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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
someone find one quote where ange takes personal responsibility for the results on the pitch ever. something along the lines of, 'i got it wrong' or 'we got the tactics wrong' or 'i shouldn't have played this player'. i won't hold my breath.
The only thing that I can remember is when he said something like how it was his responsibility to fix the club. Which isn't even what you were talking about but it does paint the picture of when things work it is because of him, and when it doesn't because of X amount of external factors.
 
Cmon guys what are we doing here??

I've made it clear what I think of him and thought there was ZERO chance he could land a trophy but he did it and did it tweaking his tactics.

The man (when we all thought was deluded and spoke absolute bollocks) stated he would win us a trophy and he did. If someone talks shit but actually backs his talk then how can you even hate?

He's saying now he knows what mistakes we made in the window last summer and we need experience now. I'm not a hater by nature, if someone (even if I completley dislike the person) says something and actually delivers then I mean, I tend to Start believing that ok there's substance behind this.
Brother you are way smarter than this. Give your head a wobble.
 
I can totally get why the players love him, he does seem to be good at the motivational speeches. I get that. It's just most of the time on the pitch though they just don't look like they know what to do or how.

I can see they'd be willing to run through walls for him, but it's just not enough on its own is it?

Doing something utterly shit but doing it at 100mph doesn't make it better.

The players feelings are a consideration of course, but it doesn't trump losing 58% of our matches in a league season.

The majority of footballers are unbelievably thick and easy to con. They want two things. to play and to be well paid. If they get both they love it.
 
Tbf I've been celebrating since Wednesday night so it's been wobbling enough lol.
You support Spurs you have every right to enjoy it. I'm never forgetting it. But he's a clueless manager horribly out of his depth haven't seen a thing to change my mind about it. Unlike the Dudu talkers who are in his personality cult I've seen us win trophies under joke coaches before, it's not as unique as they want you to think Graham, Ramos , no one at Spurs recalls them fondly. Ange will be just as soon forgotten. Chavs don't sing for Demateo and he won them a ECL.

Happily I think he's gone and hopefully he takes the cult off to Olympiakos with him. He's mugged off no one with an actual brain about EPL level football.
 
Cmon guys what are we doing here??

I've made it clear what I think of him and thought there was ZERO chance he could land a trophy but he did it and did it tweaking his tactics.

The man (when we all thought was deluded and spoke absolute bollocks) stated he would win us a trophy and he did. If someone talks shit but actually backs his talk then how can you even hate?

He's saying now he knows what mistakes we made in the window last summer and we need experience now. I'm not a hater by nature, if someone (even if I completley dislike the person) says something and actually delivers then I mean, I tend to Start believing that ok there's substance behind this.

We finished 17th?? On 38 points ?????

Fuck me he’s not a prophet because he predicted we would win something and we did. He threw the rest of the season away to focus hard on what he knew was by far the easiest thing to win because the calibre of opposition is incredibly low compared to the Prem.

‘Delivers’ - guy won a trophy but football has been shocking for a year and a half and we’ve seen our worst league season in forever. He hasn’t delivered shit. The EL win gets him a thank you and a goodbye cheque.
 
Lol you guys....

You all called him a fraud, layed into him for months and he completely mugged you all off.

So funny watching you seethe.

The guy proved you all wrong as much as he did right.

Goes, stays, whatever, he gave you a european trophy and you couldn't even give it 5 days to allow others to still enjoy it... some of you couldn't give it 2 days.

38 points you dimwit. Mugged us off?

Well done him for masterminding a win over the biggest shitshow United team in history. Let’s all kiss his feet.

He’s shite, his fans are shitebags, and he needs to go.
 
I've always believed that Ange, the -superficially- charming person that he is, has Levy under his spell. He doesn't treat him the same way that he treated his previous managers.
I agree with this, except that I think it has far less to do with Levy just having a fetish for an Australian accent, and far more to do with the magic by which Ange turned players like Hojbjerg, Lo Celso and Spence from write-off liabilities into assets.

The Levy ideology, boiled down to its essence, is that transfer market expenditure does not create squad value, management (inclusive of scouting and recruitment and the like) creates squad value. All of the million different Levy projects have been just the newest re-branding of that same core idea, that you can be a top club without spending like one if your leadership is clever and shrewd enough.

I think Levy trusts Ange with his money, which was the critical failure in his relationship with Poch and has been a persistent thorn in his side for his entire chairmanship. He's always felt his managers were horribly wasteful with the resources they were given (not unjustifiably!) and so he really wants this to work.

We finished 17th?? On 38 points ?????

Fuck me he’s not a prophet because he predicted we would win something and we did. He threw the rest of the season away to focus hard on what he knew was by far the easiest thing to win because the calibre of opposition is incredibly low compared to the Prem.

