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Match Europa League - 12th December - Rangers (A) 8PM

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I think the players would respect him more. I'd actually be more confident for the rest of the season with Southgate in charge. And I absolutely don't rate Gareth Southgate.
He'd probably tell Levy to fuck off anyway
Southgate is the hill I’m willing to die on. If he gets the job that is the end of us a serious club.
He was shite at Middlesbrough. Got relegated and couldn’t get promoted.
He wasted the best English squads of recent memory. Two finals and Harry Kane got two touches in the box in 180 minutes.!!!
He’s a dope of the highest quality.
 
Southgate is the hill I’m willing to die on. If he gets the job that is the end of us a serious club.
He was shite at Middlesbrough. Got relegated and couldn’t get promoted.
He wasted the best English squads of recent memory. Two finals and Harry Kane got two touches in the box in 180 minutes.!!!
He’s a dope of the highest quality.
To be fair, two touches in the box in finals is standard for Kane regardless of the manager. 😅
 
Remind me, how many goals more than us did they score?
Yet we had more of the ball and opportunity in their penalty area and 1/50 of the support
As I pointed out, we didn't batter or hammer them, but most of their opportunities ended in row Z
They should have made a better job of the opportunities they had.

As the away team with a teenager playing out of position in central defence I am happy to see it as a moral victory

Actually - don't bother replying, I don't have the patience to try and explain anything to someone I have no difficulty in believing has to wear velcro fastened shoes.
Jesus, Mary and Joeseph. That is one hell of a take on the game last night. Fair play for trying to find the positives
 
they were at home with 50,000 supporters egging them on, we dominated possession and scored as many as they did.
Unless shots ending up in row Z are now a positive statistic, who knows. is that what Xg is?

Basically, with everything in their favour, they failed to beat a depleted Spurs team at home

To me - that's "effectively" outplaying them. I didn't say batter, or hammer....

They huffed and puffed, and we soaked it all up and came away with a result. My guess is our club is happier than theirs.
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Southgate is the hill I’m willing to die on. If he gets the job that is the end of us a serious club.
He was shite at Middlesbrough. Got relegated and couldn’t get promoted.
He wasted the best English squads of recent memory. Two finals and Harry Kane got two touches in the box in 180 minutes.!!!
He’s a dope of the highest quality.
What a horrible Christmas it would be with him as our manager
 
Didn’t watch the game. Knew it would be tough after summers getting kicked to pieces in Glasgow.

Amazing anyone thought it would be a cakewalk.

Sounds like Ange is starting to lose it too.
You don’t publicly call out your players. It’s the cardinal rule. That’s behind closed doors stuff.
This is the same manager who said he would rather not sub players if they don’t deserve to win. Just leave them on the pitch.

Confronting fans and now this. If you can’t recognise a man feeling pressure I’m sorry for you.

Big 10 days now. Soton, United and Liverpool. Wouldn’t surprise me if we don’t win 1 of those games. Issue for him is what Daniel expects. Probably not that run of results.
I don’t think many here thought a cakewalk. Because under Ange we are so shite. I’d have taken a point before the game. That reflects hoe
Poor our coach is.
 
Rangers away. Dragusin, an overplayed Porro, undercooked Udogie and an 18 year old midfielder for our back line, a half-asleep attack and fuck knows how many Scottish lunatics chanting. But fuck it. We didn't lose. Naff but not exactly armageddon.

Can't say it's made me confident we're winning this competition though.
Remember the last time and English team played there in Europe. 7-1. We are really bad
 
Yeah but Ange made us worse he should have started Solanke or Lankshear.

There is nothing that says Werner Son Johnson
Should be starting together.

He had it half right by bringing on Kulu for some presence then moved Johnson to the left.

I think it's because it was easier to sub Werner than Son or Johnson
Those 3 should never start together. 2 of them shouldn’t even start and one of those 2 shouldn’t even be at the club. Didn’t those 3 stink out a previous game recently. Non have the bottle to play away at rangers in front of a very partisan crowd. Should have started young Will.
 
his turning on the players is actually very promising. hes going now
And he wanted him. Out of all the wide players in Europe and beyond the best we could do was get Werner. Right before the transfer window had started. Many thought he would be a decent backup and we would buy a top quality wide forward just as Ange said we needed. We then wait while transfer to the death and get oddjob with done BS about we were tracking him for ages and wanted him all along. The sheer BS of it all and some fans accepted it!
 
Take your pill, bud.

Did I say he wasn't any good? Nope. I said spending 30 mil on the kid was silly...and that we needed experienced players instead.

But eh, you do you.

We needed starting 11 quality players.

Thing with Odobert is we haven't had a chance to see if he' starting 11 quality yet. His debut was as exciting as I can remember for a forward we have signed in a long time and then we put him on the RW and learned that really he's not the both sided winger we thought he might be. Not yet at least.

But what we saw when he played LW tells me he should start over Son when he's fit again.

We still needed another elite level forward as well, though. It's just that we needed that player instead of loaning Werner, not instead of signing Odobert.
 
Sorry is that a real clip about Werner and not Ai or some shit!?
Because fuck me if it is Ange can do one tbh. Calling out a player like him when we have to to suffer our entire squad underperforming thats pretty fucking low?

Werner is not the standard we need but he leaves Johnson out there every fucking game basically who doesn't even attack his full back - I think Werner at least drags a defence out of shape a bit and tries tbf to him!
Exactly. Such an easy scapegoat.

And to single a player out like that in public, that's a major cunt move. But then again Ange is an uber prick, no low is too low for him.

Besides, like you said, Werner usually works his bollocks off. Yeah his tekkers, especially finishing, are jokes...but bar last night, he usually tracks back, puts challenges in, wins the ball back. Ange's little protege bitch Brennan does absolute fuck all other than finishing moves off.
 
Why? We have not sold our best players unless they run down their contract. Kept Kane &Son through their best years. We are not a selling club.
Yes, Kane stayed 2 or 3 years longer than coulda/shoulda...and Sonny is still here. But I think there's more to it than meets the eye.

And, at the other end of the spectrum, we sold Bale, Walker, Modric, Robbie Keane & Defoe (before bringing them back), Berbatov, Carrick, Sheringham...
 
Just back on Son for a minute, I noticed through last night’s game he hung out on the left touchline about halfway in the opponent's half and when he was passed the ball he did nothing with it but passed it back and backwards at a 45 degree angle. This he does through every game.
He is getting to the end of his best but I think Sonny is still better than that, the problem is the strategic placing of his position. Sonny is at his best when he has space to move around in, these days he is blocked out on the edge of the field, surrounded by the defensive midfielders. He’s no good at heavily taking on opponents, his game is speed and although he is slower than he used to be he has no chance being stuffed in a crowd.
So he gets the ball and does nothing with it but I think he can still make a great contribution he just needs Ange to set it up where he can get some movement going.
 
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