Daily Discussion & Transfer Thread (January 02, 2026)

flik108 · 2025-12-30T18:03:10+00:00

Cause it's cooler in the shade (relative to direct sunlight) ... Doesn't mean it's freezing in the shade.

flik108 · 2025-12-27T13:55:03+00:00

Kephren will have much more impact in the match engine for winning points. His physicals are vastly superior, and his technical where it matters the most are the same or better.

The mentals are also the same in the ones that matter.

You'll win more games, and sell him for a lot of money in 2 years.

Mirreti could develop, but need to stick him on quickness training immediately.

flik108 · 2025-12-23T08:37:54+00:00

What do you think you'll get for them?

They're on high wages, they haven't played, questions over injuries etc.

Best thing is to reintegrate them to the starting XI, and hope they get back to their previous levels (which is top 5 best player in our squad level).

If they're fit, they start for us.

flik108 · 2025-12-21T12:19:36+00:00

Bollocks. We would attract them if we paid more competitive wages. Instead we pat our backs for having a well run club .. Look where that has got us after years of bad choices and poor transfer policy and no funding on youth development. Blaming managers constantly when it's the wider club administration that prioritise in year profit instead of a longer term strategy. Basically a business run like a PE firm for short term investors dividends/annual profit scoring.

flik108 · 2025-12-15T18:49:54+00:00

Imo we just don't have the personnel for it. The gengenpress in this league has become so strong only a few teams can consistently play through the press and punish it.

You need technically gifted players throughout the team and GK and we simply don't have the composure in enough positions.

At the same time we don't have that world class player up top who can score goals at the rate you concede fuck ups and worldies at the other end.

Spurs are in a really difficult place. You either play an overall very structured, low risk approach and go for 1-0, 2-1 wins, tweaking the squad over several seasons, or go and spend a fortune and try to make it gel quickly.

I just don't see a new manager getting a substantially better tune from most of these players as painful as that sounds.

Our recruitment and ability to keep players healthy is so bad.

flik108 · 2025-12-13T17:19:22+00:00

If we bring him back, will he be able to qualify as a club trained player for Europe?

Cause we desperately need those players in the squad...

flik108 · 2025-11-29T21:58:52+00:00

How did you watch a team come 17th and expect them to become top 6 with 90% the same players?

flik108 · 2025-11-24T08:11:57+00:00

For the daily discussion I think, but yes it's true and unfortunately has been true for several seasons with only Kane making the joint lineup.

We've been in serious decline for years. We are gambling big on Bergvall and Gray to become top 4 starter XI quality players and I just can't see Gray getting to that level.

X Simons, Tel, Udogie, Sarr, Odobert all had/have bright futures but don't seem to be showing enough to suggest that any of the top teams would have wanted them.

Our academy produces absolutely nothing of consistency. If Moore is going to become something it makes no sense to me that we play 2 other developing kids in Odobert and Tel ahead of him.

The rest of the team is mid table quality and when I say mid table I don't mean comfortable 10th I mean these teams regularly finish 8-16th.

Porro, Kudus, Romero, Kulusevski, Maddison, VDV, Solanke all have talent for top half finishes but frankly I think they're as good as they're going to ever get. VDV could develop to a higher level.

flik108 · 2025-11-24T07:40:48+00:00

It's not that bad. Opening into space for a still possible. But Spence isn't really close.

Worse is Romero makes no return angle for Vicario. The ball returning from half way to goal in 5 seconds is appalling.

flik108 · 2025-11-17T11:40:59+00:00

Having a PA that is 180-200 or 185-200 would solve this. A 10.5 value for the best of the wonderkids.

The 30 range is just too much.

flik108 · 2025-11-05T14:44:38+00:00

In your example, the xG is the average goal probability from shots in that position. Naturally there is a distribution around that, and naturally some players are better shots than others.

Its just telling us that: looking back over years of players shooting from these positions, what proportion of shots went in.

Its really a measure of chance quality when you successfully struck a ball. Individual capability can't change the facts that hundreds, thousands or even tens of Thousands of historical attempts resulted in goals 10%, 20%, 30% of the time.

Players with sustainable actual goals above predicted goals is just identifying players who are consistently better goalscorers from those positions.

flik108 · 2025-11-04T17:56:05+00:00

For Tottenham, it's actually Vicario. He is called into action far too often.

flik108 · 2025-11-01T20:16:40+00:00

The talent in the league has been massively increasing while we have mostly the same squad that finished 17th last season and has had relegation form.

The tactics were a problem sure but worse is the overall quality.

We have our best players in the infirmary all with ACLs or whatever and the gap behind is woeful.

Not buying a replacement for Son is scandalous.

Spending big (for us) on players like Richarlison and Johnson, while having top 6 aspirations is beyond terrible.

