Management Ange Postecoglou

[glacierSpurs]

I've never been fully in on the Paratici train but if he makes that decision I'll love and respect him for life.

A thank you note and a bullet to the head. Mafioso style, no being clouded by emotions.

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Wow. What pathetic shit. Ange just won us the Europa title, 41 years since we won one and 17 years since we last won a silverware, and you were bashing him and downplaying the achievement non-stop.

Yet you could adore Paratici for life just because he could sack Ange, despite the credentials above? Get your shit together and maintain some respect, not just for Ange, but at least for our club - you are making the club and the board to be such small-time pricks. Levy and Co are hated much, but they are still much bigger than that.

You have embarrassed yourself enough before the final. Stick your hatred for Ange elsewhere in the multiverse and stop tainting posters here and our club with such toxic agenda.

 

[Slav]

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1kt42ly/south_melbourne_fcs_tribute_to_ange_postecoglou/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Sweet tribute video put together by South Melbourne FC, a club founded by Greek immigrants. Bloke had a banger in his locker.

As far as his tenure goes, I think the Europa win is a fitting end to his time here. For someone who evokes such passion and respect for the game, I've felt little of that in watching many of our performances under Ange. The league form has been inexcusably poor: disorganised, predictable, and often mundane. Adaptations to game state, such as substitutions, have been baffling. And his cobbled-together backroom staff (Chris Davies aside) was a massive red flag too.

Perhaps there's something to be said for the state of Prem football, too, for its lack of flair and instinct. Most games are such a dull and rudimentary watch now.

Shed a tear or 50 over the last 24h, tho, and for that I'll always be grateful to Ange. You bloody went and did it.

 

[Richard Arlison]

Bodo would be relegated, Alkmaar probably too. Frankfurt would be battling with Fulham and Brighton, they were a decent scalp as we've struggled against that calibre of side in the league all year long. You can track this stuff pretty easily just looking at wage/transfer budgets. Frankfurt's is just over half that of Bournemouth, you can add "tax" on to that as premier league sides pay more for the same quality due to their wealth, but it paints a picture.

When it comes to the CL the gap is much smaller as Bayern, Madrid etc are all independently incredibly wealthy. But when we get to mid-table or even bottom half Prem clubs, these are equivalent in quality across the board to the top 4/6 of Europe mostly. There are some exceptions - last year Leverkusen vs Atalanta was a genuinely quality match up - but this was not a quality year.

The issue is that generally Prem clubs in Europe fall in to a trap of fighting on all fronts. From the knockouts its clear we made it our everything, and quality wise we smoke Bodo, AZ etc by many levels. So it was just about getting past Frankfurt and beating United in a final. Which they did, job done.

Conference league wise its so laughable it isn't even funny. Chelsea can play their entire 2nd or even 3rd string and win 4-0 - prem clubs shouldn't be allowed in it.

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Frankfurt are in the CL next year LoL

 

[speedwagon]

It blows my mind that some fans are still questioning Ange.


He didn’t chase the sugar hit of a few league wins to save his job — he risked it all to deliver a trophy. And he delivered. That’s 8 wins from 9 finals. A proven winner.


Yes, we finished 17th. But context matters. The club was hammered by injuries from December onwards — and crucially, they didn’t back him with proper depth. We had Archie Gray, a midfielder, playing at centre-back. Ange turned it into a development masterclass. Gray stepped up. Spence made big strides. Bergvall became a serious player. By the end, even Odebert looked like a weapon.


Then, when key players were fit again, Ange didn’t take shortcuts. He could have thrown Van de Ven and Romero back in between February and May. That probably nets us 15 extra points and a much stronger league finish. No injury crisis at all? We’re likely 10 points better off — easily top 5, maybe higher.


But he didn’t go for the safe option. He kept his eye on the big prize — and won it.


Looking ahead, it’s simple: without serious investment in the squad, next season will be brutal no matter who’s in charge. Balancing midweek and weekend football isn’t possible with Danso, Werner, Reguilón, and a bunch of kids as your “depth.”


Let’s be honest — it shouldn’t be Spurs thinking about sacking Ange. Ange should sack Spurs. He deserves a club that gives him the tools to match the expectations placed on him. He’s proven he’s capable. But he can’t carry this club!!

 

[Smogz]

No offence mate but your agenda is boring, I've been a long time lurker of this forum and i've decided to sign up and post tonight solely because I'm sick of you stinking up this thread with your arrogant negativity.

You don't rate the Europa league and you never have, you've been downplaying our European run for months in this thread and I'm convinced you haven't even celebrated our greatest night in 17 years because all of your posts have been about how we only faced rubbish opposition.

The fact is Ange has won a major European trophy and in 40 years time nobody will give a damn that we finished `17th in the league, he won us our first trophy in 17 years and our first European trophy in 41 years, all the years of mockery from our rivals ended as soon as we lifted that trophy. That achievement of winning a trophy and securing champions league football + bragging rights over our rivals is superior to securing champions league football and winning no trophies.

