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    The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 18th September 2020

    Agent Vertonghen activated...
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    Which is fairer? Coronavirus implications

    I say we should quit the game and reload the save file for the start of the season. It might be worth editing said save file first, to make Pochettino happier, and sneakily extend Eriksen's contract.
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    Which is fairer? Coronavirus implications

    Sweet FA?
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    Mourinho: “We lost Eriksen to Inter intelligently by selling him for an important sum”

    Since he was free to negotiate a pre-contract we can assume that Real Madrid & Barca didn't show enough interest in him, so he looked at other options rather than gamble on leaving it until the summer. I think we got lucky in that Inter are currently challenging Juve for the title, have a...
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    Transfer Forums - suggestions and feedback

    I like the idea of a general spurs transfer discussion thread during the window, which is less moderated than the ITK thread. Sometimes I enjoy some of the discussions and banter in the ITK thread so would like more relaxed moderation, but other times I am short on time / focus and just want to...
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    The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 9th August 2017

    Well, it does take a lot of effort and expertise to take the fax machine out of the cupboard, dust it off, and plug it in. :p
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    Moussa Sissoko

    As much as £30m seems a ridiculous figure for him, making him our record signing etc - we still have to look at things relatively. If considering him the worst signing in terms of a waste of money, there are a couple of others that come to mind: Back in 2000, Rebrov cost £11m*, our turnover**...
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    N'Jie To Stay At Marseille...

    We also don't know which of Paul Mitchell's recommendations were acted on, and which of our signings were identified by others on the transfer committee.
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    Player Watch: Erik Lamela

    I was wondering about that myself - my theory is that he did a scan in the UK and it said it was a minor issue. Lamela still felt pain and perhaps thought they were missing something, so went for a second opinion in Rome with his previous fitness coach. The second scan shows the same issue.
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    Adebayor

    He was a great loan signing for us, in 2011/12. As a permanent signing he was pretty bad. In my view, I wouldn't say the worst as he did have one spell under Sherwood that was pretty good and there wasn't a huge transfer fee involved, just the large wages, but certainly in the worst 5. That...
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    Dier once turned down call-up by Southgate

    I remembered this incident, but realised my memory wasn't clear about what Southgate said about it at the time: Googling it brought up some tabloid interpretations of words taken out of context (like the above mail article). Then I found it on the independent which gave extended quotes...
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    Summer 2016 Non-Spurs Transfers

    It does seem odd, almost as if selling him back in 2014 for £50m or so was some kind of FFP money laundering excercise, and now they are obligated to buy him back.
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    New Stadium Details And Discussions

    I'm no demolition expert, but I assume they have to be very careful dismantling the roof as it's a very light (& fragile) structure. If they just ripped the northern part of the East Stand roof off, then it might compromise or break the rest of the roof. And they have to remove the roof before...
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    New Stadium Details And Discussions

    Just wanted to clarify the point in bold; Uber is not a subsidary of Google (or Alphabet Inc). Google Ventures, an investment arm of Google, invested $250 million back in 2013. It is not publically revealed how much that converts to in terms of ownership percentage but from what I can see is...
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    Kane, Lamela, Alli, Eriksen – is there a better attacking quartet in the Premier League?

    Ha, KALE I like it - if we'd bought Berahino we could also have played BALE from time to time...
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    Referee 'swarming' - can nothing be done about this?

    It would be great if Refs had microphones like in Rugby and the tv audience and stadium could hear what was said between players and the ref.
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    Moussa Dembélé

    + Bale (ok, so Welsh but signed from an English club :)) Huddlestone
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    Good Week/Bad Week

    I think Vertonghen should probably go in bad week, up to yesterday was fine of course - but an unfortunate own goal and then being elbowed and injuring your knee in the process can't be much fun. Fingers crossed the injury is not serious.
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    Details of Bale's Transfer from Spurs to Real Madrid Leaked!!

    According to the VDV leaked contract, the final installment of €2.625m (£2.240m at time) for VDV was due on the day of the Bale contract, so I'd assume from the clause in the Bale contract that we were able to waive that payment. So that would make the total sale of Bale worth ~ £87.4m.
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    Rewarding Youth Development is giving Spurs the best chance of long term success

    The article has some truth in it and overall I agree with the sentiment - but the above paragraph leaves out a very notable success story - Bale. It took him a while to fully establish himself and break the non-winning 'curse' but that was after a few injury setbacks and managerial changes. Also...
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