I love all the guys saying, "We need a real manager!" Like any manager forced to end a game with a CB tandem of Archie Gray and Yves Bissouma would just have things all sorted out. I mean, sure, let's play Liverpool with Dragusin and Gray and sit back and try to soak up pressure for 90 minutes. That sounds like a great idea. Can you realistically see any manager of status being in charge where we've got no CBs (for the second year in a row, no less!!) not suffering? It's preposterous.
Sure, maybe we could make some systematic changes, and maybe we only would've lost by a goal or two against Liverpool. But losing your top two CBs heading into the holidays for the second year in a row is devastating, and no club would be immune. This is the same club where Jose and Conte lost games in Europe, which were inexcusable losses, for basically the same reasons. Remember losing to a club while the manager was in jail!? Or when Conte lost 3-0 to a bunch of farmers? The reality is that our managers are working under a different constraint here.
This is like the scene in Wall-E where the ship's captain realizes that the issue wasn't the other captains but the autopilot all along.
There is a lot of how managers and players move around in football that is down to agencies and business relationships. Just now you've got a front office and manager with ties to City Group. It's one more reason Postecoglou isn't going anywhere. Two things will save him. First, he was in the media and did motivational speaking in Australia and he's good at selling himself and his system. He put a lot of effort up front into telling fans what they wanted to hear and creating an image. That reserve of good will is still working for him. But the second thing is the people in the front office who should be overseeing his work and evaluating him are often from the same network of connections. I think he is as close to "fire proof" as any Spurs manager has ever been.
