Squad size

These are the reasons people hate the way ENIC run the club.

We have the lowest wage amongst our "rivals".

Whether this will change once new investment is agreed who knows?

But I've read plenty reports online saying by lowering wages as much as possible the club becomes much more "attractive" to potential new owners, who would then pay close to what they want to sell the club.

That's frankly outrageous!

A few called it in the summer: why did we get rid of so many players knowing that we had more matches this season with Europe, and last season we burnt out with only 41 matches played - only 1 game more than lowest possible.

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Because we are spurs, where stupidity happens on a regular basis.

comment by ●Billy The Spur● LEVY OUT- ENIC OUT! (U3924)
posted 4 hours, 10 minutes ago
Apparently today is the 4th time in a row we have failed to win on a Sunday following a Europa game.

There is our problem right there, and kind of drop off / fatigue / lack of rotation and Ange ball does not work.
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Doesn’t bode well considering we have Thursday - Sunday for the next 8 games.

Dreading next week v Chelsea. Fancy us to get slapped about v Bournemouth too.

comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 7 hours, 49 minutes ago
comment by BISS Bash BOSSED (U8366)
posted 50 seconds ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 1 minute ago
If any of the player we sold started would anyone be happy with that?

Gio maybe but let’s be honest he’d be injured by now and doesn’t start over madders or kulu anyway who both played apart today
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Yes true, so we should have signed more players no? Hoijberg could have been helpful to manage the squad games.

Anyway, Ange is the one blaming squad size himself


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I thought it was a poor summer window but the outs were the only positive.

I wanted two more forwards ie Eze & another plus a Left option CB/LB but that won’t happen until Davies goes and the fact we are giving him another year will put that on hold again
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Davies is playing damned well right now...best of his career. We're lucky to have him!

Whos fault it this? Did Ange saction it? Its not even like we made good money on most of the outgoings…
** No faaakin Idea!

Is this also a fault with our gung ho style? Eg VDV and his hamstrings due to 99999 last ditch tackles. Does Ange need to adapt?
* Yes, but that will never happen, Mate! VDV is unreliable, good when fit, but only one match per week.

Poor performance today, in part due to absentees, but we are inconsistent regardless. I think the league is a write off boys, just gotta hope we can get a cup.

* Squad we put on field today was good enough to win this match, and should have won this match.

* Fulham consistently hit our high line when we went uppfield, they booted the ball downfield and won the footraces. Porro had a torrid time on the right side.
And eventually the inevitable happened....they scored!

* Aussieglue will never learn.

we still struggle to be able to buy new players because of a squad imbalance with non-homegrown, club trained players etc for the europa league especially

the amount of absentees at the moment is just ridiculous though you cant really expect to manage that, even better squads than us struggle with comparable players missing

some of it does fall on management though

notably, the full backs are knackered as we havent used Gray (i know young but very expensive investment) and Spence enough in the league to spread minutes around

then senior players like Bissouma, Sarr, Maddison, Son and BJ also are not able to up it when you have a bit of an injury crisis

Not sure what the point of Archie gray is. 40 million for a player that Ange doesn’t start even with so many injuries

Bergvall is miles off a premier league player right now too

Two transfer windows and only one genuine first team starter signed

Enic innit

comment by BISS Bash BOSSED (U8366)
posted 18 hours, 58 minutes ago
5 first team injuries (not including Bentancur, Solanke is just ill and Moore is a kid and not first team).

If 5 injuries kills us then its a squad size issue. + richarlison is a sicknote who we tried to sell and I would bet we wouldn’t have replaced anyway.

And VDV, Deki are a direct result of overplaying/high line due to Ange


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8 absentees. Doesn't matter if they are ill injured fatigued etc. We could barely rotate mid week and straight into another PL with mainly the same players with little option to change it up.

Of all the games to moan about, the circumstances of this one makes it far more understandable why we may have an off day. Not excuses vs Ipswich, even less vs Palace, and neither of those were squad issues, just poor performances.

Fulham was not a great performance, just about an acceptable result in the circumstances. I don't think it points to any wider issue.

That said, wr all knownthat the squad is still a work in progress and it's gonna take at least the next 2 windows to feel like our squad is more bullet proof.