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    Match Threads Spurs vs Brighton

    Also he is showing that he can learn and adapt. He’s mentioned a couple of times that Ange has been on him to make sure he makes that backpost run and finishes. He has clearly been adding that to his game. He had a rough night before that. Seemed off the pace physically and too weak/timid at...
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    Match Threads Spurs vs Brentford -

    We need some width. Fullbacks coming inside with wingers that only want to cutback when we’re up against the deep 5-3-2 is not working. Everything gets funnelled back into the mear grinder and we don’t have enough players that are technical enough to play through it.
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    Mid-window review: ins/outs?

    I've watched him a fair amount for the Revs. He became a starter and one of their more important players last season as a 17/18 year old. He is a great prospect, but I don't think he is anywhere near ready to play for Spurs. He is a bit of an all-rounder, and he has played pretty much every...
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Timo Werner

    I guess the counterpoint would be that Ange’s system creates that space in behind. Our main offenseive strategy has been to suck teams out and then quickly play the ball through the middle into the space behind. Ange wants a striker that will: press hard, be a direct and pacy runner through...
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Giovani Lo Celso

    Maybe I’m wrong but my guess is that he is not totally fit. His minutes have appeared limited and some of the times he subbed in or out this season have seemed planned. Ange even admitted he came off today due to feeling something.
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I’m not sure I understand all the whining over Emerson vs Dorrington/Phillips. That to me seems to miss the point entirely. None of the goals we gave up were on Emerson or Davies. We gave up two pens because attackers made braindead tackles. We gave up a worldie where Kulu and Johnson didn’t...
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    Jean-Clair Todibo

    I mean doesn’t that depend on how much you overpay? If you overpay now for the right player, even by 5 or 10 mil, and we get CL at the end of the year, then we probably come out financially ahead of a world where we don’t buy a cb and continue to drop points due to lack of depth at a key...
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    Player Watch: Emerson Royal

    It’s because he has a tendency to drop and roll on the ball when he gets any contact from behind. He is very effective at getting those fouls called and he had a soft one called in his favor a few minutes before. But the one they scored was a pretty cut and dry foul. Gomes barges into his...
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    Match Threads Spurs vs Everton

    Need to hold the ball a bit better. Lo Celso for Johnson with Kulu going back out wide seems like the obvious sub. We’ve carved them up when we successfully play out if the back, but we’ve been too sloppy and their press has been good.
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    Jean-Clair Todibo

    No disrespect to Ornstein but that seems like conventional wisdom rather than informed reporting.
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I'm not sure that is totally fair. We're going to pick up a lot of cards playing this style. When you press high, especially with the fullbacks super tucked inside, you're going to always be chasing backwards and any foul will end up with a card. We're going to pick up a lot of yellow cards...
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Dejan Kulusevski

    That is Lebron's celebration.
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    Match Threads Spurs vs Man City - Day 14

    I wonder if Richy is actually fit enough to play or if we just ran out of warm bodies to put on the bench. 2 goalkeepes and only 3 senior outfield players on the bench today is crazy.
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    Winter Transfer Window Scouting Thread 23/24

    Almada is really good. Every time I watch him he reminds me so much of James Maddison. He pulls all the strings for Atlanta, dropping deep but also buzzing around the box. He can press and get stuck in as well. Great freekicks and set piece delivery. MLS to the Prem is obviously a massive...
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Cristian Romero

    It was clearly tactical. One of our main modes of creating is playing straight down the middle through the press after sucking the team out. The DM and the 2 fullbacks pinch way inside to create a numerical mismatch in the center of the park, so if they press the middle opens up. Hodgson's...
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