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    Spurs Youth Thread 23/24

    I think Donley is already better than u21 football level and don't think his development will be best served playing that next year so hopefully he gets a different pathway. He is the one in this group I expect to make it at PL level and feel that could even be with Spurs. Lankshear I think has...
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    Spurs Youth Thread 23/24

    I like Santiago and think he had done enough to get a chance with our first team with the injuries we had to left side players but the manager instead had Gill in squads and even coming on in games. Is that so that our u21s have a better chance of winning silverware? If so then it is the wrong...
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    Spurs Youth Thread 23/24

    Unless we invest the same sort of money in our youth setup as Chelsea have then we're unlikely to do as well as they have. Chelsea are bringing through lots of very good players and giving them a sensible pathway to PL football. We've not had that same pathway. Our under 21s have done really...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    He also mentioned Johnson in that same bit. He was saying that he felt we were ahead of schedule compared to where he thought we'd be due to doing well with the transfers and specifically called out those you mentioned and Johnson as well. I'm not sure he was necessarily discounting others...
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    Spurs Youth Thread 23/24

    And no surprise that both Man City and Chelsea invested far more into their academies than we did, from a recruitment perspective, coaching perspective and in terms of the financial incentives offered to the players to join/stay. Both also have ensured they have 'sister/feeder' club...
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    Spurs Youth Thread 23/24

    I pretty much ignore academy results. An academy winning a competition doesn't mean that much to me. If that is the target of whoever is running the academy then they are probably concentrating on the wrong thing. The idea is to prepare players to become first team professional players, not...
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    Tottenham Takeover Talk

    We have nothing like that for PL rules. Not even close unfortunately. We are allowed to spend 70% of our turnover on player wages and transfer fees, amortised over the length of the signed players’ contracts with a cap of (I think) 5 or 6 years. Plus profit (fee minus remaining book value)...
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    Financial results – year ended 30 June, 2023

    The hotel and housing will require reasonable capital. i think however that the capital injection is required to ensure we have capital reserves to pay down our very high (and growing) level of debt. While the average interest on the debt is low at present, when each existing tranche of bonds...
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    Financial results – year ended 30 June, 2023

    I doubt Richy will accept a move to Saudi.
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    Financial results – year ended 30 June, 2023

    The accounts state that the balance sheet events taking place after the period of these accounts was a net cost of £109m.
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Timo Werner

    That is a really poor reflection on Maddison if true. If our players stopped passing to Maddison because he'd lost the ball a few times then he would barely get a touch of the ball.
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    The Summer 2024 scouting thread

    Wouldn’t this take us over the allowed number of overseas players? Personally I think we should also be looking for 2 or 3 association trained players, such as Lloyd Kelly as cover at centre back (on a free). Robinson as competition for Udogie at left back and Archie Gray at Leeds for...
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    Spurs Youth Thread 23/24

    A lot more one-footed than I had hoped to see. I think that was only one touch with his right foot in the whole of those highlights.
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    The ousting of Daniel (COYS)

    One of my old University pals is a Wigan fan and I’ve met a few of his mates (and even been to a few Wigan away games with them all). They absolutely would not swap their FA Cup win for making up the numbers in the PL. Their FA Cup win was the greatest moment in the entire history of their...
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    What Our Opponents' Fans Are Saying About Us 23/24

    Didn't Richarlison also miss a fair chunk for us?
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