be a fire, and it tallies with that spate of reports earlier this year about him wanting to stay on in any takeover. Feels like that wouldn't necessarily be what any new buyer would want, since they would want to stamp their own vision on their...
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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    Sami Mokbel and the Beeb reporting that he was forced out - seem like it wasn't his choice, Vivienne and Charlie Lewis made the call along with Joe Lewis's grandson, Nick Beucher. Apparently due to 'a lack of on-pitch success'.
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