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Management Ange Postecoglou

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Dudski said:
There are a lot of ties between Spurs and City Football Group. For Postecoglou to get the Man City job he'd have to get Spurs upright by the end of the season (assuming Pep were to leave) or the fans there wouldn't be having it. But he has the ties to City Football Group, having managed the Yokohama Marinos for them and a lot of his system fits with what Guardiola does at City. The biggest obstacles would be if Pep left before the season ended, or took a leave of absence, and the damage that Postecoglou may be doing to his reputation this season with all the "No Plan B" talk. It could happen, but I think it would only be about a 5% chance. Now, if Pep stays for his contract and Postecoglou doesn't implode somewhere along the way it might be a possibility at the end of next season.
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I was being sarcastic tbh matey lol.
 
SaskaSpur said:
Ange should be able to take a team backstopped by Archie Gray and Radu Dragusin, and win top 4 in the premier league. I mean come on, if one of them goes down he has the likes of Yves Bissouma to play CB.

If you can’t win with that lineup you shouldn’t be in the PL. Inexcusable.
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If you have Gray and Dragusin playing and you don’t change your tactics to allow for that inexperience that’s on you as a manager.

Ange is the one telling everyone he won’t change. He’s too stubborn for his own good.

Like you point out you’re in the premier league man!!! Wise up.
 
CeltfanDan said:
I still think Ange could do very well at Spurs, but only if he builds in stages.

But he shown that he won't, he's not prepared to gradually work towards his vision of how the game should be played.

Instead he's tried to do it 100% from day one, without having the players to be able to do it.

It would be best for him and Spurs if he went. Perhaps he'd be good at one of the better Championship sides where he'd have a chance of fielding the best players in that league.

But it's just not working at Spurs and there's nothing to indicate it'll get any better.

I previously said Spurs might as well give him the next window, but I don't see the point now. He's too inflexible.

The injuries have been bad, but the damage caused by them wouldn't have been as bad if he'd have changed his tactics to mitigate for them. Even just something as simple as telling Forster just to hoof it up the park instead of trying to be a sweeper.
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You knew he was inflexible (he has said it often enough) yet you were willing to give him another transfer window, NOW you say he can go, what has changed for you ?

I as many know I wanted him on last November 2023
 
bk_spur said:
I just want Marco Silva- practical, dependable, disciplinarian, not going to bitch about not getting enough money, and ultimately gets on with it.

People need to stop wishing for managers that ultimately won’t be happy with our transfer/wage structure.
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there’s no one out there that’s going to be happy with that if the expectation from the fans and seemingly the owners is challenging at the top/trophies while playing entertaining football. It’s an impossible job with our wage budget. They shouldn’t be happy if they have anything about them or aren’t just here for the payout.

always liked Silva, he did well at Watford, even Everton when you look back and now at Fulham. He’d probably take the job if offered because it’s a prestigious job and you don’t know how levy sells it but he’d soon get frustrated/hounded out, whatever comes first
 
dustybin said:
there’s no one out there that’s going to be happy with that if the expectation from the fans and seemingly the owners is challenging at the top/trophies while playing entertaining football. It’s an impossible job with our wage budget. They shouldn’t be happy if they have anything about them or aren’t just here for the payout.

always liked Silva, he did well at Watford, even Everton when you look back and now at Fulham. He’d probably take the job if offered because it’s a prestigious job and you don’t know how levy sells it but he’d soon get frustrated/hounded out, whatever comes first
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Hmm... maybe Levy is working a masterclass here. He's seen the fan expectation is too high after Poch almost winning the league and CL. He's reminding us of our place in the natural order so he can eventually bring in someone who gets us a respectable finish and we're all happy as larry 😂
 
The lack of draws is concerning, I mentioned it in the match thread but we can't seem to grind out any type of result anymore. It's one extreme to the other this season.

I still think the overall style of play is okay and we did create a few chances yesterday but we are too easy to score basic goals against.

He'll end up getting himself sacked as I do think the club want to back and don't want to keep sacking managers.

I said before the Man Utd game in the cup that the Carabao cup is massive for him and if we could somehow fluke a way to winning that the club and fans would be happy, but now we have Liverpool there is so much pressure on those two matches and tbh I think we would need a miracle to win that.
 
_mehstg said:
I don't think Levy is going to sack him unless we get sucked into a relegation battle
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We cant afford to let it drift any longer. Wolves, Palace, Everton all picking up results. West Ham have caught us. We wont go down because of Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton but we can certainly be on the fringes of it.

Our next 5 league games are Wolves, Newcastle, Woolwich, Liverpool, Everton , the last 3 of those away. Keep the useless dud and we'll be at best 14th, probably lower, after that lot.
 
People see Mr 'I won't ever change me methods' and still think he could do well despite him currently leading us into the abyss.

This is a guy with baked in excuses for losing, I don't begrudge the board for him giving him a go but it's as clear as day that this is a challenge that's far beyond his managerial capabilities but it's time to cut him loose and quick, we can't afford to let him fester like a bad stench the same way Man Utd did with Ten Hag.
 
Top_Spur said:
The lack of draws is concerning, I mentioned it in the match thread but we can't seem to grind out any type of result anymore. It's one extreme to the other this season.

I still think the overall style of play is okay and we did create a few chances yesterday but we are too easy to score basic goals against.

He'll end up getting himself sacked as I do think the club want to back and don't want to keep sacking managers.

I said before the Man Utd game in the cup that the Carabao cup is massive for him and if we could somehow fluke a way to winning that the club and fans would be happy, but now we have Liverpool there is so much pressure on those two matches and tbh I think we would need a miracle to win that.
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He doesn’t want to grind out results. He would rather lose trying to play his way than earn a result without playing how he wants. Paraphrasing slightly but that’s what he said essentially after the Brighton game.
 
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