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Manager Ange Postecoglou
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Hahaha. Ha ha....haha ha
Ha ha...What a comedian
He's trying to control the narrative and calm the media hysteria regarding pur defending our set pieces but for once he's misread the room regarding how fans feel about the situation and now he's coming across as being disengenuous
He doesn't say that though
Recruitment IS and has been our biggest issue. ENIC doesn't see it this way because they back some of the dumb-fuck recruitment decisions of managers, e.g. Perisic. We had a brief good moment with Mitchell and recently Paratici did some good business. Paratici being kept on in a consultancy role really shows how bad we are in this department though. When we had Mitchell here we had FSG at Liverpool scooping up Spurs targets and Southampton players. Look what they've done since then? Most clubs are now doing what Mitchell did well, some like FSG have evolved, even more. I think we're about 10-15 years behind in this area in terms of skills and soft skills. So much wasted money on poor recruitment. Any coach or manager effectively has their hands tied behind their back and ENIC feel that allowing managers a few players here and there that they want is a good trade-off. Think about Conte... He wanted Perisic. The club wanted Spence. Both piss poor recruitment decisions. We're clueless here.
We understand the relativity point. It 's a valid point, but isn't a clincher however. Celtic were incredibly strong in all aspects vs their opponents (ex Rangers).
The PL is relentless in finding weaknesses. Every week you're playing teams full of internationals.
I dunno, I was as pissed as anyone about his comments playing down our issues with set pieces.
Let’s not get it twisted though, he’s very clearly pointed out the “Grey Areas” for fouls on GKs and the Romero red card not punished 20x since.
And he’s right. There is no integrity in the way the rules are interpreted and certain teams are on the wrong end of that more often than others. What we are asking Ange to do is admit that he’s not changing his philosophy based on those grey areas.
Finding weaknesses AKA cheating in the grey areas.
Agreed. But it's what you can get away with. Not convinced the Ange "we'll cop it" crap has helped us at all this season.
Perisic was good recruitment. He would have been very useful this season. We actually need more players in their early 30s who consistently deliver, are technically very good, and have street smarts
It hasn’t helped us. Kicking up a fuss helped our rivals.
Saying that, we actually publicly made a fuss of going to the authorities for clarity on fouling GKs at set pieces. They’ve let even more go since and based on his quotes, Ange still hasn’t been given any clarity on how they want to interpret the rules.
Seems pointing out that grey area wasnt welcomed
He's 35 and other than a few good shifts really struggled with the prem. That's why he's not here. Doesn't have the legs or the quickness anymore.
Exactly, one team finds you out, they all find you out.
Not entirely sure why he would of said this, as he's making his own bed with this one. As we all know we've been totally devoid of any signs of progression as a team for the past 15 games or so. Just over half of those games we've been relegation fodder level.
As you said yourself the only reason he might of said this is he's trying to put a bit of pressure on Levy, but he's come out and said himself that we're not the sort of club that would spend 100m on a player. So it heavily implies he knew what he was getting into and seemingly accepts that.
So his alleged latest comments don't make much sense as we're not the sort of club to open up a war chest... and we would most definitely need that for new first teamers in attack and respectable back up, to have any change of seriously challenging next year.
If Jedinak is in charge of coaching defensive set pieces he’s probably just protecting him rather than throwing him under the bus. It’s the type of thing Ange has done when the media have called out a player’s individual error.
I can’t imagine that’s really what he’s thinking behind closed doors and I expect they’ll look to address it one way or another over the coming months.
From The Athletics recent podcast they also highlighted the reduction in set piece errors at Celtic going from season 1 to season 2 as the system bedded in.
That is exactly what he’s doing.
He could still say that it’s a priority and not throw him under the bus.
buying johnson for 50m when your system is designed to pin a side in- illogical
having a system that prioritises width, without having a box threat or players good enough to work the ball in from wide areas- illogical
continuing to play a high line with 9 men, lacking the players in front of the defence to put pressure on the ball - forget illogical, fucking retarded!
giving son the armband - dumb
thats just a few things so far...not looking good is it? the chelsea game was the worst of the worst. he either treated that game with no respect at all or he really is as dumb as they come. that was the hardest watch ive ever experienced as a spurs fan and ive witnessed some proper incompetent shit.
GREAT Post.
One for the “lowering expectations” crew.
He’s the only manager I can remember accepting that pressure on himself and also putting it on the club to bring a real team to win.
As long as he’s doing that I’m as ev-Angelist as it gets.
He probably thought they’d drop it, but clearly they haven’t and he can’t exactly back track now.
I remember a journo coming out and querying the goalkeeper being so far off his line at a previous team, and Ange shut them down by saying he’s doing what I told him to do. He probably thought this might work the same, but they’re clearly a dog with a bone!