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    Player Watch: Davinson Sanchez

    IMO, it's not tinfoil hat material at all. As far as I'm concerned, it's quite clear that there's a desire among various segments of the population to sow racial division, but those segments are mostly not strange bots in faraway places nor are they the sources one might assume. There's a clear...
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    Player Watch: Davinson Sanchez

    I've followed this rabbit hole several times now and the reality is that the overwhelmingly majority of the race-based posting that I've looked at comes from fans in various parts of Asia (and sometimes South America). The media is uninterested in qualifying their stories with those details so...
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    Jose Mourinho

    I agree on all points, mate. The last point wasn't aimed at you in particular. It was just a general musing on how hard it is for us as fans to know what's really going on.
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    Jose Mourinho

    Yeah. It's really hard to imagine guys like Kane, Son or Lloris not trying their best at every opportunity. It's also hard to imagine them allowing other first XIers to get away with significant slacking. By the by, I think that fans looking in from the outside aren't always the best judges of...
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    Jose Mourinho

    Nah. The surprising thing is that Spurs are actually going to win the final. Kane is seeing his life - or career, at least - flash before his eyes and is going to have one of his best ever games to drag the club over the line kicking and screaming. One goal and one assist in purely statistical...
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    On the playing side what is it that we’re missing the most?

    Probably not that many tbh. Free kicks are very low percentage chances (~0.03 xG on average), which is why Eriksen was still being described as a specialist years after last scoring from one.
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    Match Threads Newcastle Vs Spurs - Match Thread - Day 30

    You sure it wasn't just the second half shift that Kane makes in every single Spurs game? That's been one of the defining features of Jose's management of Kane this season, and also seems to be the key reason he's struggled to complete a hat trick.
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    Jose Mourinho

    To a neutral eye, this seems correct. Every fan has a tendency to overrate their side's players. I'm not convinced that this is a top 4 squad even if you factor out management completely. (And if it is top 4, it's because of two - three at most - players raising the average level drastically.)
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    Match Threads Newcastle Vs Spurs - Match Thread - Day 30

    If your plan requires every player to finish with greater consistency than peak Messi, it's a bad plan. (I'm not pulling that assertion out of nowhere: the kind of G/xG overperformance you're talking about has never been managed by anyone on a long-term basis.)
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    Jose Mourinho

    Oh, 100%, mate. Not only Eriksen but Poch had goals from all of DESK whereas Jose now has SK and almost nobody else scoring. The dual role thing I could not agree more with. Kane is being asked to do the work of two players simultaneously. It speaks to his brilliance that he's able to do both...
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    Jose Mourinho

    Yeah, this is why it's hard to complain when he ends up getting an injury (and then maybe only playing at 80% for a little while). I actually wasn't that concerned for him long-term this time, like I have been in the past. I saw a lot of "if those tackles injured him, he's fucked" but some kind...
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    Jose Mourinho

    Agree on all of this part. Southgate did it years ago.
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    Jose Mourinho

    I'm open to being corrected and it's been ages since I watched All Or Nothing, but how did it demonstrate this point? I thought the biggest tell in that series in terms of the tactics and their effect on the team was the Dele rant about booting it long and defending, which seemed to me to imply...
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    Match Threads Man City vs Spurs - Match Thread - Day 23

    They really will put their name on anything, as the saying goes. That's incredible in the literal sense of "incredible".
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    Match Threads Man City vs Spurs - Match Thread - Day 23

    To be fair, everyone has an agenda. That word doesn't need to have the negative connotations that some people have ascribed to it. I get your point though.
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    Match Threads Man City vs Spurs - Match Thread - Day 23

    Footballers are only mirroring wider society in that respect. It's rendered the stick in the carrot and the stick obsolete, which is actually a huge problem for any leader.
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    Match Threads Man City vs Spurs - Match Thread - Day 23

    I wish there was an ability to rate reactions to posts because some of them are funnier than the posts themselves. Like when someone says something completely moronic and people vote it "Creative". I love that stuff.
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    Match Threads Man City vs Spurs - Match Thread - Day 23

    He credits playing different positions all over the pitch until quite late on as a junior for his unusual all-round ability. It's interesting. Probably not something kids should do intentionally, but in Kane's case, the results have been excellent.
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    Match Threads Everton vs Spurs - Match Thread - FA Cup Rd 5

    Interesting post. Why do you hate Mount so much though? Of all the players in the PL, there are some much better targets, like literal murderer Marcos Alonso.
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    Match Threads Everton vs Spurs - Match Thread - FA Cup Rd 5

    He was a backup plan. From how he set up, it looked like he had specific instructions to conserve energy, suggesting that putting him on was not a desirable event. Of course, there's also the fact that he's probably not 100% fit atm. I say that because WBA was a very early return and it stands...
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