Johan Lange

Um, what can we read into that? Has he been guaranteed more playing time, do we think?

I think from what I understand, there's been a lot of positive conversations between him, his camp, De Zerbi, Johan Lange, and the club just to kind of reassure him.

Uh, what I always heard out of kind of the Bergvall camp over the entire summer was that he, he's just kind of got really disillu- disillusioned last season with the fact that he was just never really training or playing as a number eight, which is what he believes his position to be going forward.

And that, I mean, we did see it.

Yeah.

Listen, he, he was a, he was a Johan Lange signing.

It's his only claim to fame.

If it, if it, if it, if it actually goes right, it's his only claim to fame.

Jog on.

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But get the recruitment strategy right.

And it has to be someone more senior than Johan Lange.

Johan Lange, from all the reports, he doesn't move the needle in the room.

He doesn't inspire people to sign for Tottenham Hotspur.

It's Deserby who inspires people.

Tottenham...

I still think we're not a well-run club.

I refuse to believe that this is the Johan Lange redemption arc and he's saving his job.

But wasn't Lucas Bergvall a similar situation where it felt like he wanted to leave? Yes,

but after 10 days in the pre-season he came to stay and his agent as well went to Johan Lange to say Lucas is happy to stay and Lucas showed me he wanted to stay.

and I would like to play with him, I would like to put the focus on him because he's another big, big player in terms of potential.

He's another big player.

This is Alistair Gold wrote this r- um, uh, s- yesterday.

He says, "Vinai Venkatesham, Johan Lange, and Rafi Morson took turns holding talks with clubs and agents based on who they had the best preexisting relationship.

De Zerbi would later praise the sporting director for the solutions he came up with to get to some of these deals over the line in the hectic window.

Venkatesham had previously admitted that he would be looking to bring in another sporting director this time to fill the gap left by Paratici alongside Lange after the window to share the load but, but, uh, most sides now, most sides are now operating with two people in those positions in the modern game and many of them with long p- notice periods.