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    The Deadline Day ITK Discussion Thread - 1st September

    This is modern football. Are any football clubs making a profit now? You can see the crisis hitting clubs in Spain and other European countries. Will the Premier League’s extra TV money keep our heads above the wave? We’ll see. Other clubs have owners who are willing to invest more of their own...
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    The Deadline Day ITK Discussion Thread - 1st September

    This is because loads of fans approach the window like a toddler at Christmas.
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    When you pick a team like that you’re probably reducing your chance of winning by 30% and for what? A 5% better performance against Burnley? It makes no sense. It also makes no sense to say you need to see what you’ve got by playing the fringe players. How the fringe players play with other...
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    Team vs Fulham (Carabao Cup)

    Last year Fulham made 10 changes from their previous Premier league match and lost in the 2nd round to Crawley Town. So perhaps probable we won’t be facing the strongest Fulham 11.
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    Premier League 2023/2024

    Villa tearing Burnley apart… Hope their defence is as open next week
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    The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 10th August

    I think people really underestimate the importance of wage differences and how this makes it difficult to move players on. Lloris must be one of the 20 best paid goalkeepers in the world. There’s no way Lazio are going to match that (for a player who wouldn’t be a guaranteed starter), so it...
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    Match Threads Brentford vs Spurs

    Yeah, I don’t know if this is something that’s sometimes done with inverted fullbacks or something he did at Celtic, but I wondered about bringing Son in and Udogie overlapping more often - he looks like he has the strength and pace to go past a player. We got very few crosses in.
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    Match Threads Brentford vs Spurs

    Weaker teams are going to play like Brentford a lot this season so we definitely need to come up with some alternative ideas to bring the front 3 into play more.
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    Match Threads Brentford vs Spurs

    Every time they have the ball they just pass back… They need to keep the defence honest by trying to beat their man some of the time. We look more dangerous going through the middle.
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Interesting stat I saw about Ange’s slow starts. At Celtic he lost 3 of his first 6 league games as coach (all away). After that, Celtic lost 1 in their next 66 league games. Even with caveats about Celtic’s strength in a weaker league, that’s a pretty incredible stat.
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    Harry Kane

    Tuchel has a pretty terrible record since taking over as Bayern coach - Winning less than half his games. They only won the league last year because Dortmund choked in the final game. It’s not at all unlikely that if they start relatively poorly this season, Tuchel will be sacked. It isn’t the...
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    Eric Dier

    It’s amazing how quickly it’s become the accepted opinion that he’s not good enough. Two seasons ago he was good; good enough to win back his England place for the World Cup. Last season he was poor, but the team was falling apart and I’m not sure it’s fair to read too much into performances in...
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    Match Threads Brentford vs Spurs

    I think we’ve looked good in preseason, but that will count for little on Sunday. Teams like Brentford are made to counter our new style, and I can imagine us having 60%+ possession and more shots, but Brentford having better shots through set pieces and hitting us on the break. If that happens...
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    Harry Kane

    I’m not bitter at all. I would wish him a happy and content life in Germany. But if he moved to win trophies and chose the big club who win the most trophies and then they didn’t win trophies then there is a delicious irony in that.
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    Harry Kane

    I‘d wish him well, but if he did go and Bayern didn’t win anything that would be delicious
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