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Is than an objective fact? I read during the week that we've a 70%+ win ratio when that back 4 are all on the pitch together. We conceded 2 goals in our last 5 Europa League KO games with that back 4 starting.

I think most of those 126 goals conceded came when the likes of Davies, Dragusin, Gray, Dier and Emerson were starting in our back 4.

Availablility is a huge problem and we need more able back up. Danso looks good back up. I still think we need to improve on Spence and Dragusin. But that back 4 when on the pitch together is very very good. Player for player it is one of the best back 4s in the league and certainly one of the best I've ever seen at Spurs.
A lot of the goals are down to fat face tactics

Porro in the number 10 position leaving big gaps in behind....the cm has to come across to cover leaving gaps in the middle

In short..team shape all over the place

All down to fatty tactics
 
I get the impression the personal relationship between them is virtually non existent and has been for some time. I'm not saying that's a good or a bad thing, just how it comes across to me.
I've been critical of Levy many times, but I don't think he'd make his decision based on this anyway.
He did have a good personal relationship with Poch, but a poor working relationship which is why it ended how and when it did.
Yeah I don't think it's about them getting on as mates as much as a level of trust that the manager is a good steward of Levy's money.

Every player Levy has spent real money on for Ange has immediately and permanently become a core member of the team, and he's rehabilitated the value of a few more, and never exiled anybody from the team or torpedoed the status of a player we have a lot invested in. That goes a LONG way with Levy, Ange's predecessors were cavalier with the players as financial assets in a way that drove Levy insane.

If Ange stays, that's why.

If he goes, well, keeping these high-priced players fit and turning them into points on the pitch is ALSO a matter of stewardship of Levy's money, and Ange's record is a lot less impressive in that respect.
 
The mental gymnastics is strong with you, therefore Ange didn’t get us the league position? But yet fans call for his head?
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I smell, smell agenda and the usual rule bending. I think if you looked a little deeper than your out look Poch got us to a few finals and semifinals. Also a title race. But as you say, was nothing to do with him, it was the squad.
its a squad game but, this squad was built by Ange and Levy so they are equally responsible for the squad, the cup win and the horrendous league position.
 
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it's not even the best back 4 we've had in the last 10 years, much less the best we've ever had. Player for player, Rose was far better than Udogie, Vert>Romero, Alderweireld>VDV, Walker>Porro. And it's not even close.
There's a strong shout to say BAE/King/Woodgate/Corluka were better than this lot considering our current defenders can't fucking stay fit for 5 games in a row either.
And yet we went on to win a trophy, somemore a European one. Lol
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So many times we said 'oh this should the season we won something because the route to the competition was so easy, or it was a season where all the traditional big teams crapped out we should have done more to challenge the league' and we fell short so many times regardless.

This year we won with perhaps a weaker team and manager for some years since but people like to say we kinda lucked it out.

Also for once we actually and finally won something and astonishingly people have no qualms in ripping it off for next season thinking that will be the best decision.

Consistency is what may fans have been calling for every season but one poor league standing out of so many seasons suddenly got people to lose their memories.

The Europa win for me really changes everything. And players showed how much they enjoyed the cup and standing by Ange after that.
 
Guys..I've never, ever, claimed to be some kind of ITK, but a reliable geezer I'm in occasional business contact with (yesterday afternoon being one such occasion) who liases regularly with the club is absolutely adamant that the decision has already been made to run with Ange next season.
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All the other so called big clubs already flexing their muscles in the transfer market and getting ready to do significant deals…. while we dither and debate about keeping an incompetent manager who has just overseen the worst premier league season in our history and our worst season since relegation in 1976/77 season. COYS.
 
Why do people discount the opening 10 matches of his tenure, it's so stupid 😆

Is it though? I’m not saying you completely discount it but there has to be some context. Use your damn brain a little. It’s pretty reasonable that a fresh team at the beginning of the year with new tactics and a favorable schedule could catch fire a bit. Outliers are that for a reason. Because they aren’t indicative of the overall picture. And when you have 10 games with a ppg of 2.6 and then the subsequent 28 at 1.43 and then the subsequent full game season at 1.0 then it’s pretty fair to say that the first 10 games were a blip of an outlier. It’s not like we’re saying we discount half his tenure. It’s been 76 league games. Outside of the first 10 it’s been a steady trajectory into absolute shambles.
 
We are yet again at the crossroads

History suggests that whatever the right thing to do is , Levy will just ignore or do the opposite
 
I think the silence speaks volumes.

All the reliable journalists like Orstein, now Delaney, and others saying the expectation is Ange will be sacked.

Ally Gold's article today says that talk around Spurs is that the delay is to let the cup euphoria die down so that the crowd aren't so angry when Ange gets the bullet.

Weird though how Ally seems to suggest so many Spurs fans want Ange to stay after the cup win, I think it's much more 50/50 than is being portrayed on social media.

It's going to happen soon Ange Outters and it will be a glorious day.
 
Fkn Ange is going to give me a heart attack , and cunts on here are going to give me an aneurysm
Cant wait to get back to Blighty next year, hopefully catch up with some of us mob in real life!!
 
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