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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
According to UEFA site PSG average 118 kms a game and us 106 in Europe this season. PSG 113 kms per game in Ligue One virtually same as us in PL.

Well I guess we can choose to ignore the fact PSG were playing a higher standard of opponent and we turned into a team camped in our own half.

But I’m more interested in the fact all of a sudden people think that ligue 1 is the same physical intensity as the premier league.

You’re nuts.

Who runs with more intensity. Bolt over 100m or Farah over 10km.
In your mind is that the same type of running?

For quite a while Pirlo topped distance covered in the Italian national team.
Are you telling me you think he covered that distance with the same intensity as say Kante in the premier league.

Please tell me you do so I can ignore the rest of your arguments.
 
Of course not, how would I?

However there’s plenty of evidence to base my conclusions on including the training video of Frank, Dier’s interview, their respective league positions, Ange’s own admission that he’s hands off and leaves it to the assistant coaches etc. etc.

If the manager is of a good enough quality IMHO it won’t take long to garner the respect of the players. I’ve worked for and alongside colleagues where I’ve thought ‘You couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery!’ and I’ve also worked alongside people where their outstanding ability is bloody obvious from the get go.

Those are media appearances, they mean nothing.

We know nothing about their coaching day to day. Literally nothing.

If anything, the most important thing we do know from anyone about this was Ange telling us himself that day to day he’s hands off as a coach.
 
Those are media appearances, they mean nothing.

We know nothing about their coaching day to day. Literally nothing.

If anything, the most important thing we do know from anyone about this was Ange telling us himself that day to day he’s hands off as a coach.
I think an interview from a Spurs player in Dier can 100% be relied on as evidence of Ange’s day-to-day coaching.
 
Lets be honest weve been consistently inconsistent since Chelsea home 2023. Think next week we will know whether Ange stays or not. If he does I will be gutted.
I will be gutted too, as I believe that we are in a great position now because as a result of being in the Champions League next season it presents us with the opportunity to a) bring in a higher calibre manager and b) bring in higher calibre players.

We have won our trophy now, we could use this opportunity as a springboard (Levy’s own words) to move into a new era and really try and push on with a new manager.

But I just fear this isn’t what will happen.
Levy’s ego is such that I genuinely think he will weigh up how sacking Ange will effect his own popularity, and I feel if he thinks it will negatively effect that, even if it to the detriment of the team, he will I’ll keep Ange and if (when) it goes tits up next season he will turn it back on the fans saying “well I felt I had to give Ange another chance.”
 
Lol.

The low quality of argumentation? You guys are quality. Really and truly.

We finished on 38 points. In other years this has you locked in a tight relegation fight. We were the worst not promoted premier league team.

Prior to this season, we had an awful finish to the last in which we lost nearly every game. We haven’t played consistent quality football since the first time Ange got here. This is a team heading nowhere, looking almost entirely un coached.

We won a cup. A cup where we played a horrendous United team who are right next to us as a terrible side. Both of us got to a European final based on a talent advantage over middle tier sides in Europe.

None of what we did to win the cup was Ange’s football. It was just win at all costs stuff. Which is fine but not feasible across higher quality competitions as good opposition who are actually coached put us down.

The EL final was two teams who looked badly coached & one side got the break. It was some of the lowest quality dirge you will ever see.

A year and a half of terrible performances in all competitions apart from the distinctly weaker Europa league and you’re sat here talking about weak arguments.

The argument to keep Ange is literally just ‘he won something’. That’s it. And it falls so flat when you expose it to context.

The guys exposed at the elite level.


At every stage of the UEFA competition, you said "He's shite, he doesn't know what he's doing and he has absolutely no chance of winning against - whichever team we played against"

Now, he has won the bloody thing your opinion has massively changed from 'he can't' to 'the competition was shite'
 
According to UEFA site PSG average 118 kms a game and us 106 in Europe this season. PSG 113 kms per game in Ligue One virtually same as us in PL.

