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Starks/Totti the positivity grandstander funnily enough dissapeared after the Ipswich fiasco and hasn't been back since
Very true, and he was labouring with a head-turned Kane plus Winks, Ndombele and a broken Dele Alli in midfield.
Well I’m trying to look at the match as it unfolded, not through the Ange Out glasses that most of you have. I mean, if you’re adamant about being negative.
No really no, the reverse of what you're attempting would be to come on here after the City match and claim that we weren't very good and could easily have lost had we scored less and conceded more...
Barring Forster I felt that the first XI yesterday was about the best we could put out. Whether VdV and Romero were rushed back is fair to ask - and the bench was very thin.
People posted the battle of the bridge before this game as some kind of inspiration.
Forster has been our best player in the last 3 games. By quite a distance.
It is success though.
It’s genuinely fascinating how some supporters seem ready to proclaim the apocalypse at our club should Ange be shown the door, as if he’s the final roll of the managerial dice and no one else in world football could possibly be entrusted with rebuilding this team. It’s the footballing equivalent of declaring the sun will never rise again should he depart—a dramatic overestimation, to say the least.
The devotion is, quite frankly, cult-like. And no, that’s not hyperbole anymore; it’s a serious observation now, I have never seen a manager at this club be so highly rated for doing so little; his tenure has become something akin to scripture—sacred, immune to critique, and alarmingly detached from the hard evidence staring us in the face, this idea that he will improve and this team will improve under him is entirely divorced from observable reality at this point, when will the penny drop for some of you?
WHEN his time with us inevitably ends (and it will), he might genuinely consider founding a religion lol, I am being sincere here as well.
The man clearly has a gift for rallying unwavering discipleship, even when the path he’s leading them down seems destined to dead-end in mediocrity and broken promises.
Perhaps it’s the allure of a charismatic grifter offering comforting fictions—a footballing pied piper for those in need of a figure to follow and adore, (like a father figure to some I imagine) regardless of whether his "hymns" lead to triumph or torment.
The idea that Ange is "a decent bloke" is pure, unfiltered copium. Let’s call it what it is: a fallacy. Time and again, his so-called geniality has been overshadowed by his passive-aggressive tendencies, thinly veiled insecurity, and a stubborn ego that refuses to acknowledge fault or adapt. The mask has slipped too many times to buy into the “nice guy” myth any longer.
Take today as yet another prime example. He deflected blame onto injuries yet again to explain away the shortcomings of his system and in-game management. We were 2-0 up, a more pragmatic, tactically astute manager—one with less hubris—would have adjusted, closed the game out or at least changed the strategy, and taken all 3 points or at the very least, a point. Instead, we got yet another demonstration of his one-dimensional, tragically predictable “Ange Ball,” a philosophy seemingly allergic to evolution or nuance; but you know it's "entertaining" right? LOL, what is entertaining about it exactly? Please tell me...
Oh, and about those injuries he’s crying about? Let’s not forget that he rushed players like Romero and Van de Ven back into action prematurely, likely exacerbating their conditions and sidelining them for even longer just to try and save his own bacon (shock) great news for a club in multiple comps isn't it?
And as for the replacement for Romero? We paid a hefty sum for Drags services, but suddenly, he’s not good enough Ange? It's all on Romero? Have we not lost multiple winnable games this season with both Romero and VDV fit? Curious logic, isn’t it people?
Perhaps the real injury we’re dealing with is Ange’s fragile ego—it’s proving far more detrimental to the team than anything else at this club currently, the only one who supersedes him in the failure olympics is Levy but even he can't be blamed for the awful results we have seen this season.
Shocking state of affairs.
We’ve tried the balls deep approach with Mourinho and Conte.
No one on here has a life away from the site
So you are saying Ange is more likely to win a cup than Poch wasIt is success though.
Champions league football brings a lot of money and new fans in.
It may not be your definition of success. But I'd bet my left nut that Levy writes a list of objectives and finishing in the top 4 is high, winning a league cup and finishing bottom half is not on it.
That is why Poch lasted 5 years and this fraud coach will be gone before the decorations come down.
