This is true but look at the resources Frank works with? Ange has probably spent more in two years than Brentford in their history.
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Manager Ange Postecoglou
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Would actually be funny if they released it and then announce his sacking 5 mins later
I recall the summer we sold Bale, we took out a massive hoarding in Times square with him full home kit promoting something or other. Before it came down he was a RM player. Under Levy we are like Albert Steptoe bellowing "There's more meat in them claws" over the carcass of a lobster.
Poch inherited a better squad. I think he had bentalab and mason in midfield two young kids. A young Dier, walker, rose, no Kane, and a lot of dross. Yet he got 5th and LC final. 2nd season we were in a title race. So good progression. Ok no trophy but at least we had plenty of cutting edge ganes as it were.
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If you look at things by half-seasons, I believe we have been worse every half-season than the one before. Finishing as everyone knows, perilously close to the drop zone.
Returning him next year under the auspices of "Well we can sack him after 10 games if we're bad" wastes the whole summer, the whole CL campaign next year, and the chance at anyone who might be available this summer in favor of the sort of manager who's available in October.
But he didn't win a Final though.... NONE of them did!
If winning a Trophy was so easy, then we woulda done it in 2002, 2006, 2010, 2015-16, 2019... and so on...
but we didn't.
We found a cheat code to CL football by 'only having to win' the Europa League, and not have to worry about the League...
It's not to be sniffed at...
It was shown up in 2 league games this season and 2nd leg semi. How many goals did we concede to dippers this season?
I don’t think Ange threw anything away. He has been very opportunist by suggesting he chose to ignore the league from Jan onwards to concentrate on the Europa League. I just don’t see Levy letting this happen with each place lost depriving us of valuable PL prize money especially when victory in the EL was far from guaranteed bearing in mind we hadn’t won it for 41 years. He is just a clueless shit manager who has pulled the wool of the eyes of some of our fan base to excuse our diabolical league performance. However if I was a season ticket holder I would be tempted to call Ange’s bluff by writing to Levy to demand a refund of my season ticket
I think Ange’s tactics giving manure the ball if done against teams like pool, goons or toon even Villa and we would have shipped in 5. We had not attacking threat at all.
The ref and dumb arse sissoko. You can’t legislate for that sort of shit.
We've spent more, sure, but Brentford are actually in the top half of the net spend table over the past four years, they've reinvested the fees they've gotten for their big players and then some.
Reportedly a cheap wage bill of course, it's a club recruitment strategy based on a volume chances taken on well-scouted younger players, but Frank has had decent resources to work with throughout his time there, it's not a relegation fodder squad.
And truly, you look back at the players they had in the Championship and wonder how they didn't walk that league. That's an unfair stick to beat Frank with, but it does make you wonder whether this is a real superstar coach.
it would be right up there in the top 3 dumbest things levy has done. would show hes as clueless as the idiot he has hired.
binned the league in jan, but rushed back two CB's in april for a pointless game, putting their careers in jeopardy....yea sounds right.
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It has to be admitted that the field in Europa was quite weak, and the final was a punch-up between two armless men.
That answers the question "if it's so easy why don't we do it all the time". Because it's not so easy all the time.
Who’s the superstar coach you have in mind then?
If a guy who can take one of the lowest spending teams to midtable and have them continually scoring goals even after losing their best goals scorers isn’t a superstar coach, I’d like to know who is.
100% mate.
If we'd have played any other team than Utd, a team that somehow is actually worse than us, we'd have been beaten handsomely.
We got lucky with the draw. That's all.
Then we get relegated next season while playing CL football
We've lost some absolute jokes of UEFA Cup knockout ties over the modern period, a fair few of them because we were prioritizing the league, a couple of them being something resembling actively trying to lose.
Forget winning the thing, we hadn't been to a semifinal in the Levy era.
I am thankful Ange gave it pride of place and got the job done, it's a huge monkey of the club's back that we'll benefit from whether he's here or not.
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Yes, but one man's pride of place is another man's 'nothing else to play for this year' / 'it's my only shot to save my job.'
There really wasn't anything else to focus on. According to Ange's defenders the league position is meaningless if we aren't in any of the European football places, so there's nothing else he or anyone would have done.
I asked ChatGPT a couple of questions.
Ange is the 7th best Spurs manager when ranked as a top 20.
And in a WWE style Royal rumble these would be the final 4.
Winner: Bill Nicholson
- Why? A true Tottenham legend, Bill Nicholson combined tactical brilliance with steely resolve. He’s got that gritty 1960s British toughness, and after all those trophies, he’d be determined to prove himself the best.
- Bill Nicholson
- Harry Redknapp
- Keith Burkinshaw
- Mauricio Pochettino (he’d be the underdog, athletic and determined, but ultimately overshadowed by the older, more experienced “veterans.”)
This is where technology has led us.
Well led me.