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Manager Ange Postecoglou
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No wonder you are a Levy apologist
I’m a realist!
I'm a man so obviously I've never given birth. But I tell you what, I've still experienced that kind of pain plenty after Vindaloo nights (I do love my spicy food) or that monster you drop the morning after a big sesh on the booze.
Thanks for a post that isn't just insults. Appreciate it.
Ok, so here's my nuance.
Had we prioritised league results despite the disastrous injuries we would maybe have finished between 8th and 12th. Instead he rotated and protected key players to get us through the Europa League knock outs. I agree with his strategy there given the context of known resources.
This season the injury crisis meant we had to blood youth to an extent we hadn't planned for. The benefits of that will not be seen for some time (possibly next year but definitely in years to come). The last remnants of the Loch era left the squad in Ange's first year, or they showed signs of age and decline. Due to the recruitment of youth (something I'm not opposed to) we had a perfect storm of lack of depth, experience, and fitness availability. I don't think Ange was the root cause of that.
He has evidently installed a winning mentality and a squad cohesion, perhaps a siege mentality, that I felt would become an irresistible force if the club supplemented it with decent quality recruitment this summer.
Your counterfactual is irrelevant because it didn't happen, but I'll indulge it.
Had he lost against Man United I think I would have been open to a change of manager and a new start. I would have felt sorry for Ange because I think he was dealt a difficult hand (fans used to challenging for champions league football, a great striker departing, an exodus of aging experience including many leaders), but I would have understood and moved on.
That did not happen though. We did win the Europa League. Ange's insistence on following his approach to the competition while balancing the pressure he was receiving from the press and club hierarchy is what delivered the trophy.
It was our first meaningful trophy since 1991 and vital in changing the club culture and outside perception, but yesterday we fired him.
Player unrest is bo!!ocks. Stop stirring FFS
The players are professionals, and they are Tottemham employees.
This will settle and as I maintain, 22 defeats is no sign of solidity. What bit do you not grasp of that?
If past players can't say the right things they should fcuk off.
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Next really bad one. Ange has been spectacularly out of his depth. Not slagging him off, per se, he’s just not very good for our club. Performances - including EL final - have been appalling, let’s not pretend otherwise.
I don’t think it was a lack of trying, we had an injury crisis and our second string squad depth wasn’t good enough to compete in the PL.
Naive
We saw what dressing room unrest did to Nuno first half
Elite athletes don’t have long careers, they aren’t patient for every coach the same
The problem is he might've contributed to the injury crisis.
I wasn't expecting us to be this bad in the league even with the team we put out.
I agree.
I can see why they liked Ange for his man management, but as soon as the next coach and his staff come in, start holding proper tactical training sessions, their eyes will be opened.
They'll enjoy playing in a solid team that doesn't get battered every week. It'll improve our chances in all comps, especially the domestic cups.
While the Europa was wonderful, cups are 9/10 times won by teams who are also doing well in the league*, not the abberration of our last season.
What I do want, however, is the Board to place more emphasis on winning cups than they have historically.
(* Newcastle and Palace two recent examples, along with the rest of the top 6.)
Very valid point that Ange’s style of play itself may have caused some of the muscular injuries. But good squad depth allows rotation to reduce that.
We’re sacking Ange but will we fix the root problem of our squad depth? No, in fact it looks like the opposite.
Given up on coherent arguments and resorting to GIFs?
I'm not sure it does, no one rotates their CB's so the outcome probably would've been the same.
Now he’s gone and players will leave, expect more to come out about those injuries.
The fact that Romero and VDV love him so much suggests they don’t think he caused their injuries.
Kulu can jog on, I won't miss him.
Our back up CBs aren’t good enough in any case.
Our PPG in matches either Vicario VdV and Romero starting would have got us 4th place, if it means much.