There are also 2 mitigating circumstances that you refuse to acknowledge. The first is how many managers would recover from losing one of the best players of all time (Kane) in their first season of managing the club, a player that our whole club had been built around, not to mention losing an inform Son .. not many managers would recover from this. Can you imagine Poch Conte and Mourinho without Kane?

Secondly.. October to December we were decimated with injuries and from January to may Ange clearly calculated that winning the league was out of the equation and we needed to win a trophy so he put all his eggs into the European basket and the players clearly bought into that vision as well. They took a risk and it paid off massively but this whole lost 21 games nonsense doesn't even take into account that simple fact that the players didn't give a damn about winning a few pointless premier league games when the European trophy was there to be captured.
I refuse to hold that decision against the gaffer because it paid off.. He deserves the chance to bring in quality players and build a legacy, he is the man to take us forward and I fully believe that. I don't like the fact that you and other posters on here almost bully people who dare to hold this opinion.

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So you want Ange to stay, I guess. Do you see any progress during his time at the club? He won a title, yes. I can accept and love that, but I don't know if it was thanks to Ange or despite of him. Of course he's spinning the "Given up the league, going for the title" story. Strangely, he never mentioned it until after the final.

I think he's a shit manager and as close to Donald Trump personality as you can get.

In two seasons he hasn't been able to install the smallest resemblance of a style of play that is effective in the league. And in the winning run in the Europa League, he had to revert to Mourinho-ball in order to win. Will he ditch the positive playing style next season and become the Australian Mouringho? Because clearly his preferred style of play doesn't work. 21 league losses, and counting in one season is the worst record in Tottenham history,

I think it's time for a change. Replace him now or after the last game, hopefully in a few days time we can have some new hope and keep building on the squad change. Hopefully not only with 19 year old prospects.

 

[SpurFromOz]

The modern fan hey? / I’ve been invested in this club for over 50 years many highs and many lows being in Bilbao with my sons is right up there with the highest of the highs - whatever the standard whatever the opposition we won the Europa league and I was there and thank you Ange you delivered what so called elite managers poch conte and mourinho couldn’t do I will be forever grateful cheers mate

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Well said mate.

in the players pressers yesterday, all of the ones interviewed in their own way referred to the Spursy tag hopefully shutting a few up. Danso, Mickey, Vic in particular.

Lifting that cup meant the world to them and millions around the globe.

 

[harry7]

Bodo would be relegated

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Would you say the same about Porto? How about Besiktas? Tewnte? Olympiakos? Lazio? Bodo beat them all on the way to the Semi Final.

Premier League fans have a weird superiority complex - just because they have the most money. That doesn't go well to explain why in the last 41 years, since Spurs won it - English have won it 4 times (Liverpool, Chelsea x 2, United).

 

[Hrytn]

I agree that I don’t think it is easy to win any competition but why is our position in the league false?

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We have better players than teams above us.

 

[Pirate217]

Bodo away was the arguably the most impressive win of the campaign, they have a formidable home record, everyone that goes there struggles as the match descends into ice hockey essentially, we went there and brushed them aside with minimal fuss. You could say since Frankfurt the team was really locked in for the remainder of the tournament, Ange got it tactically right all the way to the end.

 

[Frankfurter]

Frankfurt are in the CL next great LoL

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[1chriswaddle]

That magical evening in Bilbao is one of the greatest nights I’ve experienced in over fifty years of following Tottenham. We are staying in Santander and bumped into many fellow Spurs yesterday. The general feeling on the ground appears to be that, having won the trophy, Ange should be allowed to continue. Imo this would be a massive mistake, we follow the team home and away and they really do look like an extremely poorly coached side. I can’t see that changing if Ange is allowed to stay.
But whatever transpires we will continue to be right behind the team at all times.COYS.

 

[Richard Arlison]

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Nah I’m happy they are.

I was replying to to WUMteurz about it being easy to win the EL because everyone was shit.

 

[Frankfurter]

Would you say the same about Porto? How about Besiktas? Tewnte? Olympiakos? Lazio? Bodo beat them all on the way to the Semi Final.

Premier League fans have a weird superiority complex - just because they have the most money. That doesn't go well to explain why in the last 41 years, since Spurs won it - English have won it 4 times (Liverpool, Chelsea x 2, United).

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Thank you for your contribution!

In Germany, they say, "Money alone doesn't buy happiness!"

Bundesliga clubs like Eintracht Frankfurt will only achieve the wealth of Premier League clubs through multiple bank robberies.
Apart from Hoffenheim (billionaire's toy), Leipzig (drink snot), Leverkusen (pharmaceutical company), and Wolfsburg (VW), all other clubs are without an investor.
This is because, in principle, registered clubs must have the majority (Leipzig bought the license from a small village club and, with billions in reserve, gradually won the leagues – which is why these "plastic clubs" are so hated by the vast majority!).

We, Eintracht, burned through endless amounts of money.
Only in 2003 – just hours before the license was revoked – did we get a new CEO, Heribert Bruchhagen, who ruled with an iron fist.
It's thanks to his work and the work of his successors (Fredy Bobic and now Markus Krösche) that we still exist in this form.
We generate our income from ticket sales, fan merchandise, television revenue, advertising partners, and transfer revenue.

