Need to change the system. Even good quality forward will lose the ball now and then and our FBs will be in the oppo pen box circle having to scramble back like the charge of the light brigade.
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Manager Ange Postecoglou
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Not exactly fast when Vic and cuti just piss about with the ball and the forwards just roll the ball back whence it came!
Seems quite clear so why the fuck aren’t they?
Having said that Vic should be dominating his
6 yd box much more!
And one of our players should have the specific job of protecting our keeper
Let Cuti do it
Johnson is too soft!
Walk before you can run, it’s all BS bravado about wanting to challenge for the title. If he had proper balls we’d up there this season. We have a good enough team but he has failed to motivate them and hamstrung them with his tactics. Literally hamstring in VDV’s case.
No he didn’t he had a shit squad and I can’t recall who he purchased in summer 2014. He had to get rid of a load of players as well. How much have we spent for Ange already. Also we have no Europe, no cups as well. Poch got us to league cup final. So had more games. This has been a free hit for Ange to try out players, youth players, diff systems and tactics. He has done none of that. If he did everyone would be behind him as he can say and we would agree that his trying things out. However his doing nothing of the sort.
They came in 2015 year later.
There are really some naïve or deluded posters on here. I saw a list of 3 managers few days ago, namely Ferguson, Klopp and Arteta, claiming they had bad starts at their clubs but they were kept and brought success. Seriously, are you comparing the spending they had at their respective clubs with what we do at Spurs???
woolwich finished second last season, they went and paid £100m for Rice this season and see where they are now. Levy won't do such, he will say we have squad capable of top 4 and that's enough.
We came second in the league and were CL finalist, did Levy back Poch? No, he didn't, in fact at our peak we had a couple of windows where didn't buy any player, even worse Moussa Dembele was sold in a Jan TW without replace, the excuse being the new stadium.
We had world class serial winners managers in Jose and Conte, were they backed? NO.
Ange wouldn't be any different to any other manager we had when comes to spending. We keep accumulating dead wood and rebuild is a never ending story so will be the hiring and firing of managers.
woolwich finished second last season, they went and paid £100m for Rice this season and see where they are now. Levy won't do such, he will say we have squad capable of top 4 and that's enough.
We came second in the league and were CL finalist, did Levy back Poch? No, he didn't, in fact at our peak we had a couple of windows where didn't buy any player, even worse Moussa Dembele was sold in a Jan TW without replace, the excuse being the new stadium.
We had world class serial winners managers in Jose and Conte, were they backed? NO.
Ange wouldn't be any different to any other manager we had when comes to spending. We keep accumulating dead wood and rebuild is a never ending story so will be the hiring and firing of managers.
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The diff in transfer value would have off set wages.
Well he keeps playing the players that need weeding out. His not shown once any faith in the youth players either.
Chelsea were much better then?
Yes when was the last time we actually had a solid performance for 90 minutes? Most games it’s a short 10-15 min spell and the rest of the game is just luck.
Funny that because we've already spent more in our first year under Ange then Woolwich and Liverpool spent in their first years with their managers and let's get this straight...Liverpool have spent around €350 net under Klopp in 8 years, so let's not try and act as if that's well out of our price range or what we aren't capable of doing.
Comparing Spurs 7-8 years ago to now is a non comparison, we weren't spending anywhere near as much money as we are now or have been over the last 5 years or so, nor did we have a sustainable strategy in place in terms of recruitment like we have now. The win now managers you mentioned were a crap fit for the ethos of the club so they were never going to work.
Your argument doesn't make much sense I'm afraid.
You think palmer who is a kid would be on Mega wages?
I still don't get why defending set pieces properly is so 'beneath us'?? Surely it's as much part of the game as attacking efficiently... yet we're doing neither ATM.
It's like for years when England never practiced penalties, and always went out on penalties...
Them some genius decided to start practicing them, and before you know it, we'd win a few pen shoot outs!
Who knows if it was coincidence, but it certainly had SOME bearing!!
Surely we need a manager whose gonna put a rocket up
players arses! When people talk about front football it’s not about this shite we play. Lots of teams have played this style before. What we want is the style we had under Harry and poch’s beat years. We were fast and physical wit some technical ability thrown in. What we have now is sleep walk football. There is no tempo in our game. We sometimes see it when we are chasing the game. However generally watch us play especially in the first half we play that walking football old agers play.
I don’t know but if I was guessing I’d say Chelsea offered him more that we have Son playing for.
One thing poch did was to turn people like Roy Keane and Fergie as in we didn’t have a soft under belly. He made us hard as well as good attacking. Remember the season when we let in the least amount of goals. Unheard for a spurs team to be that strong defensively. We also still played attacking football, won all our home games and never drew a game. Now where do you see any of that in Ange’s system. “This is who we are” bollocks doesn’t cut the mustard. As his not someone whose just invented attacking football.
Levy backed Poch after the CL final. How did that work out?
We have the 4th biggest net spend over the past 5 years.
Man City leapfrog Liverpool in net spend table with January splurge
Forget the league table, it's all about the Premier League net spend table. And neither Man City nor Liverpool are in top five.
www.football365.com
It’s important we speak about facts
Poch had a shit squad in 2014 did he?
Lloris
Vertonghen
Demble
Eriksen
Kyle Walker
Eric Dier
Chadli
Dawson
Harry Kane
Kane scored 21 goals and was second only to Aguero.
And although everyone questions listing Chadli - he scored 11 that season and had a fair few assists (1 less goal than wonder kid Rooney at Man United). Would love those numbers from Johnson or Kulu.
He also had Bentaleb, Lamela, Danny Rose, Aaron Lennon
Amazingly Ben Davies was also there.
Not exactly a shit squad is it.
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