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Manager Ange Postecoglou

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Matt1882 said:
He replaced Neil Lennon. Who had won........ the treble in 19/20 and...... the treble in 18/19 (well, finished off the treble Rodgers would have won)
Something had gone wrong by 20/21 and, IIRC, Lennon was getting death threats or something from fans.
And despite Celtic finishing way behind Rangers, they only lost 2 more games than the season just gone.

Rangers getting a European final is way bigger than repeatedly winning trebles with Celtic. Way more impressive. And look what happened to Gerrard.
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Fucking hell Matt you are getting boring now. Give the Aussie a chance. You never know it might work
 
Zomb said:
You can’t target a domestic cup. That would be lunacy, you could Man C away in the 3rd round. Too many uncontrollables
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True, but you can at least be in it to win it, which means you don't rest your best players on a Cold Tuesday night at Sheffield United.

Anyone its a bit off topic but I just think with no European football we can afford to go strongest in the cups.

If you draw City thems the breaks
 
Matt1882 said:
He replaced Neil Lennon. Who had won........ the treble in 19/20 and...... the treble in 18/19 (well, finished off the treble Rodgers would have won)
Something had gone wrong by 20/21 and, IIRC, Lennon was getting death threats or something from fans.
And despite Celtic finishing way behind Rangers, they only lost 2 more games than the season just gone.

Rangers getting a European final is way bigger than repeatedly winning trebles with Celtic. Way more impressive. And look what happened to Gerrard.
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Utter nonsense.

Delete your account you whiny weasel.
 
Matt1882 said:
Real Madrid, who won 5-1 and 3-0 against Celtic, without breaking sweat, subsequently got tonked by City. We have City in our league. That's what we're up against.

But the ozzy bloke was bragging about having more possession

Bless him.

Meanwhile, we've won 5 straight home games, to nil, Vs City and hardly knew where the ball was half the time.
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Would you believe hes not actually bringing the celtic players? He'll be working with spurs players. Romero, bissouma, son, kulu, kane, porro etc.
You know better players.

What does your last point mean. We beat city at home and still do fuck all
 
Matt1882 said:
Woolwich didn't get into the CL for what, 7 years? Sometimes no Europe at all either.
On top of that, they let 3 £50m players go for nothing just to get them off the books.
And still they invested heavily in the first team.

No doubt we will batten down the hatches now though. We'll be scraping the barrel for new signings. Unheard of 20 year olds from the lower leagues and now Asia/Australia. Mid range fees, low wages, easy to sign for once.
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There was a report today (and I know you can't believe all you read) about Spurs initial offer for Raya of Brentwood being half of what his team valued him at. This always seems to be the way with Levy's operation. Instead of targeting a few players and making sure to get them they will chase a lot of players searching for deals where they save whether the player is a fit or not. Then they are left with an odd collection of players who don't work out they can't find buyers for. Too clever by half.
 
SpiderSpurs said:
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There's a bit of Beadle about him...

500 days of summer hands GIF
 
Matt1882 said:
No, that's not it at all.

I don't rate anything he's done because absolutely nothing he's done comes close to the level required to succeed in the English Premier League.

He might succeed. But you cannot assume he will because of what he has done. That is all irrelevant.
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You could say that about most managers when they get their first job at a big club.

Conte was literally managing a Serie B team before going to Juventus, Pep the Barcelona B team and Arteta had never even managed a game.
 
meaningless-friendly said:
And what I don't understand are the fans who lap this up. We demolished white Hart lane to build the megadome entertainment complex, charge fans the highest priced in the world, then tell them to be excited because the future is... Brighton.

I'm sure Ange is a good bloke, I hope he is a great manager. But let's be frank, Levy has stumbled into this appointment after missing out on others and after overseeing a cluster fuck under the previous 3 managers. This isn't some carefully curated plan, it is a wing and a prayer.

I hope we win the domestic treble next year playing amazing football. But I do not understand the blind optimism being shown by a lot of people.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. But do not let Daniel Levy off the hook for allowing the squad we had under peak Poch to rot away to today's shambles.

Just remember who is to blame if Ange struggles with these players and any substandard recruitment we might make (would you like a Danjuma sir? How about a Lenglet?)
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So often Spurs try to do things on the cheap that ultimately cost them money. You raise two good examples, especially Danjuma. I never got the idea Conte wanted this player, but Spurs went out of their way to get him when Everton had almost signed him. It might well have been the point wasn't to acquire a player to use but an asset to sell on later. That's just no way to build a squad.
 
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