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Management Ange Postecoglou

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It's worth considering, that allowing this project more time will bear more fruit, and PL wins.

Reviewing this years premier league results, and football. Not good enough.
Cup comps, Perfect or ok.

We need 2 players in every position, in top form at all times to give us any chance, to play the football we have seen they are capable of, consistently. Which we haven't had often enough.

This young squad, is capable of piecing together the quality in every position, in depth, with some of our 18-22 year olds developing.
If that same team next year, added Luka (Vušković) in place of Gray or Davies - If he adapts to the PL and continues improving. Competing for the 3rd to 5th CB place, (Gray and Davies been 6 and 7th), and the best of our other CB prospects on loan.

2 extra CB's as cover, we are much more solid in depth.

Cardoso transfers in, potentially our best 6.

LW/ST - Tel adapts further to the PL, many before him struggle until there second season, then you see the player.
Odobert stays fit.
Moore developing and and not missing months midseason injured, he could be a top player.

RW - Mbuemo?

ST - Please can we have one more :)
 
What a day. Was fully Ange out but after yesterday I cannot see any mutual parting. My question is if we get smashed by Brighton on Sunday and the same lack of creativity and poor defending is on show like all season, will people change their minds from the obvious euphoria at the parade? My answer is i just don't know.
 
Ange has clearly put down the message I want season 3 and will deliver.

I think now he will get it but if the league form doesn’t massive improve it will be a mid season sacking.
 
It’s really confusing seeing people say Ange has “instilled a winning mentality”, because on the one hand, he’s got us over the line for a trophy, yet on the other he’s lost 21 league games in a single season….

Split mentality, or a good start on a mentality with work to do?
 
rusty said:
he told us he goes out to win every game, but now he says he sacked off the league in Feb to focus on EL
he told us he won't change and in the league he hasn't yet in EL we all see he changed, So why didn't he change in the league (rest players but play more defensive) we would have picked up more points, yes only got to around 10th (but thats a lot better then losing 21 games and finishing 17th)
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He's answered all that. The league was done when the injuries came. He then identified the Europa as winnable and the main priority, even if others at the club disagreed with him. He said he believes cup games are about moments and that requires different tactics. He admitted the League finish was worse than he aimed for regardless.
 
AberdeenYid said:
I’d suggest that meeting was very likely to have happened and it would explain why the axe didn’t fall already.
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I agree about the meeting but feel it went slightly differently and Ange was assured of his job while still in the EL

Levy probably didn’t reckon on us winning it so is now in an awkward position!

I still think that there will be a mutual respectful parting of the ways and he will get his pay off with a healthy bonus.
 
Bazali said:
I agree about the meeting but feel it went slightly differently and Ange was assured of his job while still in the EL

Levy probably didn’t reckon on us winning it so is now in an awkward position!

I still think that there will be a mutual respectful parting of the ways and he will get his pay off with a healthy bonus.
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There can’t be a mutual parting of the ways now. Ange has been very clear that he wants to stay. If he doesn’t start the season, he’s been sacked. Nothing mutual about it.
 
COYSinnit said:
At the start of the season he said this:
1) I always win a trophy in my 2nd season.
2) The goal is to at least qualify for the Champions League

Did he deliver or not?
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He delivered the literal meaning of those statements but;

What about the season ticket holders and supporters who travelled up and down the country watching some of those dismal performances? The people who kept the faith and stumped up in advance of the season.

What about the quantity of injuries; especially to key players?

What about the general lack of consistency in the performances, game to game, and within games; good first half, poor 2nd half or vice versa.

The chairman of the club has a responsibility to everybody involved and invested in THFC.

It's a truly great ending to a truly shocking season.

The juxtaposition of emotions is what football is all about in many ways.

The real question is; can Levy afford to get his next decision wrong?

If he backs Ange and it fails all this was for nothing and Levy still looks a mug.

If he sacks Ange and it subsequently fails then some supporters will look back at the decision to sack Ange as a mistake.

Spurs have to be successful going forward. We just showed the world how big this club can be.

Spurs can be as big as anyone.

Yesterday proves this.

The team needs investment and whoever the manager is; he needs to be seriously backed.

I cannot claim to be one of Ange's true believers if I am being honest.

He's struggled with the pressure but fair play to him; he has delivered a significant trophy and Champions League football.

Retaining him would be a huge gamble in my opinion but employing him in the first place was.

So pleased for our young supporters.

Ange has to be congratulated for that if nothing else.
 
I still think his future is up in the air, the club didn’t put his “season 3 is always better than 2” speech up on their official socials from what I can see? Would be a no brainer if he was definitely gonna be here next season. I think when Paratici takes control he’s going to get rid of him, just not the kind of manager he goes for.
 
I will never understand calls for Poch back in, even more so now that we’ve won the Europa League.

His football was great, and I loved watching it, but he never delivered. The man got sacked by PSG after barely winning in the least competitive league with a squad that should have walked the champions league.

We were never “Spursy”, we were “Pochy”.
 
Kiro Kompiro said:
He's answered all that. The league was done when the injuries came. He then identified the Europa as winnable and the main priority, even if others at the club disagreed with him. He said he believes cup games are about moments and that requires different tactics. He admitted the League finish was worse than he aimed for regardless.
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Jesus Christ. Can't you see through his bullshit? The Europa League was the only thing left he had to salvage the worst season in decades. It wasn't by design, it was a direct result of his incompetence.

I can assure you the plan very much last summer was to fight for top 4. Ange shat the bed horrifically and once we got to March and April, he had to go all in on the Europa, otherwise he'd have gone down in history as the worst manager we've ever seen.

The bloke is the biggest bullshitter I've ever seen. And some Spurs fans lap it up.

21 league defeats, and people want to give him another season. Batshit mental. Winning that final will have no bearing on how we will perform in the league next season, it will be more of the same shite. We've been absolutely rudderless, uncoached and appalling. It won't change.
 
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