I'd say it falls to both the manager and Levy/Enic. I don't want Levy getting a free pass.
But the immediate and easiest change to make is the manager, so that needs to happen.
Levy and co still ultimately need to fuck off, mind.
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I'd say it falls to both the manager and Levy/Enic. I don't want Levy getting a free pass.
But the immediate and easiest change to make is the manager, so that needs to happen.
Levy and co still ultimately need to fuck off, mind.
How's the hangover today you silly cunt lol
Welcome. You've been loyal, but seen the light.
I have never seen so many tickets available to a One+ member as for the AZ game next week FWIW
2 games without a goal when we've nearly all our attacking options available has made me realise its just never getting better under him. We take crazy risks in every game but still don't look like scoring. Doesn't add up. Balance is all wrong and we can't blame injuries or fatigue anymore.
Have to call a spade a spade. Its not about taking sides and being right. All the evidence is there now and he's ran out of excuses.
Trust me I'll be as positive as I can be whenever I get the chance, but right now there is little to be positive about and clutching at straws to just wind up certain posters isn't the solution and makes us as bad as them if not worse.
It would have been harsh sacking him after finishing 5th although given where we were after beating Villa we really should have got 4th. But you could see the direction of travel. Said at the time both Hoddle and Ramos had terrible ends to a season and it just carried on into the next season. At least both of those were gone by October. Potecoglou needed a good start to the season with a fairly comfortable set of fixtures and we didnt get it. Ipswich at home was the time to sack him, it was obvious at that stage he wasnt of the required quality. But we limped on. How he survived after the Everton/Leicester games is total negligence.
Pal, we hadn't won 3 in a row since Dec 2023, I seem to recall hearing/reading a few days ago.
So 5 or 6? Harp-playing angels will shoot out of my arsehole before that happens.
YES.
They absolutely have to be held accountable.
By manager. Who is making decisions.
How the FUCK did he think that starting with Johnson on RW and Tel up top is a great idea, I will never know.
Ange is talking about changing culture and whatnot. But when you see games like yesterday, it is blatantly clear - he is building a big comfort zone for players to play like shit game after game with ZERO consequences. Johnson could as well just go to beer-line inside the stadium from 5th to 40th minute. Doesn't matter. Ange loves him, Ange still starts him. It is all guaranteed. He is one of "Ange's boys".
HE has to be one holding such performances accountable.
He should never have been offered the job in the first place.
60yo who'd never experienced elite football but talks as if he's God's gift to the beautiful game. And he's an obnoxious, rude prick to boot.
Really? That’s a thing?
I’m pretty read up on coaching styles but he doesn’t fit the classic “athlete led” coaching style from what I’ve seen.
But I haven’t read as much on leadership styles so will do some digging on that. I like that type of shit.
I think it’s impossible to know what his leadership or coaching style is from media appearances though. I haven’t read the book on him either so it’s pretty much guesswork on that.
Fergie was a decent player and the Scottish league was stronger back then. Different era too.
Pep was a beautiful player, a natural born coach.
Mou was at Porto, a team that's won European comps and produced tons of great players over the years. The Portuguese league is way better than Japan or the SPL.
Wenger was a player and had managed Monaco brilliantly. His Nagoya contract was just a money-maker, he was always gonna get hired by a big European club.
Ange doesn't have their past, nor will he ever have their future. Cause he's shockingly shit. Danny boy's experiment os one of the biggest fails ever.
Welcome to the dark side, mate.
I was telling you same things months ago, at the time when the season could still have been saved. At least by new year we could have had manager that actually like... does work with players and tries to find most suitable set-up. Who does some in-game management when something does not work etc.
Obviously one cannot hold longer optimism against you, just pointing out that I was over this tipping point while ago, noticing all those things back then. Unfortunately everyone see right through him. Opposite managers, our own players and opposite players too. I do admit, he did try some tweaks between start of year and yesterday, but he is still jogging behind the cart, not in front of it, pulling it forward.
I think the second game is a foregone conclusion. This team and manager have a weak mentality and will go out with a whimper.
I think he's been completely shocked by the tactical level of detail within the premier league. Even the details team put into set pieces completely threw him last year! We never adopted to set pieces at all last year and needed a full Summer pre-season to get up to speed with other teams in the league.
Now teams just sit on us and wait for our two full backs to be out of position before jumping on us. This has been a key trend in all our games this season yet we keep walking into the same traps every week. I like his style and the idea of the full backs joining the attack, but they need to move the ball fast as soon as they are out of position and hurt teams. Not just have everyone out of position and then moving the ball slow and sideways. Basically all risk and no reward. We end up with just the 2 centre backs behind the ball and all other 8 outfield players up the pitch standing still. We never look like scoring in this shape and then all it takes is one misplaced pass for the other team to immediately have a 2v2 or a 3v2 in oceans of space.
Every team is happy to let us have the ball. We probably average 70% possession a game but its only because there is a clear blue print to beating us. The only way this style works is if we are aggressive and direct as soon as we get the ball and find our full backs in space getting in behind. Once you make that sideways pass the attack is over and all of a sudden your whole shape is gone and the other team are just waiting for you to make a mistake in possession. There was a great example yesterday in the first half where we broke on them quickly and had 3v3, Tell turned around and passed it back, all of a sudden we are back to the 2 centre backs passing it sideways and everyone else up the pitch standing still. No danger, no ideas but one misplaced pass and they are in!
Now teams just sit on us and wait for our two full backs to be out of position before jumping on us. This has been a key trend in all our games this season yet we keep walking into the same traps every week. I like his style and the idea of the full backs joining the attack, but they need to move the ball fast as soon as they are out of position and hurt teams. Not just have everyone out of position and then moving the ball slow and sideways. Basically all risk and no reward. We end up with just the 2 centre backs behind the ball and all other 8 outfield players up the pitch standing still. We never look like scoring in this shape and then all it takes is one misplaced pass for the other team to immediately have a 2v2 or a 3v2 in oceans of space.
Every team is happy to let us have the ball. We probably average 70% possession a game but its only because there is a clear blue print to beating us. The only way this style works is if we are aggressive and direct as soon as we get the ball and find our full backs in space getting in behind. Once you make that sideways pass the attack is over and all of a sudden your whole shape is gone and the other team are just waiting for you to make a mistake in possession. There was a great example yesterday in the first half where we broke on them quickly and had 3v3, Tell turned around and passed it back, all of a sudden we are back to the 2 centre backs passing it sideways and everyone else up the pitch standing still. No danger, no ideas but one misplaced pass and they are in!
Now that I would pay to see
have to wait?
Villa and Ipswich happened in the first 30 seconds.
Don't remember Ipswich example clearly but Villa game Porro was up the pitch. They only had to wait 30 seconds to get in behind and hurt us!
Who gives a real fuck what happened with Wenger at Nagoya? He went there for the money and was always gonna be a short deal. As much as I hate the man, he was an unreal manager and that showed at the cunts down the road.
Ange could live til 268yo, he'd never achieve 10% of what Wenger did.