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    Spurs Youth Thread 23/24

    I think that's a big sell for City, and something we should do better. City are always prepared to let young players leave, at the right price, and subject to buy back options / sell-ons etc. Over the past few years - Porro, Palmer, Trafford, Harrison, Morgan Rogers, Lavia, Bazunu, Edozie...
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Guglielmo Vicario

    This was always Lloris' biggest failing. It wasn't that he was a terrible passer - he wasn't great, but certainly not the worst - it's that it was so often panicked, and so often played the defence into trouble. IMO that's why his stats looked better than you thought - his passes found their man...
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    Spurs Youth Thread 23/24

    A meritocracy isn't just about hard work, it's about the merits of one person being placed above another. That includes hard work, but also includes suitability for the role, outright talent, fitness, form, etc. etc. If, to use your example, Ange decided that our team was going to be better...
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    Team v Villa

    Might just be me but I thought we were loads better yesterday after Bissouma went off and PEH dropped deeper into the Bissouma role. Obviously different styles but PEH's forward passing was way better than previous games and really got us going again. For that reason I'd have PEH in that role...
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    Edmond Tapsoba

    In a heartbeat. Class player on his day, but he's as likely to get sent off as he is to lose his man at a corner or let a winger drift in and get a shot off unchallenged. The fact that he's the best of a pretty bad bunch means we're all a bit more obsessed with him than we should be. If he...
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    Player Roger Ibañez

    I've had this thought about left-footed right backs before too. I literally can't think of a single one, ever. I think I recall Benni Assou-Ekotto shifting to RB for half a match when we lost an RB (or two) to injury / red cards. I think it would have been under Redknapp. It was the most...
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    Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

    If he doesn't bring Sanchez on, Porro and Davies end up staying deep to even the numbers. I bet Sanchez on was mostly about allowing the FBs to stay high. I'm all for sacking him, but the Sanchez sub was a little less simplistic than it's being made out to be
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    Joško Gvardiol

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a release clause (anywhere other than Spain, where it's a right baked into player registrations with the Spanish FA / LaLiga) a contractual matter between a player and his club? Ie. it's not just a case of a club saying they will pay it, but also of the...
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    Harry Kane

    It doesn't seem to have done Palace any harm, signing Eze, Olise and Ferguson (all players it seemed like we had an interest in, and us fans were pretty much universally in favour of, btw) after keeping Zaha seemingly against his will for several transfer windows running.
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    Ibrahim Sangaré

    It's also obscene how much more mobile he looks in that video than he did at the end of the season. As if someone had messed with the aspect ratio of the video to make him look more slender
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    Player Watch: Erik Lamela

    The number of times he got the ball in promising situations post-lockdown, only to not see the pass (or not be able to execute it) was crazy. Really infuriating. In a way he'd be perfect for Jose - great at taking up great positions in a counter-attacking system (not so good against packed...
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    Zeki Çelik

    I'm no fan of Aurier but these charts aren't a particularly fair comparison since they all compare vs league average. For example, Dumfries is roughly league average (in the Eredivisie) for interceptions blocks and clearances (5.4) but Aurier is way below league average (PL) at 6.6, despite the...
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    Player Watch - Tanguy Ndombele

    I'm not sure I'd say that 'most' improve. For every Son or Sissoko (maybe Lamela falls into that bracket too, though it took him a lot longer), there are a handful of N'koudous, N'Jies, Soldados, Paulinhos, Stamboulis, Chiriches, Holtbys, Janssens, Fazios (sorry for reminding everyone of that...
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    Player Watch - Tanguy Ndombele

    Question for those of you desperate for us to keep him - what should we do if he has another season like the one he's just had? Probably after another season like this, we'll be looking at, what, £15m from a desperate midtable club willing to take a punt? IMO we'd be lucky to get £40m plus now...
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    Ben Foster

    Almost worth it to avoid being on the end of his two world-class performances a season against us...
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    Gareth Bale

    The thing is the bit in bold will be the case wherever he ends up. It's almost certainly the case already - it's not like he'd need to find another job (or just imagine him signing on!) if he jacked it in now is it? Every part of this is relative - if he could earn 50% less money and be 50%...
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    Gareth Bale

    Why is everything so black and white with the users of SC. For example: He's on £600k per week. He may be, he may not be, we don't know. And if he is, we don't know anything about how that's structured - maybe it's £300k plus £300k in appearance / bonus payments? Or maybe £600k is just a BS...
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    Jack Clarke

    You could have said the same for David Brooks this time last year and now we all wish we'd paid the £12m or so Bournemouth paid, amid suggestions from some that we should be bidding £30 or 40m.
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    Wilmar Barrios

    Not starting for Colombia today. Not getting into the team ahead of Carlos Sanchez, who was, in his time at Villa, the worst Premier League player I've ever seen (no exaggeration), is not a great endorsement.
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    Do Spurs need to upgrade on Hugo Lloris?

    Purely on performances, I'd love us to find an upgrade. In fact, I wouldn't mind a slightly less 'peaky' keeper - Hugo's capable of the absolutely magnificent and the downright dodgy all in the space of 5 minutes, and I think having someone who's going to be consistently good enough, but who...
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