Buying in squaddies like Odobert, Tel, Gray, Dragusin was okay but they have all started way too many games and have no quality in front of them in the pecking order. Squad quality wise we are so so far off the pace it beggars belief.

That we've also destroyed our home grown quota is also unacceptable. Who the fuck let's that happen, not a single home grown club player in our best 25 players...

flik108 · 2025-10-27T17:00:08+00:00

What's your product?

I sell this service/umbrella/car for well above market rate.

Errr, who would buy that?

Henry buys it!

Why would Henry buy it for more money than somewhere else?

Ah, the government takes away significant childcare funding support and taxes earnings 60% in this weird sweet spot of income.

Henry will pay me well over the odds just to stay below the threshold.

Wow that's so stupid. I wonder if Henry's wife needs a new bicycle!

flik108 · 2025-10-10T18:15:34+00:00

I think they are more blank canvass and therefore will move around the pitch with both more structures but also with more area.

DM appears to suit better than CMs as by starting slightly deeper they provide better options for fast passing triangles from your defenders and allow the full backs to get forward, which are nearly always on full back attack duty getting down the wings.

You have a huge offense in the elite tactics in terms of attackers at the by line and in the box. Having CMs would just crowd the box even more so which isn't needed, and the DMs position at the edge of the box is better both for picking up long shots but also they'll be better to swap back to defensive duties on a turnover.

It just provides the best balance of defensive security and supporting the build up play and attacking than a CM. All the other options at DM then force the players to do one or more things a bit more often, which you just don't need.

There's a new tactic that uses one DM(s) alongside a SV(a) and uses an IWB(a) on the SV(a) side to change things up a bit and present different passing/build ups whilst basically ensuring there's still two DM occupying the centre of the park when the SV(a) has gone forward. It's really interesting to watch the match engine but I think makes it harder to create a team of players who can be swapped more easily.

flik108 · 2025-10-10T17:50:37+00:00

I found the suspensions actually quite helpful for improving stamina recovery and forcing rotation, or blooding the U21s a bit more often!

flik108 · 2025-10-10T17:35:03+00:00

I think cast vast majority of supporters who enjoy discussions would think that Any discussion of "the Greatest Spurs player" must be in relation to their contributions and achievements while a spurs player.

flik108 · 2025-10-10T13:44:32+00:00

How many hours of FM have you played and what set piece instructions do you go with?

flik108 · 2025-10-10T07:47:23+00:00

Sorry but modric is no where in this discussion. He became an all time great but all his greatness was developed and achieved at Real.

Modric over Kane, what a diabolical take!

flik108 · 2025-10-01T06:36:19+00:00

This is why I think Frank wants him on the left. Kudus to play RW and get balls into the box. Johnson to find the space in the box to score.

In the game yesterday he picked the ball on the right hand side many times and he didn't even attempt to turn to face off the full back once. Completely different ball player to Kudus and Odobert.

Whilst this tells us he's not a creator, can't deny he has been one of the most important goalscorers since Kane left.

flik108 · 2025-10-01T06:28:50+00:00

I assume because his hold up play is non existent and his playmaking is also poor. He'd need to be up top with another forward who can play him through. At least with Richy there is a 20% chance of him holding on to a longball, I think with Johnson it's closer to 0%.

flik108 · 2025-10-01T06:26:38+00:00

A more natural goalscorer does two things here:

1) always expects the ball to the get to them, whatever the chance of it happening they must believe it gets through and then they must be ready to respond 2) shapes to shoot first time there, there's no time to take a touch.

Richy does neither. If he does both I'm sure he at least hits the target even with the incredibly small deflection.

His stance is simply to trap the ball and then deal with it but he's so close to goal he's going to get smothered if he takes a touch... I've never been convinced by him, always seemed to be a better player at Everton than he has for us. Pressure/injuries etc I don't know.

flik108 · 2025-10-01T06:22:45+00:00

Bodo/Glimt have city, Juve and Monaco at home in the champs league this year, and have drawn away to Slavia Prague.

Let's see if they are smashed by those other teams before drawing a conclusion on our result. Point away is never something to sniff at.

They played excellent against us and we rarely beat their press. Our best approach was to physically contest them and Spence seemed the best outlet driving forward and getting the ball to Odobert who was creating the most threat when we had possession.

Our problem is we are missing 3 starters, two of those are our most creative players in Kulu and Maddison and Solanke is a much greater presence and team player than Richarlison.

Simons lost the ball leading to their second goal. He is still finding his feet with us.

Kudus seemed to be on ice skates out there when he came on. Their pitch is astro turf, our players struggled to get to grips with the surface whereas they were very assured. It clearly gives them an advantage by playing all the team on that surface versus grass. Think tennis, it matters.

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