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Match ***Bournemouth v Spurs - 8.15pm Thurs 5th December (Amazon Prime)***

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How come Brennan Johnson, who did absolutely nothing all evening, stayed on the pitch, but Bissouma and Maddison were subbed? How come Son was allowed anywhere near the pitch? How come Werner wasn't brought on earlier? How come Ange is paid millions of pounds and can't organise a piss-up in a brewery?
Bournemouth aren't even very good. The second half was a shameful mess.
In about the 87th minute I realised Johnson was still on the pitch!
 
As I’ve said before, we can sack Ange but we’ll be calling for the head of whomever replaces him within another 18 months

Our owners refuse to splash out on the quality necessary for us to be a successful football team and until that changes we’ll continue to go round in these fucking circles

Buying 18 year old's is all well and good for them to come good in 2027 not the current season.

Secondly keeping a player not fit for purpose is something that a second division side would do, and this is on Ange.

Our PL season is over.

We are never a top four side, and with a bunch of kids, never will be.
 
Both of those two had us looking organised at least, until both inevitably found out what it's like working with Levy.

The middle ground was Pochettino who Levy got incredibly lucky with, then fucked him for 18 months with no signings

There's a single constant issue here and it ain't the manager, Ange has his faults but he's been given teenagers and bit part players to play his system which demands quality particularly in the wide positions and depth for when the inevitable injuries happen
He hasn't been 'given' teenagers.

He sanctioned them.

I don't agree with firing him, but he has to carry the can on this squad.
 
I wish people would stop saying this inane crap about how many would get into Liverpool or Chelsea. We are being beaten well beaten by Bournemouth and Ipswich the players we have Sarr Romero Solanke Maddison Vicario Bentancur VDV Porro Kulusevski under a competent coach, who can coach both defence and attack with expert set-piece and goalkeeping coaches should be taking six to nine points off these sides.

Let me remind you three of the players named are reportedly being tapped up by Real Madrid and Man City.

Yes Levy screws every bloody coach but I'm telling you lot, and I was saying this when we beat United 3 nil, what your watching is a badly coached team. Make all the mitigations you want I said it when we won thatcgame and trust me HE IS TO BLAME for the defeats and underperformance.

If this crap was good enough to win in Australia Japan and Scotland these countries are miles behind. Is Ange our clubs big issue no that's Levy but this team is wearing a led weight taking orders from him we finish 10th -12 he's that poor at understanding EPL football.
 
Buying 18 year old's is all well and good for them to come good in 2027 not the current season.

Secondly keeping a player not fit for purpose is something that a second division side would do, and this is on Ange.

Our PL season is over.

We are never a top four side, and with a bunch of kids, never will be.

What worries me is that even if everything and everyone clicks and falls into place in 2 years time ; other teams will also have found some way to « progress « .

We’ll simply never get ahead of the game .

I hope I’m wrong BTW .
 
For me, Ange sanctioning the Johnson signing says it all for me. Yes he scores some tap ins but he's so so so clearly nowhere near good enough.

The recruitment has been diabolical from us this summer, but when you look around the squad, there is enough out there out beat Palace, Fulham, Leicester, Ipswich etc There is no excuse. That is all on Ange.

He stands there looking utterly clueless on the touchline.

At the moment you feel our down down up down down form is because the players aren't being coached, they occasionally turn up in moments to win a game, but when it comes to the crunch, the manager needs to coach the win and Ange simply doesn't.

I said in August / September he wouldn't make November, and Christmas absolute latest.

And why on earth Ange put a rag tag coaching team in place, I knew we would be fucked when I saw his coaching appointments. It's all so amatuer hour.

Woolwich must be laughing at us the way we are run off and on the pitch.
 
I think all this "The manager has lost the players" is all bollocks.

The squad is running on empty. A busy schedule + endless injury list + agressive, energetic style of play + poor squad management has drained everything out of the players.

I suppose to you can blame Ange for the last 2. But I don't really know where we go from here with no let up in the first 2. He can't rest anyone.
 
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