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Manager Ange Postecoglou

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Just had a quick look at a Celtic forum thread on Ange and it bears remarkable similarity to this one, which in turn is very similar to the Poch one on here. Most saying they hope it works out, some saying it’s going to be a disaster as he’s got no experience with a big club.

Hopefully the rest of the journey continues as his Celtic one did.
 
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If the Madrid interest in Kane is genuine then it might be worth getting 100 million and letting him sort the squad out with his type of player

Obviously don’t want to lose Kane in any circumstance but if it’s happening either this summer or next, this summer is preferable particularly with a new direction the club seems to be going in
I can't believe that I'm currently seeing the Kane situation as a potential win/win for us. He stays = win. He goes and Ange gets £100m = win.
 
It's not about attacking or exciting football, it's about winning football.
I was happy enough, when Jose or Conte , got it right occasionally the football could be devastating, but not on a consistent basis.
 
Just wondering if I can return my season ticket for a refund.
I've got mega Nono vibes. It doesn't matter what kind of football any of them want to play, if they're too small for the job, they'll take the shit lumped on them and it'll fall on its arse in a matter of months.

Expect a new deal for Dier, all the loanee rejects coming back for their 4th chance, mid table with a few tonkings by Novemeber and then the media vultures all circling.
Meanwhile, Kane will probably be banging them in for fun at whatever club he's gone to, whilst the players we use the money on will all look hopeless.

Because all of that is the Spurs DNA.
Ticket office will 100% refund your season ticket - when renewing mine I asked if I didn’t like the appointed manager could I refund my season ticket and I was assured I could - no plans to cancel mine at present -,indeed roll on 12th august
 
I've followed him for years....he's the best man available for Spurs and I reckon he'll become a legend.... Arsene Wenger won the J League and everyone was dismissive when he joined Woolwich......and look what he achieved for them.
 
It's not about attacking or exciting football, it's about winning football.
I was happy enough, when Jose or Conte , got it right occasionally the football could be devastating, but not on a consistent basis.

Nope.

Our football has been dire to watch for years now, so for the short term, it's definitely about exciting/attacking football.

Hopefully that will lead to better things...but I'll take it to start.
 
Mourinho got us to a cup final, and took us from 14th in November to the Ropey league.

Conte took us from the Nono shambles to a breathtaking run to finish 4th. This season, he took a record number of points after 10 games, then had us right up near the top, and then had us a few seconds away from 3rd in the league before a bent penalty ended his sanity.
They didn't fail. They arguably both over achieved with the resources they had.
After Conte went we dropped like a fucking stone this season. It's almost as if he had a shit team punching well above its weight, even if they were fighting ugly, they were fighting.

Now let's have a crack with a bloke who has less big league experience than even Nono!
Our biggest punts in the Levy era were probably AVB (success in Portugal and European success) Poch (had Espanyol and Saints punching well above their weight) and Nono (got Wolves promoted and top half finishes in multiple seasons)

And now. Some one with nowhere near that kind of experience.
It's a massive, borderline reckless gamble

It seems that way but maybe we need something radical.
 
Looks like Ange has been pretty much the main target from the beginning of the search.


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Chances are you won’t be overly familiar with the name of Frank Trimboli.

And over the course of the next week or so Celtic’s supporters may have good reason to wish it had stayed that way. Or they could end up showering him with flowers and chocolates all the way down London Road. Either way, it seems increasingly likely that Mr Trimboli is about to emerge as a central character in the unfolding drama which will ultimately decide if Ange Postecoglou is Home or Away this summer.

So it was more than intriguing that he just so happened to be there in person at Celtic Park on Saturday, with a VIP pass to join in the title celebrations before Sky’s cameras caught him hugging and high-fiving Postecoglou like a long lost brother down on the pitch. Trimboli, you see, is the man who makes deals happen. He may represent Postecoglou professionally but he is not exactly renowned for adopting a touchy-feely, Jerry Maguire approach to fostering agent-client relationships.

Rather, he has a reputation as a no nonsense Aussie adviser with a hard earned reputation for getting things over the line. Put it this way, if there are any balls that need breaking, invariably, Frank the Tank’s your man.

He also enjoys a long standing working relationship - and wields enormous influence - with the men in the command room of the very club which is now pecking around Big Ange like a feisty cockerel. Trimboli is credited, for example, with playing a key role in the somewhat left-field appointment of another Australian, Scott Munn, as Tottenham Hotspur’s chief football officer.

Munn’s bespoke role and wide reaching remit will make him pretty much the decision maker in chief from now on at the North London club. He starts his job on July 1 and when he does he will be second in seniority only to chairman Daniel Levy
who, understandably, is seeking to take a backseat after overseeing a spectacularly Spursy season, even by their own basket case standards.

