Spurs have a lot of squad depth, but it is the quality that is just not there. Take away the strongest Spurs first XI and Spurs always struggle.

I would take Mundle out. He looks like he is off. Replace Donley with Parrott and move Dorrington to CCB.

Can't see Danjuma and Lenglet being here next season either.

A lot of young guys that aren't near the first team don't count as depth.

In reality once you account for the likelihood you will move to a 4-2-3-1 like most of the rest of the teams and move on deadwood, loans etc and don't include players that are not first team players it's more like

GK Forster
LB Udogie
CB Davies /
CB Romero / Dier
RB Porro / Spence
CM Bissouma / Hojbjerg
CM Bentancur / Skipp
LW Son / Perisic
AM
RW Kulusevski
FW Kane? / Richarlison

A startling lack of strength in depth imo

As you noted the critical issue has been these inflexible frauds of managers we have employed, that demand the club spend vast amounts of £ instead of playing systems that suit the players available to them, even calling them out as being weak

comment by sandy, golden boot winner fa cup 1901 (U20567)
posted 35 minutes ago
Spurs have a lot of squad depth, but it is the quality that is just not there. Take away the strongest Spurs first XI and Spurs always struggle.
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This. Isn't quality the foremost thing people have in mind when people talk about squad depth, rather than merely the number of bodies available for each position?

A quality central midfield to boss the football and the defence would start to look better imo, obviously some of the defenders need upgrading but a top quality midfield is just as urgent

Trouble is that all the second lines of players in your article are gash compared to the first, and that’s even with half the first ones not being great.

comment by FFS Mike. (U1170)
posted 5 minutes ago
Trouble is that all the second lines of players in your article are gash compared to the first, and that’s even with half the first ones not being great.
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Yeah for me the important aspect is replacing the members of the 1st team that need improving and therefore in doing so you also improve back up squad players. No more squad filler signing.

New starting CB (Dier/Davies go to bench)
New starting GK (Hugo moves on)
New starting creative CM (Hjojberg/Skipp go to the bench)

The squad depth myth is a myth.

Doesn't really count as squad depth when all the players are sheite

comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 3 hours, 45 minutes ago
Doesn't really count as squad depth when all the players are sheite
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Well they are not all sheite, otherwise they would be bottom of the table. Strongest first XI is not bad.

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comment by sandy, golden boot winner fa cup 1901 (U20567)
posted 39 minutes ago
comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 3 hours, 45 minutes ago
Doesn't really count as squad depth when all the players are sheite
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Well they are not all sheite, otherwise they would be bottom of the table. Strongest first XI is not bad.
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Exactly. Richarlison is Brazils no.9, Danjuma was in last years champions league team of the season with 6 goals. Perisic was a star at the world cup. But some fans think this back up

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If you try and categorise our players from world class, to top class, to good, and then anything below that, there are too few that would actually make the top 2 tiers of that ordering. Kane would be world class, and maybe you'd make the case for Son despite a less than stellar season. Then Bentancur, Romero and Kulu in the top class bracket, with Kulu and even Romero being made the case for despite less than stellar seasons. That's all you have with possible question marks against some. Nowhere near good enough.

When you think of peak Spurs under Poch, the top 2 tiers would have been filled near enough by the whole first team.

comment by Tarrico_sees_red (U5595)
posted 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
comment by Ioavirgo (U10470)
posted 33 minutes ago
comment by sandy, golden boot winner fa cup 1901 (U20567)
posted 39 minutes ago
comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 3 hours, 45 minutes ago
Doesn't really count as squad depth when all the players are sheite
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Well they are not all sheite, otherwise they would be bottom of the table. Strongest first XI is not bad.
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Exactly. Richarlison is Brazils no.9, Danjuma was in last years champions league team of the season with 6 goals. Perisic was a star at the world cup. But some fans think this back up
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Richy is poor - don’t tell me running around a lot and a bit sheite hosiery makes a player

Danjuma - who knows

Perisic is too old and was a converted wind back from a forward. No chance he could play WB in the prem. could maybe play midfield for one more year.

Those three players are weird ones to pick to prove we have decent players🤣🤣🤣
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Decent back up not starters

comment by Tarrico_sees_red (U5595)
posted 3 hours, 12 minutes ago
The only player I’d be disappointed to leave is Kane.

The squad is sheite
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Some fans think real life is FIFA. Let the same fans ridiculing our attacking options show us what the rest of the league have.

There are two players in the first XI who are unarguably good enough for a side chasing a Champions League spot (Kane, Bentancur).

There's maybe four others who are good enough on their day but wouldn't be guaranteed starts for other top-4 sides (Son, Romero, Kulusevski, Bissouma).

There are at least three who are actively bad at this level in their given positions now (Dier, Lloris, Perisic).

The rest are somewhere between mediocre and average-with-a-bit-of-potential.

All this thread proves is that the squad is bloated with crap. The only argument that Spurs "have squad depth" is the fact that they literally have enough players on their books to fill a squad. That's not what anyone means when they say that phrase.

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comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 5 hours, 15 minutes ago
There are two players in the first XI who are unarguably good enough for a side chasing a Champions League spot (Kane, Bentancur).

There's maybe four others who are good enough on their day but wouldn't be guaranteed starts for other top-4 sides (Son, Romero, Kulusevski, Bissouma).

There are at least three who are actively bad at this level in their given positions now (Dier, Lloris, Perisic).

The rest are somewhere between mediocre and average-with-a-bit-of-potential.

All this thread proves is that the squad is bloated with crap. The only argument that Spurs "have squad depth" is the fact that they literally have enough players on their books to fill a squad. That's not what anyone means when they say that phrase.
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Perisic with 12 assists is bad??

Yeah Perisic isn't actively bad at all. I think he spelled Sanchez wrong

He is an actively bad premiership left wing back.

Not gonna lie, completely forgot about Sanchez but he's hardly a sign of good squad depth at Spurs.

Picking a single player hardly disproves my point anyway