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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
I just hope that Ange doesn't mind if he's sacked. His compensation plus EL bonus (about 12mil) make a nice pension. He's near 60 and he can enjoy life with his wife and kids while coaching a less demanding and toxic club.

I, for example, would prefer to earn 5mil/year work and stress free in a nice sunny place like his beloved Greece than having to deal with Levy and toxic fans calling me names.
 
Nothing decided and wont be for a week or so.


It is believed that any decision to be made by chairman Daniel Levy about the Australian is unlikely to occur this week with most staff, including Postecoglou, heading straight off on their post-season holidays after the final game of the season against Brighton. No meetings are understood to have taken place before that happened.

football.london understands that there remains a chance the 59-year-old could stay in place as head coach after ending Spurs' long trophy drought, which has brought a huge surge of gratitude from the fanbase behind Postecoglou and a feeling among many of them that he has earned the right to carry on into next season.
 

The really concerning thing is this started in the last third of the previous season. This isnt a dip in form, injuries or concentrating on the Europa, its systemic. 28 league defeats out of the last 49 games.

Why does anyone think this will improve? What happens, as is quite possible given the trajectory, we lose 3 or 4 of our first 5 games next season? He isnt getting 5 top class players this summer and even if we did manage that would you not rather see them under a good manager? You shouldnt have to buy world class talent to prop up your inadequate manager anyway.

As ever with these owners we need a manager that can improve individuals and get more out of the team than the sum of its parts and that certainly isnt Postecoglou.
 
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Nothing decided and wont be for a week or so.


It is believed that any decision to be made by chairman Daniel Levy about the Australian is unlikely to occur this week with most staff, including Postecoglou, heading straight off on their post-season holidays after the final game of the season against Brighton. No meetings are understood to have taken place before that happened.

football.london understands that there remains a chance the 59-year-old could stay in place as head coach after ending Spurs' long trophy drought, which has brought a huge surge of gratitude from the fanbase behind Postecoglou and a feeling among many of them that he has earned the right to carry on into next season.

Good too see we will miss out on top players that would be available

Love the Europa League and still in awe of it, but the lack of structure whilst playing in his second season isn't good

Get rid
 
I just hope that Ange doesn't mind if he's sacked. His compensation plus EL bonus (about 12mil) make a nice pension. He's near 60 and he can enjoy life with his wife and kids while coaching a less demanding and toxic club.

I, for example, would prefer to earn 5mil/year work and stress free in a nice sunny place like his beloved Greece than having to deal with Levy and toxic fans calling me names.
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Nothing decided and wont be for a week or so.


It is believed that any decision to be made by chairman Daniel Levy about the Australian is unlikely to occur this week with most staff, including Postecoglou, heading straight off on their post-season holidays after the final game of the season against Brighton. No meetings are understood to have taken place before that happened.

football.london understands that there remains a chance the 59-year-old could stay in place as head coach after ending Spurs' long trophy drought, which has brought a huge surge of gratitude from the fanbase behind Postecoglou and a feeling among many of them that he has earned the right to carry on into next season.
Its a good sign for AngeOut scenario. Levy will just wait week or something, trophy winning euphoria will decrease a little bit - and then Levy will pull the trigger.

I just hope that in the meantine we already started pursuing new players.
 
Nothing decided and wont be for a week or so.


It is believed that any decision to be made by chairman Daniel Levy about the Australian is unlikely to occur this week with most staff, including Postecoglou, heading straight off on their post-season holidays after the final game of the season against Brighton. No meetings are understood to have taken place before that happened.

football.london understands that there remains a chance the 59-year-old could stay in place as head coach after ending Spurs' long trophy drought, which has brought a huge surge of gratitude from the fanbase behind Postecoglou and a feeling among many of them that he has earned the right to carry on into next season.
Need this sorted by next week at the latest. Our rivals are all already moving.
 
One other benefit of him leaving is so too will the coaches who I think share some of the responsibility for the league position. There is little semblance of a system two years later, I have ask what are they doing with the players all week on the training pitches?

His Celtic side had the better of Rangers- played 11 times won 6 lost 3- at a time when Rangers were Europa League finalists, yet we struggled to get past them with our far more expensive players. How does that even work? How do you go backwards with more expensive players against a weaker opponent?

OTOH if he stays the coaches have to go.
 
Nothing decided and wont be for a week or so.


