Wtf is this ****?

Pretty happy I missed this game



Mourinho 3rd season syndrome.

A little cited fact: teams that run around a lot and have smallish squads tend to fade horribly as the season progresses. I stand by my prediction that Spurs won't finish in the top half.

Yah funny how his lack of movement disappeared when he played right back too.

It's almost like there is enough evidence to refute your argument, if you weren't the best manager on the internet.

You lucky basterd

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I doN't know what is going on with Chelsea+Mou, but I hope it never ends

i mean i watch spurs like 2x a season maybe but look elrazor bro you are now using dier's movement as a rb to refute my critique of dude's herpa derpa cluelessness as a genuine real life cm in apparently tblitw

beginning to doubt whether you really have a master's or maybe you're either really good looking or really ugly so other ppl puff up your apparent intelligence or wat here

You think Spurs will finish between 11th and 20th?

I would laugh at Fanerio speaking with authority about a team he admits to watching twice a year but the truth is the thread is full of this.

Umm, yeah didn't Spurs have a smallish squad (effectively) last season, run around a lot, played 57 games and finish 5th?

this year Spurs have a great chance of making top4...come at me

Obv just like us, they need to fade injuries(Lloris, Kane, ERIKSEN)

Spuds ran like Jesus last season, and most of their fans knew this at the time - evidenced by the refusal of Spud regs on here to make any bets at all on their team repeating such heroics this season.

Also, as you so accurately point out, Spuds didn't finish in the top four this season - which seems to be the bare minimum expected of them this season, judging by recent comments ITT.
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Spurs have looked good this season and signed well in the summer - I'm really high on Son and Alderweireld - but to think the recent runs of results is sustainable seems overly optimistic.

This is just my opinion but from what I've noticed there's been a weird tendency itt where xG becomes the truth and the only truth. Such metric is there to help understanding results, everybody knows it has value everybody (should) knows it has flaws but analytics is all about context, you use the stats to help formulating hypothesis and opinions, the stats ARE NOT the opinion by themselves. Just my 2 cents I suspect most people are aware of this but i dunno i sometimes I read stuff and I wonder if people haven't been brainwashed by Ducksauce thinking that xG will give you 100% of the answer to your questions.

Quick example : x team are yth in the table but the xG table has them as zth so since y>z x team is running good and shouldn't been at yth position.

Spurs will finish top 8 at a minimum and more then likely top 6.

Reports suggest that Cech will start against the Owls tomorrow

i reckon at some point in the not too distant future one of those new fangled computing devices will be able to spit out a number which will contain everything we need to know about how much a player contributes regardless of the position they play. identifying the talent level of a player will be a trivial matter. this will mean that effective team construction will simply be a matter of identifying good character. brendan rodgers will become the best manager of all time.

apparently chelsea will have to pay out £30m if they want to sack the liability. wonder how many tens (hundreds?) of millions they've spent on getting rid of blokes

There really is not much that indicates a regression is near, in fact, the opposite is more likely to be true.

Love lolling hapless spuds as much as the next but at the end of the day the "it's spurs guys, lolspuds" is a terrible argument. They have just been playing very well.

Gotta make sure ospina is fresh for the bayern game

He is injured otherwise I'm 100% sure he would have started, runbad for Sheffield I suppose

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Starting to suspect that his behavior has something to do with this fact. tinfoilhat.jpg-ish, but still...has to be a non-zero %

A complete guess:

Ranieri: 2 mil
TSO1: 20 mil
Grant: 5 mil
Scolari: 10 mil
Wilkins: Nothing
Hiddink: Nothing
Ancelotti: 5 mil
AVB: 10 mil
Di Matteo: 10 mil
Rafa: Nothing
TSO2: 30mil ??

In short, TSO goat.

Chelsea should just sign managers who only sign 1 year deals. Can't think of any.

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The person sweating the most on the chelsea job situation will be Jurgen from Liverpool. Thinking he might have only had to wait 4 more weeks.

That's a long list. So long, in fact, that surely it is my turn to be put in charge. To use a Sherwoodism, "I've got to be in the frame."

Roman - PM me.

avb and fat phil were half a year into multi year contracts when they got the banhammer so i think 10m is probably an underestimate in those cases, then again avb was working pretty quick soon after so they probably came to some arrangement.

anyway the solution is to just keep ranieri until he gains a reputation as the greatest managerial mind of the 21st century and asks for too much money. then hire pardew

I acknowledged that they have been playing well, and have a good first XI. I just think there is some room for regression, and believe fatigue plus the relative lack of depth in their squad may pose a problem - they're one injury away from having Fazio back in defence (unless Dier gets shifted back, I guess) and they're ultra reliant on both Kane and Eriksen.

I guess we'll see - and yes, I'm willing to bet against Spurs in some capacity.

it looks like i'll have 2.5 houses in june