The College Dropout

I agree the experience of those 2 is needed. My impression of this Spurs era is that you’ve become a shit Chelsea. A young and talented squad that lacks experience and leadership. And the overall club doesn’t have a productive vision or purpose so it’s all a bit aimless and without heart. A soulless club imo. Is that a fair take?

I disagree. They had a gentleman's agreement. Wissa is in the latter half of his career and he had not earned dizzying money in his career. It was Brentford doing him dirty imo.

Imagine the wages won’t be cheap.

Yeh but he’s a right back. Udogie seems to always be injured.

How much choice do managers have these days? At most clubs, managers get what they are given. + Mateta is off and Nketiah isn't good so they need someone for right now.

Jumping ship from the Titanic seems sensible. Palace need another 10 points to stay up. Wolves need 30. I don't think Wolves are as bad as the table suggests. But it's a long way to catch Forest or Leeds

Maybe sitting out AFCON was impacting him too. Having to watch it at home but not partake - his boys did well and he was a big miss for them.

Barnes is definitely Mane like actually. Mane-lite maybe. In that both a little under-rated due to a lack of flash at their level. Quick but not the best dribblers at their level. Good off the ball movement, very composed and clinical finishers. Trent to Mane was a big reason Liverpool were resillient against deep blocks. Trent is going to find a great pass and Mane will make the run.

Aye it's that English teams can't play each other in the group stages. It may not have always been true. But now - the PL is by far the strongest league in the world overall. No other league comes close. Liverpool are 4th, Chelsea are 6th, we are 8th, Spurs are 14th in the PL - when we do win in the PL it's often by 1 or 2 goals. But in the CL when we win we are putting belt to arse. The Premier League is far harder than most CL teams. Big European teams like Bayern & PSG will start to benefit when they can rotate all their team in March to keep their best team rested and still win. PL teams can't do that.

Casemiro was better than Busquets as an all round player. For tiki taka and similar systems Busqueta is perfect and far better than Casemiro. Casemiro could play possession, could play transitional, would crash the box and come up with goals.

Casemiro's going to be a loss. Still a good player for them. Thankfully, he wasted some of his last most able years under Amorim and Ten Hag.

I genuinely think that’s where you’ve gone wrong. Never thought he was good enough technically for that level nor did he have proof of being consistently mentally excellent (movement in the box). The PL is tough man. Etikite has 8 goals. Joao Pedro has 7. Gyokeres has scored 5. It’s a tough league to go and score.

PL tax. The best team in the PL is the biggest, fastest and strongest with quality. Most other teams are similar to them, just inferior including us.

His pressing is really good aye.

Performances recently have been solid imo. He's not getting himself into good goalscoring opportunities or showing class when it matters which is an issue. But his crossing has been good, he's working hard and being a threat. He's not getting many opportunities like he did for his goal in the PL. Teams are being more direct. He's not the confidence or the ability to pull off goals like Barnes scored. I've been satisfied with him in recent weeks. But I never thought he was a top player.

Been putting in good crosses recently. That's been the best part of his game on the ball recently. Running at players and crossing.

Had a colleague from Azerbaijan that would use a brown hand emoji.

Was a meh signing for me at the time. Was more excited by Hall, Tino & Tonali. We needed more numbers in that window but PSR didn't allow it. The quality was brilliant.

Good spot. Barnes is THE man. Legend.

That leverkusen draw is a gut punch. Win there and we are basically through.

So was Roque Junior signing for Leeds. I couldn’t believe how bad he was. What about the others named?

Or…. He’s 18 and going through the usual ups and downs of a young and relatively inexperienced player. Brazilian wonderkids play a lot of football at a young age huh? Didn’t realise he had played so much mens football.

Of course. Estevao looks the few deal. It’s a lot easier to scout in Brazil these days.

Gabriel Jesus Martinelli Alvarez from Argentina Some back in the day examples too. Sylvinho, Gilberto Silva.

Why would it be related to this ?