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Manager Ange Postecoglou

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Was sacking Ange a good idea?

  • Yes, I think it was a good idea.

    Votes: 73 64.6%

  • No, I think it was a bad idea.

    Votes: 40 35.4%
  • Total voters
    113
harry7 said:
It's about long term vision and building a successful team.

The other team cannot score if you have the ball.

Spurs have been repeatedly let down by individual errors, and inexperienced players have been exposed.

The quality of the squad is poor.

Ange's ship has sailed. We look set to lose Bentencuar, Romero and Porro in the summer; and Barca's scouts are watching Bergvall. City want Madison and Kulu is wanted in Italy. Dragusin has wanted out for quite some time, and Sarr is admired in Spain.

How do expect the next coach to perform?

Season after season we have a squad that doesn't match fans expectations....and every time we call for the head of the coach.
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Fuck off
 
manmountainbutters said:
You have to allow for them being out of form. For what it's worth I think VdV on form (fit) gets into any starting 11 in the league. He offers something no other CB in the league has. I also think Romero on form is close. As are Kulu and Spence.

The others are all squad quality players for Dippers or Woolwich, true. I do think Odobert would make make any squad. Huge potential and young. Teams need and want a few like him.

I do agree that we are short of 3-4 elite level players to be a title challenging squad (with a good coach). And unsurprisingly, the wage bill cost of that ... about £30-50m pa, is about how much less we pay pa than Woolwhich!
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Gatsby said:
A lot of what Ange has said is correct. The club are taken for a laughing stock all the time, regardless of finishing 4th or 16th. We’re constantly bantered about trophies, despite being one of the most successful in England. Pundits like Carragher constantly talk us down and other media companies just accept it.



He might have let us down this season in the league, but he does genuinely want the club to be successful and want the media to stop the narrative they have.

Ange the manager and Ange the man are two separate things, and the man speaks a lot of sense about the state of the game, the club and the future.
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"he might have let us down this season but..."

Jesus Christ..
 
PointToPatrik said:
Today's hilarious defence of Ange courtesy of a random redditor:

"If we get rid of Ange we can no longer have a no wrong'uns principle in player recruitment."

Apparently if we let Ange go we are going to sign the Anti-Christ to play fullback.
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These people need to know the history we already signed Ben Thatcher he was 100% satanic he was the Thatcher made Margaret feel good about herself at family reunions....
 
manmountainbutters said:
Agreed. Some real BS here about how bad the squad is.

Vicario
Romero
Spence
VdV
Maddison
Bergvall
Kulusevski
Odobert


Would make be in any team in the league's squad of 25.

They are down because they are poorly led.
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not sure what point youre making. Only 3 of those have been consistently available this season.

The squad is bad because

an 18 year old midfielder, who has never played at this level is NOT a suitable CB.

An 18 year old with barely 500 minutes of professional football in a tin pot league is not a suitable Central midfielder at this level.

1 striker available this season is Solanke. A mid level journeyman. Richarlison is twice the player, but never fit.

We lost Hojbjergs leadership and experience in midfield. Bissouma never stepped up, and looks like he is auditioning for Crystal Palace.

The reality is, our attack has over performed. But without a central midfield or centre backs, we cannot stop shipping goals.
 
CeltfanDan said:
I don't think so as Celtic with few exceptions have always struggled in Europe in recent times.
I think the clues were Martin O'Neil who took Celtic to a Euro final but came up short at Villa and Sunderland. Neil Lennon who famously mananged Celtic to a victory over Barca, but despite starting well at Bolton, ultimatley failed. Walter Smith at Everton, and there could be other examples as well.
Then there's the players. Kenny Dalgliesh was a legend at Celtic and had the same impact at Liverpool, then also won the EPL as a manager. But that was a while ago. Since then the only player in my opinion who could and should have made a major impact on the EPL was Tierney, but injuries made that impossible.
Andy Robertson deserves a good mention as well.
However there is plenty of evidence that managers and players who have been greats in Scotland have failed to reach anything like that level in England, and that's what the Spurs board missed.
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The Premier League is the best in the world, whereas the SPL doesn't even make the Top 20 for most analysts...heck I've even seen it as low as 45th.

