Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v RB Leipzig

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PleaseNotPoll said:
This is one of the problems that we have as fans. We don't know why we failed to strengthen the squad, exactly.
There are rumours that we had money to spend and could agree deals, but Pochettino didn't want those players.
Is that true? Was he right to turn down these anonymous signings? We've got no idea.
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That's true but I would be amazed if Levy was involved in selecting players or valuing them. I am absolutely sure he sets the budget and leads the negotiations.
I always take the view that everyone at the Club is doing their best. Every single person at the Club is way better qualified to do their job than anyone on here is to criticise them. What people need to do is to try to discuss and understand why decisions are made and why they go wrong, not pour vitriol against individuals.
 
PowerSpurs said:
That's true but I would be amazed if Levy was involved in selecting players or valuing them. I am absolutely sure he sets the budget and leads the negotiations.
I always take the view that everyone at the Club is doing their best. Every single person at the Club is way better qualified to do their job than anyone on here is to criticise them. What people need to do is to try to discuss and understand why decisions are made and why they go wrong, not pour vitriol against individuals.
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Levy's certainly been a mover and shaker in the past, arranging the van der Vaart deal and then putting it to Harry Redknapp, and he was certainly keen on bringing in Arshavin
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
Levy's certainly been a mover and shaker in the past, arranging the van der Vaart deal and then putting it to Harry Redknapp, and he was certainly keen on bringing in Arshavin
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That may be true but the current structure is different according to the latest THST minutes, at least nominally.
 
Spurlock said:
Quite shocking really considering he makes the decisions at our club

makes his decisions, half arsed back up of the manager then throws him under the bus when things go pear shaped.

Everyone still goes on about Martin Jol...everyone has forgotten the manner in Which he was sacked by Teflon Levy <laugh>
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The way BMJ was treated at the end was ruthless by Levy, BMJ deserved much better than that.
 
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PowerSpurs said:
In two lines you just spent £70m. You have to say where you would have raised that. Anyway individual errors are inevitable, the only thing that matters is whether we are better than the rest. As I keep pointing out only two clubs have ever consistently broken into the original Sky 4. Us and Man City. They spent about half a billion more than us and that bought success. But they are now disqualified for cheating. If you want to find us a Chairman who can do better....good luck!
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Well you are generating profits of like 100m and thats before your new stadium which we keep being told is worth at least another 80m alone so the funds should be there
 
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KingHotspur said:
The way BMJ was treated at the end was ruthless by Levy, BMJ deserved much better than that.
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Was at that match v Getafe with the girls...they were 10 and 5 at the time...my eldest cried on the way home!
The fans were magnificent...we sang his name throughout the game so at least he got a proper send off from us.
 
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Levy be like

‘No CL, no spending money’

which goes a long way to explaining why we spent **** all in 2 windows whilst we were in it

ENIC swings and sways the faithful as they wish
 
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BobbyD said:
Well you are generating profits of like 100m and thats before your new stadium which we keep being told is worth at least another 80m alone so the funds should be there
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There has been a net spend already of £100M in the last 6 months on N'Dombele, Sessegnon, Bergwijn and the Lo Celso deal so Levy might gthink he's done his spending unless there are outgoings to fund more buys.
 
littleDinosaurLuke said:
There has been a net spend already of £100M in the last 6 months on N'Dombele, Sessegnon, Bergwijn and the Lo Celso deal so Levy might gthink he's done his spending unless there are outgoings to fund more buys.
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I think that’s exactly what he will say.

But hopefully he remembers the zero spend in the two windows before that.
 
A belated, serious two-penn'orth about the game the other night.
The main difference between the two teams as I saw it was that the Leipzig players repeatedly passed to their own players at high speed, without having to look to know where they were. A real sign of a team that is working toegther, and has trained to do so. The Spurs players, unfortunately, seemed unable most of the evening to locate another player in a white shirt. That seemed to indicate that they had not practised in the formation which they were in for the actual match. Perhaps not even the same players? This is the price we pay for changing the personnel all the time, over and above the changes caused by injuries, and then also playing players in a variety of positions (Dier, Tangangy, Alli, Moura.... etc) so they don't know who to expect to be where. And that really showed - and made a difference. Possibly the crucial difference. Part of that is down to players' incompetence; part to the manager's interventions. And it pains me to be writing this.
 
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audrey.s.thackeray said:
A belated, serious two-penn'orth about the game the other night.
The main difference between the two teams as I saw it was that the Leipzig players repeatedly passed to their own players at high speed, without having to look to know where they were. A real sign of a team that is working toegther, and has trained to do so. The Spurs players, unfortunately, seemed unable most of the evening to locate another player in a white shirt. That seemed to indicate that they had not practised in the formation which they were in for the actual match. Perhaps not even the same players? This is the price we pay for changing the personnel all the time, over and above the changes caused by injuries, and then also playing players in a variety of positions (Dier, Tangangy, Alli, Moura.... etc) so they don't know who to expect to be where. And that really showed - and made a difference. Possibly the crucial difference. Part of that is down to players' incompetence; part to the manager's interventions. And it pains me to be writing this.
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Unfortunately too often they did locate the white shirt of a Leipzig player and not the blue/purple of a fellow Spurs player.
 
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So not only was the result a trainwreck, but apparently there was one involving Dele, Lo Celso and Lamela that saw them compacted into a three foot space on the pitch

And surely it can't be right that Tanganga never passed to Aurier or Winks?
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I think that my main takeaway from this is Winks playing the midfield on his own, again.
Aurier and Sessegnon isolated on the wings and a disorganised mess playing up top.
Keeping things simple and reverting to something resembling a 4-4-2 or some variant of it is probably the way to go.
 
PleaseNotPoll said:
I think that my main takeaway from this is Winks playing the midfield on his own, again.
Aurier and Sessegnon isolated on the wings and a disorganised mess playing up top.
Keeping things simple and reverting to something resembling a 4-4-2 or some variant of it is probably the way to go.
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433 makes so much sense and it's the option we never seem to consider

We simply can't play a two-man pivot, because every option we have has at least one weakness that is easily exploited and we've seen it happen consistently, and we'd negate that somewhat if there was a third man there to cover and mop up

Poch knew this, but the problem was he addressed it the wrong way with THAT BASTARD DIAMOND that killed any width in the team and left our FBs exposed
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
433 makes so much sense and it's the option we never seem to consider

We simply can't play a two-man pivot, because every option we have has at least one weakness that is easily exploited and we've seen it happen consistently, and we'd negate that somewhat if there was a third man there to cover and mop up
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4-3-3 requires attacking fullbacks that don't leave the defence vulnerable when they attack, though. We don't have that option.
I'd like to see us playing a back four of centre-halves, a holding midfielder and sticking Sessegnon on the left as a winger, which is what he's good at.
 
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