‘Delivers’ - guy won a trophy but football has been shocking for a year and a half and we’ve seen our worst league season in forever. He hasn’t delivered shit. The EL win gets him a thank you and a goodbye cheque.
Sacrificing everything to break our trophy drought was the right thing to do even if Ange is a out-of-his-depth lightweight who needs to go.

The club is in a MUCH better position today than it would have been if we'd finished 5th with the trophy drought ongoing.

And one of the benefits of that is that the options to replace Ange are now better than they would have been.
 
‘mistakes in the window’ is just blaming the players and the board. and i didn’t see any plan with his new sitting deep strategy. just two lines of 5 with a bunch of headless chickens
Tbf he blamed himself in that as well.

It's clear the mistakes were he wanted us to focus on signing younger players and we did that. He believed younger players were quicker to adopting to the system and whilst that's true he failed to understand (or fully appreciate) that there is a humongous downside to only focusing on young players as evidenced this season.

"headless chickens" hmmmm yeh ok mate I don't agree. We deserved the wins against Bodo, Frankfurt and United...they did the square root of fuck all. Mourinho won the league with Chavksi doing this exact thing where he limited the opposition to next to nothing whilst grabbing a goal or two.

I'm not Ange in btw. I would prefer we got one of Xavi, Glasner or Emery now with us winning something and getting into the CL but this hater nature by a lot is over the top ffs. He won us a cup after telling us he would and is still getting pelter. Same with Johnson, scoring 18 goals from a wide position and still getting "yeh but blah blah". I hate that kind of mentality irrespective of who it's directed at (Johnson who I rate, Ange who I don't rate).
 
You support Spurs you have every right to enjoy it. I'm never forgetting it. But he's a clueless manager horribly out of his depth haven't seen a thing to change my mind about it. Unlike the Dudu talkers who are in his personality cult I've seen us win trophies under joke coaches before, it's not as unique as they want you to think Graham, Ramos , no one at Spurs recalls them fondly. Ange will be just as soon forgotten. Chavs don't sing for Demateo and he won them a ECL.

Happily I think he's gone and hopefully he takes the cult off to Olympiakos with him. He's mugged off no one with an actual brain about EPL level football.
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We finished 17th?? On 38 points ?????

Fuck me he’s not a prophet because he predicted we would win something and we did. He threw the rest of the season away to focus hard on what he knew was by far the easiest thing to win because the calibre of opposition is incredibly low compared to the Prem.

‘Delivers’ - guy won a trophy but football has been shocking for a year and a half and we’ve seen our worst league season in forever. He hasn’t delivered shit. The EL win gets him a thank you and a goodbye cheque.
omg.
 
The bad far outweighs the good. The problem is we so rarely win a trophy our fans can’t be objective.

If Woolwich or Chavs had this exact same season we’d be fucking slaughtering them for even considering keeping a manager with this record over 2 years. But when it’s us, we think oh Ange won a trophy, it’s such a fucking miracle let’s ignore the evidence and keep him.

Chavs have owners who will spend and buy players until shit sticks.

Woolwich have ambitious owners.

We have ENIC. A property company with a football club attached to it. Perhaps this is the only winning model under them, throw the league and everything to win a cup.

We saw under Poch even when it all comes together the club will pull the rug. This makes supporters attitudes different to Chavs and Arse. It’s all just a compromise.

If we get a better manager. Let’s say Poch comes back, 2 seasons we fix the squad and are back in top 4, will we push on or will we just sit under the same glass ceiling. An EL or an FA cup and fucking the league it’s doable. Going for the CL or Prem requires a miracle.

Maybe there was some luck for this but Ange probably made the calculation this is the only way.
 
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You support Spurs you have every right to enjoy it. I'm never forgetting it. But he's a clueless manager horribly out of his depth haven't seen a thing to change my mind about it. Unlike the Dudu talkers who are in his personality cult I've seen us win trophies under joke coaches before, it's not as unique as they want you to think Graham, Ramos , no one at Spurs recalls them fondly. Ange will be just as soon forgotten. Chavs don't sing for Demateo and he won them a ECL.

Happily I think he's gone and hopefully he takes the cult off to Olympiakos with him. He's mugged off no one with an actual brain about EPL level football.
Fair point.
 

Fuck him. Europa league win is great but is more to do with luck and circumstance than it is his own genius. Had we played in last years version we go out to Leverkusen or Atalanta or Liverpool. This was a weak year.

So sick of his striking gold being made out to be his genius. Watch us totally flake out of the CL miserably if we stick with him, because he’s not some cup hero, he just didn’t play a team good enough to do what top prem sides do to us.

I’m happy for him to dance around and claim laurels and act like he masterminded wins over prime Barca, as long as he fucks off and we don’t have to deal with the actual reality of his coaching.
 
Pictures that will go down in history

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