What do you expect from our new manager in the coming season?
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Manager Ange Postecoglou
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You’ve just written it yourself you plank! Several times!
You post like we’ve been achieving trophies every season and now we’ve sacrificed that by getting rid of Ange!
You aim and hope to win something every season, otherwise what’s the point in competing, but don’t be naive enough to expect that’s going to happen year in year out!
The Scottish sides were relatively (compared to today) much better, probably more than you remember.
As an example we bought Steve Archibald from Aberdeen in 1980, and the Archibald ,Crooks strike force we put together was a thing of beauty. Archibald later moved to Barcelona - so Aberdeen had some good players at that time, far better than they get today.
The league form wasn't poor.
Poor was the league form that got Conte chopped while we were still top 4, or Jose while we were on the top 7. Poor was the league form under Poch which still saw us finish 4th in his last season.
The league form under Ange was dog shit. Historically bad.
You don't breed winning mentality by losing twice as many games as you win.
Had 2 tactical styles. All out attack or park the bus. Injuries were a joke as well. His high frenetic tactics were injuring players. Weve been diabolical since chelsea home 2023. Press conferences were annoying me as well. Will get a nice payoff. We move on.
You really need to work on your reading comprehension. Seriously.You’ve just written it yourself you plank! Several times!
You post like we’ve been achieving trophies every season and now we’ve sacrificed that by getting rid of Ange!
You aim and hope to win something every season, otherwise what’s the point in competing, but don’t be naive enough to expect that’s going to happen year in year out!
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I'm saying your expectation of an average European team finishing top half and winning a European trophy is incorrect. Even Liverpool after winning the league showed similar league form to us.
Ange adapted when it came to winning the Europa League and avoiding relegation. He did not adapt much more than that. However, with players like Van Dijk, Saliba, Rice... he would not be losing 4-1 at home to Brighton.
he was but I think he joined AFC when he was working as a car mechanic and playing part time
The fact that's even a phrase used in his defence should be giving pause for thought, surely
lost 6-3 to Southampton and 16 league games in one season,before he won anything?
You're the one being thick here if you don't realise the pressure Ange was putting on the board without getting himself a one way ticket to the back door by publicly outing them.Club legend
We clearly weren’t wrong or the club would’ve kept him. They obviously don’t see things your way at all. And I guarantee he doesn’t get hired by some big club either which will tell you how the football world views his time here.
The guy did an absolutely incompetent job for the majority of time he was here, he got a lovely run for a cup and managed to win it by playing the opposite of his football.
Well done him but thank god the board aren’t thick enough to dedicate our future to that shite like a section of the fans are.
Ange more than any manager I can remember has exposed the lack of funding and quality in our squad to truly compete. He's actually prioritised winning a trophy to end all the banter and shit we hear none stop and you're slagging him off?
His win rate with Romero and VDV when fit shows the man knows what he's doing. All the while creating a system that creates goals? Cheering his sacking a d welcoming in a mid table manager (albeit wish him well) is absolutely mental over a man who's done the business. All the while doing it in style - the man always wins things in his second season
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Yeah ok pal, some of us don't find it acceptable getting dicked by Ipswich and Leicester at home when those teams managed 10 wins all season between them. I'd rather be mediocre for a couple years while we start a project under an actual competent manager who won't get his belly tickled in the league every week, I watch Spurs to be entertained and there are far more games to watch in the league than all the cups combined, I don't want to watch fucking shit football every week. Sure those who just follow along the results on google are devastated though.
Woah, back up and finish... what decade of Villa were you comparing us to???
edit: for the benefit of the tape, it appears to be the 1981/82 season where Villa finished 11th and won the European cup. Only the 44 years ago
Imo he got found out in march 2024 v fulham away. Got trounced 3 nil. Hes made mediocre managers look good. Make no mistake had we kept Ange we were in big trouble next season, big trouble. The board were unianimous in sacking. Totally agree.
Give it a rest
I mean... I don't hate the content but it's written like a serial killer would write in their diary... For the love of god use some punctuation!
But Brenda's got loads of trophies, all of them at least equally or more prestigious than whatever Ange had won prior to joining us, and success breeds success, right? Doesn't matter about context or what the cups were does it?
Probably not unusual at that time - several Spurs stars at that time retired and took up jobs such as milkmen, and I rather think Martin Chivers ran a pub after retirement.
Footballers at that time were much more likely to be 'average working people' than they have been over last 20 years,
this 100%. Tell them to fuck off and bring new faces if that's the case. No one (player or coach) is bigger than Club.
I have my doubts where Frank is concerned, but until you see where he can go with what we have and will add, you and I have no idea. All you're doing is trying to pass off opinion as fact.
No it's not. We have no idea how the players will react, how much they'll improve within his structure, how far his coaching will improve them or not.
Nothing is obvious.
There's no "if" here, you are guessing, particularly as Frank hasn't been appointed!
The same utterings were out there when Eddie Howe was noised about as a potential replacement for Conte. Now most would welcome him with open arms.
A few weeks ago Iraola was the second coming, now he's Marmite.
How about waiting to see what actually happens, rather than making your mind up before we've even got the new manager through the door?
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