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  1. DeanoAustin

    Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

    They did get RDZ right and deserve some credit for that. However, they did it by massively overpaying for him and putting him on a 5 year contract. That offsets some of the credit for me - they had to overpay for a huge gamble because they got so many calls badly wrong before that.
  2. DeanoAustin

    Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

    Your original point was "You're asking Vinai to explain a decision that Levy made." Levy didn't make the decision - Vinai seemed to be at least as involved if not more so. If the style of football was important, Thomas Frank should have been nowhere near the discussion. His football wasn't...
  3. DeanoAustin

    Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

    Think you're making a lot of assumptions there that run contrary to what we know. You said it was Levy's decision. Vinai said: "We ran a really, really thorough process at speed,” said former Arsenal chief executive Venkatesham. "We defined 10 characteristics that we think are important to be...
  4. DeanoAustin

    Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

    Nope. Not at all. Easy to blame Levy now he’s gone but, at the time, Vinai was happy to take some of the credit for the appointment so you’d have to assume he was part of the decision making process...
  5. DeanoAustin

    Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

    I've always been a defender of Levy and always will be. I do acknowledge the last 5 years of his time haven't been good enough but, overall, I think he was great for the club and the local area. I don't even really mind if people have a go at the state they found the club in but only if they...
  6. DeanoAustin

    Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

    Yeah agreed. He talks about RDZ and the fact "he plays the style of football that our supporters and the broader football public want to see". Okay, then the next question is, where on your 30 point checklist was that last summer and, if it was there, how did you select Thomas Frank? And when...
  7. DeanoAustin

    Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

    I've found the Levy bashing to be particularly distasteful. It's unfair IMO and it's pure deflection. I'd have a bit more tolerance for it if VV addressed the bad decisions he made and stood over this season. He did address Tudor but, from what I saw, waffled around it rather than saying the...
  8. DeanoAustin

    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur FC v Everton, Sun May 24th, 4.00pm, The Lane***

    Stadium was brilliant on Sunday I thought. I know it's been brick for a lot of the season, with good reason, but when the chips were down, it was a sea of white and f**king loud. That stadium could be such an asset for us in terms of intimidating other teams if we could get our brick together.
  9. DeanoAustin

    Igor the Departed

    I actually saw some logic in his appointment. His win percentage at every other club would have been enough to keep us up, he had a reputation as a fire fighter, he’d kept Udinese (I think) up after being brought in late. The one unknown for me at the time was that I knew little of his demeanour...
  10. DeanoAustin

    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur FC v Everton, Sun May 24th, 4.00pm, The Lane***

    I would just like to point out that many people on here begged me not to go yesterday and wished my plane mechanical problems so it couldn’t take off. I’d been 17 home league games without a win. Me and @Mikey10 both last saw Tottenham win at home in the league v Aston Villa in November 2024...
  11. DeanoAustin

    ENIC

    I'm laughing at the Werner point. I'm not sure how serious you are on the second point... :D
  12. DeanoAustin

    ENIC

    I understand why you'd ask the question because it's very easy for fans to throw stones but it's not our job to know who is out there and can help. However, it was quite obvious that we needed help at that time if you looked at our situation. We'd sold Johnson which meant that if we got an...
  13. DeanoAustin

    The we are staying up thread

    About 30 mins before kick off yesterday, I was in the toilets at the East Upper waiting for a cubicle. The queue was longer than I'd ever seen it - about 8 or 9 of us which might have been a manifestation of the tension permeating the stadium. Anyway, we're all exchanging that condemned look...
  14. DeanoAustin

    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur FC v Everton, Sun May 24th, 4.00pm, The Lane***

    I don't blame the stadium one bit. Our record there was pretty decent up to last season.
  15. DeanoAustin

    Next seasons squad

    The sad thing about where we currently are is that the PL is winnable at the moment. Woolwich are good at what they do but they aren't a great side and I'm not sure they'll be able to defend the title. The Dippers are stuck between the fans wanting Slot out and the board wanting to keep him...
  16. DeanoAustin

    João Palhinha

    I've no clue who should stay or go. Can make a case for all of them. Personally, I love Bentancur as a footballer but appreciate that many don't. I like Sarr and Pahlinha too but I also know we need better quality and that means one or more of the current midfielders have to go. That's for RDZ...
  17. DeanoAustin

    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    What I found most impressive about RDZ was that when he came in, people said he would need weeks or months to get his message across and we didn't have that time or the players. And we didn't and we don't. He changed the style albeit it wasn't his preferred approach. That's still to come. What...
  18. DeanoAustin

    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur FC v Everton, Sun May 24th, 4.00pm, The Lane***

    I've never listened to him and learned a thing. He's like one of those "every man" fans down the pub who bores the pants of people with his "opinions". No idea how he ever got a management gig or a punditry gig. Looks to me like a lad who made it in football because of his immense, undeniable...
  19. DeanoAustin

    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    On paper, is the record that impressive if you take it at face value? Maybe not. Throw in the circumstances and it bloody is. No wins in 4 months. No win at home in 5 months. We'd dropped into the relegation zone before we played under him where many commentators said we wouldn't cope or have...
  20. DeanoAustin

    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur FC v Everton, Sun May 24th, 4.00pm, The Lane***

    It's a very weird, unrecognisable feeling today in a season that was full of them. I remember last season when we won the Europa. I was walking on air for days afterwards. The feeling at full time yesterday was similar to full time in that game. Just a massive release of joy and tension. Today...
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