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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
A cunt off after winning a majority trophy is ultra peak TFC.

Carry on.

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Agreed.

If you look at the most objective assessment of the teams - UEFA coefficient (for all its weaknesses - or any other sensible assessment of teams' strength, then you'll have more hard games to come runner up in CL than to win EL. But winning the EL IMO is the third best thing we can do in club football. Behind obviously the CL and PL.
JDefoe said:
Reaching a CL Final is a tougher job to do, but it is not a bigger achievement.
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Richard Arlison said:
We’ve won the biggest trophy we’ve ever won in the club’s history.

Granted for the third time, but still the first time in 40 years.

We’ve had better teams that didn’t win anything this big but as the scum are finding out today, you don’t get trophies for being the better team.

Just enjoy it. We’ve been laughed at for not winning shit, who gives a fuck what people think about us when we have won something
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I'd say the Div One league title is bigger to be fair. But second biggest, yes. For sure.
 
Aussie Yid in London said:
I'm absolutely biased, but think it would be arguably the worst decision the club has made in a while to let him go.

Yes, the league season has been atrocious, but if (which I believe to be true) Ange did throw it all at the Europa from January onwards due to injuries and a lack of the signings he wanted, then he's done a spectacular job. For me - his legacy overshadows Poch, from the pure pedigree of what he has won. Poch's football was brilliant to watch, but we never got over the line. Ange has gotten us over the line in a major European competition with a worse squad than Poch had. You can make all the arguments of "if he focused on cups" etc., but the reality is that Poch didn't focus on those cups, and hypotheticals are just that.

Most importantly, Ange has now instilled a belief in this club and players which was fundamentally missing - they are winners. They have been winners. They can be winners.

With fit players, backing in the positions that he needs, he is absolutely the right manager for us going forward.
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Bollox..
 
We beat City
Deuterz said:
Newcastle beat Liverpool and other good prem teams and Palace beat Man City and Villa. Not comparable.

But anyway, there’s no point in bringing up facts .. I knew what would happen as soon as we won this and I know what’s coming next. Facts for now won’t matter - it’s all about optics.
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We beat City and United in our Carabao run and beat Liverpool first leg so is that harder than our EL run?

What's that worth? 0.8 of a trophy?

I think I'm getting the hang of this, going to go back through the annals of football history and put an asterix against anyone who ever had an easy cup run. I think one of Liverpools five champions leagues was against Hamburg so that's getting asterixed for sure
 
Allejo10 said:
No no no and no, we need a proper manager. This trophy was tottaly out of the blue, we got tô the final playing horrible football in some matches, with a bit of luck and thanks to a very good squad that Ange managed to finish 17th in the Premier. Nothing suggests he deserves another chance, football didn't improve under him since he arrived and we are unwatchable most of the time. Also UCL is a Very different challenge.
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You have to be trolling. He's just won our first European trophy since 1984 - that's 41 years! The guy rightfully deserves a whole other season of serving us up the same crap football if he pleases - we've just won a major trophy, whether it was done in style or not, is irrelevant - we're European Champions. Enjoy the moment!!!
 
imitationleather said:
The League Cup shouldn't even really exist. Other countries don't have it

(I will obviously change my tune if we win it next season)
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Some countries do have it, some don't. Some (like Germany) take their Charity Shield thing more seriously. It's ok. It's another pot. I'd like to win it, but would far rather win the EL to that or the FA Cup tbh. Somehow the FA Cup at the new Wembley isn't as special.
 
Deuterz said:
We're basically doing what we laughed at West Ham fans for, tbh. We're not champions of Europe, we're europa league champions.

And no, we didn't. Not one team we beat make it out the CL league stage - this is a fact.

Enjoy the win without making it about how amazing Ange is by pretending we've achieved something we just haven't - it isn't fucking hard. Nice one Ange, now go so we can try to get back to duking it out with Madrid in the CL instead of Bodo Glimt. Sorry.
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Reading this....it's just pathetic. Your football team...has just won a major European trophy for the first time in roughly 41 years....and your main focus is not to celebrate and be joyful....but instead play it down and undermine the achievement.

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Bazali said:
I thought I had explained my post but will do again

I was simply disagreeing with your point that NO football fan was jealous of us getting to the CL final

Plenty were

I don’t disagree that of course it’s better for Sonny to pick up a winners medal last night than a runners up medal in 2019 but the CL is a far superior tournament
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Ok agree - i was never meant to be saying that they weren't jealous of the final!
 
manmountainbutters said:
Some countries do have it, some don't. Some (like Germany) take their Charity Shield thing more seriously. It's ok. It's another pot. I'd like to win it, but would far rather win the EL to that or the FA Cup tbh. Somehow the FA Cup at the new Wembley isn't as special.
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eufa cup without a doubt, if cant win the league or the CL. the eufa cup has serious history in football. fair enough its been watered down a lot, but its still the same piece of hardware.
 
I said just after Christmas that the EL really was last chance saloon. When Spurs go out, Ange goes out.

Well last night they went out. Went out last man standing and hauling the gold. The only way one can successfully leave last chance saloon.

Congratulations to all involved! I'm so fucking happy today.

I can only imagine what those that have only ever known Spurs their whole life would be feeling.
 
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