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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I said last night I reckon you could upgrade basically every position, still think that, but I do think maybe 3 signings and you could see big improvements if they were ones who could balance out the team and bring a bit of calmness and cerebral qualities to the side. Currently I think we lack...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I still massively question some of the transfer logic, but I'd concede that's a fair assessment. Totally agree about the manager having the leeway to keep building and changing if necessary. Those who don't keep up get left behind. Ties in with what I have been saying in terms of being ruthless...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I agree with all that, but I don't think Ange has helped himself with some of the signings. He wants to out-football teams and play an extreme style but the signings - ones he was all for - don't match that really. Brennan Johnson and Timo Werner to play on the wing. I'm not even going to...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I thought the praise was pretty over the top early in the season, the football hasn't actually been that scintillating and there's been a handful of games at most (mainly early doors) where it really clicked, and I've disagreed with plenty of what he has done this season. Having said that we've...
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    Match Threads Chelsea vs Spurs

    Can't get pissed off, because I'm not surprised. The evidence has been there for months. Everyone should have been well prepared for this. We hit the wall at Xmas time, since that point the football/performance has to be brutally honest been pretty dismal in every single game bar one or two. As...
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    Match Threads Chelsea vs Spurs

    Flaccid.
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Guglielmo Vicario

    Not seeing anything to dispel what I said from this still. This actually doesn't look too difficult for a keeper tbh. He should be proactive/quick on his feet, going round the front of Bissouma (who is doing his job fine from this one pic and protecting his keeper), and then he's got tonnes of...
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Guglielmo Vicario

    Well look we're not going to go round in circles on this, but I can't agree. Goal three today, and for instance the West Ham goal off the top of my head are ones he should have been claiming. Dropping slap bang centre of the goal, about three yards out, these are goalkeepers ball. Vicario's...
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Guglielmo Vicario

    People are totally missing though that a few weeks back we changed the approach because the goalkeeper has obviously said he doesn't want a lot of people on top of him. Even today in the second half there was a moment caught on cam where Sarr was asking whether he'd like him in there helping out...
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    Match Threads Spurs vs Arsenal

    Kept battling away and clawed something back, were really unlucky to be 3-0 down in the first place.... but common themes continue to kill us, and need addressing pronto as we look towards next season.
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    Match Threads Spurs vs Arsenal

    We've had some spectacularly bad luck, and that was in no way a 0-3 half, but weeks/months old problems have again been at the fore. The football has become hesitant and imprecise and blunt, when before it was crisp and accurate and threatening. We again get pillaged on a simple counter and...
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    Tottenham Takeover Talk

    As others have said, this is a lazy post - who doesn't try to extract top value for their business? - but what's not been mentioned is that any decision won't be made by Levy. He might front negotiations with interested parties, but ultimately, presuming we're talking about a full...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Well I was unfortunate enough to be in attendance at the weekend, and in amongst the Geordies at that, not a couple of hours that will live fondly in the memory. If you don’t turn up and apply yourselves properly then you deservedly get tonked. I saw some people say that we started ok and...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    What was interesting yesterday was that for me we changed our build-up shape to try and correct certain problems, such as that the opposition has stuck a man on Bissouma for weeks on end. Bentancur sat alongside him in a more pronounced double pivot as we progressed the ball and the fullbacks...
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    The England Thread

    Take individual errors out of the equation, I think if England set-up like they have done in the last two games at the tournament then they’re going to hit plenty of problems. All of a sudden they were trying a high press/squeeze, with large numbers committed high up the pitch. It worked...
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