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Manager Ange Postecoglou

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Things fell apart with Poch when he took us to heights never achieved before in decades, had us looking like a proper club, and when he asked for investment and was shot down, it completely destroyed the momentum at the club which we have never recovered from and its been one bad mistake after the other.

Anyone saying otherwise or badmouthing Pochs name and legacy is operating on major cope. We was all there. We watched it. It was gorgeous to watch. Not only that, it felt like a genuine family under Poch.
 
Poch every day of the week for me. We may not win silverware....but at the fuggin least, we'll play exciting attacking football once again. I'd rather be on the cusp of greatness year in year out than waddling along the bottom like a band of sloths. Beggars can't be choosers innit
I get the appeal but I don't feel comfortable with "back tracking". It feels like nostalgia goggles on. Poch is good but his time here has been and gone.

Not to mention he just signed for a new job.
 
Things fell apart with Poch when he took us to heights never achieved before in decades, had us looking like a proper club, and when he asked for investment and was shot down, it completely destroyed the momentum at the club which we have never recovered from and its been one bad mistake after the other.

Anyone saying otherwise or badmouthing Pochs name and legacy is operating on major cope. We was all there. We watched it. It was gorgeous to watch. Not only that, it felt like a genuine family under Poch.

It’s been down to death but it’s not just the money, we had Steve Hitchen at that period who was a calamity by most accounts I have read.
 
Means nothing though does it?

There was hope that team could take us somewhere. It felt like something but then the club failed to capitalize
Yeah they did, but given the stadium expenditure I can understand why.

I think if that team and Poch hadn’t suffered such a monumental hangover after the CL defeat then things might have been different.

Win that final and I think we’d be looking at a very different Spurs.
 
Things fell apart with Poch when he took us to heights never achieved before in decades, had us looking like a proper club, and when he asked for investment and was shot down, it completely destroyed the momentum at the club which we have never recovered from and its been one bad mistake after the other.

Anyone saying otherwise or badmouthing Pochs name and legacy is operating on major cope. We was all there. We watched it. It was gorgeous to watch. Not only that, it felt like a genuine family under Poch.
The investment came too late and as we’ve seen was completely misdirected in two wasters.
 
So?
How’s that really any different to the regular 8-4th range?

Win some games, lose some others. Never really feel much.

I might pay attention to the Europa and Cups this year to see what happens there but the second best team in the country play Dyche ball to get results. The best team are so far ahead they can start seasons slowly before winning just to feel something.
We are miles off 4th. Today demonstrates that point. But it didn’t need today. The last 9 months have shown that. Sure, we might win some games but do you really think we can get 4th in the evidence so far?
 
I want to be patient but on days like this it is hard.

But the question is, if we replace him, who do we go for?

Tuchel is the biggest free name. But he is a disaster waiting to happen.

Potter could work. But he seems to want "big big" jobs now.

Maybe someone like Pioli could work. An adaptable, savvy manager that is used to working under a bit of a budget and developing younger talent. While still competing. He did great at Milan.
Everyone will be a disaster. I will take a punt on him to get us winning something before the disaster happens. The story outcome is the same anyway - years and years are lost on hoping Mourinho and Conte could win us something. Another year or two with him wouldn't matter.
 
His brand of football is an absolute calamity. Playing a suicidal high line with the sole benefit apparently being that we risk defensive stability in order to be on the front foot and create chances yet we are incapable of actually creating clear cut chances whilst relying on VDV's recovery speed to bail us out of dangerous situations.

It's honestly car crash football which will near enough fail at every opportunity when facing opposition with a manger that is tactically astute.

In my team line up days ago I knew exactly what tge starting 11 would be (you can check) because Ange is extremley predictable. Gooners scums weakness in midfield was legs (Jorginho and Partey) but our manager decided to equal out the blatant disadvantage Gooner scum had by playing a single pivot with Bentancur and Kulu and Maddison having some odd free role where there's zero positional discipline. He basically played into Artetas hand with his tactical naivity.

The less said about his utter arrogance in regards to attempting to coach defending set pieces the better. An arrogant arrogant man with no fucking idea.
 
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Outcome was exactly the same under Poch.

iWe had talented players but did nothing with them
How on earth can you write that guff!!!

Under Poch we had a season where we won 17 at home and drew 2 with a goal difference of around +45. That will never happen again. And then we we were away from our home ground, we qualified for top 4 twice.
Poch collapsed because his fucking chairman didn’t give him his rebuild.
He wasn’t perfect, but fuck me compared to this 1 trick, sullen clown…

It’s not just about trophies - under Poch we were light years ahead of this crud we are seeing now.
44 points in our last 32 matches.
2 points from our last 30 against our (supposedly) main rivals.
It’s sackable form.
Today we didn’t have one “we should have scored that chance” against a team missing its 2 best midfielders.

Brentford is now massive.
 
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