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Going to a dinner party tonight which feels really grown up so I’ve hired a baby sitter despite not having any children.

I feel De Zerbi is very similar to Ange in the sense that if/when it works, it'll be fantastic to watch. 👏 The problem is #THFC absolutely do not currently have a squad that is able to play this fluidly! If RDZ is SERIOUSLY backed (and we stay up) it could be fun....🇮🇹👀

@StokeyyG2 My club. My one and only club. I guess we’re not boring there’s always that ?

Roberto De Zerbi lasted 1 year at Shakhtar Donetsk. He lasted 1 year 9 months at Brighton. And more recently lasted 1 year 7 months at Marseille. Spurs are set to offer him a 5 year contract with just 7 games left of the season.

@marcus_buckland So no back up plan for Tudor replacement after Liverpool game / before Forest?

Sorry to ruin your Sunday but my source inside the club paints a desperate picture. Hierarchy remains clueless -(they considered hiring Tudor BEFORE Frank!) Players are seething- don’t expect much from VDV or Romero once back. Lack of spirit + know how = the drop 😢 #COYS

@henrywinter Do you think they’ll go down?

.... Spurs board and those in charge of recruitment are undeniably culpable for this mess and the lack of leadership. But players also have to take responsibility. Gray does. Column on the Spurs mess and lessons from history. #THFC 2/2 open.substack.com/pub/henrywinte…

Archie Gray is one of the few Tottenham Hotspur players who can hold his head up high at the moment. He’s fighting for the cause. He's fighting against the very real threat of relegation. Others need to follow his example …. #THFC 1/2

@Billie_T Thank god they remembered the random basket of apples though

So whoever met him on the tube last night just met a random bald bloke?

@Billie_T I’m now in this camp - was thinking well we did finally show a bit more ambition in window - with another one etc - but then backing wrong horse. Why can’t we do both things right at once.

Bloke is a loser honestly, zoning out until he’s gone

@simonyemane @TottenhamTiers Best Stadium/Training Ground AND Foundations.

@TottenhamTiers It’s would be very Spurs to finally reach the right approach but applying it to the wrong coach.

There is currently a willingness at #Tottenham to give Thomas Frank an opportunity to lay the foundations towards a path to success - similar to the one Vinai Venkatesham gave to Mikel Arteta. Venkatesham was integral to Arsenal's decision to stick with Arteta during some of Arsenal’s lowest depths. [@SamiMokbel_BBC] 🥇

@TottenhamTiers Untenable now. Players’ commitment also needs to be questioned though - raise it for the CL, hiding in the league

Genuine thoughts on sacking Thomas Frank, #Tottenham fans? 🤔

@Billie_T I always beat the curse in my second window

We beat the international break curse

@LastWordOnSpurs @RickySacks @Russw777 @_MM_17 @SpursOfficial @LUFC @PLinUSA @premierleague Final ball and decision making needs to be sharper - not ruthless enough and will cost us. Time to drop Vicario.

🚨𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐟-𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞! | Tottenham’s First Half 🆚 Leeds United: ⚽️Goals: 1 🥅Conceded: 1 🧩Shots On Target: 1 ❌Big Chances: 1 ⛔️Tackles: 7 📌Touches In Pen Area: 8 🚩Corners: 0 💯Possession: 47% ❓Thoughts On Spurs’ Display So Far? #THFC | #COYS | #TOTTENHAM | #SPURS | #LEETOT

@TottenhamTiers Different kind of bad to last season but still bad

Thoughts at HT, #Tottenham fans? 🤔

@FootballJOE (Smashes a 12 year old’s treehouse to pieces). Well done mate.

Michael Owen making a concerning amount of sense 😅

@Daily_Hotspur Subs: Berbatov, Van Der Vaart, Alderviereld, Ali, Eriksen, Robinson, Lennon, Carrick, Dawson, Trippier, Romero, Van Der Ven

@Daily_Hotspur Lloris, Walker, Vertonghen, King, Bale, Dembele, Modric, Son , Keane, Kane, Defoe

👀 What changes would you make to this #thfc team?

