OhSoSpurs Podcast

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

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

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

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

What Daniel Levys sale of ENIC shares means for Tottenham. #SpursNews #Tottenham Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Three players De Zerbi transformed at Brighton. What that tells us about how he'll use this Spurs squad. And the Pedro Porro question every fan is split on. JJ — A-Licence coach — joins Jim to break down Van Hecke's mentality work, Mac Allister's positional metronome role, and Solly March's repositioning. Then the verdict on Porro and Savinho, and JJ's #1 squad priority. Plus: is finishing actually coachable? JJ's channel: @TheFullCo on YouTube. #KeepItLilyWhite #OhSo33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why does the football world enjoy Spurs losing this much? Aaron — ProfSpur — joins Jim for the second episode of The Professor. We unpack his essay arguing that what looks like banter is structural — a class theory of why the football world wanted Tottenham relegated, even when their own teams were celebrating. The Big-6 entitlement from above. The historic-club resentment from below. The London / regional class layer. The media tone we've all noticed. And why "resentment" is more accurate than "hate." Read the original: profspur.substack.com #KeepItLilyWhite #OhSo33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Enya, professional data analyst, former pro footballer, and lifelong Spurs fan, joins Jim for the debut episode of The Analyst. We audit every position group against the Premier League, name the ones that quietly collapsed, name the ones the free transfers (Robertson, Senesi) have already fixed, and lay out what's still unsolved before the window closes: central midfield, goalkeeper, strikers, and No.10 cover. #KeepItLilyWhite #OhSo33 #SpursPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Spurs stayed up so what does it actually mean for the money? Welcome to The Auditors, the new OSoS series on the financial side of Tottenham. In this first episode, Jim is joined by Nick (Corporate Finance) and Ben (Finance Professional) for a clear-eyed look at what survival actually buys us, financially. They walk through PSR and the new Squad Cost Ratio, where Spurs' headroom sits now (around 54% versus the relegation alternative of 93%), why the headline rise in costs was largely out of the club's control, and the gap between £100m–£230m of theoretical PSR room and the actual cash in the bank. Then the wider picture: how parachute payments would have softened but not solved a relegation, why West Ham are in genuine trouble, the truth about the Macquarie loan and ENIC's £100m capital injection, and the figurehead question hanging over Vinai, Charrington and the Lewis family's separate statements. Two more episodes of The Auditors follow: modelling the actual summer budget, and how to spend it within the constraint. Watch the video version on YouTube, and sign up for the free weekly email at ososspurs.com/listen. #KeepItLilyWhite #OhSo33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jim is back from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, joined by DJ and Stu, to react to Spurs beating Everton and surviving the drop — the relief, the euphoria, and a season none of them will forget in a hurry. This is a reset episode, not a panic one. The panel digs into De Zerbi's points-per-game form, his press conference verdict on the squad and the famous "big broom", the goalkeeper question after Antonin Kinsky's redemption arc, Micky van de Ven going from maligned to one of the league's best, Djed Spence playing through a broken jaw, the man of the match debate, and the winger problem Spurs have to solve this summer. The full five-Originals season audit follows on Tuesday. Watch the video version on YouTube, and sign up for the free weekly email at ososspurs.com/listen. #KeepItLilyWhite #OhSo33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Spurs lost 2-1 at Chelsea — and A Licensed Coach JJ is calmer about it than most. This is the tactical post-mortem: how we conceded, what actually went wrong, and the gameplan to survive the final day against Everton. This episode of A Coach's View is a collaboration between Oh So Spurs and JJ's own channel, The Full Co. Jim and JJ get into the Kolo Muani right-wing debate, the first goal broken down properly — why it wasn't just the keeper, and the "circle of half mistakes" that led to Enzo's strike — the quality gap between this Chelsea side and our midfield, the Kolo Muani error that gifted the second, and an honest defence of Richarlison, the man without whom Spurs would have been relegated long ago. Then the bit that matters most: JJ's gameplan for Everton. Be the protagonists, dominate the ball, take control of our own destiny. A point on Sunday keeps Spurs up. A Coach's View is the tactical strand from Oh So Spurs — Jim Goddard with A Licensed Coach JJ, breaking down what's actually happening on the pitch. If you got something from the episode, please follow the show, leave a rating, and check out JJ's channel The Full Co. And to the Oh-So-33 crew — keep it lily-white. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One point from safety. Eight years since we last won at Stamford Bridge. And Chelsea? Winless in seven, four straight home defeats. Could Tuesday actually be the one? I'm joined on The Originals by Stu in Dubai, Si in Switzerland and Johnny in drizzly Dublin for a Chelsea away preview that, for once in this fixture, doesn't lean on dread. We dig into the maths (one point keeps us up after West Ham's defeat), what De Zerbi said in his press conference — including his flat "no" when asked if a Spurs win would be a "miracle" — and the Italian mentality angle, comparing his approach to Conte's, Frank's and Tudor's. Plus Chelsea's form crisis (winless in seven, two goals in their last seven), the four Brighton lads in the Chelsea XI who came through De Zerbi, and Conor Gallagher returning to his old club — Si has called him for man of the match. Romero, Maddison, Tel and the keeper question all covered too. Listener questions: Linda on whether supporter culture actually changes after this season, the Jonathan / Roston debate on whether we really need a deep-lying playmaker or whether it's a unicorn position, and Danny on whether the directors have learned anything from this season's drama. The Originals is the panel show from Oh So Spurs — higher-quality, more nuanced fan content from people who've actually been through this season. Smarter than the angry-pundit register, but still fans, with the cautious belief that comes with it. If you got something out of the episode, please follow the show, drop us a rating. And to the Oh-So-33 crew — keep it lily-white. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1-1 with Leeds at home. The fifth home game this season we've taken the lead and dropped points. And now Chelsea away on Tuesday — eight years since the last time we won a league game at the Bridge. Could this finally be the one? I'm joined on The Originals by our ray of sunshine Stu in Dubai, Si over in Switzerland, and a brilliant guest — Jason McGovern from Last Word on Spurs. We get into what actually happened against Leeds (Tel's first De Zerbi-era goal, the Richarlison miss, the overhead-kick decision that gifted Leeds their penalty), the five-game De Zerbi trajectory — 8 points from 5, xGA halved, the direction is genuinely up — and the home pattern that won't go away. Then Linda's brilliant question on the tumor of negativity pressing on the soul of this club, and why so much Spurs content goes nuclear after every result. And the big one — Chelsea away. Eight years at Stamford Bridge. Andy's question on how De Zerbi exorcises the demon. Roston's case for positivity. And whether this group, mostly recruited in the last two windows, even carries the scar tissue the previous lot did. Plus your listener questions — Maddison usage, Kolo Muani vs Spence, the penalty drought, and how on earth we're planning to celebrate when we stay up. The Originals is the panel show from Oh So Spurs — higher-quality, more nuanced fan content from people who've actually been through this season. Smarter than the angry-pundit register, but still fans, with the cautious belief that comes with it. If you got something out of the episode, please follow the show, drop us a rating, and share it with a Spurs fan who's nervously checking the table every five minutes like the rest of us. And to the Oh-So-33 crew — keep it lily-white. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices