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Management Ange Postecoglou
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Is this not an assistant coaching issue as well?
I can’t believe that’s the score. It’s over already! A decent end to a shit day!!Well man... do I have some GOOD news for you
The manager usually picks his coaching staff, as evidenced by all the Italians coming in under Conte. If Ange surrounded himself with unqualified yes-men that's probably exactly how he wanted it.
No it's a manager issue but not for the reason Klaus keeps misrepresenting.
Postecoglou's Spurs were the best pressing team in Europe in the for 4 months of the season. High turnovers were streets ahead of any other team.
The problem is that injuries have caused a massive turnover in the squad and limited rotation so you have second 11 players now trying to emulate first team training in actual matches every three days with no rest and no time for the training you need as a unit. This is exacerbated by having new players added in the window but with zero time available for training and familiarisation with the triggers and automations.
TLDR - Postecoglou's press is one of the best in Europe but injuries have fucked it.
Why is this the manager's fault? Because if you dont have time to drill the press properly into the players you've have to bring in to replace the 10 injured players then you shouldn't try to press when it involved taking such high risks.
Hence Porro leaping out hideously late, vacating his are and exposing new player Danso to a complete wtf moment.
So can't blame assistants because they literally don't have the time to train the press into this cobbled together group because they play every 3 days.
So the manager should have called the press off - or at least stopped the suicidal shit Porro does each and every fucking game.
ITS NOT OVER - HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING FROM SPURS
Mate, the Eagles players pregame looked so fucking focused and determined. I was worried they were TOO hyped. But they have crushed this game. Just once I want to see a Spurs side do this. I've been lucky that my Aussie Rules side have been successful but I want it with Spurs so much.
Have a wank mate.ITS NOT OVER - HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING FROM SPURS
Mate, the Eagles players pregame looked so fucking focused and determined. I was worried they were TOO hyped. But they have crushed this game. Just once I want to see a Spurs side do this. I've been lucky that my Aussie Rules side have been successful but I want it with Spurs so much.
Be my guest...sorry...be my guest
We need a proper manager who come with a team of proper, experienced coaches. For a club the size of spurs that should be a given.
We genuinely have one of the worst manager in the entire league, and we’ve let him conjure up a bunch of randoms for our coaching staff. Jedinak coaching a team full of top level internationals, really?
We are utterly fucked until Ange fucks off, I’m sure of it.
We genuinely have one of the worst manager in the entire league, and we’ve let him conjure up a bunch of randoms for our coaching staff. Jedinak coaching a team full of top level internationals, really?
We are utterly fucked until Ange fucks off, I’m sure of it.
Manipulative conman.
I love this. Completely spot on,surprising for Sky without having a former gooner comment
www.skysports.com
Tottenham criticism is agenda-driven, says Ange Postecoglou as Spurs' domestic trophy hopes end following FA Cup defeat
Tottenham were knocked out of the Carabao Cup and FA Cup in the space of four days which ended their domestic trophy hopes; Spurs last chance of silverware is in the Europa League; Ange Postecoglou defends his injury-hit side and says criticism is agenda-driven
Watch the video, Ange is being very manipulative. Getting prickly about how everyone is criticising the players and yet he is the one spending the whole presser deflecting attention away from himself and talking only about the players.I love this. Completely spot on,surprising for Sky without having a former gooner comment
Tottenham criticism is agenda-driven, says Ange Postecoglou as Spurs' domestic trophy hopes end following FA Cup defeat
Tottenham were knocked out of the Carabao Cup and FA Cup in the space of four days which ended their domestic trophy hopes; Spurs last chance of silverware is in the Europa League; Ange Postecoglou defends his injury-hit side and says criticism is agenda-driven
The journalists even try changing the topic.He's asked about whether he can turn things around when the injured players are back, and he literally says 'I'm not talking about me' and then diverts the conversation back to the players and the bullshit narrative he has invented! His final trick is to suggest that any criticism is part of some grand conspiratorial agenda. If he was half as good at managing a team as he is at gaslighting an audience we would be winning the league.
Quite the achievement considering he was the one that barely rotated prior to all the injuries.
He never takes responsibility. It's always someone else's fault or just bad luck.
The performances aren't his fault, the injuries aren't his fault, the small squad isn't his fault.
You don't see this attitude from real winners and real leaders of men.
Pretty sure he's always said the responsibility falls on him.
And he's right it does.
Must’ve watched a different presser.
He supported the players and said take the criticism out on him, not the players.
Any sense of positivity with regards to this manager and the rest of season has well and truly gone.
I don't think Ange has got it in him to turn this around, for me I still look back at that week where we lost to Everton & Leicester. I get there are injuries but those two sides we should have picked up something. There are clearly are few issues at the club which need to be resolved.
The only positive is I do like so many of our players and I think they've been run into the ground in more ways than one. So many talented young players who I feel we are not getting the best out of.
We're low in the league, injury & confidence hit side - no new manager is really going to want to take over right now and I don't really want Ryan Mason again as he is probably part of the problem.
I don't think Ange has got it in him to turn this around, for me I still look back at that week where we lost to Everton & Leicester. I get there are injuries but those two sides we should have picked up something. There are clearly are few issues at the club which need to be resolved.
The only positive is I do like so many of our players and I think they've been run into the ground in more ways than one. So many talented young players who I feel we are not getting the best out of.
We're low in the league, injury & confidence hit side - no new manager is really going to want to take over right now and I don't really want Ryan Mason again as he is probably part of the problem.