@LastWordOnSpurs @DeanJonesSoccer Discussions Discover Possible FC get this in Latin above the crest asap

🚨𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓! | Tottenham Hotspur have held discussions with Manchester City in a bid to discover whether it would be possible to sign central defender Nathan Ake. 👨🏻‍💻[@DeanJonesSoccer] #THFC | #COYS | #TOTTENHAM | #SPURS

@LastWordOnSpurs @FabrizioRomano Maybe just get it done now Levy lad?. But see you all on deadline day for timeline refreshing and disappointment 🍺

🚨𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓! | Tottenham Hotspur want to go OVER €70m for Savinho and will try until the very end of the transfer window to get the deal done. ⚖️Savio is keen on Spurs move and now all depends on Manchester City. 👨🏻‍💻[@FabrizioRomano] #THFC | #COYS | #TOTTENHAM | #SPURS

@Billie_T Lovely stuff 😂😂

An angry West Ham fan running on the pitch. Poor bloke set off in the first half to get there

@Peston Now do it in 140 characters

Here are the big spending and tax numbers for the 30 October budget, that have been signed off by the Chancellor - so that the Office of Budget Responsibility can carry out its statutory responsibility to forecast their impact on the economy and government borrowing. To be clear, my estimates will be wrong by a few billion pounds. But the sums Reeves needs to find to rescue creaking public services are so big that what follows paints the important big picture, even with that margin of error. Let’s start with the all important foundational number, the so-called “envelope” for the increase in all government spending in 2025-26. It had been set by the previous chancellor Jeremy Hunt at 1% real, that is adjusted for inflation. Rachel Reeves has decided - many would say way later than necessary - that this total is too frugal, because all the 1% increment would be swallowed by health, defence and schools. That would mean there would have to be swinging cuts to justice, transport, local government and all the so-called “unprotected” departments. So I am told the re-set envelope is a 2% to 3% real increase - which is another way of saying Rachel Reeves has to find up to £50bn from additional taxation and any new borrowing that would not breach her fiscal rules. The biggest additional revenue raiser would be around £15bn - possibly even a bit more - from imposing national insurance on employers’ contributions to the pension pots of their employees. This is to take back 75% of what Hunt handed to employees in national insurance cuts for them in his last two budgets. The argument will rage all the way to the next election whether this would breach Labour’s manifesto promises on which taxes it wouldn’t raise. I don’t have the energy to go through the theology of all that again. Suffice to say though that this is a substantial tax rise that will inevitably feed through to employment levels and living standards. Just because employers pay it rather than employees does not make it a free lunch for employees. There’s a further £9bn to be raised from the taxes Labour announced it would increase or impose in that manifesto. These are the windfall tax on oil and gas producers, VAT on private schools, the levy on the “carry” or profit share of private equity partners, plus assorted measures to crack down on tax avoidance and to force wealthy foreigners with homes in London - the notorious non doms - to cough up more. Finally there will be a few billion pounds raised from increasing the basic rate of capital gains tax from 20% to around 24%. Reeves looked at putting it higher but HMRC has calculated 24% is more-or-less the profit-maximizing rate, and that wealthy people would find ways to avoid paying it if the rate were much higher than 24%. Even with all those tax rises, settlements for spending departments are still going to feel tight, for pretty much all departments apart from health - whose rehabilitation will be one of the centerpieces of the budget. The deputy prime minister Angela Rayner is particularly anxious - or so I understand - that local government funding will not contain an adequate buffer for the large number of local authorities currently facing bankruptcy. It is thought however that the way Rachel Reeves is rewriting her debt fiscal rule, to effectively exclude borrowing that funds productive investment, will free up substantial sums for new social housing. Long and short is some departments are still haggling over the odd few hundred million pounds. But the billions have been locked down. The foundations of the budget have been laid. There are just 13 more days till the full edifice is unveiled, when we will be able to judge whether it’s a solid structure designed properly for national renewal or whether its botched and jerry-built, and will need to be continually patched and propped up.

@TechnicallyRon The 400m starts in 10 mins, wrap it up Celine.

@Samfr Being painted over as we speak

Hope the art on the walls isn't a mural though. Jenrick finds them triggering.

Desks and sockets? In the same rented office space? Wow - I'm impressed.