It is believed that any decision to be made by chairman Daniel Levy about the Australian is unlikely to occur this week with most staff, including Postecoglou, heading straight off on their post-season holidays after the final game of the season against Brighton. No meetings are understood to have taken place before that happened.

football.london understands that there remains a chance the 59-year-old could stay in place as head coach after ending Spurs' long trophy drought, which has brought a huge surge of gratitude from the fanbase behind Postecoglou and a feeling among many of them that he has earned the right to carry on into next season.
Levy is such an anaemic, piss-poor, weak leader.
 
No idea if Ange stays or goes or should do either of these things but phrases like "the latest I’m hearing" strip my fucking gears.

Rudolph Pat Bateman, you're hearing nothing whatsoever. You're a tragic cybernerd who makes things up on the internet and would sniff your sister's knickers if she hadn't left home twenty odd years ago.

Not particularly true though - the club/ange have made been quite open that there are clearly leaks from the club. For example, I would imagine Ange and his family would have to make some kind of planning for their schools, rental etc. it would be basically impossible to keep all of that stuff 'secret'. If the club were replacing him there'd be maybe 5 different interviews/enquiries going on and those with no interest at all (let's assume xavi or whoever) aren't going to sign an NDA just to hear about the interest.

You would be surprised at how many wealthy and influential people like to jabber about stuff they aren't meant to be sharing. Especially people who are involved in, and don't care about, football. e.g. stuff like "getting messed about with one house coming back on portfolio. Some australian football guy who won a cup but might be sacked anyway. Can you imagine that happening in any other job."

Not trying to endorse that guy - just saying from my own experience it is a thing. I'd be far more skeptical and assume a high school virgin if they were passing it off as if they were hearing it first hand. Like the spurs community ones who sound like septic peg
 
I know these things are largely pointless as it tends to be groupthink, but the MOTD pre-season pundit rankings had us 5th on average, with quite a few people putting us 4th.


Also worth noting that we were favourites for the EL at the start of the competition and remained favourites for a few months at the start of the season.
 
One other benefit of him leaving is so too will the coaches who I think share some of the responsibility for the league position. There is little semblance of a system two years later, I have ask what are they doing with the players all week on the training pitches?

His Celtic side had the better of Rangers- played 11 times won 6 lost 3- at a time when Rangers were Europa League finalists, yet we struggled to get past them with our far more expensive players. How does that even work? How do you go backwards with more expensive players against a weaker opponent?

OTOH if he stays the coaches have to go.
We started Forster in goal that day with Gray and Dragusin at centre back. Werner started on the left.

I don't blame ange for that December period at all. We were in the absolute trenches and I don't think any manager would have survived that run. In hindsight, the 1-1 draw away to Rangers wasn't a bad result with that team.
 
Spurs were without a major trophy for nearly 20 years and had become a running joke. Our talisman Son has gone his entire career without a trophy.

We had to sacrifice the league campaign in order to focus on the brining a trophy to Spurs - with 100% certainty.

NET RESULT

1 Major Trophy.
A UNITED Squad, who have now tasted success. These players will give 100% to do it again.
2 fingers stuck right up Woolwich's Arse.
Our best players want to stay (Romero/Porro).

Ask yourself this. Had we finished 4th or 5th - would any of the above statements be true?
funny Newcastle and Palace both won cups and didn't sacrifice the league for it.... Explain why Ange had too?
 
I know these things are largely pointless as it tends to be groupthink, but the MOTD pre-season pundit rankings had us 5th on average, with quite a few people putting us 4th.


Also worth noting that we were favourites for the EL at the start of the competition and remained favourites for a few months at the start of the season.
Yeah i thought we'd probably be around 6th. The top 6 are all pretty strong but there is no way we should be lower than 7th. People say we dont have the squad but its better than Forest, Bournemouth, Brentford and Fulham. Insane levels of under performance.
 
One other benefit of him leaving is so too will the coaches who I think share some of the responsibility for the league position. There is little semblance of a system two years later, I have ask what are they doing with the players all week on the training pitches?

His Celtic side had the better of Rangers- played 11 times won 6 lost 3- at a time when Rangers were Europa League finalists, yet we struggled to get past them with our far more expensive players. How does that even work? How do you go backwards with more expensive players against a weaker opponent?

OTOH if he stays the coaches have to go.
Definitely, the coaching staff are inadequate.They were not a ‘team’ but a badly assembled group of journeymen.
 
For some, the objective evidence is our first European trophy in 41 years, our first trophy altogether in 17 years and Champions League football.

The poor league form is a valid argument for wanting him gone, but equally the EL trophy is a valid argument for wanting him to stay.
But what happens next season?

Do you think the Champions League is winnable based on this season’s performance?

The league form should be the overriding factor because it’s based on a much bigger sample of evidence and against higher quality teams.
 
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