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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:
If the Europa League is so easy, why have only 2 english teams won it in the past 20 years?
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Thank you for asking.
Mostly because almost none of the teams have given a single fuck about this competition.

It just became a route to CL since 2015. So 10 years.
Within that timeframe England teams have won it 3 times. So literally 30% of the time. Which is very often actually.
And now will be 11th time and 4th English winner, so 36,4%. Even higher. In fact THE HIGHEST SHARE OF ALL LEAGUES joint with Spain (3x Sevilla and 1x Atleti - so another shit league by biased metrics right - only two teams from there winning too!).

Now when you would consider fact that on top of winners, there was also Liverpool playing in final 2016, Woolwich was loser in final against Chelsea in 2019 and loser in final of 2025 will also be coming from England you see quite significant trend here. In same timespell (11 years) when CL place was not on cards only 3 English teams made it to final (Boro 2006, Fulham 2010, Chelsea 2013). So you see.
Without CL ticket - 3 finalists and 1 win.
With CL ticket- 7 finalists and 4 wins.

Putting it "2 English teams in past 20 years" is absolute manipulation with data. If ManU would have won 10 out of 10 last seasons, you could still say "only 1 English team won it" - what does that matter how many teams? How many wins is what counts. And as I pointed out - since CL ticket came to table, English teams have won 36,4% of those golden tickets. Which is absolutely very high share.
 
Savva just showed some statistics on his YouTube channel show. Angie is BOTTOM of the list of managers at Tottenham over the past 50 years. Worst manager most Anyone here has watched at Tottenham. He may win a cup but from the BOTTOM of the Premier League. Awful management. Levy OUT Angie OUT.
 
harry7 said:
"The three B's have managers have all coached players with limited ability to play beyond their current skill level"
I think it's disingenuous to suggest that their squads have limited abilities. None of them are finishing 5th in the EPL; so how did Ange "Fluke" it?
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Again good question! I'm happy you are asking those.

Because EPL managers were not aware of his tactics before the season. Most likely they considered it beyond unlikely that anyone would play such kung-ho stuff. So we made it to 5th place ONLY and literally ONLY based on first 10 game return. Everything that has followed has not just been out of top6 but very clearly in bottom half of the league form. No new ideas or similar kind of surprises have surfaced clearly proving that he is one trick pony, used that trick and is now done.
 
harry7 said:
Vicario was injured vs City following a collision with Savinho. In the same game, Romero picked up his foot injury following a tackle.

Odobert, Davies, Werner, Udogie and Van De Ven all bad hamstrings. This would suggest issues with our medical department and conditioning of the players. A coach will expect players to give 100% on the pitch - it's the MEDICAL teams job to prepare them physically and sign them off fit to play.

I don't buy the argument that our players are getting injured because Ange asks them to run on the pitch. Spurs aren't the first team in football history whose players are expected to run for 90 minutes. For example, teams who play similar styles (Klopp's Liverpool, Bielsa's Leeds) NEVER suffered this level of injuries.

Also, we were dominating possession in all our early season games. 70%+ of the ball vs Newcastle and Woolwich for instance. We weren't spending the game chasing down balls and closing down the opposition. We were in control and dictating the pace of the game.
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Medical team has remained roughly the same, or at least on similar level.

What has changed has been the manager.
And under him we had worst ever injury crises in his 1st season and then topped it up with new worst during his 2nd season.

But of course. Fully random and nothing to do with him.

Hahahha we were "controlling and dictating" against Woolwich and Newcastle :D ? ?
In what world do you live in? We controlled the POSESSION. But Woolwich and Newcastle adjusted their approach and defended deep. Cause that was what works against Ange one-dimentional-tactics. Just go and revisit all NLD results please. And then talk about any "control of the game". CLown.
 
harry7 said:
It's Levy's fault for not signing decent players.
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Matt1882 said:
Oh come on guys, it's clearly trolling. He is going on ignore, but it just fills the thread up as others keep quoting his persistent trolling. A lot of people got sin binned yesterday, it feels harsh as the troll triggered them.
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It's obvious that's what he's doing even the language used in his supposed support of Ange Postecoglou is clearly snide regurgitated digs at Spurs. But pointing this out is apparently the issue here now.
 
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harry7 said:
Vicario was injured vs City following a collision with Savinho. In the same game, Romero picked up his foot injury following a tackle.

Odobert, Davies, Werner, Udogie and Van De Ven all bad hamstrings. This would suggest issues with our medical department and conditioning of the players. A coach will expect players to give 100% on the pitch - it's the MEDICAL teams job to prepare them physically and sign them off fit to play.

I don't buy the argument that our players are getting injured because Ange asks them to run on the pitch. Spurs aren't the first team in football history whose players are expected to run for 90 minutes. For example, teams who play similar styles (Klopp's Liverpool, Bielsa's Leeds) NEVER suffered this level of injuries.

Also, we were dominating possession in all our early season games. 70%+ of the ball vs Newcastle and Woolwich for instance. We weren't spending the game chasing down balls and closing down the opposition. We were in control and dictating the pace of the game.
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Romero did not play against City in that game because he was injured in the Villa game.
 
You may not agree with his posts or his content but Harry7 has everyone on strings in here, the amount of times people have hit the foul button on his posts and he still manages to survive, top work TBH

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