The College Dropout

Spurs have the lowest wages-to-revenue ratio in the league. Their only issue is Spurs are a profitable club. Levy's ambition is their only serious limit. He'll spend again this summer though. He wants Spurs as a CL club for the revenues. Cue another £150m net spend and the media talking about what a wonderful job Ange is doing. We'll do well to spend the same and the media will talk about all of our investment.

We need to dance because we want the compensation money.

But that's not how it works. There's more negotiations and negotiations. It's often just a dance.

Maybe not. Some footballers love just going for the experience and the outside chance of making an appearance. Others hate it. Due to his career, I suspect he'll just want to go. From Bury to here.

I agree. But Nick Pope will want to play to prove his fitness and give himself a shot. If he's fit, he'll want to play. If he's fit and he thinks he has a shot of the squad. Not playing him might cause dressing room issues.

That's how negotiations work? This whole saga is very public. that's the only difference between us hiring Ashworth and Man U hiring him.

He will want to get back playing. He still has an outside chance of making the Euros squad. The last squad had Pickford, Ramsdale & Trafford. 2 of them don't even start regularly for their clubs. There's an argument that 3rd choice doesn't matter and you need a second choice in a similar profile to the 1st. But surely you just bring your 3 best GKs to a competition? Just for training, big Nick Pope making top saves, and claiming crosses, the other 2 have to level up.

I've always maintained Tonali is the Longstaff replacement. We don't have a progressive passer to replace Bruno and Gallagher is not him.

I reckon we would sell at £120m-£140m. His book value is down to £40m and would be looking at £80m-£100m book profit. Arsenal doesn't have that FFP bandwidth though. Even £100m doesn't help us with FFP substantially. Bruno is different. His book value is far lower so would mean a bigger FFP profit at £100m compared to Isak at £100m.

Also I think a lot of talented footballers are getting squeezed out of the game by superior athletes. I think Ollie Watkins is a great player no doubt. And Emery has refined his game and maybe actually has him running less? But one of his competitive advantages is his supreme fitness and conditioning. The way he did ESR on the weekend, none of our strikers could do that after 85+ minutes. They don't have the physical capacity/conditioning. Some of that might be tactical (less pressing from Watkins potentially) but Watkins has played so much football this season he's definitely an uber athlete. 3,715' minutes which doesn't include added time. Isak has 2,477' and is gassed by 70 minutes each match.

The human body and mind is still the human body and mind. The strikers of today and especially ours do way more intensive running than strikers of yesteryear. Back in the day, you had 2 strikers and neither pressed. And the players of today are also far more athletic. I remember Craig Bellamy and Kieron Dyer being so much faster than some of our opposition. You don't really get that anymore. The base level is so much higher.

Yesterday was pretty much curtains anyway.

EMI Martinez prevents a clean sweep of exists for PL sides. Liverpool didn’t even give it a good go.

Frimpong scores. Game over.

Drinking missed a sitter. Badly.