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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
Australia hails Ange, liked this one from broadcaster ABC:

"To some it was a meaningless boast,"

"To others it was a delusional symptom of the failure virus that has infiltrated everything associated with Tottenham for the past two decades or more.

"To Ange Postecoglou, it was belief."

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Billy Bob mate said:
I thought he was gone regardless of last night's result.

Now I'm not so sure.

The way the players talk about him. His claim he prioritised this comp since Feb. The way he stands up for the club and talks about the club.

I'm not so sure I wanna start again with Silva or Parker or Frank.
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I have wanted Ange out for so long and I am not about to tell anyone how to fan... especially if this morning you are running off the adrenaline and euphoria of last night and are wavering. We all hear you... just enjoy and don't worry about Ange. It's Levy's job to be rational...
 
bk_spur said:
We got smoked by prem sides all year long- even with our first choice players available. Why would we do better in the FA cup then? The EL is pretty much the only cup we could have really won based on our form vs other Prem sides NOT named man utd or that were relegated.
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The year before under Ange we came 5th.
It's a tough call - if we get Xavi there is big case.
For Irol , Frank and Glassner - I am not sure it's enough of an upgrade.

The biggest issue is the signings- particularly the front three.
If Ange thinks we can play with a front three like we did yesterday next season - then he should go. Because the football will be turgid.

The biggest fallacy is we play entertaining football - zero shots on target and a scrappy goal is all we produced yesterday - and it was no accident.

I am fairly confident Ange knows this..
But if he c does stay- he won't get more than about six games to improve.
 
Billy Bob mate said:
I thought he was gone regardless of last night's result.

Now I'm not so sure.

The way the players talk about him. His claim he prioritised this comp since Feb. The way he stands up for the club and talks about the club.

I'm not so sure I wanna start again with Silva or Parker or Frank.
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Yes, unless we get a really smart upgrade, which there are no guarantees, remember we finished 5th in his first season. We've all been desperate to get a trophy and we will be grateful for that.

The key thing is the transfer window. All Ange got from Levy in the last year was Solanke (not a prolific scorer), a bunch of kids for the future, and then Danso in January. It wasn't exactly ambitious signings. Now, with CL football, I expect better, so maybe Ange would do better with a better squad, and less injuries.
 
MCSpurs said:
You can't just brutally sack him after basically winning the UEFA Cup. Something kinder, more mutual perhaps, as he's ended by doing us all a favour. When we kept on finishing 3rd, 4th and 5th, everyone, us and other fans, went on about not winning a trophy. Now we have, it shuts up a lot of people. Now it's up to Levy to get his big fat wallet open and push on, like we didn't do for Poch.

Get it done Levy, or move over and let someone else take this club to places.
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:levylol: have you not been watching for the last 25 years... YOU get YOUR wallet open and pay me your season ticket money. Waiting list has risen 4% since last night which gives me the green light to fleece you cunts for another 10 years!!!
Doris... DORIS... where's Son's contract extension? And can you tell Ange, I'm out for the next 3 months, I'll see him in August.
 
I had accepted that we should let Ange go at the end of the season, regardless of last night's result. I had admired his intent when he came here, but had concluded he was not going to deliver for us.

Today, I'm not convinced we should have a parting of the ways. We've had hugely successful managers in the last 17 years who have failed to deliver a trophy for our club. We have enjoyed some great days with some of them, and endured some horrible days with others. The fact is, none of them gave us a what we all got, and felt, last night.

We hadn't won a European trophy for 41 years. We have one now. Our trophy cabinet was empty for 17 years. It's not now. We weren't a winning club. We are now.

We have been Spursy for 17 years. We're not now.

I for one, am walking taller today than I have for a long time.

I think I've convinced myself we should give Ange more time if he wants it.
 
The guy said it since day 1. He wants to change the mentality of the club and turn us into winners.

Not just the club but the fans too.

No idea which of us would have taken 17th and the Europa at the start of the season, im guessing, very few of us.

But we are winners now. And what we do with that is up to us.
 
actually makes me laugh regarding the supporters who want him gone, spurs have been losers for 40 years, finally have someone that wins them a trophy and they want him gone...LMFAO... the problem it seems isnt the manger its the supporters.. sack him and keep losing losers
 
MCSpurs said:
Yes, unless we get a really smart upgrade, which there are no guarantees, remember we finished 5th in his first season. We've all been desperate to get a trophy and we will be grateful for that.

