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Manager Ange Postecoglou
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we actually did alright considering the heavily rotated teams and injury plagued teams we put out in every game of the group stage and still finished 2 points off top
Surely there can be no negatives about supporting your manager and players during games???
That's what you do as a real supporter.
Bitching and moaning should be reserved for in between games, and internet.
I don't often comment seriously on matters like this.
The ITK stuff is often bravado.
Regarding Maddison; my son, who lives and works in London, told me the same thing you have said a few months back.
Somebody supposedly 'in the know' about Spurs had told him that Maddison is not that committed to Spurs and has an ambition to play abroad.
It's basically the same story.
I'd love Bervall to have a starting place, I love his passion, but not as a 6 - I know Biss and Bents give the ball away too much, but Bergvall even more so, the number of times he's played an over-confident pass sideways or backwards in his own half and giving it straight to the opposition is scary. Hopefully Gray will be the long-term solution as a 6, with Bergvall playing a more advanced role. Well, either that or he gets his own-half passing more disciplined...
But what midfield won't? Every midfield we have gets massacred at the moment...
A lot of talk about the sale of Hojbjerg regarding the lack of protection for the defence.
Should Spurs have sold Ollie Skipp?
The boy loved to make tackles and give it simple.
I don't think Bentancur or Bissouma are incapable of doing that role.
They just seem to be anywhere but where they need to be. Which, given the frequency of it, seems to be tactical.
It's weird though.
I've never known a manager to be so clueless and hopeless yet a significant minority clamour for his retention.
I am beginning to wonder if the Jesuits are at the back of it.
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Wonderful post.
Especially love the last paragraph about managerial change not necessarily being destabilising.
And besides, if after nearly two full seasons the manager is presiding over the worst fucking results and form in living memory than surely a bit of destabilising is exactly what we need.
Honestly I think he would at this point - we're not an attractive prospect (immediately) and they are building an exciting regime at Bournemouth, I think he'd see it as a risk perhaps not worth taking at this moment in time (that may change).
Where I do agree is that we are a big club and still have enough clout to pull a GOOD manager and this must be the aim once Angelos gets the boot.
I see it the opposite.
We're performing well below our level right now, any manager coming in and just achieving par will quite easily see us shoot up the league.
It seems as much as a no lose scenario as you could hope to get at this level.
Expectations are lower than they have been in goodness knows how long, and the wages on offer will be high.
No sane manager would look at Bournemouth/Spurs and decide that Bournemouth was the more exciting prospect, Iraola (if given the option) should be looking at the situation and thinking if he can achieve what he is doing at Bournemouth then what can he do with Spurs.
I honestly think there's a proportion of our fanbase that feels more comfortable with our team being mid table also rans than a big 6 club challenging and competing for major honours.
They enjoy the lower expectations and prefer the plucky little underdog status and would rather to look up to our rivals than look them in the eye as equals.
You're right. It really is weird.
It's also a no lose scenario for Postecoglou. Next season he will be credited with pulling Spurs back up. He won't even have to make Champion's League. His fans will say, "He's taken up from 15th to 8th, isn't he wonderful?"
Plenty of other teams they could anti-glory-hunt as fans of. Spam, Fulham, Palace. Cheaper tickets, much less expectations. Fulham is even a nice place to go Vs Tottenham.
It's a shame, but he just didn't have the technical ability that we need, particularly given what Ange wants the 6 to do. He doesn't just want a destroyer who then gives it simple to others who can 'play football', he wants his 6 to be press-resistant, capable and confident in tight areas, and a good passer - Skippy was none of those things, bless him.
Well that depends on your assessment of Postecoglou, for him it could get worse...
Next season he could be credited as the first Manager to lead us into the Championship.
I make the no-lose comment on the basis that I don't believe that there is a more inept manager on the cards, and on the assumption that we will at the very least hire someone competent next.
However, knowing Spurs...
Funny though, as none of our midfielders look like that after 18 months under Ange...
I would put Gray there but we haven't seen him actually play there yet. Long term for sure.
I can live with Bergvall making mistakes at 19. Bissouma makes worse mistakes and Bentancur just drifts through games.