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Guess we'll have the traditional Tottenham Hotspur final week shop around.
Didn't think it was gonna happen this time round. My ignorance amuses me
Oh the irony.
Guess we'll have the traditional Tottenham Hotspur final week shop around.
Didn't think it was gonna happen this time round. My ignorance amuses me
Hardly mid window though is it? The way I see it is that Mitchell decided to leave before the window even opened and now that our business is primarily done he is heading off. It's not exactly disrupting our plans for the season. We've done our key deals and we leave on good terms with Mitchell. Nothing to see here.Paint it however you want, Mitchel and co. leaving being announced mid TW is not a positive thing.
Not true if Mitchell handed his notice in 3 months ago before the whole N'Jie/Nkoudou deal came about. Even though the Nkoudou deal feels like 3 months.Across the net people are claiming that Mitchell is leaving because Poch preferred Njie to GKN. Is there any actual ITK that supports this or are people just drawing speculative conclusions?
One of my concerns, though there could also be an upside, is that they both know the strength of the Spurs youth coming through.
Go to the right clubs and they might dangle carrots and some may be tempted.
Alternatively, they might help to present opportunities for players to go on loan.
Guess we'll have the traditional Tottenham Hotspur final week shop around.
Didn't think it was gonna happen this time round. My ignorance amuses me
Across the net people are claiming that Mitchell is leaving because Poch preferred Njie to GKN. Is there any actual ITK that supports this or are people just drawing speculative conclusions?
I obviously defer to your knowledge of what's actually going on Trix. As a passive observer I can only go on hunches based on a career which has involved managing negotiations in a tricky political climate.In what way mate? We got the two holes in our squad filled relatively quickly with players the manager wanted. The KGN stuff is dragging but I can assure you it has nothing whatsoever to do with Mitchell.
Absolute bollocks on every level. If Poch wanted to keep Njie he wouldn't be anywhere near leaving. And the idea that someone in the scouting department has any say whatsoever in what players leave or stay at the club is complete and utter fantasy land.
The way Premier League sides can spend now sort of means Moneyball is dead in the water.Maybe Poch just lost faith in marginal moneyball churn and Mitchell felt undermined?
Poch's organic growth coaching philosophy doesn't sit naturally with a high churn of personnel.
Maybe not, but we're not Man City. To bring a player in of the quality you would want but then expect him to sit on the bench for the majority of the time can only happen if we were in a position to throw money at the individual.
Maybe Mitchell got offered a shit load more money elsewhere, maybe he wanted a new challenge, maybe he's an alien here to destroy gut feeling with highly evolved statistical models, maybe he's a terminator sent from the future to kill the saviour of mankind, John Connor, maybe...Maybe Poch just lost faith in marginal moneyball churn and Mitchell felt undermined?
Poch's organic growth coaching philosophy doesn't sit naturally with a high churn of personnel.
Maybe Poch just lost faith in marginal moneyball churn and Mitchell felt undermined?
Poch's organic growth coaching philosophy doesn't sit naturally with a high churn of personnel.
Exactly, it was his job to identify players the manager would want, if he wasn't doing that and had a strop over differences in opinion then he's no great loss...I'd call this as bullshit of the highest order... For it to be true Mitchell would have to be something of a precious little bitch.
That's how it looks currently (assuming Chadli goes). You're right, there will be more sales and hopefully more purchases!
If we just bought one quality AM in why would he sit on the bench a majority of the time ? injuries rotation means he would play as much as the other's !
Exactly, it was his job to identify players the manager would want, if he wasn't doing that and had a strop over differences in opinion then he's no great loss...
The way Premier League sides can spend now sort of means Moneyball is dead in the water.
For example. Palermo quoted 30m when Spurs were linked with Vazquez. Goes to Sevilla for 15m.
On the most part, Prem clubs have to pay up because every other club knows they are loaded. The Janssen deal was excellent in that respect. But to improve on what we have now... it's going to cost a bit.
I meant more in this hypothetical sense:
- Last summer the black box predicted Njie would be a 83/100 player, whereas Townsend would only reach 78. We go and invest £11m in him. Poch likes him and thinks he can coach him into a useful player
- This summer the black box predicts GKN will be a 85/100 player and Mitchell tells Poch to ditch Njie to get him in. Poch doesn't think the extra money and lost year of coaching is worth that moneyball potential fractional gain