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    How do we Work

    I was just wondering if anyone could enlighten me as to how we go about scouting, analysing and recruiting currently. We had Rob McKensie, Paul Mitchell and Ian Broomfield all departing (at various times), followed by the appointment of Steve Hitchin I believe as head of recruitment or scouting...
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    Do Spurs Have the Third Most Valuable Team in Europe?

    According to this they do: http://www.football-observatory.com/IMG/sites/b5wp/2017/226/en/ The average transfer value of Manchester City’s first team squad members estimated by means of the exclusive CIES Football Observatory algorithm reached a record high of €62.9 million. This is the...
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    Guardiola in a nutshell by Jonathan Wilson

    This is a great little watch: https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2018/apr/15/how-pep-guardiolas-tactics-made-manchester-city-premier-league-champions-video
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    Why Trophies don't matter any more

    Dedicated to my old trophy adversary @Mullers https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/in-the-experience-age-not-even-trophies-can-save-arsene-wenger-92xlnf0hc Why trophies don’t matter any more james gheerbrant On the other side of the Atlantic, the Philadelphia 76ers, the NBA basketball...
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    Cost to assemble current squad

    As of February 2018
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    Why Paris is The World's Top Talent Pool

    http://www.espnfc.com/blog/espn-fc-united-blog/68/post/3320634/greater-paris-biggest-talent-pool-in-football-paul-pogba-kylian-mbappe-anthony-martial BY SIMON KUPER From Pogba to Mbappe: Why Greater Paris is the world's top talent pool PARIS -- Nearly a decade ago, Arsene Wenger ranked the...
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    Some Player stats / Alli

    Alli PLEASE IGNORE SON STATS - CL POSTED IN ERROR I'm going to copy @JimmyG2 inhere because I know he's a lover of stats, and it continues on from the Alli discussion in the ratings thread: We were discussing Ali's form and contribution, some goal/assist stats were posted so I thought I'd...
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    The Folly of Youth

    Recent conversations in the general youth thread, particularly with @IGSpur were the fermentation for this one. I'm sure some will disagree with some/all of it: https://forensiconions.wordpress.com/2017/11/17/the-folly-of-youth/ The Folly of Youth So, England is the new hot house for...
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    The Biggest obstacle to young British coaches is old British coaches

    Good article, dispelling the bullshit myth that British coaches are being held back by foreign coaches: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/sports/soccer/premier-league-sam-allardyce.html On Oct. 27, Sam Allardyce sat down in a television studio in Doha, Qatar. It was two days after Everton...
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    Europa League 2017-18

    Evening Europhiles, what game we watching tonight? I'm currently on Lyon v Atalanta, couldn't resist the lure of my boy Fekir and the young guns Lyonaise
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    Serie A 17-18

    Just watching the Genoa v Juve highlights, my ears pricked up when I heard the name Veloso, then did a double....er.....ears pricky uppy as he passed to none other than Taraabt !
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    Bundesliga 17-18

    Just watching the Schalke v RB Leipzig. Leipzig play a very intense system, and started the better but Schalke weathered it and then scored from a long through ball played by Bentaleb for DeSanto which resulted in a pen which Bentaleb then converted. Keita played a strange role, kind of half...
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    Champions League 2017-18

    How the fuck are Liverpool winning this game. Good little side Hoffenheim, well coached, play a good brand of football, play out from back to front but do it with tempo and zip. Better side by far first half.
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    Ligue 1 - 2017-18

    Bonsoir mon amis The league that churns out talent by the shitload came back tonight with the champs hosting last years youngest team in Europe's big 5 leagues, Toulouse. This game pretty much followed last years DNA for both clubs with Monaco dominating and playing on the front foot, but...
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    Tour de France 2017

    No thread? I'm a day behind on this, just watching yesterday's highlights now. I think banning Sagan was incredibly harsh. Looked like a natural instinct thing to me and not like a malicious thing, Cavendish was already going down.
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    The Confederations Cup 2017

    Couldn't see a thread. Kicked off today. Russia played some decent stuff but they were up against New Zealand's shit kickers.
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    World Cup 2018 (Qualifiers/Finals) Thread

    Couldn't see one so here it is. Sweden v France I notice Deschamps appears to have gone with his idiotic 4231 with Sissoko starting and and Pogba and Matuidi in a CM2 ? Lloris also cost them the game with one of his "distribution" moments. Wonderful finish by Tiovonen though, if you get a...
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    Monchi Exit From Sevilla Confirmed

    http://www.espnfc.co.uk/spanish-primera-division/story/3092621/monchi-explains-departure-from-sevilla-and-confirms-roma-interest The interesting part in the interview where he says he's been to London to listen to an offer ? Would absolutely love that to be us. We do seem to have a vacancy in...
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    The "weirdness" of ex-footballer punditry

    Great article by John Nicholson on the weird and stupid shit some ex footballer pundits spout: http://www.football365.com/news/playing-the-game-makes-you-weird-not-an-expert
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    Pochettino Meets with Barcelona Chairman

    So, Pochettino met with Barcelona's president for dinner this week. Seems to have gone under everyone's radar on here unless I somehow missed the mass hysteria this would have generated...
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