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    OMT *** Tottenham Hotspur v woolwich *** 22.2.26

    My understanding of being press resistant isn't just about being able to keep possession, but being able to progress the ball through pressure, do useful things with the ball even though under pressure. He is more high risk high reward in that regard compared to someone like Maddison for sure...
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    OMT *** Tottenham Hotspur v woolwich *** 22.2.26

    Gray returning to CB... It is the way.
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    OMT *** Tottenham Hotspur v woolwich *** 22.2.26

    Which would just make it even more baffling that we went a summer and January window without signing a single player that would improve our press resistance in deeper areas (defenders, deep midfield). While signing and paying significant wages for players in midfield that wouldn't do that -...
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    Xavi Simons

    Why would/should he have had qualms about that? The thing he imo should have qualms about is us bringing him here with a plan to leave him isolated as a ten while we play a horseshoe. Why we ask him to chase shadows and second balls instead of playing to his strengths. In this period of...
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    OMT *** Tottenham Hotspur v woolwich *** 22.2.26

    Absolutely agreed. And I struggle to see how that's any less (or more) balanced or suited to the players we have available than any other formation. A significant question mark over Souza there and his ability to perform in the PL this quickly. I guess there is an argument that we could in that...
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    Johan Lange - Sporting Director

    Maybe... Agreed on that "buy cheap, buy twice" as a principle. But it's also true that we needed a rather massive turnover of players at that time and weren't in a position to sufficiently get enough players in without some cheaper options being chosen.
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    Johan Lange - Sporting Director

    Think it's difficult to know for sure where the problem lies (or has been across different times with different people in charge). To me it's also on the entire "transfer committee" including on those who do the scouting to not just identify players with massive potential, that should in theory...
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    Johan Lange - Sporting Director

    Agreed. A lot of speculation, but ultimately we can't really know for sure. What seems clear is that he wasn't really trusted to be the lone DoF and probably that shouldn't be his role going into the summer either. But he can still be good at things he does well and useful to us.
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    Igor the Interim

    Fully agreed. Not being in the FA Cup and having a somewhat longer break before the NLD hopefully will protect them somewhat in the upcoming games. Part of Tudor's job now is to manage that conflict between the need for results, ideally quick results and the need to not worsen or extend the...
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    This is what concerns me

    Oh I too think we're in agreement. Another bonus if that could happen early is that we could then potentially take the CL games seriously and actually get some enjoyment out of this cursed season. Can't help but feel that the Romero suspension unfortunately is huge for us. Probably would have...
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    OMT *** Tottenham Hotspur v woolwich *** 22.2.26

    I think it's more just that sometimes in football improbable things happen, like Wolves getting a point against Arsenal despite being a much worse team. Frank had us playing like if we were brick most of the season, didn't do much for us.
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    OMT *** Tottenham Hotspur v woolwich *** 22.2.26

    Didn't actu watch those games but... Brentford are unfortunately quite a bit better than us at the moment. And a team well set up over time to do well in games like that. Wolves seems more like a luck/variance thing. Play those games enough times and sometimes both Wolves and ourselves would...
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    Johan Lange - Sporting Director

    Agreed. Also with his passing being limited, but Ange using a style where most of the passes for the GK being easier shorter passes he was a good stylistic fit. But as with quite a bit of our recruitment the lack of an overall strategy hurts us imo. Signing him, then two years later we move to...
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    This is what concerns me

    I think it can happen later on as well, but for sure the sooner the better. Agreed that the next game should be treated with the absolute utmost of importance. But that will remain true for all our league games unless/until we can look at the table and breathe a sigh of relief.
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    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    Sure, he could have been a better manager had he seen that all on his own. I'm a rather strong believer in these things being a team effort including both the coaches and players as well as the manager in the vast majority of cases possibly with some exceptions for the very few elite managers...
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    Johan Lange - Sporting Director

    The people who in the last two transfer windows have signed exactly zero players who actually helps us do that more of the time? The same people who hired a manager who had that below watering his office plants on his list of priorities this season?
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    The "If we go down" thread

    Just to add to that... Tudor would obviously be gone. Would we stick with Vinai or Lange? I'm guessing that's not that likely. Who would we get to take over? Who that's actually good at these things would want the job of probably selling a significant amount of our best players and rebuilding...
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    The "If we go down" thread

    There will be suitors for most of our best players, second best players and our most highly rated younger players. Even outside the best you mentioned, would players like Solanke, Udogie, Danso, Porro, Spence, Gallagher, Sarr, Gray, Vuskovic etc be up for a year in the Championship? Would they...
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    The Overlap - some interesting comments from Ange

    What we know is that VdV and Romero talked to Ange about our playing style in the EL and that we changed how we played. That won't stop people saying that VdV and Romero forced him into it. However they actually would have done that I don't know. To me a manager being receptive to input from...
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    These jokers…

    To me Levy was getting back to what for me seems like the best strategy for us. A clear DoF type in place, a focus on younger players with more established players mixed in. Get out of the Mourinho and Conte short term focus. Get away from the defensive solidity boring football approach...
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