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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
Harry Vaginola said:
nonsense? lol. just to use your two examples, klopp and nagelsman played in professional academies in germany since they were children and were deeply embedded in the football culture of a football mad country with history and infrastructure that makes austrailia look like a gym class. and you're also conveniently ignoring all the great coaches who were also great players. i'm not saying messi or neymar are going to be great managers but there's a reason there aren't any coaching greats from the backwaters. it's just a fact
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I agree. I also think coaches at the highest level can relate to and get respect from their players because they’ve done it before themselves.
 
LLB Part Deux said:
Going into the 2019 final we were in bad form in the league. We rode our luck in the knockout phases and then faced THE in-form team in Europe playing an incredible system of overlapping wide players and a strong press.

Sissoko made a mistake early, Liverpool scored and then the rest of the final was mostly us - but with no real creativity in the middle and an unfit Kane we couldn't turn our possession dominance into goals. That performance would still have been easily enough to win the EL against Man U.
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If that stupid Sissoko thing hadn’t happened we may have gone on to nick it. Thinking about what may have happened had we still had Dembele to play instead is wild to ponder.

10m fee vs club legend playing in a Cl final? I advocated trying to get a fee while we could. In hindsight I see it was wrong to sell him before the summer.
 
Harry Vaginola said:
nonsense? lol. just to use your two examples, klopp and nagelsman played in professional academies in germany since they were children and were deeply embedded in the football culture of a football mad country with history and infrastructure that makes austrailia look like a gym class. and you're also conveniently ignoring all the great coaches who were also great players. i'm not saying messi or neymar are going to be great managers but there's a reason there aren't any coaching greats from the backwaters. it's just a fact
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i think modric is going to be a great manager. midfielders who know how to attack and defend imo have an advantage.
 
FightingIllini said:
Rodgers, who of course learned his football in known tradition and resource rich hotbed Northern Ireland, actually is a very good tactician.

He's a bottle job extraordinaire though, which Ange is not.
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Its part of the local (Aus) sporting culture- we don't do first past the post.There are no meaningless tail-end-of-the season games. You don't "win" unless you win the play offs. To be the champion, you have to step up in the the moments that matter and make it happen. He's win record in finals is extraordinary.
 
daveyboy88 said:
i think another 3 defeats after the final would have sealed his fate much easier for levy.
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I am holding out hope that Levy is waiting for Paratici so he can make the decision.

It does not bode well that Levy doesn’t think one point per game and a 17th place finish is grounds for immediate sacking.
 
daveyboy88 said:
i think modric is going to be a great manager. midfielders who know how to attack and defend imo have an advantage.
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IDK if Modric strikes me as the management type tbh, I think it would be a crying shame if he doesn't transition into coaching as undoubtedly anyone who is as intelligent as him on a football pitch must have wisdom to impart to the next generation of midfielders, and it feels like no coincidence that everyone they put in that midfield beside him when he was a nailed on starter played far and away their best football with Modric, the same could be said going all the way back to his time at Spurs tbh, but he never really put himself about on the pitch and vocalised like you would expect from a leader type. I think most of his managers saw the sense in unburdening him from the responsibility of being the captain so he could focus on creating poetry on the pitch.

People are going to study that guy for generations. Of all the superstars that came and went during that insane Real Madrid CL dominance period, he was there for every single one of them, starting every important game, orchestrating everything. I think it's more than fair to say he has utterly eclipsed Zidane as a player in RM folklore. Amazing we were lucky enough to experience him in a Spurs shirt.
 
Mostly wrong said:
IDK if Modric strikes me as the management type tbh, I think it would be a crying shame if he doesn't transition into coaching as undoubtedly anyone who is as intelligent as him on a football pitch must have wisdom to impart to the next generation of midfielders, and it feels like no coincidence that everyone they put in that midfield beside him when he was a nailed on starter played far and away their best football with Modric, the same could be said going all the way back to his time at Spurs tbh, but he never really put himself about on the pitch and vocalised like you would expect from a leader type. I think most of his managers saw the sense in unburdening him from the responsibility of being the captain so he could focus on creating poetry on the pitch.

People are going to study that guy for generations. Of all the superstars that came and went during that insane Real Madrid CL dominance period, he was there for every single one of them, starting every important game, orchestrating everything. I think it's more than fair to say he has utterly eclipsed Zidane as a player in RM folklore. Amazing we were lucky enough to experience him in a Spurs shirt.
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Mostly wrong said:
IDK if Modric strikes me as the management type tbh, I think it would be a crying shame if he doesn't transition into coaching as undoubtedly anyone who is as intelligent as him on a football pitch must have wisdom to impart to the next generation of midfielders, and it feels like no coincidence that everyone they put in that midfield beside him when he was a nailed on starter played far and away their best football with Modric, the same could be said going all the way back to his time at Spurs tbh, but he never really put himself about on the pitch and vocalised like you would expect from a leader type. I think most of his managers saw the sense in unburdening him from the responsibility of being the captain so he could focus on creating poetry on the pitch.

People are going to study that guy for generations. Of all the superstars that came and went during that insane Real Madrid CL dominance period, he was there for every single one of them, starting every important game, orchestrating everything. I think it's more than fair to say he has utterly eclipsed Zidane as a player in RM folklore. Amazing we were lucky enough to experience him in a Spurs shirt.
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Spurs would seem a good place for him to hone his coaching skills. Ange would be an excellent mentor. Having Modric work with Bergvall and Sarr - wow!

Sounds like Mason may be headed out for a head coaching role at another club.
 
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