It's a garbage fire but personally not ready to join the cede all control to one person (esp. RDZ) lobby even though that is apparently the lesser of two evils rn!

Sure - seems likely RDZ will push for more control [also bad] and this seems esp. plausible if Lange diminished etc. It's bewildering to me that Lange hasn't been sacked but then they are trying to sign Andy Robertson so shrug. It's all stupid and exhausting and I'm kinda checked out too.

Yup. My only question at this point is what scenario results in said reshuffle [reshuffle is too gentle imho...would prefer a complete tear-down]. Suspect it's relegation so, you know...

#langeoutfortheloveofgod

What Tottenham have is a roster filled with explosive athletes who can run. Using their physical metrics, Gradient created an "athleticism" score that's a combo of endurance, explosiveness and speed that adjusts for position and size. It's on a 1-100 scale. Tottenham have seven players at a 90 or above and five of them -- Wilson Odobert, Lucas Bergvall, Archie Gray, Dominic Solanke, Conor Gallagher -- were signed after Johan Lange became the club's technical director in October 2023. The first four were the four outfield players signed during Lange's first summer in charge. You can't build a roster that can't pass unless you're systematically focused on a set of alternative player attributes that creates an institutional blind spot. Given that Romero -- by far their best passer -- was signed in 2021, and James Maddison, who has been injured all season but is easily their other best passer and was signed in the summer of 2023, the ignorance of what actually matters becomes even more stark.

We have been SCREAMING about this in Carty Free Slack for like two. straight. years.

Nice to see it outlined so succinctly in the major media, though.

How bad analytics built a Tottenham team that might get relegated Tottenham are really bad and looking at the way this team has been constructed, one thing clearly stands out: This team is really bad at passing the ball, and that may explain their present malaise.

I wrote about how Spurs used new some numbers terribly and ended up with a super-expensive team of players who can't pass: www.espn.com/soccer/story...

it's interesting that the person by far the most responsible for the construction of this Tottenham Hotspur team is still employed by Tottenham Hotspur

Dear @spursoffical.bsky.social, over the years I've been variously perplexed, angered, frustrated, saddened and entirely apathetic in relation to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. I have never, until now, been actively ashamed to be a supporter or have any kind of association with the club. Congrats

Fixed that for you Spurs...

I also just want the men viewing this appointment purely in sporting terms to acknowledge that that’s a privilege, to not have to think about the precedent being set by elevating a vocal abuse apologist to one of the most prominent managerial posts in the world. It’s not “just a game” for everyone.

Hey @spursoffical.bsky.social, let me know when the organisation is no longer run by rape apologist clowns. Pls and thank you.

An Open Letter to Tottenham Hotspur #NoToDeZerbi

An open letter from Managing Editor @george-miller.org to @tottenhamhotspur.com, on Roberto De Zerbi.

Text from linked article “There's a much more important difference between clanker and hu-man. A human is a bottleneck. A human cannot shit out 20,000 lines of code in a few hours. Even if the human creates such booboos at high frequency, there's only so many booboos the human can introduce in a codebase per day. The booboos will compound at a very slow rate. Usually, if the booboo pain gets too big, the human, who hates pain, will spend some time fixing up the booboos. Or the human gets fired and someone else fixes up the booboos. So the pain goes away. With an orchestrated army of agents, there is no bottleneck, no human pain. These tiny little harmless booboos suddenly compound at a rate that's unsustainable. You have removed yourself from the loop, so you don't even know that all the innocent booboos have formed a monster of a codebase. You only feel the pain when it's too late.

mariozechner.at/posts/2026-0...

Fuck this club. Absolute 🤡 @spursoffical.bsky.social

Slowly, then all at once: The Tottenham Hotspur story

Wake up babe, Vibes FC is back.

Holding up well

Oh, fuck off Vinai. Really not interested in excuses - tell us what you're going to do to fix this mess.

Not one for scapegoats and/or mono-causal explanations but there are always exceptions

Tottenham Hotspur's embarrassing collapse at Atletico Madrid is a mess of Johan Lange's making Johan Lange is the architect of Spurs' most uninspiring team in decades, and it's time to hit the reset button

there’s a lot of blame to go around at Tottenham Hotspur but friends, allow me to point you towards the real villain of the story: sporting director Johan Lange

www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...

Chris Davies is RIGHT THERE

Little nugget at the end for the lawyer watchers

Checking to see if it’s mathematically possible for Wolves to finish above us. Fuck my life and fuck this club.

That was a little bit sBethell

🙏🔝🤍

The state of it

See also.Maybe Xavi should think about passing more to Richarlison.

Gonna shock you here...we were bad before he got injured