was interviewed by Chavs last year before they went with another mini pep
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Exactly, they went for Maresca instead.
I'd rather we went for a younger manager with an interest in playing attacking football BUT not kamikaze style like Ange.
Iraola would've been high on my list.
Getting CL killed any chance of Iraola IMO. His Bournemouth squad got almost as many injuries as Ange and were burned out by March. No way would we have handled 50+ games with our squad.
They went for Maresca because they wanted a manager who is possession focused.
Frank is an all rounder, he isn't wedded to a philosophy and changes his setup based on opponent, something that our players will benefit from IMO.
Iraola is a funny one, good manager but his injury record was nearly as bad as Ange's and he was only playing one game a week!
I agree withmost of that, but I do not think that getting us back into the top ten will be seen as a success.
which I'm quite relieved about
i don't think we'll go with a 3 atb manager again. taking a technical player off for an extra center back and relying on wingbacks for the bulk of the creativity was never a good fit for the club. i want to play with a creative 10 again
Absolute scenes when Frank sets us up 3-5-2 against PSG.
On the one hand I am not going to lose sleep over the tactical judgments of Todd Boehly.
But on the other hand, it does seem to me that Frank has received some skepticism about how his culture-building would fare under brighter lights at a larger organization with richer, more famous players. That worry I do share.
Frank will need some leaders out there. We are so easily rocked during games.
I do Kind of get where your coming from, but I think there is more to it then that, they were the 5th Highest Scorers last season in the league , and they have something like the 17th Highest spend?
I guess the proof in the pudding will be to see who we get in this window, if its just another couple of young players then yeah Levy is just going to want to spend the bare minimum and aim for Top 5-7 - however if we go out and buy some experienced older players then I might actually start to get excited.
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Inevitably there will be a few who will be sitting like vultures waiting for Frank's first slip-up and then they will pounce.
But I think from the off we will see a marked improvement (win, lose or draw) in the way we approach and manage games and lets be honest, after Ange-Ball, that won't be hard!
So there's no doubt the majority will get behind TF and combined we just might get a bit of pride back in the weekly bread and butter of The EPL and start to look forward to and getting excited about Saturday's again.
There's a forum on here, AMBITION. This is my ambition for 25/26.
Inevitably there will be a few who will be sitting like vultures waiting for Frank's first slip-up and then they will pounce.
But I think from the off we will see a marked improvement (win, lose or draw) in the way we approach and manage games and lets be honest, after Ange-Ball, that won't be hard!
So there's no doubt the majority will get behind TF and combined we just might get a bit of pride back in the weekly bread and butter of The EPL and start to look forward to and getting excited about Saturday's again.
There's a forum on here, AMBITION. This is my ambition for 25/26.
Chavs went for Potter , pretty much the same , granted it didn't work out & The Gooners literally went for the guy who put the comnes out for Pep - they are no barometer in who we get!
City are another world, not sure who they get after Pep but it would be someone who is a proven winner every where he has gone, wait a minute.......
You have to give Levy that he's faster than RM, Barcelona, Milan, Inter, Bayern, Pool, City, Woolwich and the rest.
No big club would have hired Ange when we did. Ange was brought in for style of play and because he isn't the type to speak out against the board.
Bringing a club like Brentford up from a lower league and making them steady in the top flight is one of the best qualifications a manager could have. It shows that not only can you develop players but that you can achieve stable gains. They were able to stand up to some of the biggest clubs while always outgunned, the common thread from all other managers is respect for the way Brentford was always challenging them.
Ange can't do any of that. He knows one thing that worked against small clubs with a fraction of his net spend (shouldn't most systems work under those circumstances?). When that thing didn't work here, he had no answers.
And the enjoyable play style thing wasn't even true, we scored loads of goals against Everton and relegation teams but were a terrible watch most of the time, often struggling to even get shots on goal.
Frank has never had the resources a big club could afford him, so we can't say what he would do with it. No we won't spend what Citeh will spend but he'll certainly be having more than he's had. We should expect something above 10th in the immediate term as he's done that well with less.
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Chavs went for Potter , pretty much the same , granted it didn't work out & The Gooners literally went for the guy who put the comnes out for Pep - they are no barometer in who we get!
City are another world, not sure who they get after Pep but it would be someone who is a proven winner every where he has gone, wait a minute.......
IMO Frank is several levels above Arteta as a coach.
By rights Arteta should still be an assistant learning the ropes. If he was a legit elite player like Xavi, Zidane, or Xabi Alonso then you could justify him making the jump that early but he wasn’t.
The good thing is m for us any way - if they had a better manager they would have won something last 5 or so years
It wouldn't surprise me. I think the PL and football clubs in general are dumb enough to keep employing coaches based on rep/name.
This is why, IMO, it's harder for London clubs to win the PL than others - more local derbies.
Just stating facts. Any long suffering Spurs fan is well aware of our atrocious record at Stamford Bridge.
100% agree