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Manager Ange Postecoglou

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Brian Fantana said:
Yeah I agree. It does mean though that once he goes it shouldn’t really take long to get the players playing to their skills. I would just get someone in again who can do that. Football doesn’t always have to be a complicated game. But then again we would be going around in circles unless that person also plays the football the squad is built for. I still go back to the summer he was appointed and Poch was sitting there for months by the phone waiting for the call. He was the obvious one to go to.
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Is Mike Bassett available? Spurs will be playing FOUR FOUR FUCKING TWO
 
TheSpurEst said:
What reBUILD. Please, draw it out for everyone here. What are the outlines of the reBUILD. Together with actual proof that is happening. Building something is not some Bloody Mary urban myth that just saying the term three times will magically make it appear. There has to be plan, there have to be some aspects of proof that this thing in fact is happening.

I love this club and I want it to do well. And I do not see any progress at all. Not even the slighest. Results have been getting progressively worse and worse and worse and worse. What currently is happening is demolishion. I do not see incremental gains from one week or one month to another. I see that we have just completed half a season with 24 points. I see calendar year being finished with 51 points. A full year of unmitigated disaster. If we would actually adapt in some way and I would actually witness improvements in our games and results, the story would be different. But our performances under him started off well, but the longer period you look, the worse average results get. What grants and guarantees the inherent belief that we are building anything and not destroying?

You say that it is boring to read same comments over and over again. I get it. But change then the dynamics and lay out some explained arguments where this progress lies in. Right now all I see from people who urge to keep him are very basic and vague. Mainly can be summed up as "have more patience", "give him more time", "chananging managers does not fix all the issues", "who is even available to take over now" etc. Also quite repetitive.

It is sports and everything is evaluated through the results. I know what you say - that long term results are what matter - and it is true as well. Only as I pointed out - so far the longer it goes on, the worse results have been getting. So again - based on what should we expect this trend to change?
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Nah I can't be arsed, you're right there is no rebuild and we're an unmitigated disaster.
 
enfield1985 said:
My biggest problem with today’s game is some people say he was more pragmatic and the full backs weren’t inverting. I watched today’s game and was baffled by the actual tactics. We seemed to have no connection between attack and defence they were miles apart most the match. On top of that we played 70 minutes with a double Pivot. It all just seemed to disjointed and chaotic. Where have all the small triangles gone from the start of last season?

Everything about Spurs now looks undrilled and off the cuff. Our press seems to have no trigger and too often it is only one player pressing. Bissouma and Bentancur look completely confused what they are meant to be doing. Also why is Maddison all of a sudden benched when in a few games he has been our best player. On another note why are Son and Johnson used so poorly and not used to their strengths.
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You asked the man to change tactics and wonder why the play looked disjointed lol
 
Murphy said:
Ange looking confused on the touchline wondering why we keep dropping points.

Meanwhile:

Arne Slot explaining that clean sheets are the key to winning.
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Just watching their highlights now. They make the game look easy while we make it look hard. West Ham had some chances but that didn’t deter them, they kept going, they had faith it would work in the end. That’s down to tactics and confidence. We have neither, getting a few players back from injury won’t change that. I’m just using them as an example as I saw your post and at watching motd. Really that could apply to most teams above us while we drop like a stone.
 
Ange is nearly joint favourite with Lopetegui in the sack race at the moment.

It's difficult to see how he gets out of this.

For all our injuries , that starting lineup should have been more than enough to beat a then 17th placed wolves, new manager bounce or not.

We still had Maddison, Sarr and Bergval on the bench to come in.....and Werner.

We played well but just didn't have enough to get us over the line - Son missing cost us unfortunately.

But if we haven't got enough talent to see us beat Wolves then we are in much much bigger shit than I thought we were.


But I've got a sneaking suspicion our prima donna players have given up in the league and are happy with whatever just as long as we don't get relegated.......I bet we put on a performance against Liverpool in the cup.....and I think that will piss me off even more......
 
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Stlducks said:
It’s not letting Levy off the hook to say Ange is not the right guy. Both can be true. Ange and Levy can both be not qualified for their jobs.

If you support Ange, my question would be what has Levy done wrong? He’s bought players Ange wanted, he’s kept every player but Kane we wanted and he’s sold those we wanted out.

I can see blaming Levy for keeping Ange but if you like Ange, what did Levy do wrong?
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What did Levy do wrong? He has never shown serious intent to win. I'd like him to aim higher. Be bolder. Say publically that the aim to win the league, and this is how we plan to do it. If Levy, as Chairman, doesn't believe we can win the league, it more or less guarantees we will always be short.

Part of what he can do is spend a higher % of turnover on players (we still rank low vs peers). Solanke and a couple of promising youngsters is not enough.
 
If we just have a little more patience the fruits of the rebuild will eventually payoff

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Go and enjoy the new year countdown or celebration early guys, stop wishing for the sack announcement and waste time. It's not going to happen lol. By the time he's gone, it's probably middle of 2025 and some you would have wondered where the fuck time goes.
 
Post match he’s still doubling down on not being able to rotate Destiny when Destiny didn’t play against Forest.

Again, he might not want to use him but Reggie is there. It’s a refusal to rotate as well as concerns over depth.

There’s of course poor fortune, but he’s working these players into the ground. All that running and intestity for what?
 
I believe Levy won't sack Ange this season unless we drop to 18th in the table. Then wait for next season and may sack him after 10 games. It's in the contract to play attacking expansive football.
 
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