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    Luka Vuskovic

    Honestly, I don't believe that for a second. If you're looking for an explanation, German football has a good rep in Croatia and HSV has a lot of similarities with Spurs. There's a good chance he and/or his agent believes if he was worthy of a first team spot there, he deserves one here too...
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    Free transfers

    It's always interesting to look at a situation from an different viewpoint. Of course, I don't know who's correct, but I'd add a couple of things. First, the club paid zero attention to squad building. Most signing were opportunitic, leaving us with a very unbalanced squad, both in terms of...
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    Free transfers

    I think that, at some point, the club convinced themselves that it had a knack for finding world class players who were under everybody's radar. Berbatov, Bale, Modric, Son, Eriksen, Vertonghen and so on. They were all quality players, but we didn't have to beat major competition in order to...
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    Free transfers

    Unfortunately, there aren't that many good strikers around at the moment. Vlahovic is an unknown quantity in the Premier League, but signing someone on the back of a World Cup usually means paying more than they're worth and I can't think of anyone who'd be a nailed-on certainty to be a success...
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    Free transfers

    More interesting question is, would De Zerbi be happy? Provided we bring a couple of youngsters into the first team squad and get to the bottom of our injury curse, it might be ok. It also depends on whether we keep one of Richarlison or Solanke, as I'm not sure Vlahovic would hit the ground...
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    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    I've heard some very good things about Auxerre's Chinese owner, James Zhou (I think). Of course, it's a very small club, but he's done all the right things: let the people he hired work, never interfere with the sporting side, pay the checks to keep the club afloat. Unfortunately, he's...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Credit where it's due: unlike some of our former managers, he restrained from trash talking the club as soon as he was out of the door. Still did a miserable job.
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    J P van Hecke

    When you compare him to prime Ledley King, you realise how far he is from a world class defender. Ledley used to cover for his mistakes with his pace when he first broke into the team, but VdV will never have his strength and he's nowhere near his concentration and positioning level at the moment.
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    Transfer thread

    Richarlison's numbers are quite decent. It's the injuries who should scare people off, but there might be a sucker out there who believes it's the club's fault and they could do better (and maybe they could).
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    Transfer thread

    Not having a go at you, but I think this is one of these games where people only remember when they win. If I ask you to guess a number between 1 and 10 and you hit the mark one time in three, you're some kind of psychic. Still, it means you were wrong 66% of the time. There are so many factors...
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    Transfer thread

    Unless you're Manbricky or Chelsea, you can't have 'differential' players in every position so, even in the best case scenario, we will have to make choices and pray that our best players don't get injured. Sometimes, it's worth buying a 'water-carrier' type of player if it means signing a...
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    Marcos Senesi

    It looks like a good signing but Kerkez was also the bee's knees when Liverpool signed him and so far, he hasn't set the world alight there. Buying from clubs with an excellent scouting system (same with clubs with an excellent youth academy, by the way) can be tricky because, more often than...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    I agree - he deserves way more stick than he'll ever get. I didn't like Postecoglou, but Frank doesn't belong in the same sentence. I'd add to your (imo, excellent) points that there are question marks over the technical part of his 'work' here. Tudor was said to be appalled at the fitness of...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    A bit harsh on Curbishley.
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    The "DM" thread

    Not crying about missed opportunities is certainly a healthy mindset when you play for Spurs.
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    Transfer thread

    :grin: Needless to say, I don't watch interviews of our former managers... I'll see if my curiosity gets the better of me, but I kind of remember it was a fairly long one.
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    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    To be fair, I think Postecoglou was happy to be here and he saw the club's potential. He wasn't happy to be sacked, but that's another story. Conte wasn't happy but I'd say that his meltdown shows he did believe in the club's potential but he was frustrated with the people he had to deal with.
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    Transfer thread

    For someone who prided himself in taking responsibality for everything, he's quick to blame others for his failures. Wonder what he's got to say about his time at Forest...
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    Igor the Departed

    I don't follow Italian football enough to know whether that's still the case, but when Tudor was playing there, managers were highly respected people. Truth be told, I don't think he was too impressed with our players and our club culture which, at this point, was paradoxically closer to what...
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    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur FC v Everton, Sun May 24th, 4.00pm, The Lane***

    Charles' (or Wayne's, in this case) conversation was flat as a sidewalk, a place of passage for the ideas of everyman; they wore drab everyday clothes, and they inspired neither laughter nor dreams. (Madame Bovary, believe it or not)
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