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Club Statement 19 Nov 19 - Pochettino leaves

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BringBack_leGin said:
I agree with this first paragraph, but completely disagree with the second. Magnificent football is a highly subjective term, but that Utd side at its best, bombing forward at pace in possession and fighting like lunatics off it, was sensational to watch. Their 2nd half performance v us in the 3-5 remains the single best display of attacking football I’ve seen from any side against us, and I include Barcelona at Wembley, Bayern most recently, and any number of sad days v Arsenal in that.
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True, what I should have said was high possession all dominating team. They were very good in attack and they would completely overwhelm teams with their energy and drive.

It was 4-4-2 with wing play at its finest. But from 2002 they did start to become more compact and not as full force.
 
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rossdapep said:
True, what I should have said was high possession all dominating team. They were very good in attack and they would completely overwhelm teams with their energy and drive.

It was 4-4-2 with wing play at its finest. But from 2002 they did start to become more compact and not as full force.
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To return to my previous theme, a major reason they could get away with the fierce and ruthless attacking wing play and a 2-man midfield in a 4-4-2 formation was because they had Scholes dominating the middle.

We had a similar, though less elite version of the same approach when we qualified for the CL with Modric and Huddlestone as a 2-man midfield and with Lennon and Bale on the wings. It worked because Modric was everywhere, able to find space even against opponents with a 3-man midfield, and because Huddlestone nearly always found his man with the ball. It also worked because Lennon was the most responsible and effective of defensive wingers, always tracking back at pace to disrupt opposition breaks.
 
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Can't understand the obsession between Barcelona and dutch people. They're so ingrained to their culture of no hiring enshrined coaches.
Messi is wasting his last years in a Club who doesn't have an idea of how to win trophies; there's no more La Masia, there's no more Iniesta and Xavi. They need to spend money, as PSG and Madrid do.
They have the same team for years and that's why the others Clubs know how to play against them; and Suarez, Piqué, Busquets and Alba aren't the same players than they were five years ago. Messi has to leave, he's wasting his last years in that Club; he's the GOAT and he needs a Club at his level.

On the other hand; I would have love to see Poch managing Messi, but I think PL is better for him; and Barcelona is now a mess.
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I told you all. With no money you don't have a winning project. Without a winning project, you don't have the best on your squad.
 
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BringBack_leGin said:
Given that he’s likely not to appear today, and the programme is specifically for discussing the events of the weekend as well as that evening’s match, this would be disappointing.
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I was more thinking about after the match. They usually chat to the guest for quite a while afterwards about things.
 
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dagraham said:
I was more thinking about after the match. They usually chat to the guest for quite a while afterwards about things.
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I just think that ‘formerly excellent player is rightly not getting game time due to drop in form’, and I say this as probably Dele’s biggest apologist in his thread, is not newsworthy enough to be discussed on a show that will be watched primarily by non Spurs fans, regardless who the guest is.
 
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Obviously he's on the programme because Leeds are managed by his mentor, not because of anything to do with Tottenham.
 
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