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Management Ange Postecoglou

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To be fair, our previous managers had a rather special goal machine that got them out of many a lousy situation. It would be disingenuous to suggest Ange wouldn't be in a better position if he had Kane. That man papered over chronic under investment in the playing side for far too many years. If Levy had realise how much so he would have asked for double.
Jol didn't, Redknapp didn't.
And it's not like scoring has been the biggest issue either.
 
start playing a sensible system ...geared to not losing games... slowly move up the league... hows that for starters.....
That's fine, and if that's what's needed so be it.

But the reality is there will always be an under pressure manager to be a scapegoat when things aren't going well. That will ALWAYS be a potential focus and relief valve.

So please spare some patience for those of us more focused on the larger picture of one of the richest clubs on the planet, wringing more money out of its supporters than anyone else, while having no intent to ever compete for anything.

You can always make the dugout the story if you want to, which means always ignoring the real story.
 
To be fair, our previous managers had a rather special goal machine that got them out of many a lousy situation. It would be disingenuous to suggest Ange wouldn't be in a better position if he had Kane. That man papered over chronic under investment in the playing side for far too many years. If Levy had realise how much so he would have asked for double.
It would still be 2 home clean sheets in 16 months. The manager is a joke, he cant set up a side and has surrounded himself with random average coaches. Kane might have us up a place or two max, but thats about it. He'd probably be injured by now anyway trying to play this absurd, schoolboy football
 
I don’t think I’ve been attached to a manager since Fergie left Aberdeen! Ange was probably the closest. I liked his not taking bullshit at pressers. I liked his unwillingness to compromise on his tactics. But that’s gone now.

No person is ever bigger than the club (Fergie at Aberdeen the very obvious exception). So we wipe or mouths and move on to the next temp. Because that’s what he’ll be. A temp.

I feel heart sorry for you that Spurs offer you apathy now. I have anger and feel let down and it does ruin my next couple of days. Sitting here with a couple of dozen WhatsApp messages that I’m not going to open until Tuesday because I know what they’ll say.

Maybe apathy is better than tantrum? Dunno.

Wish I had the answer mate.

Just remember how far from this it was under Poch.

If I’m honest, it’s not just Spurs where the apathy comes from, it’s English football in general.

Is there an honest Spurs fan who really feels like it’s ever going to be our turn to win? Any hope that the stadium was going to bring about a change in fortunes is surely long past believing that?
 
Cunts “only” on 5m a year and he was given a 4 year contract. I’m sure it’s like £12m tops. It would have cost more to sack Poch and Jose. Which is probably the crux of the issue.

But yeah, let’s shot the bed for £12m and watch how much money we lose by dropping to the championship. It’s more than £12m.
Whoever made that deal with a so shite a hopeless manager shoud be sacked
 
Still way better than the Leicester players.

That's fine, and if that's what's needed so be it.

But the reality is there will always be an under pressure manager to be a scapegoat when things aren't going well. That will ALWAYS be a potential focus and relief valve.

So please spare some patience for those of us more focused on the larger picture of one of the richest clubs on the planet, wringing more money out of its supporters than anyone else, while having no intent to ever compete for anything.

You can always make the dugout the story if you want to, which means always ignoring the real story.
They are both real stories - the dugout is just a tweet whereas the ownership is a novel
 
“Players are giving everything” is no hiding place. As it either means. They are giving everything but are not good enough or much worse they have set a culture that it’s alright to lose as long as you try. It’s not.

Imagine a winning club with that sort of attitude? Actually imagine a winning club where the under 23 squad are 50% first team starters.

Wankers from Levy downwards.
Neither is losing every game a way to guide them through this difficult time. I could fucking do that.
Get the team properly organised for a start. Ange doesn’t understand or respect the basics of football at the elite level.

He is getting away with murder because he can speak fluent English and can do the PR stuff. Imagine if he were Pepe Mel or Claude Puel or some other random European manager with a silly accent getting the same results. He’d be laughed at and would have got sacked months ago. He has no business working at this level but he talks a good game and doesn’t have a go at Levy so he gets to stay on the gravy train.
it's actually the most infuriating thing about the whole Ange situation how he is navigating his way through it by twisting reality. He says the exact things needed to hang on to his job, all the 'we're in great position to achieve something exceptional this year' (in the cups- so you can't sack me before I'm out of cups), 'the club is working hard', 'the players are back soon' (don't sack me before they are back) and the worst of all the 'helping players get through this tough period' (as to make it like the results are irrelevant and all it matters is poor things survive having to play fucking football games at all)
 
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I'm sure I've seen this movie , Dead Man Walking .
This is more on Battlefield Earth’s level.
 
Get the team properly organised for a start. Ange doesn’t understand or respect the basics of football at the elite level.

He is getting away with murder because he can speak fluent English and can do the PR stuff. Imagine if he were Pepe Mel or Claude Puel or some other random European manager with a silly accent getting the same results. He’d be laughed at and would have got sacked months ago. He has no business working at this level but he talks a good game and doesn’t have a go at Levy so he gets to stay on the gravy train.
I think your inquisitor is on my block list. manmountainbutters made my mind up not bothering with the fake Ange in mob. But if anyone asks what will the next man do? The answer as you say is simple. COACH. Ange doesn’t meet this most basic requirement.
Some coach do take sessions directly but too a man those ones have an coaching team with a philosophy practice and personell bedded in and tested over multiple years.


The clues were everywhere for those who cared to look beyond the PR, turn up alone take whatever you find, remember the video of him yelling "Stop passing the ball fucking backwards "...I just cringed and wondered that's not it is it?...the tactical advice on game from our head coach. He isn't a very clever man, beyond the bluster he's remarkably fragile. But he has loads of personal charisma and it's got him by. But this is the EPL and he's horribly inadequate.
 
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