How can you be his biggest defender, can you prove this?
You wanted Ange gone so you reap what you sow!
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You wanted Ange gone so you reap what you sow!
I dunno - our approach against actively bad teams like Copenhagen is much more front footed. We keep the ball on the ground much more and actually play some football and create chances.
In the league we barely even try half the time. OK sometimes that's caused by the opposition but my sense is Frank doesn't think the squad is capable of playing positive football against even remotely decent teams so doesn't even set us up to try. We just play the percentages and aim to grind our points that way.
I think he's very content playing this type of football as it's his comfort zone but I do genuinely belive that his long term aspiration would be to have us playing a more attractive style, even if that's still short of the style of football Spurs fans expect.
Even Brentford fans are amazed at how bad and negative we are. Brentford were never quite this ugly.
Been saying for ages, the coaching is a far greater issue than the players
Give him £200m to spend tomorrow, the football will still be shit
Fucking good - wanna hear that good news as soon as possible
Find it very odd that the bbc has an article saying 'spurs consider Frank's future'. Surely he's either gone or he isn't. Makes me think it's more a vote of confidence. hope notApparently gone.
But nothing in the media yet.
Nonsense. Utter garbage.
Postecoglou and Frank were the wrong appointments.
Simple.
This rings true
He has constantly misprofiled players
He has from the beginning acted like the job was a complete tear down and rebuild, acrted like we were absolute shite
Thing is, hes never tried to build anything, its like he defaulted to % fottball and thats it
Has anyone considered that Frank is deprioritising the league in order to focus on winning the Champs League?
Certainly not lost both games, same as the previous incumbent who also lost unimaginable games.
Snakes alive, if he gets a vote of confidence I reckon their could be a riot at the Dortmund game.
When the home fans are begging for the manager to be sacked you’d have to be absolutely mental not to follow through with it
Ange wouldn’t be doing any better. This is just a continuation of last season.
Ange richly deserved to be sacked, and long before he was. That we have hired the wrong replacement does not mean his sacking wasn’t right.
Sadly, I think he'd tarnish his Legend status as a player.... He'd be worse than Hoddle & Ardiles, but without the attacking flair!
...funnily enough, I always thought Ginola would make a great manager one day (if modelling contracts allowed)
I "interviewed" him once (well, Ben Coles did the interview, but I was there) when I was training up at Capital Gold Sport in the late '90s (Cluang!)
...he spoke SO well and SO knowledgeably about football, that I thought he'd be an excellent coach one day...
Sadly, I think the punditry work and the quiet life is far more to his liking!
Option a should really read 'relegation form.' Of that there can be no doubt.I don't "want" him to stay - I just don't see a viable alternative right now.
Ever since Conte left I've been clear that I don't want a manager sacked unless they a) have us in a relegation battle or b) lose the dressing room.
I'm two games away from knowing for certain if one or both of those criteria have been met.
Option b is the bit I'm unsure about. Is our inability to play a full 90 minutes because of Frank or because of the players downing tools? I guess the only way we'll know that is if he's shifted and we see how the players react to whomever takes charge.
It’s the decision Spurs are never willing to make. Either get behind the manager and strengthen the squad for him, or sack him and move on.
We always dawdle in these situations and refuse to make a decision, leaving the manager without the men required and demanding he improve results.
Yeah and maybe on some level he's right - our midfield is pretty limited and our front line lacks true quality, goals and is very young.
That said, we've still spent a lot of money and have a lot of depth. I'm certain a lot of other managers could get a lot more out of this squad without resorting to this nonsense we've been watching.
I think his treatment of Bergvall kinda sums him up as a manager. Our best young talent and player of the year played out of position or benched cos Frank simply doesn't trust him deeper. He'd rather not even try to play him as an 8 than risk him losing the ball.