Hello and welcome to The View from the Lane, our Tottenham Hotspur podcast from The Athletic.

My name is Jack Pitbrook. I'm joined again today by James Moore and Charlie Ackleshare.

Obviously it's been another pretty quiet week at Tottenham with no games.

Charlie, can you tell us what's the latest on the discussions over the player's wages?

Yeah, so that was the main story from last week, David

Ornstein and I reporting that as it stands, there are no plans from Levy and the club's hierarchy

to approach the players about deferrals and cuts until there's a bit more clarity about, well,

various things really, but mainly, you know, when the season's going to start, that kind of thing. There are so many unknowns at the moment

that it's deemed prudent to wait until we know a bit more about that, you know, before really

getting those discussions going again. So, you know, it's basically across the board, it's

very, it's been such a complicated picture

trying to get any sort of agreement on that.

So who knows when we'll have more clarity,

but maybe this week we'll know a bit more

about how feasible plans of playing at neutral grounds

and that kind of thing are going to be.

And then imagine as and when there is more clarity,

the discussions will be back on the table.

And Charlie elsewhere this week, you wrote a piece about Spur's best partnerships you had a slightly

surprising top two but tell us about it yeah we're looking at this kind of best theme for a few weeks

and yeah looking at various different sort of subsections within that and yeah kick things off

with partnerships and yeah the piece goes in on berbertov and keene who it's since 2000 as well

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