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Management Ange Postecoglou
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Big 6?
We named a 23 man senior squad for this season.
With 4 GKs!! And when we got through our first 2 choice GKs we decided we needed to sign a 5th goalkeeper. As the other two are a bit crap.
You could not make this shit up.
Big6??? Insulting putting us in with Man City and their squad.
Registered 19 senior outfield players. Which included Max Robson. Whoever he is?? And Sergio reguillon as nobody else wanted him!!
It’s like the club expect no injuries at all!!
We really don’t behave like a Big 6 club right now.
Are managers really on a hiding to nothing here, especially in a way that they aren't in other clubs? Because the way I see it, with few exceptions such as Guardiola and Simeone, any manager is a poor run of form -around 10-12 matches- away from getting the boot. That's why any manager who feels he has the leverage insists on hefty termination clauses during contract negotiations. It's a preparation for an almost inevitable exit in the not-too-distant future. To give two recent and familiar examples, Dyche and Nuno took their respective clubs to unprecedented heights, yet got the sack regardless.
In particular, if Levy has such a notorious reputation in the eyes of many managers like some people claim, then this job should be closer to a free hit than it is to being on a hiding to nothing. Walk in to the job, earn your hefty wages during your tenure, perform to the best of your abilities, get the sack, pocket your payoff, walk away without suffering any reputational repercussions. And, on the slim chance that you obtain great success, enjoy being hailed as this guy who achieved the unachievable . Sounds like a dream to me.
I can see the objection that what I described above is too cost-benefit oriented, and that especially young and upcoming managers would be more idealistic in their thinking. I don't agree though. It's a job after all, you don't pass up this kind of an opportunity unless you have really good reasons to do so.
And by reasons I don't mean staying in clubs that spend nothing compared to us, let their best players go every summer, are run by people who cut corners as much as Levy does etc.
In particular, if Levy has such a notorious reputation in the eyes of many managers like some people claim, then this job should be closer to a free hit than it is to being on a hiding to nothing. Walk in to the job, earn your hefty wages during your tenure, perform to the best of your abilities, get the sack, pocket your payoff, walk away without suffering any reputational repercussions. And, on the slim chance that you obtain great success, enjoy being hailed as this guy who achieved the unachievable . Sounds like a dream to me.
I can see the objection that what I described above is too cost-benefit oriented, and that especially young and upcoming managers would be more idealistic in their thinking. I don't agree though. It's a job after all, you don't pass up this kind of an opportunity unless you have really good reasons to do so.
And by reasons I don't mean staying in clubs that spend nothing compared to us, let their best players go every summer, are run by people who cut corners as much as Levy does etc.
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Ange „The Hamstring Slasher“ Postecoglou
Let’s back the guy who never managed in a half decent league 
I could manage Celtic to the title. But tbh I’m very good playing football manager. Maybe I could make rangers close to Celtic
I could manage Celtic to the title. But tbh I’m very good playing football manager. Maybe I could make rangers close to Celtic
Our squad really doesn't have much less depth than Woolwich. Obviously you can't compare us to City.
We have a more than strong enough squad for being 15th to be an embarrassing level of performance from the manager, go have a look at the players fielded by some teams above us. The Everton team that were 3-0 up in a half against us (managed by david fuckin' moyes) had some absolutely abysmal footballers in it.
Almost impossible to be worse. Really!! We may be 15th in the table, but in the FORM TABLE we are almost rock bottom
We are 19th equal (NINETEENTH) in the form table.
Equal with Saints, who but for a last ditch off the line save at Forest would've got a point and be ahead of us.
Ahead of ONLY LEICESTER. Oooh: look who we're playing on Sunday?
What's the accumulator doing for that one? Vardy to score? He must be looking at our defence and thinking I'm gonna fill my boots against those guys!! If EFC get 3, I could too!!
but asking the players if they love him is stupid as its clearly obvious that they do! just go and check the fan video from after the everton game, kulu and madders clearly love this bloke and dont want him to leave.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5-LEyDyB3E
1:23
kulu clearly loves the bloke.
There we disagree. Going into this project Spurs goal was to be competitive among the top teams in the Premier League. Is that no longer the goal. Just let Spurs somehow win a trophy, any trophy, and we can forget everything else? That is not progress.
Everyone is a victim of their circumstances really. I'm sure that was the picture they were trying to paint.
Worst thing is, I think some people in this fanbase really believe that deep down. That’s why they are so dismissive of it.Let’s back the guy who never managed in a half decent league
The goal according to to Ange was to be in a position to win trophies every year.
We need to win 1 to start with. Have to break the voodoo
But for a quarter of a century, we have been a top 6 side. Bar a couple of outlier seasons, we're more a top 5 team. In terms of not only league finishes but also wealthy fanbase ize etc etc .6.4166667. So a top 7 team.
Sort of besides the point though. We’re talking about how attractive a currently 15th team, that seems to have a complete crisis of leadership, is to a manager of a 7th or 11th placed club. Clubs who have a strategy for what they’re trying to achieve on the pitch.
We shouldn't accept being absolutely shite because some fans have a totally irrational hard on for a useless coach.
Gerrard did, then look what happened to himLet’s back the guy who never managed in a half decent league
We haven't learned that at all though.
What we've learned is that in some games they look shit and in others they look world class.
Yet the team always plays the same way.
What we've learned is that we shouldn't judge them until we've seen them in a different setting.
So out of the 19 senior outfield players in the squad how many are you personally happy with?
I’d say most people on here - reading comments - would get rid of 50% minimum.
And do you know who Max Robson is?
Ok, we haven’t learned what I said. I have though.