Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

[DubSpur]

We'll never know because the club stayed silent, save for one middling interview with Lange, who has the charisma of a cod.

BTW, I am not talking about 'stopping speculation' I am talking about standing behind a teammate regardless of whether their performance has been poor for a spell or not. If you're not prepared to do that then you move them on. Keeping them and watching them flounder like a fish out of water seems like a weird plaice to go (apologies, I got carried away on fish puns...I'll roe them back now)...

Munn doing an interview is a bit of a red herring (will stop the codding). I'd say Ange would be way more interested and concerned about what is being said to him behind closed doors than some staged interview being put on by Munn or whoever else.

 

[Baleforce]

Truthfully, the closest I think we've seen to our situation is Ten Haag and Man Utd. Perhaps Arsenal and how they used their All Or Nothing spot to advertise what the club was doing amidst tough runs for Arteta in terms of fan base and abuse towards ownership. That was pretty masterful, and between Kroenke Jr and Edu, they did a good job supporting the project they have with him versus not making it look like a salvage job. Here's a clip starring the man we have now hired also showing how his worth could well be enjoyed by us in the future...

What did you think of our all or nothing?

Did it change your view on Jose at all?

 

[Baleforce]

Munn doing an interview is a bit of a red herring (will stop the codding). I'd say Ange would be way more interested and concerned about what is being said to him behind closed doors than some staged interview being put on by Munn or whoever else.

If anything the club put out in the media is in any way true. or gives any insight into how the business is run, someone isn’t doing their job properly.

 

[thfcsteff]

What did you think of our all or nothing?

Did it change your view on Jose at all?

I hated it as the club essentially allowed Jose to hijack the narrative. It was a wasted opportunity. You know it was also a big issue for Poch in the first place.

 

[thfcsteff]

Munn doing an interview is a bit of a red herring (will stop the codding). I'd say Ange would be way more interested and concerned about what is being said to him behind closed doors than some staged interview being put on by Munn or whoever else.

My point has nothing to do with making Ange feel better or not. It's to do with leaving people isolated on perches (ouch!!!)

 

[Muttley]

Not being ignorant but what do you expect that will happen? We are in a perpetual cycle of more of the same in varying degrees.

Until our owners change or change their ways of operation, the direction from the top will dictate exactly what happens. We may get lucky but the usual story is going to perpetuate itself. Played out again with different characters.

So here's what I think is happening.

From 2010, Spurs went through a tough decade that culminated in the eventual go-live of the stadium. However, we went straight into COVID and that delayed our plans by about 2 years. Perhaps the problem was that in the midst of all that chaos were 3 or 4 fantastic years under Poch. The club couldn't sustain that level of on-pitch performance because of the financial model. We then spun into a 5 year cycle after it and made some bad choices. Either way we find ourselves where we are today.

We are no longer in that place where if we make an Ndombele level signing and they fail then we can't recover well. We're also in a place whereby if we make a poor judgment call on the 1st team manager then we take a long time to recover. We won't as the foundations are too strong at our club. Our squad is actually really good and will keep improving from this point. The financial muscle is there. We also have a new leadership team in place on the football operations side and I don't buy into any of this rubbish that they are to blame for Ange's failings. They have equipped him with all of the right tools to perform in his role. They absolutely will as well for the next guy.

What we need most is a new manager who will optimise the squad potential. It is operating way beneath it's ability.