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tiger666

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I'm sure A&C will come and shit on me for it but..

We had that cryptic "Play it again Sam" from Casablanca. A few people got Pulisic from that. Casa = Home/House Blanca = White = Whitehouse meaning an American. Wonder if that was it?

*Ducks and runs away*
 

synththfc

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I'm sure A&C will come and shit on me for it but..

We had that cryptic "Play it again Sam" from Casablanca. A few people got Pulisic from that. Casa = Home/House Blanca = White = Whitehouse meaning an American. Wonder if that was it?

*Ducks and runs away*

Sam = Uncle Sam as well, a character symbolic for America
 

Gb160

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I'm sure A&C will come and shit on me for it but..

We had that cryptic "Play it again Sam" from Casablanca. A few people got Pulisic from that. Casa = Home/House Blanca = White = Whitehouse meaning an American. Wonder if that was it?

*Ducks and runs away*
Tag him you pussy !;)
This is a good shout, now there's media reports then he'll either confirm or deny wont he?
Aint that how the cryptics work?
 

doctor stefan Freud

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I'm sure A&C will come and shit on me for it but..

We had that cryptic "Play it again Sam" from Casablanca. A few people got Pulisic from that. Casa = Home/House Blanca = White = Whitehouse meaning an American. Wonder if that was it?

*Ducks and runs away*
Ducking only gets you closer to his ban stick
 

Lilbaz

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Sam = Uncle Sam as well, a character symbolic for America

Oh and it's an american film and the lead character is american and there's germans in it and a piano and tehey fly a plane and it's in black and white and.... i think i got lost.
 

Tucker

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Great to finally have some ITK for people to discuss.

Think Pulisic would be a very clever signing, clearly has bags of talent, and will hook in the American market.

Maybe with will tie in with the naming rights of the stadium, the nfl etc.
 

doctor stefan Freud

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Great to finally have some ITK for people to discuss.

Think Pulisic would be a very clever signing, clearly has bags of talent, and will hook in the American market.

Maybe with will tie in with the naming rights of the stadium, the nfl etc.
Don’t mention the American market
 

MyNameIsNicolaBerti

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Great to finally have some ITK for people to discuss.

Think Pulisic would be a very clever signing, clearly has bags of talent, and will hook in the American market.

Maybe with will tie in with the naming rights of the stadium, the nfl etc.
I was about to mock your post after Yedlin, but I remember how many Yanks Dempsey brought us. Trouble is that most of them tend to be hipster plastics who follow the game for a couple of years and then move on.
 

Kaboul'sForehead

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Shout out to the Yanks putting out some great posts on here today (y)

Way I see it if we sign Pulisic:
- Spurs get increased US attention and more shirt sales ranging from some to shit loads
- he does well, we get even more of the above
- he does bad / doesn’t achieve game time, we get a slight knock to our rep from US fans but ultimately sell Pulisic on and that attention largely moves with him rather than rots with us

Let’s really not move away from the fact that he is a 19 year old with excellent potential and ‘good’ (by Spurs squad standard) current ability.

Not a lot of downside but a lot of upside if you ask me.

So happy to hear the ITK overall, thank you!
 

nailsy

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Jul 24, 2005
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It looks like he's played 97 games for Dortmund... maybe he's got some kind of clause linked to playing a hundred games? Not sure what it could be though as he was their youth player.
 

Timberwolf

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We massively overestimate the importance of shirt sales. According to this article (https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/looking-importance-shirt-sales-club/2) once Nike/Adidas take their cut even teams like Man Utd only make like £10-15 million a year tops from combined shirt sales.

We're not Man Utd and Pulisic would, optimistically, earn us a million or so annually. In this market that buys you Sissoko's left testicle.

That said I think he would be huge in terms of brand awareness and marketing, which is a lot harder to put a price on, and would differentiate us from the other English giants.
 

james Stock

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Instead of Sessegnon ? This lad has scored over 50 times in about 80 games for the US at various levels. Plus 9 in 70 for Dortmund. Great potential.
 

dondo

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Instead of Sessegnon ? This lad has scored over 50 times in about 80 games for the US at various levels. Plus 9 in 70 for Dortmund. Great potential.

Sessegnon has 20 goals in 75 appearance in the championship(similar level to most USA main team opponents not to mention the youth teams) and about half of those games playing at left back.
 

Norvern Munkey

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Shout out to the Yanks putting out some great posts on here today (y)

Way I see it if we sign Pulisic:
- Spurs get increased US attention and more shirt sales ranging from some to shit loads
- he does well, we get even more of the above
- he does bad / doesn’t achieve game time, we get a slight knock to our rep from US fans but ultimately sell Pulisic on and that attention largely moves with him rather than rots with us

Let’s really not move away from the fact that he is a 19 year old with excellent potential and ‘good’ (by Spurs squad standard) current ability.

Not a lot of downside but a lot of upside if you ask me.

So happy to hear the ITK overall, thank you!

Shout outs or whoop outs?
 

mill

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I think the commercial stuff is based on pulisic having enough talent to become ‘murica fuck yeah’ first world class player, whether he does or not we’ll see , personally I care little for the commercial side I just want the best players possible
 
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