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Manager Ange Postecoglou

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Kane alone makes the gulf between the squads "lightyears". There are very very few players like him. Ever.


Think this is a very good analogy. The issue is the names we are being linked to don't scream "upgrade"... But at a club where Mourinho and Conte can't get a sniff out of Europe maybe there is no obvious "upgrade" and we go for potential?
Seems to some clubs in the premier league, that hunting down the rockstar coach is less appealing than it was. Chelsea go for Maresca, and looked at Mckenna. Likewise, Man Utd last summer were rumoured to be sniffing around Mckenna. When Slot was appointed at Liverpool he was maybe less glamourous than other candidates (His stock is obviously far higher now). But Frank would fit in that mould for us I think. A coach, that develops players. Will collaborate with the clubs transfer ideas. Every press conference is less of a soap opera the way Conte's was. Gets the blood pumping less when announced of course... but
 
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Kane was injured for the majority of the CL knockouts and the end of the league season. Pochettino masterminded wins over peak City, an incredible Ajax team who would've cakewalked this years EL without getting out of second gear, and a pretty good Dortmund team - as well as navigating Inter and Barca in the groups.
Yes - and if I remember that season we also suffered quite a few injuries.

But my reference to Poch having a better squad was not just about that season or even just about that cl campaign.

Also Poch was/is a much better manager than Postecoglou full stop. But he still won fuck all so I'm claiming the Postecoglou era as an outstanding success thank you very much and wishing him all the best in the future :D
 

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I can't help imagining Ange watching this with his jaw dropped, tongue slightly exposed and an expression on his face like he has the worst headache he has ever experienced!


A good watch, fairly basic stuff obviously, but probably not for ange. Get the feeling that although he is a nice guy if you dont want what he wants tactically you're fucked. Completely different from Ange wiping the players bums every week and taking the blame for us fucking up. Surely if our playing staff had anything about them they'd prefer some grown up management.

I think he is worth a punt. I'm actually starting to convince myself I will be annoyed if it isnt him.
 
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Imagine not really truly being able to feel part of that because you called the manager a "fat cunt" cos you're so edgy...
imagine there's no losses
it isn't hard to do
no torn hamstrings
or high lines
no more inverted fullbacks too

imagine all the people
calling ange a cunt.....
you-ooooo
you may say i'm a bad fan
but i'm not the only one
i hope someday you'll join us
and shady dan fucks off into the sun!

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Seems to some clubs in the premier league, that hunting down the rockstar coach is less appealing than it was. Chelsea go for Maresca, and looked at Mckenna. Likewise, Man Utd last summer were rumoured to be sniffing around Mckenna. When Slot was appointed at Liverpool he was maybe less glamourous than other candidates (His stock is obviously far higher now). But Frank would fit in that mould for us I think. A coach, that develops players. Will collaborate with the clubs transfer ideas. Every press conference is less of a soap opera the way Conte's was. Gets the blood pumping less when announced of course... but

I reckon if Paratici comes in, we switch our sights to Insaghi and Farioli, at least for a little while.
 
I've been critical of him, but he got the tactics just right in the final – just like he did away at Frankfurt.

We had no creative players, so we deliberately tried to make it a war of attrition. We kept making niggly little fouls all game to stop United building any sort of momentum and to wind up a few of their players (Fernandes, Maguire). This played totally into our hands. I also think the video by Adam Clery showed that the goal was a typical goal for United to concede because dragged their defenders out of position with movement in and around the box. It looked like something we worked on in training.

Bringing on Danso at just the right time was a good sub. Amorim, on the other hand, got his subs completely wrong. Garnacho with only 20 mins – bad. Mainoo on 90 mins – stupid.

If we had conceded first, we were toast.
If they had equalised, we were toast.

You can definitely beat Ange with the 22 defeats stick (that simply isn't good enough), but I don't think you can say anything critical about the Europa League win. In fact, if we were judging him along on those performances, we wouldn't even be having the debate about his job right now. He actually showed flexibility, resilience, grit, gamesmanship etc in those games – all the stuff that we didn't see in the league.

Also, we won the final, so who gives a fuck?

If he had got the team to a completely achievable 10th/11th and won the trophy then we wouldnt be having this discussion because he'd be in charge next season. If he losses his job, he has nobody to blame but himself. Setting up to beat teams like Leicester at home was completely plausible, instead we were embarrassing and that is on him.
 