It's not even a gulf in class, that's a friggin galaxy. How Levy could think that hiring an SPL manager - even Celtic's - would lead to success at Spurs, I mean that's not stupid or crazy, that's something else entirely.

But yeah, let's go get that nearby 60yo bloke who says mate a lot, give him a sick contract and let him spend 300mil.

Sackable offense No 3,258 for the evil dwarf.
 
harry7 said:
It's about long term vision and building a successful team.

The other team cannot score if you have the ball.

Spurs have been repeatedly let down by individual errors, and inexperienced players have been exposed.

The quality of the squad is poor.

Ange's ship has sailed. We look set to lose Bentencuar, Romero and Porro in the summer; and Barca's scouts are watching Bergvall. City want Madison and Kulu is wanted in Italy. Dragusin has wanted out for quite some time, and Sarr is admired in Spain.

How do expect the next coach to perform?

Season after season we have a squad that doesn't match fans expectations....and every time we call for the head of the coach.
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To be honest I'd keep Ange & that squad if we could just ship you out
 
Jaynola said:
The Premier League is the best in the world, whereas the SPL doesn't even make the Top 20 for most analysts...heck I've even seen it as low as 45th.

It's not even a gulf in class, that's a friggin galaxy. How Levy could think that hiring an SPL manager - even Celtic's - would lead to success at Spurs, I mean that's not stupid or crazy, that's something else entirely.

But yeah, let's go get that nearby 60yo bloke who says mate a lot, give him a sick contract and let him spend 300mil.

Sackable offense No 3,258 for the evil dwarf.
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And because he says mate and comes up with one liners, he will have the media fawning over him for guest appearances and ‘ expert’ analysis as a new career for years to come.

I don’t begrudge him that as most of them are thick as pig shit anyway , but it’s come about after making our club a laughing stock that grates me
 
B-0-Sspurs said:
And because he says mate and comes up with one liners, he will have the media fawning over him for guest appearances and ‘ expert’ analysis as a new career for years to come.

I don’t begrudge him that as most of them are thick as pig shit anyway , but it’s come about after making our club a laughing stock that grates me
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Those dummies and the Robbie Williams song after 30 seconds didn't do us any favours.
 
Kiro Kompiro said:
That comes from him allowing the players to play without fear of making mistakes, to build their confidence, playing with postivity. If the players then take that to mean they can fuck about without consequences then that 's on them.

I wish Poch anybody else- bar the likes of Guardiola or Ancelotti good luck in "toughening" this lot up.
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That never works consistently over a period of time. The human brain doesn’t act like that. A good manager uses stick and carrot, you can’t just let players carry on regardless when they’re shitting the bed, which is basically what he does watching on game after game doing nothing in match.
 
Gatsby said:
A lot of what Ange has said is correct. The club are taken for a laughing stock all the time, regardless of finishing 4th or 16th. We’re constantly bantered about trophies, despite being one of the most successful in England. Pundits like Carragher constantly talk us down and other media companies just accept it.



He might have let us down this season in the league, but he does genuinely want the club to be successful and want the media to stop the narrative they have.

Ange the manager and Ange the man are two separate things, and the man speaks a lot of sense about the state of the game, the club and the future.
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Sorry pal, but IMO it's very easy to say everything right about the game and our club. The fact is he should have let the football does the talking first. Yet his football is atrocious and has been found out since how many months ago. Honestly he could do very well as anyone in a football club BUT the coach.
 
Believe it or not, we have been building as a club. The young players have been blooded this year and we will be better for it next season. We might even come away with our first trophy in decades this year. But ask the doom and gloomers and we are at an all time low. It's called a rebuild.
 
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