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Management Ange Postecoglou
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Dont blame them in fancying it. They have a really good coach who obviously knows our one trick and ways of countering it. Basically any oppo that is a bit agressive, run hard, niggle us and exploit our full back positions stand a great chance of beating us.
You have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince.18 months into a managers reign and we're calling for his head, where have I seen this before?
Hey, maybe the next manager who will be written off from the start, and slagged off as soon as we lose a couple of games will work? We certainly have the patient fanbase for it
For every Jol, Redknapp and Poch there are toads like AVB that need to be thrown back in the pond ASAP.
Ange looks a bit toad like to me.
What success did we get from those 3 'princes'? Top 4 finishes and a cup final? As soon as it got rough we sacked them?
Rinse and repeat.
I hate to bring up Woolwich, but they stuck by Paella Pulis when he lost 9 in 10 (something like that) and our now reaping the rewards of that because they have an identity, they are competing and signing/holding onto top players. We don't have that patience as a fanbase, and until we do we'll be back in this situation in 18 months time.
And we have
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claiming that Fazio, DeAndre Yedlin and Stambouli are a higher calibre of player than what we are signing now. It's nearly as if people will say anything as long as it fits into their agenda.
Also, everyone was laughing at them for calling for his head so soon.
And we have
It's nearly as if people will say anything as long as it fits into their agenda.
Where is he saying that??. Ffs.
We have so many fans that are like this.And we have
It's nearly as if people will say anything as long as it fits into their agenda.
Cry out that Dier is shit.. Now I'm seeing them claim he's better than Dragusin and we should have kept him. Same with Lamela and Sanchez. It's embarrassing.
Where is he saying that??. Ffs.
He said that the calibre of player we were buying 10 years ago was higher than it is now.
10 years ago - in the 2014/15 season we bought Fazio, Stambouli, De Andre Yedlin, Dier, Davies and Alli
Like I get it - emotion makes you say dumb stuff sometimes - but at least be grown up enough to admit you're chatting shit when you get called out for it.
I think post Poch having imploded with Conte and Jose and sacking Nuno after ten games we are as attractive as a naked Anne Widdecombe to any decent coach . It’s partly why Ange got the gig , I have accepted nothing changes until the ownership does . History proves this , everyone fails under ENIC it seems , changing the manager means :
1 ) Paying off Ange
2) Hoping to find an unemployed replacement or paying compensation to his current club
3) Trying to sell the players he does not want for more than they are worth
4) Buying the cheap version or teenage versions of the players he wants in
5) Releasing a vomit inducing video of Levy explaining how this time will be different
6) Continuing with paying uncompetitive salaries thus not signing the best talent
7) It not working and sacking Ange’s replacement
What’s the point in any of the above happening again and again
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It’s not about patience as a fanbase, most Arse fans wanted Arteta out. The board just stuck by their guns and carried on, there is no reason why we can’t. We have even sacked managers that the fans love like Jol, Redknapp and Poch. The fans are mostly irrelavant or would be irrelevant if the board truly back the manager.
Levy will sack if he feels he needs to. It might be financial or he might think the fans aren’t for the current manager or he might have an alternative lined up. Either way it will be the boards choice.
He’s on LSD.
I need some of this high quality acid.
VDV v Fazio???
And
Solanke must have cost more than all of those players combined and has just scored 20 odd premier league goals in one season. At a lower table club.
A proven PL striker in his prime. Or a kid from Portugal and one from Milton Keynes!
It’s a crazy world we live in.
The worst run they had was 1 year exactly into his tenure, they lost 7 of 10. But he then turned it around and they won 8 of their last 12 that season. That latter period is the timeframe we're now at with Ange, roughly 16 months. Arteta had also won an FA Cup which i imagine, along with empty stadiums, bought him that time.
It's a fair point though, you're just following your own agenda as well. Alli and Dier were signed in that same window and were key to our surge under Poch.And we have
It's nearly as if people will say anything as long as it fits into their agenda.
Fazio and Yedlin are of a similar standard to Dragusin and Spence if we're objective about it. Stambouli was pretty mediocre but we're hardly immune to that anymore e.g. Solomon, Werner.
The point is we're still pretty much fishing in the same pond and I would say our big signings now are no better than before - the likes of Van der Ven, Maddison and Solanke are very good players, but so were Van der Vaart, Lloris, Vertonghen, Dembele, Alderweireld, Wanyama.
We've been on a plateau for a long time. The increased revenue is just feeding transfer fee inflation at best.
If Levy was Levy's boss, he'd have sacked him ages ago.
It ain't just a lack of focus and ruthlessness, my friend. We'd be laughing if it was just that. You can't be more out of your depth as a chairman than that muppet, it's impossible.
How anyone can still defend him is pure madness. Obviously I'm not including his paid stooges in that.
But they win nothing. And that is what's most important. Stop acting like they are a successful side.
They are far from successful , just more successful than us . That is the really galling part , we had moved comfortably ahead of them , we chose to hold rather than push on and they have overtaken us . The most galling bit is they have overtaken us with Legoman running the show.
Have you seen enough to suggest that will happen. I personally haven't and don't think that'll be the case. If however that did happen it'd be impossible to sack him as I've barely seen us lift anything so to lift 2 trophies in 1 season would be a remarkable feat.