So are we actually locked in the EL knockouts at this point or do we have to win some more games?
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Manager Ange Postecoglou
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Is this true?? Didn't see anything after the game.Looks to me like the 'older' more established players don't give a fuck.
If it is thats pretty admirable from Lucas and awful from Bentancur.
Through to the last 16 already. Our next game is on the 6th March.
Someone (who was also there) mentioned it on the pod as well this lunchtime....
Not a great look, is it Roddy...?
Especially after all the support you got from the fans after the....
Y'know... 'Summer incident'
Can only think Ange told levy pre-season I always win a trophy 2nd season. Hes told media as well. That's the benchmark. Failure then P45.
When there's been nothing but a clear downward trajectory, they shouldn't even get 18 months.
Football is big business, any other manager leading a business to failure would be long gone.
More likely to be something contractual. Failure to qualify for Europe reduces the compensation or something. Levy knows nothing about football but even with his limited knowledge he must know we're not winning anything.
I agree. Quite often you can tell pretty early. Santini for example or De Boer at Palace. But i always think you get a very good idea after 16/18 months. Are individual players improving, do the team look organised, have they become difficult to beat. Its always pretty clear at that stage.
Aaaah - the ‘80s…that’s more like it! Here we go…
He needs to go during the summer appalling appointment.
Yeah, and you can't really compare it to Arteta who was on the verge of being sacked at one point but most people could see that there was progress being made. Or Howe, who was under pressure but really only for 2-3 months of average to poor performances.
We've been bad for a year - probably slightly more than a year now. Yes, there's been some lovely goals and moments where you think maybe a corner has been turned, but they don't last. The form guide says 'relegation' even if the goal difference says 'top 6-8'.
some Woolwich bastard.
With the benefit of hindsight it was a pretty naive appointment.
For me the fact he didn’t bring any coaches with him should have rang very loud alarm bells.
All the best coaches have usually assembled a very close knit team that coach various different aspects of the playing setup and have come together over a long period.
It now seems extremely bizarre that Ange doesn’t have such a team of assistant coaches, especially when it seems he relies on his team extensively to manage the day to day coaching.
For me the fact he didn’t bring any coaches with him should have rang very loud alarm bells.
All the best coaches have usually assembled a very close knit team that coach various different aspects of the playing setup and have come together over a long period.
It now seems extremely bizarre that Ange doesn’t have such a team of assistant coaches, especially when it seems he relies on his team extensively to manage the day to day coaching.
Yeah but;
If Ange had bought more assistants, like Conte did, the chairman would have had to pay all of them off too when the time came.
Where would the money for the chairman's salary and bonus come from then?
It was the right thing to do I reckon.
At least Spurs wont be doing a Leeds.
Wait.....
That's the other Inzaghi brother. Simone.
Filippo is not anywhere near as good a manager as his brother. So its' all evened out with Filippo being the more successful player.
The existing incumbents didn’t come for free!
They’re not FOC interns (even though their performance may reflect that)!
I think Levy's biggest issue is trying to convince anyone decent to take over this shit show mid season.
There are managers we could get now but long term they're most likely not a solution.
His other issue is that this next appointment HAS to be the right one. No big money, big names just for show. No cheap hires that might work....he has to do his homework and get it right.
His next meeting with the THST will be a bloodbath otherwise.
As stated in other sources, appointing Ryan Mason again would be highly embarrassing for him, basically an admission that he's screwed up once again.
I honestly think that unless we move dangerously close to relegation, we'll be stuck with Ange until the end of the season.
Did Levy get them off Indeed too?The existing incumbents didn’t come for free!
They’re not FOC interns (even though their performance may reflect that)!
Ange will only get fired when it helps Levy's wallet - he will do a Termination Risk Assessment it will come down to 1 factor...MONEY
If it's cheaper to let him go now or later. That's the only factor in Levy's decision process.
If it's cheaper to let him go now or later. That's the only factor in Levy's decision process.
He was on the verge of being sacked yet took over a team 11th and finished 8th.
The next season they had a bad start and that's when the noise started. They were 14th in the league and lost 9 out of 14 games. Thing is, those were the first 14 games. They were 14th in December and there was noise about sacking him! We're down there in February and there's less noise.
But they still finished 8th again. So still no overall deterioration.
3rd season - 5th with another bad start but clear improvement
4th season 2nd
5th season 2nd with more points than season 4
There's nothing hidden here. All that is taken straight from their Wiki page where you can see every result, league position as the season plays out etc, same as out.
At no point other than early in season 2 have Arse gotten worse and carried on getting worse.
Ange, mate, took over a team that under Conte finished 4th and was 3rd when Conte was sacked and Ange, mate, finished 5th. And we have been descending down the the table at an alarming rate ever since.