What difference does it really make?
How has assembling a top half squad-which I agree we have, but no better than 6th-become acceptable? How did we get here?
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What difference does it really make?
How has assembling a top half squad-which I agree we have, but no better than 6th-become acceptable? How did we get here?
Mark the final day of the season in your diary.
And every time you you need clarity, check the diary.
That is his last game, no matter what now.
I don't think he does. I don't think he'll get a move to a City, Woolwich, Liverpool anytime soon. Newcastle, United and Villa aren't looking for a manager. Maybe he has a chance of getting the Leverkusen role if Alonso goes to Madrid, and obviously that's a more attractive role.
As for leaving or staying at Brentford, I think he's done all he can there. The club is set up as a PL outfit now, he might feel he's ready for the next step. Spurs could be a Champions League outfit next season.
If he can bring Mbeumo with him then even better.
C'mon mate..on one hand you're saying we have a top half squad. Not a top 4 or hell even top 6. But top 10.
We ain't getting a top manager with our sales pitch to him that he'll have a top 10 squad given to him. We'll get second tier or unproven types who will give us corresponding results.
Yes Postcoglou's second league season has been crap, but no manager is winning anything with this squad.
Is Garry Mabbutt?
Ange managed 6th last year with essentially the same team. Why cant we be 4th next season?
Because he will have had 2 full seasons to destroy players physically and mentally.
And we were 5th last season. Mostly because we racked up 26 points before the uncoaching began to really kick in.
I think it’s because when he came in he was a bit of an unknown maverick and he got those results in the first 10 games.
Since then, he’s been found out, doesn’t have a proper plan B and is a stubborn ass.
Our results in those first 10 games gave us 6th place.
Our form thereafter was pretty average and it’s got worse as time has gone on.
I get that, but it’s seems to me the argument is that our squad isn’t talented enough to be top 4. I disagree with that.
Bad management - and I don't just mean Ange. There's a vile, putrescent, cadaverinitious, miasmic stink pervading the entire management of the club.
Yeah so is Stephane Guivarc'h. Djimi Traore is a Champions League winner too.
Seriously, pal...have a word with yourself. First, Qatar corrupted Fifa to get that tournament. Then they gift-wrapped it to Messi. That's how your beloved Romero won his WC medal. But that's actually quite fitting when you consider the guy's persona.
Wow, he can run super fast, he must be a great defender then. Can't head the ball, gets caught out of position or loses his man 10 times a game...who cares eh.
Keep digging. Lemme know when you hear us.
Cool, so a top 4 club with genuine ambition should settle for a very expensive RB that doesn't know how to defend? Oh wait, we aren't such a club.
For the record, I like the kid, he runs his nuts off and yeah he scores the odd goal and bags a few assists. But come on, if the lad is an elite full/wing back, I'm friggin Pelé.
That's it, a squad player. And certainly not a member of the leadership group.
Angelos has lost the fans, lost the Spurs board, lost the players and even lost himself. And he knows it - and the whole football world knows it.
Angelos is too stubborn to change his tactics even though they're proven not to work in the EPL for the 2nd season now. His tactics are found out and the players knows it, and the fans knows it. Possession football without penetration or goal threat and a defensive set-up that often is in shambles is a description of failure. Spurs was the team to watch for the 1st half of Angelos' time at Spurs ....but then things started to unravel.
Bare a minor miracle over the last 5 EPL games we all know that even winning the EL is not going to save Angelos' job.
Keeping him is just prolonging the toxic atmosphere.
Angelos is too stubborn to change his tactics even though they're proven not to work in the EPL for the 2nd season now. His tactics are found out and the players knows it, and the fans knows it. Possession football without penetration or goal threat and a defensive set-up that often is in shambles is a description of failure. Spurs was the team to watch for the 1st half of Angelos' time at Spurs ....but then things started to unravel.
Bare a minor miracle over the last 5 EPL games we all know that even winning the EL is not going to save Angelos' job.
Keeping him is just prolonging the toxic atmosphere.
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Its Gary. He is also a global ambassador for the club so is hardly going to say everythings gone to shite.
What a lot of people meant over saying a trophy over top 4 was a reasonable top half finish and actually lifting a cup. Not 22 fucking league defeats and 17th in the table. Unacceptable considering the rhetoric from the owners (watch us rise) and the manager about a winning mentality. Considering his comments after city (like I said at the time ok then let's have those winning standards) he has to face the music and accept he hasn't made that happen. Not only has he not made that happen he now has the cheek to get on the fans back now we're asking to win games of football on a regular basis that he isn't achieving. The bloke is a walking contradiction. He's OK dishing it out but he sure as hell cannot take it back.
Fifth ...but I think the league has become more competitive. The current squad lacks experience. Our strikers are mediocre-Son is on a steep decline. Maddison is not consistent enough/ There's a lack of leadership.
Agreed.
As I've said before, playing dreadfully in the league does not equate to "prioritising the cups".
A wage cap is also a cap on ambition, that’s the root of where we find ourselves compared to where we were 8 years ago.
playing the way we want to.. with big ange postecoglue ?
We're having the worst season in decades...you wanna blame it all on Ange and let Levy & the players off the hook, fine, you do you. You wanna think we need no new players or just a couple to seriously challenge next season, be my guest and keep hitting that crack pipe.
But weirdly Ange wasn't about when it all went to shit under Ramos, AVB, Sherwood, Jose, Nuno, Conte...even Harry & Poch eventually. I know someone who was, though.
The fact our wage-to-turnover ratio has reduced drastically over the past few years, that's gotta be Ange's fault. Guess we can also blame him for the stadium costing 500mil too much, the naming rights fiasco, hiring Paratici when a ban was looming, wasting millions on Ndombele/LoCelso/Richarlison & co.
And yeah obviously Udogie stops running back cause Ange. Sonny's got the worst first touch cause Ange. Brennan doesn't track back cause Ange. Bentancur gets a yellow every game cause Ange. Bissouma does balloons cause Ange. It's literally moronic beyond belief.
When a tree is rotten, pal, you can treat a few branches here and there, it'll hold out a bit but it'll never flourish again. And one day it'll come crashing down. Only thing to do is chop the friggin thing at the base.