OhSoSpurs Podcast
OhSoSpurs Podcast
OhSoSpurs
The Thinking Fans Podcast. Tired of knee jerk negativity and purely opinion based content? Well, welcome to a new type of Tottenham podcast. We focus on high quality guests and data driven content all about Spurs. #TottenhamPodcast #TottenhamNews #TottenhamHotspur
A Coach's View: How Fernandes Fits The Spurs Midfield
Mateus Fernandes is through the door at £85m, and A Licence Coach JJ is here to walk through what Spurs have actually bought. Two talk tracks: first, the player on the pitch — profile, role in a De Zerbi double pivot, the line-breaking question, the ball-carrying upside, the defensive cover JJ thinks he brings. Then the player at the price — whether £85m is market-realistic or bubble-inflated, and why JJ thinks that question shouldn't decide how you feel about him on the pitch. The headline take of the episode: if you could only have one between Fernandes and Sandro Tonali, who do you take? JJ doesn't dodge it — he lays out the bet-on-the-future / bet-on-the-now framing that gives you the coach's actual decision under uncertainty. Plus: who slots in alongside him, where Bergvall fits now he wants to stay, what this means for Paulinha, and why a seven-for-three midfield isn't outlandish if the right ones leave. A nuanced, considered read of the biggest signing of the window. The Coach's View. #KeepItLilyWhite #OhSo33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 1
18 min
The Originals: Three At The Back? And What's The Hold Up? If Any....
A full house of Originals, a full window of news. Stu, DJ, Si and Johnny join Jim to walk through what Spurs are actually building — the Champions League quality defence taking shape, the Bergvall conversation reaching panel consensus, the Will Lankshear role next season, and the reason the Tonali deal needs a little more patience. Plus: World Cup target watching, the players catching our eyes, and the panel's favourite Spurs-related World Cup memories from the last 40 years. The considered version of where the window is right now. #KeepItLilyWhite #OhSo33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 29
33 min
A Coach's View: Inside Spurs' £200m Midfield Plan
Spurs are spending close to £200 million to build the midfield De Zerbi actually wants. A-licence coach JJ joins Jim to walk through exactly what Tonali and Fernandes would bring to the system, to the squad balance, and to the bigger picture of the rebuild. - How both signings fit De Zerbi's double pivot - Why the back-line work (Senesi, Van Hecke, Porro) was the right first step - What the £200m actually delivers — and what still needs to follow - The Xhaka case study: why the same player can transform under a different system - Why "progressive passing" is a system question, not a one-player question The considered version of the Tonali and Fernandes conversation. Follow JJ — A-Licence Coach — @TheFullCo on YouTube. #KeepItLilyWhite #OhSo33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 27
28 min
The Analyst: Do Spurs Actually Need A Striker? (Video Recommended)
Spurs need a striker. Or do they?  Enya Collins runs the data on the striker market and lands somewhere most reaction channels won't — there's a real argument we don't need one as badly as the discourse suggests. Five European targets ranked by data and eye test — including the Marseille striker with a De Zerbi connection nobody's discussing. Plus why Solanke is actually a better De Zerbi striker than Richarlison, and why a winger upgrade probably matters more than a centre forward upgrade. #KeepItLilyWhite #OhSo33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 24
23 min
The Originals: Sell Bergvall? Sell Vuskovic? And Where Do Spurs Finish?
Bergvall wants out. Vuskovic wants out. £300m window. The panel can't agree. The Originals — Stu, DJ, Johnny and Jim — work through the questions that matter most this week. Should Spurs sell? Are the young players actually as good as we hoped? Lankshear, Solanke, Kinski, and where Spurs actually finish next season if every reported target lands. Plus DJ's contrarian Vuskovic take: Brighton wanting him is exactly why he'd keep him. #KeepItLilyWhite #OhSo33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 22
48 min
The Scouting Room: Does Tonali Fix Spurs' Midfield? (Video recommended)
Sandro Tonali to Spurs has split the fanbase. Is he the deep-lying playmaker we've been crying out for? Or is he a £100m Bentancur replacement? In this week's Scouting Room, Enya Collins (data) and JJ (eye test, A-licence coach) break Tonali down on every metric that matters and answer the question the rest of Spurs YouTube isn't quite getting to. The verdict: Tonali is half of the midfield rebuild. Without a Stiller-or-Wharton signing to follow, the squad still has the same problem it had before. Plus: Enya's contrarian close on the squad building, and Jim's ruthless take on what Spurs need to stop being sentimental about. #KeepItLilyWhite #OhSo33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 19
31 min
The Scouting Room: Spurs Sign Van Hecke — A Coach and a Scout Verdict
Spurs have just signed Jan-Paul van Hecke from Brighton. A-licence coach JJ and in-house scout DJ break him down in the first ever Scouting Room. The new OhSoSpurs format puts each transfer target through both lenses: a professional coach on the eye test, an analyst-scout on the data, both in the same room. Today's verdict: thumbs up from both, with caveats. Plus: why Spurs effectively just signed two players for £25m each, the leadership profile we've been missing, the lapses to watch, and JJ's contrarian "most excited about" pick. Deep dive on Tonali tomorrow with Enya on The Analyst. #KeepItLilyWhite #OhSo33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 17
26 min
The Originals: Spurs Are Winning The League (Q&A with DJ, Si, Johnny)
Spurs are winning the league. Don't laugh. The panel got there. Tonight's an OhSo33 Q&A special — every question came from the members chat. The panel takes on 10 of them across transfer maths, the Greenwood question, Mikey Moore, the priority signings, and the title-challenge thesis Jim's been pushing for weeks. Plus DJ's one-word answer that won the episode. #KeepItLilyWhite #OhSo33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 16
42 min
Data vs Eye Test: Three Spurs Targets — The Scouting Room
The data picks one of the most divisive strikers in football for Spurs. Our A-Licence coach pushes back hard. The Analyst (Enya Collins) and A Coach's View (JJ) combine for a new crossover format — three data-led targets put through the eye test. Marco Carnesecchi in goal, Angelo Stiller in midfield, Nicolas Jackson up front. Plus: why Solanke might still start the season, and the Italian player movement context behind the Carnesecchi link. #KeepItLilyWhite #OhSo33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 12
27 min
The Analyst: The 5 Midfielders Spurs Should Sign — Wharton, Stiller, Loccatelli, Garcia, Gonzalez
Spurs' biggest gap isn't up front, it's the controller in midfield. Enya Collins ranks the five players who could fix it. After calling Van Hecke and Bohoya before either link broke, Enya turns to the deep-lying playmaker Tottenham haven't had in years. The five: Nico Gonzalez, Alex Garcia, Manuel Loccatelli, Angelo Stiller, Adam Wharton — and why one of them might quietly be the right answer over the obvious pick. Plus: why Enya took three weeks off watching Spurs last season. #KeepItLilyWhite #OhSo33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 11
24 min
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