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One of the Toon lads on the Prem board sounded delighted that Rose said he wants to be here next season with us so make of that what you will about how he performed for them, lol.

For me, regardless of the interview and things been said, he's just not at the required level any more. We already have far too many mediocre players at the club at the moment, we really don't need another hanging about.

I truly thank the guy for his service, for a spell he was a brilliant player but like with everyone, their time comes and goes and his is as good as gone for me.

 

Yeah all the Newcastle fans I know have been less than complimentary about him as well. Scathing on Bentaleb as well, who tbh I’d forgotten was even there, which says a lot.

 

The quality of the EL since Spurs were last in it seems to have decreased.
How often has a team akin to the strength of 2016 Dortmund appeared at
as a QF opponent ??

 

They got knocked out by a team that were worse than West Ham and Southampton...

 

Atleti dropped into it a couple years back and won it, they had an unreal team that underperformed in the CL. Chelsea and Utd have had pretty decent sides when they won it too.

I think the Europa has maintained a decent level of quality for what it’s worth. The bonus of CL qualification for the winners has probably added a more competitive nature too it now as well.

 

Yeah it’s just the group stages where there’s utter dross. Watch us **** it up now I’ve said that!

 

Spurs EL group stage in 2015-16 was quite strong (nothing like 2013-14 for example) .

 

This season you're looking at Napoli, Roma , Lille, Villareal and Milan .

 

La Liga: Villarreal, Real Sociedad, Granada
Bundesliga: Leverkusen, Hoffenheim, Wolfsburg
Serie A: Roma, Milan, Napoli
Ligue 1: Lille, Nice, Reims
Eredivisie: Feyenoord, PSV, Willem II
Primeira Liga: Braga, Sporting, Rio Ave

Suddenly a group stage against teams from Norway, Slovakia and Belarus doesn't seem so bad...

 

Anderlecht and Monaco, plus the dodgy trip to Azerbaijan to play Carrier Bag?
I think that the 13/14 group was just particularly easy.
Two perennially crap sides and one formerly rich club who just lost all of their money.

Wolves' group this season is more typical, I think, especially with their lack of club coefficient points.
Braga and Besiktas are experienced European sides, while Slovan Bratislava aren't going to cause them much trouble.
The Turks somehow managed to finish bottom, though!

 

Love this news

Gets some experience working with Jose and hopefully will be the next manager

 

Saving a few bob on international travel and hotels.

 

Is there any way to suggest that, as Google announced our pre-season games before we did, they have to make it up to us by paying the naming rights to our stadium?

 

https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/2020/august/academy-coaching-update/

Looks like the post-McDermott reshuffle is complete

 

The key part of this is the following sentence

A highly respected former player, coach and manager with a wealth of experience in the Premier League and Football League, Chris (Powell) joins us as Head of Coaching, Under-17 to Under-23.

A regular criticism from the last 2-3 seasons is that as soon as a player graduated from the U18s their development hit a brick wall, barring players who were training with the first team such as Skipp or Parrott, so if Powell manages to help bridge that gap he will be invaluable especially for players such as White, Bowden, Cirkin, Fagan-Walcott etc who are in the U18-U23 transition period right now

 

Charlton legend. His removal was around the start of their current downfall, IIRC. They could really do with him back now.

 

The club at the minimum needs to get back to the pre-Pochettino
level of academy pipeline.

 

Getting Chris Powell for our academy is a huge coup. Very well respected football man, both as a player and manager/ coach, tons of experience to bring to the fold.

We seem to be developing a thing for hiring either former Spurs players (Ledley, Mason, Archibald-Henville, think Anton Blackwood still does Spurs coaching abroad and with the women too) as well former non-Spurs players who are big Spurs fans (Powell, Matty Taylor). Not forgetting we had Scotty Parker and Rob Birch too before they left for Fulham. Always think it's good getting in people that know the game at various levels, from the Prem to League Two, it's all beneficial to the current players.

I saw Nigel Gibbs left again, this time to Cercle Brugge, he only rejoined us last summer, guy loves moving around lol. Think it's about 8 clubs in probably 10-15 years.