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I think what you're mostly getting with Tonali is out-of-possession talent plus a runner. I think it's pretty unlikely he was the right buy, but true 6 market is pretty bad.

Mitchell's reputation has long exceeded his actual record, and he has not demonstrated the ability to lead a successful analytics operation—something you're increasingly dead without. Howe may or may not be the answer, but his achievements at this club are remarkable, and I couldn't care less about Mitchell.

Both visual performances and underlying numbers this season have not been good. It's a small sample, but we're in the bottom half, and we're fortunate to have 10 points. Howe has arrested periods like this before (last season's match against Liverpool was peak dreadful), but the current environment at the club makes me worried for both him and us.

He prefers them.

Maybe we’re consuming different content but all I saw was smart people that didn’t like it. Our business over the last 12 months has currently been quite bad.

Tonali pretty clearly.

High volume of low-quality shots. We were not good, but they have issues.

additionally bad because the players we were publicly linked with, and the prices we were linked at, were mostly overpays for good-but-not-great talent. Even in a world where we buy Guehi (a better world than this) for 65mm, I’m pretty sure most PL recruitment teams are going wtf are they doing.

I have no idea. We’re missing a bunch of context. Either a Howe early season implosion or roll the dice again with a DoF. I’m not saying either is right because I’m not really sure what went so badly wrong.

It is an underrated possibility on here than Staveley went because of the PSR disaster. I would not be surprised to see action here.

I think he's like fine but he's a pretty expensive deal to do and I think the value is probably not good.

Gonna take the other side of this. Nunes was not good at wolves and his numbers have always been rubbish.

I am slightly concerned our talent ID is rapidly deteriorating.

Yeah he was a pretty obvious overpay at this point. Having no hedge is obscene.

Yeah v possible this is a de facto firing

The stats bros do not like him. This is not good for 23.

FWIW re Alli. Alderweireld and Son obviously huge hits. The others, less so. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/aug/09/tottenham-head-of-recruitment-paul-mitchell-quits-nightmare

what am I missing?

Um, probably nothing? I believe our situation will get worse when the final year of Ashley disappears from the three-year accounting period

I appreciate the faith. I hope you're right, I'm wrong.

I think this is conflating the elation of non-Ashley operating board plus probably some luck. Staveley is unlikely a great operator. I can't speak for most senior appointees or their influence, but the only one of which I share domain expertise they messed up. It's probably not that much different from most clubs.

They've clearly fucked up and deserve criticism. Nobody made us spend >100mm on Tonali and Barnes last summer.

He might be, with injuries, post-peak. He's never been a good finisher though.

He had an all-time terrible finishing season last year and underperformed his expected goals like nobody else.