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Manager Thomas Frank
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With this win, the performance v PSG and just for padding out the point the Woolwich friendly, Frank is showing what he showed with Brentford in that in games v the best teams he will have a plan, be able to execute it and get good performances/results.
This makes me optimistic for when it comes to the cups- all too often we've fallen at the latter stages when up against our peers/better teams, I'm confident that this man will win us trophies
This makes me optimistic for when it comes to the cups- all too often we've fallen at the latter stages when up against our peers/better teams, I'm confident that this man will win us trophies
Winning today has put paid to that unfortunately....
He might just be the perfect man for his time and place. We have a side that was built piecemeal for at least three very different managers, and he’s the most flexible tactician we’ve had since… ever? If anyone could get a tune out of it.
Ange and numerous of our other managers have been zealots in their style of play, which is fine, many of the great managers ever (Pep, Cruyff, etc) were zealots, but you have to be the most talented teacher of football to succeed playing one style and often those managers have access to the best footballers available to fit their style exactly perfectly. Time and perfect transfer additions are just not things you get at Spurs.
I also think you need to be a broadly positive person to manage the club, as much as we occasionally enjoy our managers mugging Levy off and believing it might lead the bald prick to change his spots, he’s been here 25 years and is the exact same bloke. If you want to maximize success as a manager here, you need to accept the strictures of the club and pursue asymmetric strategies to compete with the clubs who will always outspend us, you can’t just be pissed off we aren’t City or Chelsea. It’s impractical and the moaning/self pity builds a bad culture among the players who then see themselves as inferior.
Pochettino’s positivity and outlook was so important when he first got here, and he got sacked when it disappeared after he’d been mugged off one too many times, including the unprecedented signingless summer. I think Frank’s scandi optimism is much needed.
We’ll see, early doors. But it’s nice to have flexible tactician with a genuinely positive outlook after 6 years of Ange, Conte, Nuno, Mourinho.
Ange and numerous of our other managers have been zealots in their style of play, which is fine, many of the great managers ever (Pep, Cruyff, etc) were zealots, but you have to be the most talented teacher of football to succeed playing one style and often those managers have access to the best footballers available to fit their style exactly perfectly. Time and perfect transfer additions are just not things you get at Spurs.
I also think you need to be a broadly positive person to manage the club, as much as we occasionally enjoy our managers mugging Levy off and believing it might lead the bald prick to change his spots, he’s been here 25 years and is the exact same bloke. If you want to maximize success as a manager here, you need to accept the strictures of the club and pursue asymmetric strategies to compete with the clubs who will always outspend us, you can’t just be pissed off we aren’t City or Chelsea. It’s impractical and the moaning/self pity builds a bad culture among the players who then see themselves as inferior.
Pochettino’s positivity and outlook was so important when he first got here, and he got sacked when it disappeared after he’d been mugged off one too many times, including the unprecedented signingless summer. I think Frank’s scandi optimism is much needed.
We’ll see, early doors. But it’s nice to have flexible tactician with a genuinely positive outlook after 6 years of Ange, Conte, Nuno, Mourinho.
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Great stuff. Think I've said it before but during Ange it really felt like a one man show where the rest of the coacing staff were some nobodies you knew absolutely nothing about. It feels like we have a proper coherent coaching staff now.
Was underwhelmed when he was first linked.
Proved I know fuck all.
He is top drawer. Hope he shines here.
Proved I know fuck all.
He is top drawer. Hope he shines here.
Don't remember if it was first team but he was definitely here. So do we know if there was any connection to Frank prior, is it more by chance he's stayed on?
Wells has been here since April 2023, meaning that Ange had him in his coaching staff for the entire time that he was here.
That utter shambles of a defense under Ange becomes even more difficult to explain if it's indeed Wells who's currently in charge of organizing this well-drilled defense.
Was Ange going out of his way to sabotage Wells' efforts on that front or what? How is such a turnaround in such a short amount of time possible?
That utter shambles of a defense under Ange becomes even more difficult to explain if it's indeed Wells who's currently in charge of organizing this well-drilled defense.
Was Ange going out of his way to sabotage Wells' efforts on that front or what? How is such a turnaround in such a short amount of time possible?
Most likely it was that Ange's 'tactics' were rudimentary at best and even a crack-team of the world's best defensive coaches would not have been enough to make up for it
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He was. To have survived Ange when almost everyone got sacked shows he must be quite highly rated.
No coaching will help a back two try and stop five attackers as the full backs have both pushed into the final third, and when you don’t have a DM
Your team ends up being the embodiment of your manager.
With Frank I see; professionalism, focus, ambition, detail, honesty, humility.
With Frank I see; professionalism, focus, ambition, detail, honesty, humility.
Not especially....
I said at the time when people were constantly ragging on Mason, Wells & Jedinak.... Coaches are only as good as the potential of the tactics/system they're directed to coach by the manager at any one time. i.e. Even the very best coach in the world isn't gonna make a flawed system work.
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My reservation was that the football would be boring, but it's quite clear that Thomas will cut his cloth according to the level of players at his disposal. Gratuitous tippy-tappy possession is nearly as boring as negative bus-park murder-ball.... Today however (against world class talent) was not boring. We didn't spend huge chunks of the game under the cosh and we moved the ball quickly and with intent. We're set up to ideally play from the back, but it's not drilled into the players that it's a crime to go long if it's the better option.
Flexibility and the promise of making us more than the sum of our parts.....
Back this man.
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The more I see of him, the more I like him. His pressers are always clear and concise, politely answers the most stupidest of questions with the right amount of diplomatic disdain.
I'm trying not to get carried away, but his tenure so far is looking promising.
Like everyone else, I hope that he gets the backing and reinforcements that we need to challenge. From past experience, there's no way we'll get through a season involving CL games without being able to rotate the squad effectively.
I'm trying not to get carried away, but his tenure so far is looking promising.
Like everyone else, I hope that he gets the backing and reinforcements that we need to challenge. From past experience, there's no way we'll get through a season involving CL games without being able to rotate the squad effectively.