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This is the fun bit of the off-season -- the hope! Wondering how your squad will look, welcoming new players, waving off old players who you're a bit sick of.
- WindyCOYS
- 3 minute read
- 16th July 2021 at 11:14
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Each year I write about the 25-man squad and the implications of the home grown players rule and how it will impact on Spurs' transfer strategy. The home grown player numbers could impact on how many signings Fabio Paratici can make, the nature of those signings and/or the size of our squad for the rest of the season.
- WindyCOYS
- 4 minute read
- 16th July 2021 at 09:25
- 1 comment
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Nuno Espírito Santo is our new Head Coach (note, not Manager). Spurs have managed to make me feel relieved and somewhat excited about an appointment which, until a few days ago, would have felt pretty bland, uninspiring and out of kilter with the expectations which Daniel Levy so publicly set (“free-flowing, attacking and entertaining” football / promoting young players).
- WindyCOYS
- 8 minute read
- 2nd July 2021 at 10:38
- 2 comments
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When a new coach is appointed I find that the really fun part is to speculate as to which players already at the club would fit the coach's system, which youth players might get a look-in, and which areas he would need to prioritise in terms of adding new players. It's nice to look forward, to translate the squad over a coach's assumed system and to consider how that might go.
- WindyCOYS
- 14 minute read
- 12th June 2021 at 13:45
- 19 comments
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"Paulo Fonseca", I thought to myself, "what do I know about him?". Not a great deal. So I thought I'd better do some digging before I formed an opinion. I've done this via a number of methods, and I'll take you through my process step-by-step and then, at the end, we can have a think together about how we feel about his apparently-imminent appointment.
- WindyCOYS
- 8 minute read
- 10th June 2021 at 21:11
- 32 comments