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Manager Ange Postecoglou

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Was sacking Ange a good idea?

  • Yes, I think it was a good idea.

    Votes: 73 64.6%
  • No, I think it was a bad idea.

    Votes: 40 35.4%

  • Total voters
    113
Ange is the Trump of football managers. Believes he is great but is really shit.


The fact he is still talking about an injury crisis is a joke. Apart from a very young Mikey Moore none of our other youngsters have really had a kick this season. On top of that they only recalled one youngster who they have to keep at the club because he played him in a game.
This isn’t a politics thread . We are at each others throats enough I reckon
 
Typically speaking, they'll have to call him and his agent in and discuss compensation.
The only option other than that is gardening leave, whereby he's still fully employed by the club but told to stay away.
Gardening leave would surely mean paying out his contract in full? Guess if we sack him it’s the same case. Ange can just refuse to go I guess which essentially adds up to the same conclusion.
 
Ange is the Trump of football managers. Believes he is great but is really shit.


The fact he is still talking about an injury crisis is a joke. Apart from a very young Mikey Moore none of our other youngsters have really had a kick this season. On top of that they only recalled one youngster who they have to keep at the club because he played him in a game.
Well if Ange highlighted the corruption at Spurs the way Trump is doing now from the last president it would be great.
Most of our youngsters playing as you said are high profile signings
 
And insult them

He is effectively saying “I’ve lost because my available players aren’t good enough “
No, the available players are rooted, completely buggered, fatigued. It’s pretty simple really.
That’s what he’s on about in pressers. Everyone twist the situation to suit their own narrative and agenda. But the facts are we have a large amount of injuries, and the “available” squad are running on fumes.
 
So it looks like he is going to get the Utd game at least then.
The complete inertia makes me want to get rid of every board member, Munn and Lange as much as i'd like to get rid of Levy. Its like not one of them has a clue what they are watching or the stones to say this is unnaceptable? Should be a resignation issue with anyone who has an ounce of pride left. Clearly none of them do, bunch of nodding dogs.
 
No, the available players are rooted, completely buggered, fatigued. It’s pretty simple really.
That’s what he’s on about in pressers. Everyone twist the situation to suit their own narrative and agenda. But the facts are we have a large amount of injuries, and the “available” squad are running on fumes.
There we go, it's the agenda. Great work Ange, fooled them again.
 
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What the hell is this? Everyone but the back 4 are in the middle of opposition's own half trying to press, including 3 CMs that somehow end up right next to each other. Impossible to tell where the defensive line is obviously, but for this to make any sense it has to be placed somewhere around the halfway line at least. Otherwise there must be a ridiculous amount of space between the front 6 and the back 4. We somewhat get an answer couple of seconds later;

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Turns out defensive line is placed somewhere inside our own half, so there is indeed a ridiculous amount of space right in the middle of the pitch to run into. That's what Tielemans does. He ends up making this attempt;

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17th minute of the match y'all, not 87th when all caution was understandably thrown to the wind chasing a match in desperate fashion. And anybody who watched the match yesterday knows this is not me blowing a cherrypicked freak accident out of proportion. Similar stuff kept happening again and again, that's how Kinsky ended up making all those saves.

If you think Romero-VdV coming back or a less congested schedule will fix these structural issues then go ahead. But don't expect many people to follow suit.
 



I think this highlights the fragility of the system and the perfect storm that has sabotaged it.

This reply to the question matches perfectly to what the sports science guy said at Celtic


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Hansi Flick is the same at Bayern but they have been able to control games. Ange a was able to control games at Celtic and when it has worked here, we have controlled games.

The issue is that injuries compound the load on the available players and the extra load of not being in control of games creates a snowball effect.

But in the same way Ange said he was driving the decision to build with young players over older ones, his system and its fragility to game control is his gamble to choose.
 
You get freak injuries in a season, like Dom doing his knee or Radu getting an ACL from an awkward landing. But the sheer number of muscular injuries and hamstrings are clearly from the way we train and play, coupled with a lack of recovery.

He’s running them all to the ground literally.

The squad isn’t big enough, Gray, Bergvall, Moore, these guys should be in addition to the 25 main players NOT the main 25. That’s on ENIC.

But the pressure put on our defenders is why they are all fucking dropping. And that’s on Ange.
There’s been 8 injuries since November, and the squad has barely been training since then. So it has nothing to do with the way we train.
As for running them in to the ground, there’s not many options when no one else is fit to play.

I think Levy will give Ange the season then reassess.
 
There’s been 8 injuries since November, and the squad has barely been training since then. So it has nothing to do with the way we train.
As for running them in to the ground, there’s not many options when no one else is fit to play.

I think Levy will give Ange the season then reassess.
Ange is literally on record saying he needs to look at the way we train. He has countless interviews where he says our training is intense.

We aren’t able to fully train atm because of the schedule but it is attributable to *some* of the injuries we’ve accumulated this season.

Take off the biased glasses. It’s a combination of everything. The squad, the tactics, the lack of rotation when we had options, the lack of options when depleted. The sheer number of injuries are abnormal. Two seasons in a row. To similar players and positions. Fucking wake up.
 
The squad isn’t big enough, Gray, Bergvall, Moore, these guys should be in addition to the 25 main players NOT the main 25. That’s on ENIC.

Tel, Gray, Bergvall, Moore, Kinsky ARE in addition to the main squad.

Here is our squad. RED injured, YELLOW recently injured and not fully recovered. Porro, Son, Kulu are fucking knackered and have played the most minutes of any player in the prem.
  1. Ben Davies (HG)
  2. Brandon Austin(HG)
  3. Fraser Forster(HG)
  4. Alfie Whiteman(HG)
  5. James Maddison(HG)
  6. Brennan Johnson(HG)
  7. Djed Spence(HG)
  8. Max Robson(HG)
  9. Dominic Solanke(HG)
  10. Son Heung-Min
  11. Cristian Romero
  12. Yves Bissouma
  13. Richarlison
  14. Pedro Porro
  15. Dejan Kulusevski
  16. Guglielmo Vicario
  17. Micky van de Ven
  18. Rodrigo Bentacur
  19. Sergio Reguilon
  20. Pape Matar Sarr
  21. Destiny Udogie
  22. Radu Dragusin
  23. Timo Werner
  24. Kevin Danso(HG)
 
No, the available players are rooted, completely buggered, fatigued. It’s pretty simple really.
That’s what he’s on about in pressers. Everyone twist the situation to suit their own narrative and agenda. But the facts are we have a large amount of injuries, and the “available” squad are running on fumes.
Except he has a number of options he isn’t using Who are less tired

You’re also clearly wron g re Kinsky. SOP for Gks to play 30-50 games a season with midweek. No reason at all why Ange should’ be calling him out effectiley saying Vicario is better. And in any event he has Austin who had done well when he’s come in.
 
Did agree with Ange about media going in tough on us and mentioning liverpool having bad result. Them, gooners, man u are untouchable by media and pundits slamming them. However villa lost both their centre-backs yesterday. Think ange will go end of season.
 
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