I don't agree with much of what they say, but either O'Hara or Bent were talking about the "one game to save your job" scenario on Talk Sport a few months ago. I can't even remember if it was Ange/Spurs they were talking about tbh.
But the point was it makes no sense. If you're at the point of thinking 1 more game is enough to sack the manager, it's probably time to sack the manager.
It's like being in a terrible relationship. You say to yourself one more argument/affair/assault and I'm out. If you're thinking that, you should already be gone tbh. Talk Sport didn't say that, that's my analogy.
Yes.

Things carried on for a long time in a terrible state with Ange, and with the majority of fans being Ange Out, but if you were still Ange In by the middle of this season, you'd already excused a whole stack of inexcusable performances, so what's one more?

This is how you end up in 17th place with many supporters arguing that there's simply no way you can sack the manager who did it.
 
Yes - and if I remember that season we also suffered quite a few injuries.

But my reference to Poch having a better squad was not just about that season or even just about that cl campaign.

Also Poch was/is a much better manager than Postecoglou full stop. But he still won fuck all so I'm claiming the Postecoglou era as an outstanding success thank you very much and wishing him all the best in the future :D

The era is a failure ... the cup is a huge success, he's Ramos on steroids. Football is weird and it doesn't surprise me that the guy who couldn't deliver a team to be proud of every week is the one to break our duck. It's just our lot that we can't have it all.

I fully believe Pochettino could have won the cup if he didn't focus on the bigger prizes. The EL was always a sideshow to him, he rested players in it for the league. Maybe that was his mistake. If he'd won that then his time in charge would be viewed with less of an air of ultimate disappointment.
 
100% correct. He's also the worst manager in the modern era.

I cant face another season of him in the league. Nobody can turn the type of form we have been showing over such a long period of time, it is virtually impossible without changing manager and I think that is ultimately what Levy will have to weigh up. Is he willing to potentially throw next year too to find out if we start the season like a wet fart.
 
The era is a failure ... the cup is a huge success, he's Ramos on steroids. Football is weird and it doesn't surprise me that the guy who couldn't deliver a team to be proud of every week is the one to break our duck. It's just our lot that we can't have it all.

I fully believe Pochettino could have won the cup if he didn't focus on the bigger prizes. The EL was always a sideshow to him, he rested players in it for the league. Maybe that was his mistake. If he'd won that then his time in charge would be viewed with less of an air of ultimate disappointment.
I don't regard Pochettino has having been a disappointment at all. It was disappointing to not win a major honor in his time when the capability was there, sure. But he was failed by Daniel Levy's refusal to invest in the squad or replace key players who were departing or past their best. If that had been done, I think Poch could easily have won the league or won that final.
 
I never said he was. I just commented that in Poch's time of success we had a far superior squad than the one we will currently go back into CL with. This is (or should be) a much bigger concern than who the manager is imo 🤷‍♂️
With you on this. Whether it's Ange or Frank or whoever, they are going to struggle if we don't bring in some quality. I'm just hoping that Paratici is in boss mode.
 
The era is a failure ... the cup is a huge success, he's Ramos on steroids. Football is weird and it doesn't surprise me that the guy who couldn't deliver a team to be proud of every week is the one to break our duck. It's just our lot that we can't have it all.

I fully believe Pochettino could have won the cup if he didn't focus on the bigger prizes. The EL was always a sideshow to him, he rested players in it for the league. Maybe that was his mistake. If he'd won that then his time in charge would be viewed with less of an air of ultimate disappointment.
i remember very few people having a problem with binning off the europa league back then. it was all about new stadium and top 4 and attracting better players. hell, there were debates about intentionally not qualifying for it so we could focus on the league ala leicester. this poch criticism (not from you) is pretty revisionist to me.
 
Bodo did fuck all away from home, ever.

Obvious home advantage playing at -40, in six feet of snow on a dangerous plastic pitch (which UEFA shouldn't even sanction), and where the Sun sets at two in the afternoon.

Don't try and big them up.
Ifs buts and maybes, I know, but would people feel differently right now if we'd beaten Lazio and Athletic Bilbao in their home stadium to lift the cup?

Genuinely curious.
 
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