THFC Talk on Friday 19th November
THFC Talk on Friday 19th November
Good morning (or whatever time it is where you are when you read this) from Tottenham Hotspur Blog News (THBN), in my biased opinion the best Spurs blog of the Spurs blogs out there on the Internet.
Right, what can be avail you with on your Tottenham Hotspur blog today, Friday 19th November?I am currently working on some other website so have delved into some keyword research in those markets that has been and will be very useful.
While using the tool I though I throw in Tottenham and see what suggestions it came up with.
I have never bothered with keyword research for this blog as it's always been a bit of fun, I do it because I enjoy it, so my writing style is haphazard, not constrained by being a slave to keywords.
What did this tool suggest (that's a piece of software, not one of my readers!)?
- Tottenham blog
- Thfc talk
- tottenhamhotspur.com news
- Tottenham Transfer Talk
- Thfc news
- Spurstalk
- Tottenhamhotspurs
- Tottenham ITK
- Spurs forum ITK
- Spurs FC News
- Www Spurs
- Harry Hotspur Blog - outdated and anti-Spurs so I don't bother
- Graham Roberts Twitter
- Ndombélé
- Tottenham Hotspur Transfer
I could easily sprinkle of few of those in my posts, but if I stuck to this rigidity, things would cease to be fun.
Even this prattling starts thoughts, should we feel sorry for the Spurs players?
Think what they have been through.
Pochettino, who gave them fitness, structure, patterns of play, big on where a player should be on a field of play to get the most out of the game.
Having lost the dressing room, he went.
His replacement, Mourinho, was all for defensive rigidity, to the detriment of our attack.
That requires the Spurs players to act differently, play differently, think differently, giving different results with little enjoyment.
Next came interim boss Ryan Mason and a chance to revert back to the Pochettino days, but perhaps with a little less pressing.
On we move to Nuno who sent alarm bells ringing with me when during opposition player injuries, was not taking the opportunity to talk to player nd re-instill there game plan, his needs of the player and the team needs.
He just stood arms folded on the side.
There was no directions from him at a time when surely there should have been.
Emerson Royal tells us the coaching staff didn't communicate with him and he didn't know what was going on.
Sounds very much like there were no patterns of play being ingrained but players left to their own devices.
Then it is all change again as a winner come in, a top quality head coach who everyone will take notice of.
I wrote years back that a side with a plan, a structure, will nearly always beat a side who play off the cuff, if they are roughly of the same level.
Obviously Tottenham vs Marine would be a different kettle of fish.
Structure, no structure, structure, no structure, structure.
You can see why players can't always perform and why new appointments need to be given time.
Each coach has a new structure, each coach will want players to make certain movements, each coach needs the players to learn their way, but when you get a coach who isn't communicating, then players have to learn themselves during games.
Why do some players excel at a club and then can't perform at another?
Because at one club they have a structure, they know what they are supposed to do in any given situation, where they must be on the field and more importantly, they know what their teammates are going to do.
Take them out of that environment and throw them into another one where they aren't asked to do the exact same things they were doing but adapt to fresh ideas within a unit where they don't know what everyone else is doing, where they are going to be and what they are going to do before they do it.
They have to learn it all over again and that takes time, especially if there is not much time between games to work on it.
Premier League TV Rights Deals
New TV rights deals have been agreed, recently International rights provided a significant uplift in revenue for the Premier League after British rights were extended for another three years with Sky Sports, BT Sport and Amazon Prime Video for 5 billion pounds (around $7 billion).
Fox holds rights to the 2022 and 2026 FIFA men’s World Cups and now NBC have secured a 6-year deal with the Premier League worth $2.7 billion, an increase on the $1 billion existing deal.
Fox holds rights to the 2022 and 2026 FIFA men’s World Cups and now NBC have secured a 6-year deal with the Premier League worth $2.7 billion, an increase on the $1 billion existing deal.
This just demonstrates the growing popularity of football/soccer in the US and the intelligence of Daniel Levy in positioning Tottenham Hotspur at the forefront with the stadium housing NFL games, concerts and boxing to take the Spurs brand to a new audience.
The groundwork is in it's infancy still but America could become an huge market for the club with growing commercial deals and a swathe of future supporters.
The potential to increase supporters is huge and that impacts commercial deals which in turn impacts revenue and the amount that can be spent on transfers and wages.
It won't do our profile any harm if we sign Weston McKennie from Juventus, an American international, either.
It won't do our profile any harm if we sign Weston McKennie from Juventus, an American international, either.
If you want to read the American viewpoint on these deals, here is the piece from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Australian company Optus have secured a 6-year Premier League TV rights deal too, which includes the Barclays FA Women's Super League until 2024.
It may surprise you to know that football is now the top participation sport for women and girls in the UK.
Optus Sports can now show 380 games per season.
Their existing deal is for $45 million per season and the new deal is worth $58 million per season.
You can read more about it in the Sydney Morning Herald.
OK, so how many of these did I manage to get into my post?
- Tottenham blog
- Thfc talk
- tottenhamhotspur.com news
- Tottenham Transfer Talk
- Thfc news
- Spurstalk
- Tottenhamhotspurs
- Tottenham ITK
- Spurs forum ITK
- Spurs FC News
- Www Spurs
- Harry Hotspur Blog - outdated and anti-Spurs so I don't bother
- Graham Roberts Twitter
- Ndombélé
- Tottenham Hotspur Transfer
Well that's it for this morning's offering folks.
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1 comment
He also asked "Doesn't your new stadium handle the American Football over there now?". This shows there really is interest over in the USA AND that the new stadium with the NFL contract is something that particularly catches their attention.
Antonio Conté has also mentioned, on a number of occasions, how important the new stadium and state-of-the-art training facilities were as factors in helping him to choose to come to Spurs. You don't sink that amount of investment into a club unless you're serious about making a success of it.
COYS!!