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The 2019/2020 season is over, time to look for the next one

There are a couple of ways of deciding how to approach the recruitment:
1. Look at what the club did in the past and if successful then tweak it a little
2. Look at what other more successful clubs did and copy their approach and tweak it a little
3. Something else

The previous approach:
https://www.planetfootball.com/quic...ottenham-have-made-under-mauricio-pochettino/
Possibly it can be tweaked, just be better at selecting the signing. However, it is not easy to find the underpriced...

Final match of the season and once that is over then and only then look towards next season?
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/53460586

Dier back from suspension, is he good enough to take a place in the back four?
Alli fit again, is he good enough to take a place somewhere in the starting eleven?
Ndombele injured again....
For me: Same starting eleven as last match.

This type of match is one where I'd half expect to see Spurs helping the other team reverse their trend. In this case it would mean allowing Crystal Palace to score, which they've rarely done in the past 7...

It seems that I am assigned the duty/pleasure of creating match-threads

A reverse of this fixture:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/49385203
The Newcastle striker and record-signing Joelinton scored against a soft Spurs-defence. Seeing how he scored made me concerned for the season. The number of goals he scored since in the league is 1 (one), he appears benched now so all in all maybe allowing him the space and time to attempt to score was a calculated risk. Or, more likely, the Spurs defence was simply just bad.

It will be interesting to see Bentaleb, I have the...

There seems to be a discussion about if:
-Mourinho inherited a team playing exciting football and he has turned that team into what we have seen these past couple of weeks
-Mourinho inherited something else

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The manager who once was seen as a possible Spurs manager against the one who became a Spurs manager? Bad attacking against bad defending? Or will the players who seem to have the skills for great attacking make an appearance?

Players showed some passion yesterday, the keeper who was once close to winning the golden gloves made it clear that lack of defensive effort was not acceptable (any longer?). Maybe more clean sheets might be the result?
Or was it possibly staged for some reality tv?

I didn't see the match yesterday so not sure what team to play in the next match.
Possibly it is...