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Management Ange Postecoglou

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We've lost 21 games in the league because of the fanbase?!?!? What is dissapointing to me is how many fans are spouting this narrative that we are the reason for years of ineptitude and this seasons league capitulation... same fans who fork out thousands to watch this team home and away are the cause for endless humiliation. Get a fucking grip!!! Next you'll be telling me the hotel has a 4.9 out of 5 on TripAdvisor and won best London hotel awards. Maybe we can put that next to our 2008 League Cup.
 
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Ange, get us this trophy and we'll all be buzzing like no other football fans on this planet. Right this minute, I don't care about the past or the future. It's all about this day and etching another great moment into our history.
 
harry7 said:
Win or Lose tonight, Ange can hold his head high. He has recognised that the single thing holding this club back is the lack of trophies. You cannot attract top players if there is no prospect of winning anything, and you cannot motivate your squad if your only ambition is to finish 4th.

Ange was very clear when he joined Spurs. He's not here to finish 4th. That doesn't interest him. He's here to win. He laid out a 4 year plan to turn Spurs into a winning team.

Abandoning the EPL this season was never part of the plan but was necessary. Finally, this has demonstrated to the board that having inexperienced backup players and a medical department that I wouldn't trust to administer a band-aid is not sufficient.

Sacking Ange would be a huge mistake - win or lose. He is exactly the man needed to rebuild this club. Back him with some better backroom staff and experienced players who can play the system without constant errors.

Maybe finishing 17th is the kick up the arse that the board needed to wake them up.
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Oh please, the thing holding this club back is our attitude to salaries. Pay top money and you get top players. With top players you can win trophies.

If you don’t pay top money then you will be waiting decades for a miracle.
 
TonySoprano said:
True. Did the journalist write the headline? Maybe not, usually it’s a copy editor but the piece itself is fine.

Either way he’s just constantly bickering with journalists which you can do from a position of strength but when you’ve just finished 4th from bottom and set a record for losing games, just keep your fucking head down and focus on the final. Now he’s made the whole media narrative about him.

It’s pointless agitation.
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Yep. He didn’t need to address it. Unless it’s to distract pressure away from the players and on to him. That’s the only thing I think it could be.
 
_mehstg said:
We've lost 21 games in the league because of the fanbase?!?!? What is dissapointing to me is how many fans are spouting this narrative that we are the reason for years of ineptitude and this seasons league capitulation... same fans who fork out thousands to watch this team home and away are the cause for endless humiliation. Get a fucking grip!!! Next you'll be telling me the hotel has a 4.9 out of 5 on TripAdvisor and won best London hotel awards. Maybe we can put that next to our 2008 League Cup.
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Ignore them. It will only be from people on the other side of the world who’ve never even been to a game.
 
Shitting bricks here.
Train up to Preston soon to visit my son and his family. He’s throwing a house party for a few friends tonight and already has the pizzas in the justeat basket ready to press send midway through first half for delivery at half time. I don’t know where he gets his organisational skills from but it ain’t me.
He’s tapped the keg of beer so all seems in order.
Shame I’m going to be biting my nails from now til kick off.
Once the game starts I’ll be fine, or pissed. Probably both.
COYS. Do not let me down again.
 
Kiro Kompiro said:
Is that the fan base in general or the vocal ones online?
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Hard to tell. Some fans are genuinely spending thousands to go to Bilbao and are still saying sack the manager regardless to all media outlets whilst on the plane there! I don't know how the majority of the lucky 15k+ feel or the average season ticket holder.

For me it is hypocritical to still be attacking the manager, players, club in the build up of the potential biggest cup win in 40 odd years. I would at least reserve judgement until afterwards and only criticise a loss.

Brian Fantana said:
Yep. He didn’t need to address it. Unless it’s to distract pressure away from the players and on to him. That’s the only thing I think it could be.
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There is a perception from the media that Tottenham in general do not handle the manager questions from journalists as well as other clubs. Even when Conte was in charge, he pointed out that generally the managerial question is posed to a sporting director and not the head coach.

Other clubs also back the manager publicly to remove speculation. Tottenham do not do this. Hence, the manager is less protected from the media than at every other club and has to take them on himself.

As for whether Ange is thick skinned and taking on the media as a game, or thin skinned and biting back as an ill-advised error, the jury is still out.

It could honestly be neither. Genius if he wins, overly deluded if he loses.
 
Maureen said:
Porro we already got before Ange. Paratici was prbly behind signing Vic. MADDs was well early in the transfer window so we probably already done the leg work. Sarr has regressed this season. Spence yes his been a find but he completely ignored for nearly half the season even after saving his skin v cov in LC. Could go on…
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Best you take a breath and read what I said porros defending still ain't great but it's improved. I never said he brought him in
From what I've gathered paratici has always been working for levy on the quite.. but if they hadn't signed.. then the coach would absolutely have the final say... disagree about sarr.. think the extra work load angs system demands and like other young players who haven't 100% physically developed yet let alone reached footballing peak it has taken him time to adapt to,which imo he's done pretty well and let's not forget .. it's his first full season of being regarded as a prem starter let alone playing, sometimes three TOP level games a week.. or is there another angle I'm missing ?
 
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