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vimhawk said:
Is he the biggest loss? He hadn't scored in quite a few games before he got injured (was at least six wasn't it?) This would of course be a crisis in the media if it had happened to Kane - but since Kane was scoring in other competitions / internationals they changed the agenda for Kane to be "in the premier league". I believe (and please correct me) Lukaku hadn't scored in any type of game (or did he in an international?)
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Kane is at the centre of a media agenda - and that is to ensure all of the best players in the world are in the Premier League - but namely Manchester United, Liverpool and to a slightly lesser extent Manchester City and Chelsea.
 
District Line said:
This is somewhat inaccurate. Many people at an operative level in this league (especially at the big 6) have no qualifications when it comes to footballing matter. Woodward was a banker, Granovskaia was Abramovich's PA, Edu at Arsenal has no business qualification that I'm aware of. The average football fan may not have as much business nouse but when it comes to the sporting side of the game they are far more knowledgable than executive board members.
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You’re right about the executives, but in this case I was referring to Spurs’ Paratici and Hitchin, who definitely have the experience and the backing of a scouting network and data platforms that the average fan, no matter how knowledgable, doesn’t have.
 
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District Line said:
One of the reasons I always preferred Roma (until Mourinho went there). Di Canio said something similar when at Lazio. These types will boo the knee and cry about BLM then tell us not to bring politics into football.
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"I am a fascist, not a racist" - Paulo Di Canio. Pretty sure they're not mutually exclusive, mate.
 
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District Line said:
One of the reasons I always preferred Roma (until Mourinho went there). Di Canio said something similar when at Lazio. These types will boo the knee and cry about BLM then tell us not to bring politics into football.
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While that may be true I’m sure there was an incident a few years back where we played away at Lazio, Spurs fans were attacked by Roma fans. IIRC people got stabbed. One of the few times their fans united, in the name of antisemitism.

Found the article: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/20551222

Roma fans outside the ground, Lazio fans inside.
 
The Huddlefro said:
While that may be true I’m sure there was an incident a few years back where we played away at Lazio, Spurs fans were attacked by Roma fans. IIRC people got stabbed. One of the few times their fans united, in the name of antisemitism.

Found the article: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/20551222

Roma fans outside the ground, Lazio fans inside.
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Italy as a whole still has plenty of problems with fascism.
Mussolini's granddaughters (plural) becoming successful fascist politicians, for example.
 
Citizen Kane. said:
You're measuring success on goals scored only. There are far more measurables at play. Even having a natural striker to avoid having to play other players out of position (e.g. Son, Lucas and Dele all "leading the line" at various points) has a lot to be said for it. What we've done in the past is essentially weakening two spots in the team at the same time.

I thought Okazaki and Ulloa were highly useful players. They certainly kept defenders busy and - more importantly - allowed the likes of Mahrez and Vardy to rest when needed.

Llorente only scored a handful of goals for us, but take him out of the equation and we don't make it to the CL final. Simple as that. In fact we don't make the semi final either. He cost us £11m. The CL run brought in eight times that amount.

Arsenal are the only other "big" club who have neglected to bring in back up for their main striker and unsurprisingly they've struggled.
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And yet Leicester have three strikers on the books and what are they doing right now? Struggling

And this is the point: it doesn't matter how many strikers a team has if the same one is getting picked every single week and the understudies only get runouts in the cups, because that's what we did with Vinicius last season and that didn't prevent Kane getting his annual ankle injury, yet when Kane was out did Vini get a run of league games? Did he buggery
 
I think what stands out for me is that if I was that consistently performed so poorly and unprofessionally in my job I would be sacked.

Some players know they won't be sacked so do not give a ****.

Dele is living proof of this.

Other players have been taught to hide behind excuses that wouldn't wash in the real world.

Sanchez, Winks Bergwijn and Lo Celso are examples of that.

Both issues are compounded by their eye watering wages which lead them to not worrying about needing to turn things around cos they will never want for anything so in the end it does not matter if they do not try their best.

Their is no way I believe those players were giving 100% ... if they were then the club should be recognising they are now appalling footballers and get rid of them, even if they have to give them free transfers.

At least we'd have freed up their wages!
 
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humanbeingincroydon said:
A bunch of people moaning that we didn't bring him in during the summer, even though those same people were ****ting on Fonseca when we were linked with him in the summer?
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To be fair I bet if they knew they were gonna end up with Nuno they would’ve brought out the “Welcome Fonseca” signs outside WHL at the time of being linked with him.
 
Well done Spurs management. Sending boys to do a mans job.Performed like we did in the CL Final a few years ago......forgot to turn up.Better turn up against West Ham!!!!
 
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remembercolinlee said:
I think what stands out for me is that if I was that consistently performed so poorly and unprofessionally in my job I would be sacked.

Some players know they won't be sacked so do not give a ****.

Dele is living proof of this.

Other players have been taught to hide behind excuses that wouldn't wash in the real world.

Sanchez, Winks Bergwijn and Lo Celso are examples of that.

Both issues are compounded by their eye watering wages which lead them to not worrying about needing to turn things around cos they will never want for anything so in the end it does not matter if they do not try their best.

Their is no way I believe those players were giving 100% ... if they were then the club should be recognising they are now appalling footballers and get rid of them, even if they have to give them free transfers.

At least we'd have freed up their wages!
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Makes you wonder why the "players?" got on the plane to Holland anyway. Were they looking forward to a visit to the Red Light District and piss on the game?! Hope none of our fans wasted their money.....?
 
bigsmithy9 said:
Makes you wonder why the "players?" got on the plane to Holland anyway. Were they looking forward to a visit to the Red Light District and piss on the game?! Hope none of our fans wasted their money.....?
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Can you imagine if you paid to see that performance?? <yikes>
 
bigsmithy9 said:
Makes you wonder why the "players?" got on the plane to Holland anyway. Were they looking forward to a visit to the Red Light District and piss on the game?! Hope none of our fans wasted their money.....?
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Would’ve been the better way to have spent their money last night!
 
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