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The Extra Inch (Spurs Podcast)

S10E5 The Sonny Side

@barditei.bsky.social, @nathanaclark.bsky.social and @windycoys.bsky.social pay tribute to a Spurs legend.

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That Maddison injury has really spun me out man.

lmao whoops

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Replacing Hojbjerg with the aggregate @barditei.bsky.social

(See thread)

He also wasn't especially good the season before... and was placed in the team of the season 🤷

Odobert is definitely, definitely doing a lot better in the championship than Solomon did

... what?!?

Very significant factor

aye

I think it was obvious and I spoke on it at length at the time

The problem is that the poorer players are far too poor

I don't think he knows this.

Got pretty unlucky with Bissouma on that front too

The big turkish clubs have decided money isn't real and they can actually just buy top end peak age players instead

He's also cited Aston Villa's impressive sales numbers, which... exist because they've overspent themselves into rule breaching territory and been forced into offloading key players that they did not want to lose, arguably below market value.

Chelsea offloading a dozen high wage unwanted players to the Saudi league is not a skill that other clubs can simply acquire.

They've been immensely - even suspiciously - lucky that they've been bailed out in this manner, and they're probably still going to have some issues.

These longer term low sales numbers come after a period of time in which Mourinho and Conte were head coaches for a collective four years and demanded the purchase of 'experienced' (post-peak) players, some of whom were simply not very good.

This summer Spurs are unlucky that Solomon, Gil and Dragusin are injured and therefore can't really be moved on.

But none of them should have been brought in the first place.

Law here blames 'unrealistic valuations' and 'failure to effectively identify the best time to cash in' and, yes, probably those are factors but the simple truth of why Spurs have had a hard time bringing in money from sales is simply the quality of players they've had to sell.

The latter, I am afraid

Minutes anywhere >> being 5th choice in one role

I'm not concerned with this, personally

With the performances of Danso and Vuskovic + Takai in the squad I think we're probably okay at LCB.

And with Spence, VdV and Gray all decent options at LB I'm not too worried about that position right now.

Would only entertain Cirkin (club trained) given registration issues.