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Welcome everybody. It's the multi-award winning Spurs podcast from The Athletic Time for another episode of The View from The Lane. I am Kate Mason sitting in for the magnificent Danny Kelly on today's show. He sends his love.

Joining me today are Dan Kilpatrick, Jack Pitbrook and James Moore. Good to see you, gents.

At time of recording, we know so far that Spurs are in advanced talks with Roberto Zerby,

and no announcement has yet been made.

So that is the situation we're in.

We expect one at some point.

Is that about right, Jack?

Yeah, I think at this point, I would be surprised

if this doesn't end up with him being the Tottenham manager.

You know, I think anybody who remembers Tottenham's legendary managerial search from 2021

knows that until you get that official announcement, it's not done. So I think everybody,

as it stands, it's kind of late morning on Tuesday, is waiting on Tenterhooks, if that's the

right word, for that announcement. And if, hypothetically, if it

didn't happen and we're all back to square one, then I think it would be, you know, that would be

a big problem. But at the moment, I would, it feels that the direction of travel over the last

few days has been towards the deal. And even though at the moment, we, we don't think that deal is done yet,

I think we're safe to say that we expect that to be the case at some point, at some point

soonish. Yeah, it's a bit of a shift in thinking, hasn't it? Because a few days ago at Whistle,

he doesn't want to come right now, but now it seems as though, is it right to say, or does it seem

reasonable to say, Jack, that is the sort of the terms of the deal have changed enough?

Is that your reading of it?

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