Seeing you like to look at stats without context.

Bayern Munich covered almost 122km per match according to uefa. So more than us and PSG.

Having watched Harry Kane play for his whole career. Do you think he is covering that ground in the same way as Dominic Solanke?

All he has to do is jog around for 90mins. That’s his km covered stat.

All running is not equal my friend.

And a telling stat below about Solanke earlier in the season. Premier league not EL.

Pressures in final third this season:
Dominic Solanke 240Everybody else Under 175And he missed two matches. Absolute beast.#thfc #coys #spurs
8:06 PM · Nov 3, 2024



View: https://x.com/jonoblain/status/1853166881831796993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1853166881831796993%7Ctwgr%5Eb70c094a75e5052793010b2aa94c38e6714eb4dd%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spurs-web.com%2Fspurs-news%2Fridiculous-dominic-solanke-pressing-stat-shows-hes-in-a-league-of-his-own%2F
 
Seeing you like to look at stats without context.

Bayern Munich covered almost 122km per match according to uefa. So more than us and PSG.

Having watched Harry Kane play for his whole career. Do you think he is covering that ground in the same way as Dominic Solanke?

All he has to do is jog around for 90mins. That’s his km covered stat.

All running is not equal my friend.

And a telling stat below about Solanke earlier in the season. Premier league not EL.

Pressures in final third this season:
Dominic Solanke 240Everybody else Under 175And he missed two matches. Absolute beast.#thfc #coys #spurs
8:06 PM · Nov 3, 2024



View: https://x.com/jonoblain/status/1853166881831796993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1853166881831796993%7Ctwgr%5Eb70c094a75e5052793010b2aa94c38e6714eb4dd%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spurs-web.com%2Fspurs-news%2Fridiculous-dominic-solanke-pressing-stat-shows-hes-in-a-league-of-his-own%2F

Weird because that tweet is dated 3rd November 2024.
 
Seeing you like to look at stats without context.

Bayern Munich covered almost 122km per match according to uefa. So more than us and PSG.

Having watched Harry Kane play for his whole career. Do you think he is covering that ground in the same way as Dominic Solanke?

All he has to do is jog around for 90mins. That’s his km covered stat.

All running is not equal my friend.

And a telling stat below about Solanke earlier in the season. Premier league not EL.

Pressures in final third this season:
Dominic Solanke 240Everybody else Under 175And he missed two matches. Absolute beast.#thfc #coys #spurs
8:06 PM · Nov 3, 2024



View: https://x.com/jonoblain/status/1853166881831796993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1853166881831796993%7Ctwgr%5Eb70c094a75e5052793010b2aa94c38e6714eb4dd%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spurs-web.com%2Fspurs-news%2Fridiculous-dominic-solanke-pressing-stat-shows-hes-in-a-league-of-his-own%2F


Mate, at this point, we’ve been through the process of recruiting Solanke where we learned we needed a pressing CF and that Solanke is not only one of the hardest working but also most intelligent pressing forwards in world football.

Then we’ve seen him work his bollox off and heard Ange talk about it.

We’ve seen the team without him when he was injured…


If people still don’t see what Solanke does for us and how important he is, it’s because they don’t want to see it.

They are still crying he’s not Kane and Ange isn’t Poch. Even though we’ve won major silverware with Solanke and Ange but never did with Kane and Poch.
 
Mate, at this point, we’ve been through the process of recruiting Solanke where we learned we needed a pressing CF and that Solanke is not only one of the hardest working but also most intelligent pressing forwards in world football.

Then we’ve seen him work his bollox off and heard Ange talk about it.

We’ve seen the team without him when he was injured…


If people still don’t see what Solanke does for us and how important he is, it’s because they don’t want to see it.

They are still crying he’s not Kane and Ange isn’t Poch. Even though we’ve won major silverware with Solanke and Ange but never did with Kane and Poch.

The bloke is a monster!
 
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