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    The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 10th August

    Trying sounds good. am wondering what shall happen to anyone other than DL should he use this word in front of him.
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    Player Watch - Tanguy Ndombele

    make him act as a ballboy for junior team. at least some value add from him lol
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    The ousting of Daniel (COYS)

    yeah. anyway, we (still) need to bring in 2-3 more players (cb, forward or winger. so that’s 150+ mln more to spend, should we aim for top talent i think levy’s core problem is that he tries to avoid as much risk as possible. thus delaying certain decisions which were to be made much earlier...
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    The ousting of Daniel (COYS)

    i do agree with some of your points yet our lack of high profile cbs has been clear for 4 years or so. what is the rationale? either we think they’re too expensive or we fail to attract top talent… or we overreached our budget, proxy of which is a net spend
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    The ousting of Daniel (COYS)

    that’s part of what he’s paid for his job isn’t only about fancy stuff like selling high quality, high profile players for good money (which is a win win situation for anyone - either you earn a lot, or keep a top talent) shifting deadwood is smth each and every club is facing. its just doing...
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    António Silva

    i am a bit more optimistic, remember the last ucl season under Poch - scored a lot having Kane injured. fixing the defence line has to be a top priority now
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    Time to drop the 4-2-3-1?

    Eh? It's the other way around I think in 433 FBs are obliged to push forward, that's how you get numerical advantage in the final 3rd Look at TAA/ Robertson heatmap here, its true classic for 433 https://1xbet.whoscored.com/Matches/1376076/Live/England-Premier-League-2019-2020-Liverpool-Tottenham
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    Harry Winks - Leicester City

    Winks always plays the safe pass when he's on his half, not matter for Spurs or England. It doesn't look that bad when he is surrounded by players naturally focused on aggressive and risky forward passing or forward push (Trent, Chilwell, Ox et al). But we don't have them but Davies, Aurier...
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    Harry Kane

    Why painful? In order to heavily improve we in fact need 2 players: 1 world class DM and 1 excellent FB. We won't challenge Liverpool or City but top6 is a realistic target The rest could be sorted out in summer If we don't have cash (despite offloading any of Rose, Wanyama, Dier, Aurier...
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    Harry Kane

    Same old Kane for me. He's best when gets the ball in the box (close to the goal), better in 1-on-1 vs defender (1) England's transition to attack in much faster => you often get numerical advantage (2) With Spurs he often has 2-3 defenders/DMs always surrounding him. Since any of Sterling...
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    The Spurs Transfer Wishlist & Scouting Thread

    Age is also important, at 20-21 it's often hard to assess a player. E.g. how stable he is, injury resistance (see Lamela) etc Klopp bought Mane when he was 24, Salah at 25, Alisson almost 26, Van Dijk at 26.5, Fabinho almost 25 etc You pay more but reduce % risk
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    Some semi good news

    Supercomputer now... Shall we ask that smart octopus for a prediction as well?
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    The Spurs Transfer Wishlist & Scouting Thread

    Why? There are many examples of players suffering when played out of position. Imagine Sissoko switched in AM role, would have been pure dramedy Isco's attributes shine when played closer to the box not B2B ball-carrier Further his wage is good but not THAT big. He does EUR 230K/week, much...
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    The Spurs Transfer Wishlist & Scouting Thread

    He's been shifted to the wrong position. He's poor as a CM in 433 which RM plays now At his prime he always played pure AM at 4312 or 4231 or something similar. The mess with the managers at RM doesn't help him either In my opinion in AM role he's still far better then Bruno Fernandes...
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    The Kyle Walker-Peters Thread

    Same happens to Skipp... Ironically both RB and DM are our weakest positions now
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    The Mauricio Pochettino thread

    Realistic rather than fatalistic Fans tend to be too optimistic about their team. If you look through the old discussions of Pool fans when Brendan's reign was coming to an end, they were incredibly positive about their squad strength. In reality they had only 1 world class player (Coutinho)...
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    Time to drop the 4-2-3-1?

    To play 433 you need solid attacking FBs and excellent DM to cover them and Ndombele/ GLC when they push fwd We don't have a great RW either. Lamela gets injured far too often And yeah I think our problem is not in the basic lineup
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    The Spurs Transfer Wishlist & Scouting Thread

    The system is called "try to dribble past VVD"? :))
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    The Mauricio Pochettino thread

    I have an impression that Toby/ Jan are often forced to play longballs by the opposition. It seems that we are often clueless when other team tries to block the short passing lines. So they just play a longball Looking back at that Bayern game (still painful to rewatch), see minute 6:40 on the...
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    The Mauricio Pochettino thread

    While I agree with you on this particular one I have to admit our transition to attack under Poch is often very poor I have noticed many times (Bayern, Sheffiedl, Pool, Leicester, Citeh - many many games except for probably vs Redstar) when Toby, Jan or Winks splash their hands as if they are...
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