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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
Fair fucks for last night, pulled a number on them and credit where its due. Ironically playing totally Mourinho/Conte football but it worked so who cares. He deserves the next few days to be smug if he wants.

Still needs to go though. We just hardly ever beat good sides, check our record against last seasons and this seasons top 10. You cant take that into the CL and we've seen he struggles with more than 1 competition at a time. It would be a disaster and we' d be scrambling around in October for someone. Whatever happens a decision needs to be quick, like Monday or Tuesday next week. We cant afford to drag it out like Utd and Ten Hag last summer. This is a golden opportunity to be a really serious club again and we cant throw it away because of sentiment.
 
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TonySoprano said:
Yeh let him start the season. He’s getting sacked when it goes pear shaped. He can’t blag another year and despite what people think the trophy glory does wear off.

Respectfully part ways, his work is done. That’s what should happen.

But it probably won’t.
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Not after Ange has brought home the bacon. Say a new guy gets off to a sticky start ... he would be under massive pressure after about a month. I think it is more like a binary choice now ... either Levy pulls the trigger or Ange gets next season.
 
He got us a cup, in to the Champions League and the super cup final.

With his 100% record in finals for us I think he should be in charge for the super cup, which in turn means going in to next season.

League form will improve but football, as we so often hear during our drought, is about trophies.
 
PatagoniaPhil said:
Its very difficult to get rid of him. The players like him. Hes won our biggest trophy in 40 years.

Hes also showed he can change his tactics on the night. 5 at the back, low block etc...

He deserves another summer. We probably will regret it, but I think we owe him that.
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give him 10 games.... then sack him?

2 Major Achievement
* Won second highest competition/trophy in Europe
* Won the battle against Relegation
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TonySoprano said:
Yeh let him start the season. He’s getting sacked when it goes pear shaped. He can’t blag another year and despite what people think the trophy glory does wear off.

Respectfully part ways, his work is done. That’s what should happen.

But it probably won’t.
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Look, I agree about parting ways - it's probably the best thing to do - I just wonder how the players actually feel they look like they will still run through walls for him and the younger ones especially, seem enamoured.

None of us knows what goes on behind closed doors and what has been said.

The only scenario I can see him staying is if he and Levy had a convo earlier in the year where Ange tells him I'm winning you this cup - forget the league, we need to win a cup and this is the one.

It doesnt excuse the performances, and Levy himself has copped a lot of flak because of how bad we have been - and would probably feel pretty justified in pulling the trigger - but there's also probably a reason why he is still here.

Neither outcome would massively surprise me. What a weird position to be in.
 
Kaz Hirai said:
i noticed last night and still this morning that a few of them have gone into hiding instead of celebrating here. Couldnt wait to post whenever we lose but nope, strangely quiet now. fair play to a few like The Extra Mile(sey) The Extra Mile(sey) etc

but a couple of the others, Fucking gooners as i always thought.
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To not glory in last night with full bloom in preference to being able to lambast ENIC or Postecoglou makes a mockery of being a Spurs fan.

In the same way people backed Kane's move to seek glory elsewhere.

Fcuk that sh!t.
 
Agree with others that it would be crazy to sack Ange now after he delivered our biggest trophy in decades and got us back into the Champions League

He needs to start the season as our manager, it's well deserved, but he also needs to show he can adapt. He played Mourinho football yesterday, he went to a back 3 when needed - that's the type of stuff we wanted to see when the season was going to shit. Just to grind results out when the expansive way wasn't working. I'm hoping he's got past his stubbornness.

If he can keep that tactical adaptability whilst adding some of the flair football he can produce with a full team, we might just do ok in the League next season - all depends on big Ange.

