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Manager Ange Postecoglou

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skywalker68 said:
You have answered it with the latter part of your post.
Seems strange though, imagine if this club had won the league yesterday.
The interest in memorabilia, shirt sales etc etc, the financial success would be even greater.
Unfortunately the board doesn't share that vision, survival in the league is king for them.
Very sad the way the club has disintegrated, after the CL final I thought the future was bright but it isn't.
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Tbh the only thing that will deliver a secure future for the football club is new owners.
Gotta say I'm not holding my breath on that though.
Levy knows majority of fanbase want him out but he holds the cards atm only just though, we'll see in the Summer, anyways I think we're guaranteed a new head coach so that will be a massive relief if nothing else COYFS!!!!!!
 
On the shelf said:
Tbh the only thing that will deliver a secure future for the football club is new owners.
Gotta say I'm not holding my breath on that though.
Levy knows majority of fanbase want him out but he holds the cards atm only just though, we'll see in the Summer, anyways I think we're guaranteed a new head coach so that will be a massive relief if nothing else COYFS!!!!!!
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Yes, in the short term a better coach gets the team going again.
Win or lose the EL, he simply is done here, so bitter and all round arrogant prick.
Only likes being interviewed when team has won, but because that's a rare event we just see a bloke looking at the floor wishing he was elsewhere.
 
Still, the Reddit massive are flying in front of the geezer to take a bullet for him.

Even calling Spurs fans "deluded" and "detached from reality" for expecting anything better for Spurs.

I hope all these cunts fuck off when he does.
 
JimothyCF14 said:
Still, the Reddit massive are flying in front of the geezer to take a bullet for him.

Even calling Spurs fans "deluded" and "detached from reality" for expecting anything better for Spurs.

I hope all these cunts fuck off when he does.
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I would say the opposite, I don't think we have expected enough.
Liverpool, city, Chelsea and utd although they have been poor as well, these fans won't accept the shit we tolerate.
 
skywalker68 said:
You have answered it with the latter part of your post.
Seems strange though, imagine if this club had won the league yesterday.
The interest in memorabilia, shirt sales etc etc, the financial success would be even greater.
Unfortunately the board doesn't share that vision, survival in the league is king for them.
Very sad the way the club has disintegrated, after the CL final I thought the future was bright but it isn't.
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The weird / sad thing is that we are spending significantly more on players now than we ever did pre-stadium. NET spent is close to half a billion pounds in the last 5 years. Seriously. The problem is we're spending the money badly, and do not appear willing to pay higher wages for elite players. Instead we are paying a lot of money for potential (and low wages). £40M for Gray is a good example of a relatively ambitious transfer that has not helped us at all this season. Given we have a lot of young players with bags of potential (Gray, Bergvall, Sarr, Odobert, Moore, Kinsky etc.) and other good players who are still relatively young (Udogie, Spence, VdV, Johnson, Kulusevski), we need to buy seasoned leaders, winners. And they come at a premium. If we just signed three players this summer, aged 28-32, experienced leaders down the spine of the team, it would lift us massively. But they would want £200-300k per season. Instead everyone wants us to spend big money on more youngsters like Delap, Dibbling, Wharton etc. (a trap I fall into myself when in football manager mode). Maybe the best thing that can happen to us is a new manager with no European football next season, and proper purchases that will improve the first XI.
 
The bloke is gone at worst at season end. That is a 100 percent certainty. It matters not what happens from here on. The only thing that will see him out earlier is a EL disaster. Highly unlikely until unfortunately the final if it is to happen.

The funny thing is that if the EL is won the club management will look at this time as a financial success. Deep cup runs to a full house. EL money. Champions League next season. The super cup or whatever it is to kick the season off. Wage cuts. Profits made off players being sold etc.

The only downside being the football was complete shit but does that even matter these days.
 
spids said:
The weird / sad thing is that we are spending significantly more on players now than we ever did pre-stadium. NET spent is close to half a billion pounds in the last 5 years. Seriously. The problem is we're spending the money badly, and do not appear willing to pay higher wages for elite players. Instead we are paying a lot of money for potential (and low wages). £40M for Gray is a good example of a relatively ambitious transfer that has not helped us at all this season. Given we have a lot of young players with bags of potential (Gray, Bergvall, Sarr, Odobert, Moore, Kinsky etc.) and other good players who are still relatively young (Udogie, Spence, VdV, Johnson, Kulusevski), we need to buy seasoned leaders, winners. And they come at a premium. If we just signed three players this summer, aged 28-32, experienced leaders down the spine of the team, it would lift us massively. But they would want £200-300k per season. Instead everyone wants us to spend big money on more youngsters like Delap, Dibbling, Wharton etc. (a trap I fall into myself when in football manager mode). Maybe the best thing that can happen to us is a new manager with no European football next season, and proper purchases that will improve the first XI.
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It doesn't seem to matter what, the club structure/strategy is it's always fucked and or flawed nothing ever works.
I no longer can see what the future holds or what is the answer.
A newcoach will do alright for a year and then it's back to normal again.
 
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Jaynola said:
Pal, we got Nuno then Ange cause nobody serious wanted to come here. Levy had to literally beg Jose & Conte, give them the paycheck of a lifetime and make false promises (not in writing).

Nagelsmann clearly rejected us despite the club's lame attempt at disguising the truth. Enrique, Zidane, Xabi Alonso, Simone Inzaghi wouldn't shag us with a borrowed dick.

If Thomas Frank, Iraola and Marco Silva got any sense, they'll stay put.
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If I was an elite manager I'd be a bit tempted by the Spurs job, because it will be financially excellent, and the only way is up. Unless the next manager is another Coglou he cannot fail.
 
A new problem is starting to pop over the horizon here. Back in December, it was important to sack him to give a prospective next manager a chance to work the January window, and some time to bed in ahead of next season.

Now, with Ange still being there we are toying with the prospect of a rushed pre-season and a destabilised start to 2025/26 as we spend another summer trying to find a replacement.

I do hope some serious behind the scenes work is being put together on the football operations side but I have my doubts. If Ange does stay to own the full season of failure he must be sacked seconds after the final whistle against Brighton, Ancelotti 2011 style. This situation cannot fester over the summer. We need a manager having some sort of plan heading into pre-season not someone turning up on day one of it with a badge saying 'Hello, my name is Nuno and I'm new here.'
 
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