The key thing is the transfer window. All Ange got from Levy in the last year was Solanke (not a prolific scorer), a bunch of kids for the future, and then Danso in January. It wasn't exactly ambitious signings. Now, with CL football, I expect better, so maybe Ange would do better with a better squad, and less injuries.
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Equally important to a few new players, is that we keep our talent, and bulid on further, to get some consistency.

The "kids" are gonna grow tougher and smarter, and we are not that far away to have a great team. VdV, Bergvall, Gray, Udogie and Spence are not only players for the future, but for here and now.

A couple of real upgrades in MF and attack, will probably see us back in the top of PL.
 
flop said:
actually makes me laugh regarding the supporters who want him gone, spurs have been losers for 40 years, finally have someone that wins them a trophy and they want him gone...LMFAO... the problem it seems isnt the manger its the supporters.. sack him and keep losing losers
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There are still more reasons to sack him than keep him. Roberto Di Matteo won the CL with Chelski with all the luck going Chelski's way but his lack of head-coaching abilities soon got exposed.
Yes, I am happy Spurs won this trophy but, let's be honest: it was a shit show of a game and Spurs won because they played a equally shitty team. Yes, teams like Inter have won important games, too, by playing shitty football but at least they know how to counter attack. Spurs had basically 0goal threat last night - and scored due to a lucky bounce off Shaw's arm.
In the CL next season for sure Spurs' flaws will be exposed.
In the EPL Spurs have lost a record 21 games (1 game still remaining) and played really poor even when having the players back.
And after sticking to his possession bases systems for 2 seasons. Angelos first now realized that Spurs needs to play defense as well to win games.
All credit to Angelos for being part of Spurs' winning this trophy but I doubt he's the man to bring Spurs forward.
But, then again, Spurs ain't an easy team to manage.
 
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Pathfinder said:
There are still more reasons to sack him than keep him. Roberto Di Matteo won the CL with Chelski with all the luck going Chelski's way but his lack of head-coaching abilities soon got exposed.
Yes, I am happy Spurs won this trophy but, let's be honest: it was a shit show of a game and Spurs won because they played a equally shitty team. Yes, teams like Inter have won important games, too, by playing shitty football but at least they know how to counter attack. Spurs had basically 0goal threat last night - and scored due to a lucky bounce off Shaw's arm.
In the CL next season for sure Spurs' flaws will be exposed.
In the EPL Spurs have lost a record 21 games (1 game still remaining) and played really poor even when having the players back.
And after sticking to his possession bases systems for 2 seasons. Angelos first now realized that Spurs needs to play defense as well to win games.
All credit to Angelos for being part of Spurs' winning this trophy but I doubt he's the man to bring Spurs forward.
But, then again, Spurs ain't an easy team to manage.
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We were missing all of our creatively minded midfielders.

Context.
 
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You clowns know what to do, shut up and sign the form.

Don't bother replying to this post, just take the L and keep it moving

Cheers love you all xx
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Shadydan said:
I think we're legit gonna lose the rest of our matches, shocking state of affairs.
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The human centipede predicted this just last month.


Edit ...Fair play he included himself In that list.
 
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The league form is a huge concern but there is something special and unique about Ange.

How he was able to motivate that group of players to win in Frankfurt and win lastnight is some achievement. Given everything that has gone wrong this season, he was still able to get them to all fight like dogs when it mattered.

He has broken all barriers. He has got a massive monkey off our back. Whatever happens now, I'll always be thankful we hired Ange Postecoglou and will forever be grateful to him!
 
"I think when we got to the end of January - the end of the transfer window and assessed our situation - I made a decision there and then that this was the trophy we were going to go for.
It was at odds with what other people believed at the time we should do and that's understandable but I really believed we could win this.
Everything we've done since then, everything we've done in training and the teams I've selected were making sure that when these games came around that we were in the best possible position to tackle them.
That has come at a cost for sure in the league and I have to take responsibility for that, but I just felt the end game of winning something was more important to me and it's the only way that I was going to do it."

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