Personally, I liked the 3 at the back yesterday. Our fullbacks are probably better at wingback, when everyone is fit, we have some decent CBs (including a couple of young ones coming through) and it removes our weakest point, which is our wingers
 
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Darnswim 🇦🇱 said:
He achieved something beyond his capabilities and capacities. He should leave now as a hero, so we can push on to the next level. He’ll be remembered fondly, because he won a European trophy, because he took over a job nobody wanted after Kane left, because he took the scared approach out of the deep roots of this team, instilled by Conte, and because he brought some insanely good talent for us to have for years to come in Bergvall, Van De Ven, Gray, Sarr etc.
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So what you're saying is... he's a fucking genius?

Beyond his capabilities and capacities? Are you for real?

No-one gets through the long, long grind of a Europa campaign without having massive capability. You guys have one of the world's great managers and should be begging him to stay. He's built a very young squad who now have a taste of success. Despite an injury list that would cripple any club he's somehow triumphed. He's got Champion's league next year and at least 130 mill pounds flowing into the coffers.

And on top of all that the players want him to stay.

Has it occurred to you that if Ange leaves, there will be less top quality players interested in joining the Spurs journey next year?

FMD... you don't deserve him.
 
Kaz Hirai said:
i noticed last night and still this morning that a few of them have gone into hiding instead of celebrating here. Couldnt wait to post whenever we lose but nope, strangely quiet now. fair play to a few like The Extra Mile(sey) The Extra Mile(sey) etc

but a couple of the others, Fucking gooners as i always thought.
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Always had the same suspicion about certain accounts. They just embrace any misery and always knock the club, manager and players. I have no problem with the ones who do that but then celebrate wins and are delighted players or manager proved them wrong.

But the ones who hide during wins but are on here all day writing paragraphs after a defeat are just pathetic. They can't honestly be fans. I don't believe it and never will.
 
Kaz Hirai said:
i noticed last night and still this morning that a few of them have gone into hiding instead of celebrating here. Couldnt wait to post whenever we lose but nope, strangely quiet now. fair play to a few like The Extra Mile(sey) The Extra Mile(sey) etc

but a couple of the others, Fucking gooners as i always thought.
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Doomy is my guy, he gives as much as he takes :ledleylick:
 
It’s fantastic how much pressure last night puts on Levy now. Some will see it as he’s probably thinking “we’ve won something finally and it’s a big one, pressure is off” but I honestly think it’s the opposite.

He’s got a choice to make now and it’s a massive one and it again puts the eyes on him, he can go big and say we’ve won something and now we need to push on with someone who can achieve something both in cups AND the league and go and get a manager we’ll set up to do that.

Or he can keep Ange at this point, but if he does that (and I’ve said where I stand on it) then he simply has to fully him. He can’t keep Ange and just sort of let him muddle on with what he’s got, if he’s making that choice to keep him in place then he really has to let him have the keys and build what he’s wants because how can he not after last night?

Don’t get me wrong he needs to back whoever the manager is, but I feel we could improve solely with a manager change, but it depends on how big he wants that improvement to be.

That’s a tough decision for him and honestly I think more eyes are on him now, I don’t think k he’s in a place where the focus comes off of him because we finally got one over the line. His next decision is, for me, his biggest yet in terms of his ambition level.
 
I suppose he's earned a shot at the Super Cup and the start of next season. However I've seen nothing to suggest progress had been made, or thay Surs are 3 or 4 quality players away from being a great side.

Being in the CL will help to attract better players, as will the fact that the players seem to love him.

So give him the Super Cup the pre season and IMO the first 5 games. I think 10 is too many if it's not working out.

5 league games should be enough time to see if Spurs are improving, but not enough to be seriously harmful if it's not going well.
 
Don Pedro said:
Always had the same suspicion about certain accounts. They just embrace any misery and always knock the club, manager and players. I have no problem with the ones who do that but then celebrate wins and are delighted players or manager proved them wrong.

But the ones who hide during wins but are on here all day writing paragraphs after a defeat are just pathetic. They can't honestly be fans. I don't believe it and never will.
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This thread is smelling of roses today, it's a much better place without the stench from the usuals giving the personal abuse and talking down anyone who dares to say something positive about the manager 😎
 
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