The College Dropout

This is correct. The key is driving long-term revenues. Gate receipts, prize money, sponsorship, TV rights. You can’t just keep flipping your best players. Where Spurs succeeded is they started qualifying for the CL regularly (and they built the stadium). The revenues from that drives everything else up. Where Leicester failed is they didn’t qualify for the CL consistently. There’s a few sliding door moments for Leicester but not getting CL in atleast one of those 2 seasons under Rodger’s are 2 of them. They did nearly everything else how it should be done.

This is not true. contract extensions further extend the amortisation cost. As in - it becomes spread over a longer term. Miggy still has an amortised cost. It’s just low at this point. I’ve shared the KDB example elsewhere on this forum. He still has an amortised cost.

Yeh I don't get it either. We need a left footed attacker imo.

Great signings great manager. I think picking up those older players is something that often works really well for teams like them. I remember under ETH Ajax broke style a bit and signed Tadic and Blind. That experience took them over the top. I think we have that with Trippier, Burn, Schar, Wilson etc. We'll lose a lot in the dressing room when you replace these with boys. But that's part of the journey. Once we've sold our young boys for big bucks like Leverkusen have done with Havertz, Diaby, Bailey etc. we reinvest with better young boys and then sprinkle the squad with some experience.

We haven't been seriously linked with any left-footed attacker since Diaby.

Spurs have ofte speculated on slightly cheaper younger players. We could do with a bit more of that.

Think there's a pretty big distinction between the 2. You think of classic 4-3-3 teams Guardiola's Barca, Rijkaard's Barca, any variation of Carlo's 4-3-3 for Madrid, Klopp's Liverpool. Very different to a 4-2-3-1. I think the makeup of the midfield 3 is very different. In a 4-2-3-1 you can carry a classic luxury #10 and he's usually a crucial man. That player is usually tasked with a lot of G/A. You can play Ozil, Bergkamp type players there. And the 2 CMs usually "sit deeper". Also i think you can get away with more traditional wingers in a 4-2-3-1, like a Ryan Giggs. Typically a 4-2-3-1 is more defensive than a 4-3-3. In a 4-3-3 there's more responsibility on the deepest midfielder and usually more athleticism required from the 8's. Crucially there's no 10. So goal creation and scoring is more dependent on the top 3 rather than being shared across 4 attackers. The profile is different imo.

In place of Almiron? IMO he's a 10 who sometimes plays wide. I *think* he would be good at 8, great profile for it. But he hasn't played there much in the PL from what I've seen. Re the Paqueta comparison. It might be down to how they're deployed but I see Paqueta almost like a downgraded-Modric. He gets stuck in but really controls the tempo of a game from the middle of the pitch. I think for a more possession-based team Paqueta would still find those progressive cute passes all over the pitch. Whenever I see MGW he's an attacker for a counter-attacking thundering around the pitch at pace. He's not dictating play or even trying too - he's trying to score and create.

Their best player every time. Michael Carrick Dimitar Berbatov Gareth Bale Luka Modric Harry Kane

Coming from Juve?

That Eales interview has done well in setting expectations in the fanbase. Spurs created their spot in the top 6 through reinvesting in player sales. It can be done if you level up everything else. We'll have to sell until we can qualify for the CL back-to-back and actually progress. Or CL (playing in Europe beyond Dec) -Europa (deep run) - CL (playing in Europe beyond Dec). That does wonders for revenue and sponsorships.

Then it's Masters.

This comparison isn't reflected in the data or the eye test for me. Gibbs-White is solid technically. Paqueta is one of the most skilful players in the league. The touch, the cuteness of pass, that's not MGW game.

Depends on if he’s hit all his bonuses. I’ve seen a max of £40m. So it would be somewhere between £20-24m. His contract extension would mean the amortisation cost is spread over a longer term. He’ll amortise between 5-6m now as opposed to 7-9m on his first contract. We’ll also save close to £8-9m in wages.

It won’t be the same because we still have a substantial amount of his fee that needs to be wiped out. But aye it will help massively.

Paqueta is very skilful and silky. Technical. MGW is very physical.

£30m is daylight robbery. You can’t stop the Saudi state. Fuck you Scudamore.

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Seems injury prone.

Yeh but it’s not his position.

He’s also right footed and not a winger. I don’t get that one at all. He’s not a Mighy replacement. Theoretically he could play 8.

€20m is higher than we would get elsewhere. But not high enough to look too dodgy.

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I think he’s here to execute a pre-existing strategy. Minteh’s and Isak’s. Maybe his strategy of going about it might be novel but broadly it has to be one way. And so far the execution has been iffy.

You think his job was to come up with the strategy or to execute it?