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I don't usually bother with pressers but was quite impressed with Ange here. He held his hands up and said he was mistaken to misunderstand the feeling of so many fans, and would've done things differently if he could. He said the fans are the custodians of the club and he's just managing, something some of us have been thinking I'm sure. It does make you wonder what kind of bubble these players and managers are in now though, if he could go into such a game and be genuinely unaware of the depth of feeling about it here.
Maybe it was wishful thinking on his part, he didn’t like to think that we would be okay with losing in that circumstance so he dismissed it and chose not to believe it.
Finally got around to watching todays presser.
Thought it was very good and Ange dealt with it very well.
Fair play. Now let’s finish the season on a high.
Thought it was very good and Ange dealt with it very well.
Fair play. Now let’s finish the season on a high.
I'm just resigned to the fact that they will never understand the inequality of demanding anything from an average paying supporter. It's not even an Ange thing. I get pissed off at Pep when he slanders City fans for not turning up in empty cup games. The average fan isn't going to go to a random shit game on a Tuesday night and pay full price just to get home on a Wednesday morning, yet if any manager made the tickets a fiver I'm sure they'd come from all over the country and do whatever the fuck he asked no problem.
There's something strange about 1000s of empty seats in the ground when the game is being watched by 1000000s worldwide. Why not drop the prices until the ground is full? They'd probably take the same and the atmosphere would be tons better.
I agree with this but I'm sure the argument is that the quality of City's football is such that they cannot keep lowering the value of the product. Or they have to pretend to make money somehow...
Either way it is bullshit and the customer who can't get a bus back on a Tuesday evening is always right.
He is saying whatever he needs to say to get him out of a situation he never needed to be in in the first place. The situation with Man City and Woolrich and the title was a once in a lifetime deal that didn't have anything to do with wins and losses going forward. Own goal.
That’s what I don’t get about Ange’s hard for CG! Dies he actually improve our starting 11 if at all? Why not for for a player in a position we defo need to strength such as in attack? Spend the CG money plus some and go get ollise or eze. They improve our starting 11 straight away. Promote the youngsters in place of CG.
Surely after getting pumped by every team recently those should have been his challenging times. Not some BS about whether the fans a s some people inside the club wanted to lose to city. None that impact his ability to couch our team to defend set pieces or give up space like there’s no tnrw!
Chans could still end up 5th even after their terrible season or 6th. We could end up just one point ahead of them after the injuries they’ve had.
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It ages ago. In fact after the Fulham cup game isn’t that what he said he needed to se some players. Well his basically picked the sane core players every gane and the subs have been predictable swap the whole midfield 3 out.
Re the gap between games isn’t that the time to work on throwing pitch? How many coaches moan they DON’T have enough time to work on things bcos they are playing every 3/4 days. We don’t look like we do anything.
Also to work on the mentality. Exactly how they do that gawd knows. How many sessions do they need to work on that!
urely you can’t waste a season as a test? If that’s the case he would have known which players arnt up to
It ages ago. In fact after the Fulham cup game isn’t that what he said he needed to se some players. Well his basically picked the sane core players every gane and the subs have been predictable swap the whole midfield 3 out.
Re the gap between games isn’t that the time to work on throwing pitch? How many coaches moan they DON’T have enough time to work on things bcos they are playing every 3/4 days. We don’t look like we do anything.
Also to work on the mentality. Exactly how they do that gawd knows. How many sessions do they need to work on that!
Agreed and to prove the point I’m fairly certain the vast majority of fans attending games would vote to bin VAR but fuck the fans the clubs look like voting to keep it
Spot on. It was Brighton away, 3 nil, Poch had clearly lost the dressing room (as was later confirmed by The Athletic's post mortem). One of the worst displays I've ever seen from a Spurs side.
If I'm not wrong we had something like 25 points from Poch's last 24 league games - relegation form for effectively 3/4s of a season - and our last away win hadn't been for 9 (!) months. The CL run in the meantime papered over a lot of cracks and while the usual melts in the media were moaning that Poch didn't deserve the sack (*cough* Lineker) the reality was he should've gone much sooner.
Of course that was the point when our genius Daniel finally decided to back him in the transfer market, and Poch duly spent 150m on absolute crap. Ndombelly alone probably cost the club £130m all in.
How many years did that summer set us back? Where would we be had we amicably parted ways with Poch after the final, brought in a proper DOF and attacking manager, and built for the future with a same style of football we'd been playing the preceding 5 years?
For the record I greatly respect Poch for what he did at the club and he's by far the best manager in my lifetime. Getting top 2-3 for all those years with practically zero net spend was miraculous and in my view one of the Prem's greatest ever achievements in coaching.
But the lesson here is that good things can go bad quickly, and when they do and it's clear the manager isn't stopping the rot it's usually better just ripping the bandage off and moving on rather than doubling down. Obviously there are the odd exception to this rule (lego-head being one) but how often in Prem history is a club rewarded for sticking with a manager through a horrible run? 9 times out of 10 it ends in tears.
As for Ange, we'll see. We're not quite in the late stage Poch era but there are certainly alarm bells ringing. Increasingly weird press conferences. Significant downtrend in performances. Five losses in six. Calling out the players and the fans. He'll be here at the start of next season come what may but I can't say I'm thrilled at the way things are going. Seen it with all too many managers before.