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Management Ange Postecoglou

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The Mercurial No.10 said:
Andre Villas-Boas did not approve four of Tottenham’s seven summer signings and asked chairman Daniel Levy not to buy them.

Villas-Boas objected to the acquisitions of Erik Lamela, Nacer Chadli, Vlad Chiriches and Christian Eriksen, a quartet who cost Spurs a total of £56million, but his judgment was overruled.

The Portuguese manager asked his chairman to buy Hulk, Joao Moutinho and David Villa as he planned for life without Gareth Bale.
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To.be fair on slaphead, three of those were the actually decent signings that window.
 
Dr Rocktopus said:
It was also the largely lacklustre football which was about as dull as I've ever seen. And the infighting with Levy over transfers.

This was a particularly big issue as AVB fancied himself as a high level scout in many ways and had a vast network of connections with players.

He wanted us to sign Hulk for £40m and had apparently agreed the deal with the player. Can't blame Levy for that one really!

I quite liked AVB actually. I obviously didn't like his style of football but warmed to him significantly more than every manager since apart from Pochettino.
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AVB has now managed to become the president of Porto. It will be interesting to see if he is able to step up into that sort of role and succeed at it.
 
Mrs Perryman said:
Think it will be the first time that I won't stay for the lap of appreciation.
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That lap of appreciation is going to be a shocker... it will either be performed to a stadium empty baring 10,000 Koreans or it will be so hostile the players decide to applaud from the centre circle then disappear. Nothing like the time Steffen Freund gave his shirt, shorts, socks, boots and shin pads away and was walking around in just his slips. Absolute fucking legend who gave it all (literally) when he stepped foot on the pitch. When we get knocked out Thursday, these last few weeks of the season will be awful to watch and the media are going to lap it up. Levy will brief the media against the fans. We will hear all that bollocks about being the worst supporters in the league, unrealistic expectations and so on. You just wait. It will be terrible as our great club gets dragged through the mud.
 
StripiestPilot said:
Of course there's a point in sacking him. We want to get back to winning games and to do that you need players who enjoy their work. We are clearly in a death spiral now and the players don't believe in what they are doing anymore. The intensity in our play is non-existent. If we want to avoid 20+ defeats in the league we need to make a change right now. The fans do not deserve to endure more of this diabolical football.

Do you really want Ange doing the lap of appreciation at the last home game when we are in 17th place? It would be one of the most bizarre scenes in the history of football.
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My point; as others have said , if we do finish 17th ( 16th , 15th , 14th 13th ) :
then he should absolutely do a lap of un-appreciation . It would ALL be his own work ; and 55 k people could give him their personal feedback.

Why let him get off the hook by letting him spend the last home game of the season lying on a sun-bed on a Greek Island with a glass of something expensive in his hand .

He’s earned the right to face the wrath of the home fans ; in every stand in the ground ; on his last day.

He’s been given more time than anyone ; what’s the last eight games of his “ reign “ do to us that hasn’t already happened ? PS Looking at that fixture list ; we’re getting close enough to nowt whoever’s in charge. ( Sorry for being so negative) .
 
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Matt1882 said:
Pretty much every manager since the turn of the century has dug in and waited for the sack.
There's nothing unique about it. These "men" will take a club down before they resign and walk away from a payout.
I would say chairmen need to be wiser to this and have clauses in there stating the team needs to maintain a certain level for the coach to get sacked and paid out.
But then I'd bet most coaches would walk out of the interview laughing.

Football is fucked.
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Well said. Reason number 987 as to why modern football is shit.

Everybody thinks coming to Spurs is bad for a manager's career but I could think of several million reasons why they will be queueing at the door for any PL club.
 
The Europa is extremely winnable, but more than likely not with Ange in charge.

Can't believe Levy is willing to risk/sabotage having a fair crack at it (actually i can) whilst keeping these predictable failing tactics in place.
 
NewZealand_Spur said:
Well said. Reason number 987 as to why modern football is shit.

Everybody thinks coming to Spurs is bad for a manager's career but I could think of several million reasons why they will be queueing at the door for any PL club.
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Pochettino was by our standards successful.

Since then he has won a Championship, and would I think taken Chelsea to top four spot this season.

I would have loved to have seen him come back
 
Sumo70's said:
The Europa is extremely winnable, but more than likely not with Ange in charge.

Can't believe Levy is willing to risk/sabotage having a fair crack at it (actually i can) whilst keeping these predictable failing tactics in place.
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Idiotic beyond belief. Hard to believe he wasn’t fired after we lost to Leicester. I mean I guess we could stumble to victory, but, this is pretty much the absolute worst setup in terms of form you could imagine for such an accomplishment. It would be undeserved and ridiculous were it to happen.
 
ThePreacher said:
Pochettino was by our standards successful.

Since then he has won a Championship, and would I think taken Chelsea to top four spot this season.

I would have loved to have seen him come back
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It would certainly bring happy feelings, but could he succeed without investment? The whole reason for it all ending last time was the lack of investment. Would it be different? Would he secure assurances of investment from Levy? Would they be worth anything?
 
Matt1882 said:
Whoever replaces AngeLOSS is likely to experience the opposite trend, in that I reckon someone like Glasner or Iraola might start slowly. We'll see progress from around the midway point of the season.
The issue they face of course is fans are so downbeat they may not warm to that at all.
AND there's gonna be Angebois who will try to claim it was never his fault at that stage.
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Gonna be like teaching toddlers to walk for whoever is tasked with rehabilitating this squad following Ange.

The look of pure pride and amazement on a fullbacks face when they track their first runner, or provide an overlap and put in a cross will be a joy to behold.

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Dr Rocktopus said:
From memory Moutinho had agreed to join us but the transfer paperwork 'mysteriously' messed up, leaving the deal scuppered and apparently AVB livid.

Dempsey was AVB's choice to replace VDV. Not a great decision. As in he told VDV he wasn't wanted.
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I think you might be conflating things a little, Sigurdsson was the one that came in and was seen as the VDV replacement.

Dempsey was a poor attempt at filling a stroker hole I think.

Not that it's entirely black and white anyway.
 
jrg83 said:
Shows how badly Levy and co’s standards have dropped when you remember that they sacked AVB when we were 7th in the league in December of whatever year it was.

remarkable that on balance they’ve always gone early with sackings, but yet this time they are way too late, baffling.
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With other revenues coming into the club our league position is not as important as it was back then to levy . Of course he’d like to be higher but it’s not a necessity.

I fully expect a statement saying that due to our league position we won’t be adding much to the squad , there’s always an excuse.
 
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