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Manager Thomas Frank

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Are you Frank Out or In?


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Feels like more of a side sideways to Ange rather than a step forward. But I do like him as a bloke and I think the players will enjoy playing for him.
 
Because Ange was bad you tit!


Is it your contention that Frank would be walking into a stronger situation in which he could more easily succeed if we'd lost in Bilbao? Game that out for me.


Cool beer and food scene, unassuming, extremely walkable (which is why it doesn't belong on Memphis' list), just a good vibes place generally.

Fuck off.

It would be almost the exact same. The EL doesn’t help Frank at all. It was a random cup win, it wasn’t built on any stability or quality, as the league table showed. Lots of clubs have won the EL and done FUCK ALL with it because it’s the Europa League FFS !!

It makes it easier in terms of less pressure to win something but that’s IT. It doesn’t help him this coming season at all.
 
Frank if we win:

dog show GIF by Westminster Kennel Club


Frank if we lose:

scared scooby doo GIF
 
It’s the squad he led to 17th. Either the squad is not as good as you think or he’s even worse than we think. If we have this brilliant young squad, why were we so shit? It’s young yes, but incredibly raw, unproven and used to losing every week.

Yeah that just makes things harder for Frank. The CL is brutal. It isn’t the EL where you play Maribor and Qarabag. You play actual sides with actual budgets and then have to go play your league games.

Yeah this definitely proved so for Villareal, Frankfurt etc. This only works when you’re a team on the cusp of something and it breaks the barrier. Ours was a run due to a draw.

Lots of opinions masquerading as facts.
why were we so shit?
Footballers, especially young, inexperienced ones need to know exactly what is expected of them, they need to know their job when XY is happening on the pitch. Point! They need to be coached properly. Ange failed at this, this is why we saw so many disjointed performances and lost so many games in The EPL and scraped through the EL rounds, mostly, and all the "coaching they got in the final, was to remain behind the ball and defend for your lives once our 2nd? , or was it our only effort on goal went in.
Ange Postacoglou was a very poor Premier League coach, he relied on "gusto" to win the day! Well you need nous as well.
This is something Frank will bring and I'm 100% certain we will see a massive improvement in individual players and therefore results.
 
Fuck off.

It would be almost the exact same. The EL doesn’t help Frank at all. It was a random cup win, it wasn’t built on any stability or quality, as the league table showed. Lots of clubs have won the EL and done FUCK ALL with it because it’s the Europa League FFS !!

It makes it easier in terms of less pressure to win something but that’s IT. It doesn’t help him this coming season at all.
Can you please stop shitting on our cup win to try and win the internet?

Thank you.
 
It makes it easier in terms of less pressure to win something but that’s IT.
That's hugely important!

The trophy drought was poisoning the club, the team's relationship with the board, the club's relationship with supporters, everything.

It doesn’t help him this coming season at all.
The financial boon of CL versus no Europe, to say nothing of the credibility benefit in recruiting, is enormous.

And again, he is not showing up to training on the first day to a squad in which Harry Kane is leaving but Emerson Royal, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, Eric Dier, Giovani Lo Celso and Hugo Lloris are staying.

Frank has to fix that mentality.
As you all (correctly!) said over and over and over and over and over, the problem has been naive and inflexible tactics that don't work at this level.

Unless the cleaning staff forgot to tidy up the whiteboards at Hotspur Way, all of that is gone!

I don't even know what we're haggling over here. You are going to be calling for Frank's sacking long before I am, so this is all just performative nonsense.
 
Can you please stop shitting on our cup win to try and win the internet?

Thank you.

Oh bore off, if you can’t handle adult discussion which puts a cup win in the context of what it actually means for how good/well prepared our team is for next season then it’s a waste of time having a discussion thread.

Nobody is trying to win the internet. It’s called talking. Just spamming European champions is boring.
 
I don't even know what we're haggling over here. You are going to be calling for Frank's sacking long before I am, so this is all just performative nonsense.

No I won’t. I never wanted Ange here. I was anti him from day one. I am pro Frank from day one the same I was with Poch. I was anti Nuno from day one too.

Frank will get my backing long term because I genuinely believe him to be an intelligent, measured bloke who I am comfortable with as coach.
 
Oh bore off, if you can’t handle adult discussion which puts a cup win in the context of what it actually means for how good/well prepared our team is for next season then it’s a waste of time having a discussion thread.

Nobody is trying to win the internet. It’s called talking. Just spamming European champions is boring.
Well have your adult conversations without constantly telling us what a shit cup we won and how we only won it because we played shit teams....yadda...yadda...yadda.

We don't care how we won it or who we won it in spite of.

So respectfully...you bore off.

:angecup:
 
Well have your adult conversations without constantly telling us what a shit cup we won and how we only won it because we played shit teams....yadda...yadda...yadda.

We don't care how we won it or who we won it in spite of.

So respectfully...you bore off.

:angecup:

Nah, I’ll post the same opinions as always and as usual you’ll keep crying your eyes out.

Some people will hate them, some won’t. Deal with it.
 
There are other threads to talk about the past. This is Frank’s thread and the future. The only people that now matter who may not be happy are the players. Romero apparently tweeted a positive Ange comment this evening. He is one of our best players and that may be a signal he will leave. As Son should no longer be a definite starter he should no longer be Captain and Frank should offer it to Romero to see if that persuades him to stay. I expect the rest will fall in line.
 
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