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  1. 21 hours ago, sidis said:

    so not being an avid tottenham follower, i found it strange to contrast what the two locker rooms (dressing rooms, whatever) looked like between the tottenham series and the man city series on amazon.  granted, only three in on the spurs and rather critically, the spurs were in the midst of a shitty run and a manager transition, but the city series seemed like all the guys in the locker room were having a lot of fun and actually cared about each other as a team.  tottenham's players all seem like the fucking hate each other at the training facility.

    am i the only one that has that perception?  was the team suffering from some super fractured state last year?  none of those guys ever seem like they actually want to be there. even kane.  maybe i'm just imagining things but i figured you guys would be the best place to put the question forth.

    that said, holy shit that stadium is fucking beautiful.  that is an incredibly facility and it is shot beautifully in the series.  i know how english soccer enthusiasts are about proper pitches and tradition and bla bla bla but give me the new white hart lane over anfield, stamford, trafford, whatever any day.

    i mean, the first three episodes take place immediately after the sacking of a fairly well-loved manager and the hiring of a guy who has a completely opposite philosophy. not to mention a nearly 12-month run of terrible away form, multiple aging players in the last year of their contract and a superstar “leader” who had been vocal about wanting out for six months. if anything i thought it was pretty anesthetized in terms of what was really going on behind closed doors.

  2. 2 minutes ago, DeepEastTexas said:

    I don't completely disagree with you, but most of last season's problems, as well as the beginning of this season's, were injury related.  Last season's dumpster fire was primarily driven by Kane's injury and other players missing time.  When I'm Googling Sissoko's injury prognosis, you know things are bad, and that's what I did last April and May.  Son's suspension, Dele's injury, etc... was a terrible way to end the season.

    Eriksen not getting sold, Lo Celso picking up a significant injury in international play, Ndombele not being fit and then picking up an injury in international play, an already thin lineup after selling Trippier, all contributed to Poch's issues to start this season.  Levy sitting on his hands for 18 months didn't exactly build depth into the squad, and Poch runs his guys into the ground in training.  We were playing a lot of matches as well.  It was bound to catch up to us.

    agreed. then this season, more of the same in terms of injuries. if COVID didn't hit we likely finish the season without sonny, kane and stevie. 

    i've got issues with mourinho's personality and team selections from time to time (his unwavering faith in eric dier), but i'm not sure it's fair to blame him for ratcheting up the drama when it was already there.

    the unfortunate thing is that it's not likely to get better in terms of transfer expenditures with the debt from the new stadium and no revenue (probably) from european football next season.

  3. 2 minutes ago, DeepEastTexas said:

    I think it's safe to say there's something amiss at the club these days.  Funny how the drama pops up when Mourinho comes onboard as manager.  Not to say there wasn't your typical club stuff that comes up every year such as transfers (Eriksen/Poch vs Levy) and injuries (Harry/Hugo) and off the pitch stuff (drink driving by Hugo), but things really heated up when Jose started.  Several things like club record transfer Ndombele not happy and requesting to leave less than 12 months from signing him, Jose going Jose on referees/VAR/former players and commentators, training during a quarantine, playing time, and questionable benchings, and no one looking happy while playing.  

     

    Just an amazing 180 degrees from last June. 

    some good points here, but this club has been off for 18 months. the second half of last season was a dumpster fire (UCL run notwithstanding) and the start of this season was even worse. ndombele wasn't even getting significant minutes under poch because he wasn't fit enough. i'm no mourinho fan, but these guys weren't playing hard for poch at the end either. it won't happen but there needs to be a significant overhaul (either in tactics or personnel) before things get righted.

  4. 13 minutes ago, midtown said:

    I don't understand leaving Bergwijn out.   He's been the only decent thing about this whole season

    not sure stevie is totally fit.

     

    37 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

    Winks/Sissoko midfield and Lucas starting over Bergwijn. Fuck me.

    i don't hate winks/sissoko as long as lo celso is playing more forward like he is today. theoretically, winks and sissoko can release the ball to lo celso to create in the final third rather than just running directly into a defender or another spurs player. would be really great if ndombele would get his shit together and slot in for winks or sissoko, but i'm not holding my breath.

  5. 6 minutes ago, Fud said:

    You can take 25 + whatever is left over from the previous year after early enrollees in the previous class are counted back. Taking 23 in their transition class of mostly bread (24 if you count the running back transfer) directly kept them from being able to go over 24 in 2020. 

    6 of one, half dozen of another. i get your point but it's not like they only took 20 this year. the bigger issue with that transition class is going to be next season when there's a dearth of upperclassmen, bread or no.

     

  6. 2 hours ago, Fud said:

    The funny thing about their transition class was that it was a big enough class size to hinder them taking a big class in 2020, and through two seasons they got two real contributors from it 

    Of course, Texas took a small class in 2020 because they couldn’t late stud recruits late 

    huh? they took 24 this year.

  7. 16 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    On Cain, I’ve never passed this on because of all the noise about his recruitment, but fuck it. He calls the morning of signing day and he thinks he’s ready to sign with Texas. Herman gets into a semantics argument with him about the word “thinks” and what it implies about commitment. Cain goes to school and signs with Penn State. Texas is shocked and cues up the podium story. 

    tom herman cares deeply about diction.

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