Like Postecoglou, Munn has a history steeped in the City Group having held down a position as chief executive at Melbourne City FC before being promoted to head up the entire China division over the last four years. So it’s little wonder if the alarm bells began clattering even more loudly inside Celtic Park at the weekend when Trimboli’s name appeared on Big Ange’s personal guest list for a second successive title party.

Trimboli’s presence in the posh seats will certainly not have escaped the notice of Celtic chairman Peter Lawwell who will be acutely aware of all the various personalities and pieces which are in play as Spurs weigh up their next managerial move

It could even be that Lawwell was the one who handed out the invitation in the first place in order to conduct a face-to-face with Trimboli over a fat new contract offer for his client, who is now days away from completing a domestic clean sweep at the end of his second season in Glasgow.

If that turns out to be the case - and Postecoglou was to put pen to paper on a bumper deal to stay - then Trimboli will have Celtic supporters buses being named after him throughout the close season. And yet, all the noises coming out of London, suggest Postecoglou’s pal has other plans in mind.

Postecoglou’s name has been on Levy’s list of potential new bosses ever since the decision to axe Antonio Conte was made at the end of March. And the more he has bungled the recruitment process, the higher up it has climbed.

So last week, when Feyenoord’s Arne Slot became the latest man to turn down Levy’s advances, Trimboli may well have sensed that the time was right to start upping the ante over Ange. Both Slot and Postecoglou share similar philosophies in terms of how they believe the game ought to be played.

They are more than just managers - they are creators of cultures - and if that’s what Spurs are looking for then, of course, it stands to reason that Postecoglou has become a person of such interest

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Ange Postecoglou's move from Celtic to Tottenham has been in the works for months, according to a report.

An Australian media outlet claims that the 57-year-old's agent has been pushing for a deal to be struck for quite some time.

Postecoglou is poised to take over in North London, with a deal edging closer to completion.

He's set for talks with Daniel Levy in the coming days, with Celtic having granted permission for him to speak with the Premier League giants.

However, The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Postecoglou's representative, Frank Trimboli, has been working in the background over a move to the EPL for his top client

They wrote: “(Daniel) Levy is why this position is viewed as a poisoned chalice, although none of this will be lost on Postecoglou, a student of the game and a voracious consumer of football around the world.

"His agent, London-based Aussie Frank Trimboli, knows Levy well and has been pushing Postecoglou’s case for months behind the scenes.

“Postecoglou is expected to be confirmed as early as this week as Tottenham’s new manager.

"The deal is all but done, according to scores of reports from overseas and by sources contacted by this masthead, and an official announcement is imminent.

"It will be a new high watermark for Australian football, to have a head coach working not only in the English Premier League, but at one of the competition’s biggest clubs - as it will be for the 57-year-old himself, who has always had the hunger to test his wits at the highest level possible, stretching as far back as his days as a junior at his boyhood club from South Melbourne.”

None of that would surprise me
 
Last comment on here.

Congratulations. Sincerely.

As I said previously, Ive always had a soft spot for Spurs. It's still stings like fuck that AGAIN, were losing talent to the EPL, but thems the brakes.
Nothing we can do about it until you lot get your "superleague" and we can finally break free of Scottish football and form the thrice proposed Atlantic League.

To all the naysayers, in two months time you might say I told you so.
But in 6 months time, you'll be apologising.

I can't give you anything more than that. The dude wins titles... Moves on to bigger things. Wins more titles.... Moves on.

What I CAN tell you is, your entire squad is about to get a rocket up their arse. And youre going to stop buying shite. Ange buys his own players, and refuses to have his opinions relegated.
Levy will be told this before he takes the job.

Your players will be told on day one, bust a gut, or you're not playing.
His entire ethos of man management is "your next game is an opportunity to be better than ALL of your previous games, if it isn't, then prove to me you will make the next one."

He also doesn't play the media game. You can enjoy YouTube watching him literally piss on reporters chips for their bs.

You've had the CL winning managers, the PL winning managers, the marquis managers...

All of them turned to piss.

Ange is what you need. I'm gutted he's leaving us, but going to LOVE watching his Spurs team put the shits up every defence in the EPL.

Birthday Card pish? Yes.

But that's how much he's impressed Celtic fans.

I'd like to say good luck... But it's redundant. You don't need luck anymore, Ange Postecoglou is your manager.

Big kiss x

Break free of Scottish football?

Join the Irish league mate, that's where your fans want to be.

:pochsmirk:

The rest of it? Time will tell, I'm not excited by his appointment but hopefully he proves me wrong and excels.
 
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