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Lol.

Eze looks quick, strong and seems to strike the ball incredibly cleanly. Rare to get two of those together, let alone all three. Hope we're sniffing about if he's on sale this summer.

Possibly, though the Spurs board don't seem to have had keeping managers happy high on their list of priorities in previous windows. Levy just seems to have a mantra of always underpay and always oversell, and if either of those can't be achieved, he gets out of the market.

Think they'll both convert him into a bog standard defensive midfielder and try and get him to cut out the long range passing and shooting. He's got the energy and commitment to press and harry for 90 minutes, and if they can get him to lay the ball off simply to the likes of Gomes or Alli, he might do a job for them.

Hoj probably reasoning that the best way to get Spurs to come to the table is to show that they don't hold all the cards in his career.

Too many players in this squad who really, really can't finish.

Did anyone actually scout Vest, or did they just look at a chart with his height on it and nothing else?

We don't have the money for that. Our business model is to shop abroad and then sell on to bigger clubs. If we've screwed up recently it's been in favoring quality over quantity. Picking up players from Juventus, Bayern and elsewhere in the German league has meant paying more and not spreading our bets. We need to scout more widely and be more active looking for multiple young prospects at around the £5m mark, in addition to trying to recruit first-teamers. It's like venture capital - one Van Dijk pays for all the Juanmis and much more.

Quina at Watford looked like a promising young attacking midfielder in a few cameos last season. Would probably be a cheap addition to our attacking midfield options, with lots of potential upside depending on how he develops.

Hoj terrible. That no-pressure pass in injury time straight to a defender with the whole team ahead of him sums up his level. Just not reliable enough on the ball to interest possession-based teams. Will be very lucky if Spurs take him off us for decent money. Adams - again, his technique just isn't there, and on the evidence of the past few games, neither is the anticipation. Would gladly sell for a small loss and recruit someone else. Obafemi - first touch in the first half was as bad as I've seen. Similarly to Adams he doesn't have great technique, but he's quicker on the run and a bit sharper in the box. Fine to keep him as a sub. Smallbone - went missing first half, but actually played some decent intricate stuff from the right in the second once he had KWP getting closer to him. Can thread a pass pretty accurately with either foot and puts in a very good cross, but he's not a right winger. Vokins wasn't particularly adventurous first half, but he's clearly got decent technique.

Why have you cherry picked a single season to justify your 2012-2016 comparison? On current league goals/appearances, Armstrong is averaging a goal every 7 games and an assist every 11 games, while Davis averaged a goal every 16 games and an assist every 10 games. Davis also had the benefit of playing in a much better side.

Well, they're similar aside from Armstrong's goals and assists...

Adams' finish against City looking a bit of an outlier in terms of technique. He just doesn't generally strike the ball very well.

Why do you think that? Adams has put himself about plenty, but hasn't really shown the quality to link up meaningfully with the rest of the attack. That's basically exactly what Long offers.

Not a lot of ideas up front, and when we do have a bright idea, the execution has been rubbish (after the goal, which was a lovely cross).

Any clues as to why operating costs would suddenly jump by £30m year on year?

It began as a hashtag on Twitter and Facebook responding to the acquittal of George Zimmerman. It was subsequently taken up by three activists as the name of a foundation they established, which later turned into a global network of loosely affiliated chapters. Either way, the original hashtag had nothing to do with Marxism. So, why are you assuming that people are marching and kneeling for the organisation, and not for the sentiment that existed before it?

And yet you're eager to argue that the Okay sign isn't a white power symbol on account of its origins. In that case, you'd presumably agree that since BLM was a slogan long before it had a formal organisation around it, everything subsequent to that original meaning is irrelevant?

Strikes the ball very well and looks to have a good weight of pass.

Plenty of Saints fans have claimed the same during the darker moments of the past three seasons.

If we want to follow the Leipzig/Dortmund model, we have to start hoovering a couple of these young players from minor leagues up in the hope that a few of them will come good. You can't be a shop window club if you buy and replace on a 1:1 basis.

Hopefully he'll start connecting well with the kind of chances that come more than once per season now.

I take full credit.

That's Adams' technique for you.

You expect him to talk sh*t about a team mate? Players say all sorts of unlikely things bigging up their colleagues. As for PEH, I guess he must never have been on the field at the same time as Arjen Robben, who could run as fast or faster than long with the ball under control.