they wouldnt be injured if we had a proper manager. weve got a guy so incompetent hes actually destroying players careers. VDV is in dangerous territory with this guy loitering about.
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they wouldnt be injured if we had a proper manager. weve got a guy so incompetent hes actually destroying players careers. VDV is in dangerous territory with this guy loitering about.
Losing your main center back is pretty much to worse thing that can happen to a squad. Go look at Liverpools win record without VVD, Arse without Saliba, City without Dias. All dropped significantly.
We are without both CBs and our keeper. Our first choice backup CB injured and replaced with an 18 year old who is not a CB.
We have continued to score plenty of goals through this patch, but simply cannot stop the rot at the back.
So, what should Ange have done against Forest? Park the bus and let them attack our makeshift defence? Or control the game, dominate the ball and score as we always do?
I'm not sure he got the game wrong. They didn't create much and their goal was a product of poor defending. We dominated the ball, but our players didn't deliver.
Kulu was too slow on the ball. Always holding onto it too long and getting tackled.
Solanke rarely looking for the goal and always with his back to goal looking to lay the ball off. He really suits being park of a strike pairing rather than a lone striker.
You can say all this till your blue in the face, his results with a fit squad are just as bad and I dont believe in his philosophy.Losing your main center back is pretty much to worse thing that can happen to a squad. Go look at Liverpools win record without VVD, Arse without Saliba, City without Dias. All dropped significantly.
We are without both CBs and our keeper. Our first choice backup CB injured and replaced with an 18 year old who is not a CB.
We have continued to score plenty of goals through this patch, but simply cannot stop the rot at the back.
So, what should Ange have done against Forest? Park the bus and let them attack our makeshift defence? Or control the game, dominate the ball and score as we always do?
I'm not sure he got the game wrong. They didn't create much and their goal was a product of poor defending. We dominated the ball, but our players didn't deliver.
Kulu was too slow on the ball. Always holding onto it too long and getting tackled.
Solanke rarely looking for the goal and always with his back to goal looking to lay the ball off. He really suits being park of a strike pairing rather than a lone striker.
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We joke but I actually think we may need someone like that. This is the most gutless squad we’ve had in two decades. I’d love to win a trophy but bar Sonny and Davies I wouldn’t be happy for any of these players.
Such a stupid post. What is the excuse for the Ramos level results November 2023-November 2024?Ange should be able to take a team backstopped by Archie Gray and Radu Dragusin, and win top 4 in the premier league. I mean come on, if one of them goes down he has the likes of Yves Bissouma to play CB.
If you can’t win with that lineup you shouldn’t be in the PL. Inexcusable.
The evidence is every single manager since Ramos has gotten better results from the squad, regardless of spending on transfers and wages (and most had significantly less than Ange has had).Because the evidence of every manager before and since Poch Is that he won’t be Poch mkII. And Poch didn’t win anything anyway then got fired so why would we want a Poch Mk II?
Such a stupid post. What is the excuse for the Ramos level results November 2023-November 2024?
The squad hasn't been ravaged by injuries for 13 straight months. And it's better than 11th.
Can't wait till the injured players come back. Then we can get back to wasting loads of chances every game and losing. That's not Ange's fault either though.
It’s probably the manager. Obviously the manager. We should try replacing the manager again. That always works.Such a stupid post. What is the excuse for the Ramos level results November 2023-November 2024?
The squad hasn't been ravaged by injuries for 13 straight months. And it's better than 11th.
He's. The. Worst. Manager. Points. Per. Match. Since. Ramos.It’s probably the manager. Obviously the manager. We should try replacing the manager again. That always works.
Nuno sends his love.
My take is we did go longer and were far less intricate at playing from the back, both Forest and Liverpool….. however we still had full backs pressing centrally in the final third which is nuts and that’s how we were sprung on their goalI still think Ange could do very well at Spurs, but only if he builds in stages.
But he shown that he won't, he's not prepared to gradually work towards his vision of how the game should be played.
Instead he's tried to do it 100% from day one, without having the players to be able to do it.
It would be best for him and Spurs if he went. Perhaps he'd be good at one of the better Championship sides where he'd have a chance of fielding the best players in that league.
But it's just not working at Spurs and there's nothing to indicate it'll get any better.
I previously said Spurs might as well give him the next window, but I don't see the point now. He's too inflexible.
The injuries have been bad, but the damage caused by them wouldn't have been as bad if he'd have changed his tactics to mitigate for them. Even just something as simple as telling Forster just to hoof it up the park instead of trying to be a sweeper.
The only reason he's there Sunday is because there's only one working day between yesterday and the next match.