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So there's still plenty of hope?
The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - Not more Repeats! 5th June 2014
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So there's still plenty of hope?
Locotoro
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Ok guys, ITK here but not transfer related. I may have told some of you in the past that one of my family members is a professional footballer. They told me that they met Graeme Murty who is a youth coach or something at Southampton. He said of MoPo that "he's never seen someone physically tune his players to the extent that MoPo does" followed by "he will run them into the ground until he's happy with their fitness levels".
This is supported by something a work colleague told me. His son is a trainee physio at Bournemouth and they sometimes go to Southampton to learn from their medical staff. He said the Southampton players were the fittest bunch of players he'd come across.
Not groundbreaking I know but I thought I'd share all the same.
This is supported by something a work colleague told me. His son is a trainee physio at Bournemouth and they sometimes go to Southampton to learn from their medical staff. He said the Southampton players were the fittest bunch of players he'd come across.
Not groundbreaking I know but I thought I'd share all the same.
carpediem991
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Good for our little divas.
Berglad
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I've thought A&C is putting a name in imdb, then finding a connection to a movie and then doing a quote from that (from last summer also)...but I haven't found any good connection. A coded message on the imdb message board related to that movie would have been funny though.
Sum Monsterism
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One question: Is it your gran?
absolute bobbins
Am Yisrael Chai
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Thanks Loco, this actually makes me think that a few of our current squad will be shipped out, Kaboul(knee) and Dembele(hip) for starters
Spurger King
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This is the sort of thing that worries me though. I'm certainly not against the idea of Pochettino wanting to fine tune our fitness levels, but there's a world of difference between coaching a team like Southampton (which, with all respect, has a lot of Championship-level players that are in no position to ignore their coach when they have a chance of playing Prem football), and coaching a team like Spurs, which strikes me as having a lot of big egos that, as Sherwood said, act like they're doing the club a favour by playing for them.
Our best league performances were under Harry, and he was hardly known for running the team with an iron fist. Hopefully I'm completely wrong and all our players will respond well, but it wouldn't surprise me if a few of them don't.
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I have just reached this post, so it may have been solved by now, but that sounds like a line from Blazing Saddles ?
PhezTHFC
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@Sum Monsterism thx.. we're not aloud our own views I guess.... 
Bus-Conductor
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I read this a lot. A huge lot in fact. But it isn't the truth, or a whole truth. It is true, there were several outstanding performances under Redknapp (i could list them, because I remember them, that's how rare they were in his nearly four years) but you would expect a team that contains world class players such as Gomes (on form), King, Kaboul, Modric, Parker, Sandro, VDV, Bale, Adebayor to play the odd outstanding game wouldn't you ? The very vast majority of performances were incredibly unexceptional, incoherent ones, decorated by moments of quality provided by some of the aforementioned players. Or not, as in the season we failed to win 9 home games.
If Redknapp could condition and imbue players with even half the conditioning and work ethos that Pochettino (re the ITK) does, those outstanding performances combined with that talent would have almost certainly produced more than a handful of outstanding games.
But I do share some of your concern about the Pochettino/Bielsa methodology and it's sustainability.
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Sum Monsterism
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@Sum Monsterism thx.. we're not aloud our own views I guess....
chill out girlfriend. A) it's not a neg, so don't sob B) 'Allowed' not aloud C) I'm aloud my opinion too!
PhezTHFC
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I aren't even going to say out as it saves hassle talking to a 10 year Old.....
And grief from my arse hole later when I get rammed by someone with anal beads...Also just for clarity I know it's not a negative rep. Just my opinion so why do anything if you disagree we all have different views unless it's distasteful or Damn right stupid
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That guy Valencia that we had some brief (non ITK) ITK on, who scored a header against Engerland plies his trade in Mexico. I'd better get my apology in early for when the grammar police above gets into his usual tiz about the word 'plies'.
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Hoddtastic72
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We need those players gone if this is true.
Spurger King
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That's the dilemma though. Would that team have performed better with less freedom of expression, and more discipline? A perfect combination would be great, of course, but from Van der Vaart's comments I got the impression that the players enjoyed playing in a more relaxed and open atmosphere, and responded accordingly.
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I think it'll be Hector Moreno. The usual pattern throughout all last summer and now this window is Baldini travelling to the relevant country exactly 2-3 weeks before a link starts becoming strong and the clubs are heavily negotiating.
Soldado
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Lamela
Baldini detailed to be in each location about 3 weeks before the signing is finished.
Eg Baldini photo in Valencia.
This season
Looks like we are tying up this Croatian kid and there is an article in his thread saying Baldini was over there a couple of weeks.
It's maybe 2 weeks since the photos of Baldini and his Barcelona trip ?
I wouldn't be surprised if we were already at least negotiating for a player there and Moreno would seem to fit.
Soldado
Capoue
Lamela
Baldini detailed to be in each location about 3 weeks before the signing is finished.
Eg Baldini photo in Valencia.
This season
Looks like we are tying up this Croatian kid and there is an article in his thread saying Baldini was over there a couple of weeks.
It's maybe 2 weeks since the photos of Baldini and his Barcelona trip ?
I wouldn't be surprised if we were already at least negotiating for a player there and Moreno would seem to fit.
PhezTHFC
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Drop the dad thing we all don't have both parents to run to when people steal our dinner money. People pulling others up on grammar are usually the people who have no friends so I hope you persist to prove my point...
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If this thread starts getting 'Harry' posts AGAIN, there will be bannings. Enough already.
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Does that include Harry Potter too? Just checking, cos I proper fancy some Quidditch chat.
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