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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
If he doesn't win today that might be that... it really should be the end and if it isn't I'll be completely lost as to what is going on. You can blame injuries all you want but I guarantee our starting XI today would have cost more than Wolves and the weekly wages would probably be double that of Wolves. Ange is a dead man walking but the real culprits are those who hired him, didn't sack him in the summer and didn't sack him after the Ipswich game. They are culpable of negligence but no doubt Levy, Cullen, Munn and Lang will take 25m out if the club in bonuses this year.

Why would they sack him in the Summer FFS lol
 
Because we were dreadful. We lost 5 of our last 7 and beat two teams who were relegated. There was enough evidence to bin him.

Mate come on be serious, we finished 5th - if you're gonna sack every manager after a bad run especially losses in notoriously tough matches against our rivals then you might as well collapse the club.

Get a grip man, honestly.
 
If , probably when he goes I hope to fuck that the back room staff get shot too . We have a terrible coaching staff full of failures & nepotism , probably all done on the cheap

That’s how serious the board take the footballing side of the operation
I'd keep Wells because he is at least experienced for an assistant. But the rest can go. Ryan needs to go to build his own experience at this point.
 
Why get rid of Ange asap?
Because imo there is every chance that our young squad will end up with long-term injuries, shell-shocked and lacking confidence if this fool continues to have them play his approach/system.

Someone should point this out to Levy. "Hey Dan, You know the 10's of millions you paid out for the likes of Gray, Bergvall, Sarr, Udogie, Odobert, VDV etc. Well they ain't worth half of what you paid for them now after allowing that bloody idiot to run them into the ground and destroy their confidence with lose after lose"! DL would get rid like a shot!
 
People are saying Ange won’t be pragmatic and manage games out.
But last year we had the Viking come off the bench and help us see out matches very successfully so I wonder is it because ange doesn’t want to do it or we don’t have the players?
Once again more questions than answers.
( my own hot take is that we should have kept holjberg)
 
I think Ange wants young coaches around him who are climbing the football ladder so won't rock the boat whilst building their CV. Yes men basically! Typical set-up for a deluded egotistical twat!
 
Speaking in his press conference after the game, Postecoglou said: “Yeah I could have. But… all these things… are totally irrelevant to me. Substitutions and all those kind of things. If you’re not competitive, it doesn’t matter what you do, you’re not going to get rewards, you don’t deserve to win.

“We didn’t deserve on our second-half performance, irrespective of subs or anything else, to get something out of the game. But I think if you do get something out of the game, you’re falsely rewarded and I don’t want to get falsely rewarded.”



And that’s when he lost me.
"I don't want to make subs in case I'm falsely rewarded".

Absolute lunacy.
 
Speaking in his press conference after the game, Postecoglou said: “Yeah I could have. But… all these things… are totally irrelevant to me. Substitutions and all those kind of things. If you’re not competitive, it doesn’t matter what you do, you’re not going to get rewards, you don’t deserve to win.

“We didn’t deserve on our second-half performance, irrespective of subs or anything else, to get something out of the game. But I think if you do get something out of the game, you’re falsely rewarded and I don’t want to get falsely rewarded.”



And that’s when he lost me.
He's already getting falsely rewarded.....£5m a year. Falsely rewarded.

What a stupid answer....that is actually embarrassing.
 
"I don't want to make subs in case I'm falsely rewarded".

Absolute lunacy.
I finally wanted him sacked after Ipswich despite thinking he was a dud for a while before that. But in hindsight it should have been after that comment. I mean what other top manager says something like that? I dont suppose he even believes it but it was proof that he is just too childish and belligerent to be in this league.
 
His lack of a backroom staff has never sat well with me. I simply don't understand how you can come to the PL and rely on coaches who have never worked with you before, to drill the players on your philosophy and patterns etc. It might work in third rate leagues but definitely not in the PL. I want to see Spurs employ best in class and that also means I want to see a manager with a dedicated specialist coaching team, I mean I can't even believe we have to talk about it, it's usually a prerequisite.

It just reeks amateur hour. Ange just reeks amateur hour. I've called him a few words but in reality there's no need to get vitriolic about him, I just want to see him gone and I will wish him the best. I am sure he's a nice man underneath the arrogance and stubbornness and gruff with the media. He is just pitifully out of his depth hand has been for a long time.

For me that Chelsea game last season was when I really wobbled and thought we have a chancer here. Alarm bells were well and truly ringing and nothing I saw as last season progressed changed my mind. He should have been sacked in the summer, that was a mistake and I am sure the people who called me negative and a moaner won't come on here and say sorry you were right about Ange. The club no doubt let Ange down in the summer with our woeful window, I was even more sure at that point that our season would be a disaster. But was told three teenagers were all going to be world class and should stop moaning. But some us called this so early, it makes me question again the type of clowns actually getting paid well at the club to run the football side. Despite the club fucking up the summer window, it still doesn't mean you back the wrong man, and Ange definitely isn't the right man. We are as big a mess I can remember seeing, as far back as the 90s.

I think he's dug himself into a hole and can't back down now. He's become a parody of himself, but what annoys me is it feels like the club has become a playground for Ange's ego and an experiment, and sorry that isn't acceptable. He just doubles down despite alarming results.

He got promoted well above his station, should absolutely never have been hired, and what it does show is there is genuinely levels to this management business.

You can see in Europe when he comes up against proper teams, he gets tonked. His system plainly doesn't work at the top level and fuck the club for even thinking it was possible.
Great post
 
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