Never Tuchel. Never.
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Manager Ange Postecoglou
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I’m starting to appreciate Mourinho and feel sick from it!
Romero has been very inconsistent this year.
Looks a bit burnt out. I’d never expect him to get pushed off it like that by Gabriel.
As for Ange, I wasn’t impressed by our front 3rd today at all. The press was very good again and I can see that some things improved but we still don’t have any chemistry up front. Nobody knows what each b other will do yet.
It’s got nothing to do with excusing anything. I just don’t see the point in changing the coach. The same pattern happens over and over again, no matter who is picking the team.
Fuck no.
He’d destroy every young player we just invested in.
If he doesn’t sort things out soon, the only thing he’ll be winning is SkyBet’s first to be fired poll!
44 points from our last 32 matches would suggest we are miles off it - whatever “it” is meant to be
Lets get some barn doors at the training ground then so players can practice shooting at the goal. Were overkill on build up play under Ange.
He underperformed what? We were 4th (well 5th if you consider Newcastle had one or two games in hand) when he departed. I’d say that’s on par with the quality of the team we had.
I think the squad Poch had was better than what we have right now, it was just a shame when we moved into Wembley as a temporary home that there were Zero signings one summer to make it better and push the squad on. The pressing was better and we had a fully mobile midfield and two excellent full backs in Rose & Walker - who we eventually lost. Eriksen was far more consistent than Maddison & Bentacur have been for us and popped up with some good goals. Even when we lost Kane through injury Dele popped up with some good performances and goals as did Sonny.
Sir Alex Ferguson had decline. Ferguson bought some stinkers. However no one doubted Ferguson because he was consistent and breathed the club and they knew what he was capable of. As was Poch for Spurs on our own level. He took Tottenham to a very high standard of football. Had us in the CL most years and competing on all fronts. Had zero investment for the most part. There was genuinely no need to sack him. We had stability. The poor run of form was inevitable with the lack of investment and the backdrop of a few highly competitive seasons we had.
So you regather and build for the next season. You repay that faith. You show an ounce of leniency for the man who had completely revolutionised the team. You dont go and rip up the entire book.
Had we kept Poch, and by some chance he did turn out to be a stinker (highly unlikely considering the many years of consistency at the club) then the very worst would have still been better than the years since his departure.
So when you think about it, all this time money and effort has been for absolute nothing and was completely avoidable, had Poch still been here.
Threw out the baby with the bathwater.
There are so many new players than there have been under old regimes, that unfortunately I do think the issue is the system the manager is playing.
We’re beyond the times of Lloris, Dier et all where you could maybe pin it on the mindset of the old guard.
It's because you literally said "I don't care about defending set pieces"
Postecoglou on Spurs conceding from their first set piece this season after conceding from nine in the Premier League last season: "I know for some reason people think I don't care about set pieces and it's a narrative that you can keep going on for ages and ages.
"I understand that. Like I said, we work on them all the time like we do for every other team. You know that they're a threat, as I said, for the most part, we handled them really well today, but we switched off for one and we paid a price and you learn from that and you move on. But it is what it is.
It's my burden to carry mate and I'm happy to do that. It's not like, like I've always said, for me, there's a bigger picture that's at play here that's much more important than the finer details of us getting to where we want to.
"For us, the way forward is to try to turn the football we're playing now into something meaningful."
Postecoglou on Spurs conceding from their first set piece this season after conceding from nine in the Premier League last season: "I know for some reason people think I don't care about set pieces and it's a narrative that you can keep going on for ages and ages.
"I understand that. Like I said, we work on them all the time like we do for every other team. You know that they're a threat, as I said, for the most part, we handled them really well today, but we switched off for one and we paid a price and you learn from that and you move on. But it is what it is.
It's my burden to carry mate and I'm happy to do that. It's not like, like I've always said, for me, there's a bigger picture that's at play here that's much more important than the finer details of us getting to where we want to.
"For us, the way forward is to try to turn the football we're playing now into something meaningful."
Sacking Poch was Levy hiding away from responsibility for his part in the club failing to capitalize on a very talented squad.
He’s sacked managers ever since for the same reason.
This club isn’t meant to win things and really be successful.
That’s the point yes entertainment when it’s an option but cup games , games against the puddledrinkers the day just grind out a fucking result
Yeah. Did you see us play? We looked wored out and disjointed, and Conte too. Poisonous climate.
No way we would have ended 5th if he saw the season out with us
They slowed the game down the gooners. Ange is paid to address that tactically but did fuck all. Hes obsessed with wingers. You want players from all angles peppering the goal. Theres no goalscoring threat in midfield, weak defensively and keeper is suspect for set pieces.Just watched his post match interview.... He's completely away with the fairies. Utterly deluding himself into simplifying things down to "we didn't take our chances".... We didn't create any fucking proper chances you battered sausage. We were slow, lethargic and totally ineffective for the most part. Absolute dross
I mean there’s nothing wrong with that quote.
We didn’t lose because of a lapse in concentration at a set piece. We lost because we have no chemistry up front and we don’t have a reliable way to create good chances at the moment.
We are actually much better at set pieces in general and gave the gooners almost nothing on the counter. They didn’t cause our high line problems either.
The big picture is our attacking players look toothless and we play a ball dominant attacking system.
Its like conceding 70 goals under Conte when he was playing a defensive system.
We played bad, not like we play much better now. But at least we have the possession stats, right?