Since 2003, Eintracht Frankfurt has operated reliably and financially excellently, and after several relegations and promotions, we have worked our way to where we are now.

Anyone with football knowledge can find us ridiculous as opponents.
That would be the same mistake United made, but I wouldn't care.
Nobody had any faith in us until 2018. We won the DFB Cup against Bayern Munich 3-1, after only being runners-up in the 2017 final.

In my opinion, the Financial Fair Play rule will never be enforceable if investors have the say in the clubs.
The rule won't change, but I'm still an advocate of "50+1."

 

[Frankfurter]

Nah I’m happy they are.

I was replying to to WUMteurz about it being easy to win the EL because everyone was shit.

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[Frankfurter]

Nah I’m happy they are.

I was replying to to WUMteurz about it being easy to win the EL because everyone was shit.

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Winning the European Championship is something very special!

Especially after the setbacks this season, which in my opinion are largely due to the many injured players, winning the European Championship becomes even more significant than it already is!

All opponents – without exception – showed that they are "worthy representatives of their association"!
Small, seemingly insignificant clubs like Bodo are absolutely respectable clubs in my opinion! What an achievement to play like that against much wealthier clubs and to be able to show what this club is capable of.

The victory in the European Championship is indescribable! It shows the strength of "us," it shows that this team is alive, that it is truly a team!
The fact that "we" won the cup isn't because United were so bad, but because Tottenham Hotspur FC made it clear what this team is capable of!
Tottenham were the better team and deserved to win this tough European Championship!

Hats off! And this non-stop!

 

[Engorged Onion]

So you want Ange to stay, I guess. Do you see any progress during his time at the club? He won a title, yes. I can accept that, but I don't know if it was thanks to Ange or despite of him. Of course he's spinning the "Given up the league, going for the title" story. Strangely, he never mentioned it until after the final.

I think he's a shit manager and as close to Donald Trump personality as you can get.

In two seasons he hasn't been able to install the smallest resemblance of a style of play that is effective in the league. And in the winning run in the Europa League, he had to revert to Mourinho-ball in order to win. Will he ditch the positive playing style next season and become the Australian Mouringho? Because clearly his preferred style of play doesn't work. 21 league losses, and counting in one season is the worst record in Tottenham history,

I think it's time for a change. Replace him now or after the last game, hopefully in a few days time we can have some new hope and keep building on the squad change. Hopefully not only with 19 year old prospects.

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Numerous reasons to not mention it - least of all the betting companies...

 

[dudu]

Only on spurs forums can you have the same posters who shit on the club for not winning trophies and then callour trophy just 'a moment'.

Some of you have serious issues - no one is saying Ange is now pep fucking guardiola.

Facts are Facts - he did something most managers, if not every manager we have actually liked the last 20+ years, has not managed to do. Win something. It's what you wanted. It's what you complain about when it suits your narrative, and now its happened, the narrative has shifted into defensive mode where you try to take away a feeling from others because you are incapable of holding onto a feeling of joy for longer that 2 hours if it doesnt involve you being right about something.

I said it before the game, ill say it again - pathetic, loser mentality.

 

[dudu]

I don't know why people get upset about saying that we had a fairly easy run to win the trophy. We played an average Frankfurt, Bodo fucking Glimt (wtf are they?) and the worst United side in living memory.

It takes nothing away from our glory, or success. But it seems some can't look at things objectively.

Obviously nobody cares who we played to win it, and nor should we/they. All that matters is history saying Europa League Winners 2025 Tottenham Hotspur

But when it comes to assessing the manager, this stuff does matter. I am not sure why some people say those 3 wins are enough to keep a manager, over a horrendous 38 game PL season.

Ange did great in the Europa, that's fantastic, but we won't be in that competition next season. We will however still be in the PL, and he's been utter shit in that.

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He wasnt as shit the previous year though, and ultimately, if he is building something - if this could be springboard and he is actually changing the mentality of the club and giving us the mindset to get over the line then that counts for something.

I don't think he should stay personally, and I hope that the mentality he has instilled in our players remains, but let's be honest - it's a tough decision for the club

 

[Shadydan]

We're not winning it, mate. The whole loser mentality built up around the club means United's name is already on the trophy.

They'll be more up for the fight and more determined to secure CL football whereas Levy will worry about the increased expectations CL football brings with a summer transfer window looming around the corner.

He'll, man....the club has already started celebrating reaching the final as some kind of achievement

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Anyone seen this dickhead?

 

[dustybin]

Perhaps he needs a fresh coaching team. Mason and the rest are bang average.
A reset there might see an uptick in week to week form.
A new manager would almost certainly have a sweeping brush to that lot and half the medical team.

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think so too, Ange is a motivator, he’s not an X’s and 0’s type. He needs real top class coaches to implement what he wants to see, as this ain’t it. Can’t see him clearing them all out though, he seems like he’d be loyal to them. Appreciate what he’s done this week but we still look like a badly coached team and I don’t see that changing next year without, without something changing