Gareth Thomas

Author of An Echo of Glory: Tottenham Hotspur in the 21st Century
Featured in @thesefootytimes

[Gareth Thomas @gareththomas54]

@BardiTEI @nottm_forest If it’s anything like the Brentford one I’m looking forward to this. Going to learn a lot about the Premier League this season.

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@RKTweets The risk is if Mudryk and Tel are as bad as each other and we have no output from the left wing.

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@simonyemane Yeah can’t fault the pursuit of Gakpo and Ndiaye. What’s poor is that there is no plan C.

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@vkon1 So 4 years ago.

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Turns out Barcola to Liverpool allows Liverpool to sell Gakpo to City only to change their minds because they don’t have a replacement 🙄

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Ferran to PSG allows Barcola to Liverpool which allows Gakpo to Spurs?

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@jonesy23 @ProN17_ Didn’t they just sign Barcola?

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@AlasdairGold Does that mean Spurs have no buy option on Mudryk? Poor business if we are rehabilitating him with no option of buying him for cheap at the end of it, just drums the price up for Chelsea as he still has 5 years on his contract.

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Want to be optimistic about Mudryk but he really has done nothing at Chelsea to suggest he’s an upgrade on Tel. Hope we at least get a buy option with a huge discount just in case he does turn out good.

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@xAlexTHFC Same here tbh. He certainly shows maturity beyond his years, but so did Winks and Skipp.

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@NathanAClark @SeanDZWalsh That makes sense because Everton want Grealish as the replacement. They swap Ndiaye for Grealish and use the money to invest in a better striker than Beto. Ndiaye is going to go to City now in any case.

[Gareth Thomas @gareththomas54]

Same reason he was good under Conte. Let him play a simple short passing game and he will do it a lot better than most.

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Why is Bentancur… actually good?

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@x_sammyyyy Richy and Gallagher just standing there getting marked out of the game completely nullified our entire system.

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@matthayesthfc Is that Van Hecke getting mugged by Bergvall? 😂

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@NathanAClark Is it just that Richarlison is terrible receiving with his back to goal or should his teammates be getting closer to him to help him out here? Whenever Brentford played long they always had someone there to pick up the second ball.

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@jonoblain No obligation to buy if we get relegated 😉

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@world_classe The whole point of De Zerbi ball is to play through the press and find the striker but there’s no point if the striker goes down and loses the ball every time.

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@mitch_fretton Even if we are left with no backup at right back?

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@MartinCloake No cockerel on the shirt would be a travesty.

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@The_Kitsman I think no actual zip, just ugly.

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@NathanAClark Robertson won’t need to track back beyond the halfway line with Tonali and VdV on his side of the pitch.