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    Contingency planning : When Ange is sacked, who should replace him?

    This is a critical part of a broader point. Whomever the next coach is, it needs to be someone who trusts his staff to deliver. Modern football is too specialized and complex for one messiah figure to manage everything like the days of SAF. You need top-level performance analysts, fitness...
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    ENIC

    :hearteyes: :hearteyes: :hearteyes: Started at a few folks, then a few dozen, now a few hundred. Next step a few thousand - keep getting in the news, keep eyes on us. BBC reporting on the protests this weekend: keep that momentum going. Well done CfT - long may they grow.
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    ENIC

    Spinning a feel-good story would also be far from the main priority. It would be a secondary goal, but not the primary one. For a £3 Bn transaction, any prospective owners will care about different things. First and foremost, the club is within easy reach of the City, Whitehall and Parliament...
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    Contingency planning : When Ange is sacked, who should replace him?

    Honestly would probably work out great. Feel like Postecoglou is an international manager, not a club one - his insane lack of tactics and running his players into the ground would work better when you only play once or twice every couple of months, and maybe six games or so every other summer...
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    Contingency planning : When Ange is sacked, who should replace him?

    I mean, a manager who wants to work everyday would not choose international football to begin with. You have to be realistic about what that entails, which is long periods without coaching or training. That's what most managers who turn down international footy say - they would miss the day to...
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    Contingency planning : When Ange is sacked, who should replace him?

    Err..yes it is? Feel like you overestimate the effect politics has on everyday life in the US mate. ;) He's rich and, being the USMNT coach, has a leisurely schedule of being paid to sit in sunny California and occasionally fly around that country. A lot of coaches would kill for that job...
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    Ange in or out?

    If he would come mate, I'd have him in tomorrow. He's the exception - even if everyone else turns us down, I think he'd still take the job just out of love for the club. But...he's enjoying his time in the US, and that Sky interview made very clear he's focusing on their WC on home soil in...
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    Ange in or out?

    Exactly. Managers were turning us down left, right and center, and ultimately the only thing Deadweight Dan can offer his coaches is patience - he certainly can't offer them ambition. We need Postecoglou to see out the season, imo - to prove to the rest of them that we're willing to give them...
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    Ange in or out?

    He's an excellent public speaker, honestly. Trouble is, he seems much better at that than he does at managing. Postecoglou the politician would have been a star out there in Australia - in some alternate world he's running New South Wales or Tasmania or some province like that, dragging people...
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    Contingency planning : When Ange is sacked, who should replace him?

    That's the thing - I dearly want him back, but he would probably stay loyal to the US, at least until their World Cup on home soil in 2026. Same reason he rejected United (iirc) and Madrid, to stay with us. Man is loyal. And managing at a World Cup is a dream for any manager, especially if...
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    Contingency planning : When Ange is sacked, who should replace him?

    Hey, some of us never wavered that he was the right man for us, and never have even today. ;) I have been steadfast in the opinion that Postecoglou, utterly mediocre journeyman though he is, deserves the season. But if Poch wanted to come back, we should move heaven and Earth to make it happen...
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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v The Cottagers ***

    We played once a week last season and Postecoglou used that as an excuse mate - saying we weren't playing enough which is why the players looked rusty and we were struggling all the time. Now two games a week is also apparently a problem for him. Iraola is managing one game a week, better than...
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    Carabao Cup 24/25

    It's inevitable mate. Would have happened sooner or later, so best to get it over with.
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    Cristian Romero

    He thanked the physios at the Argentine national team for getting him playing again. Not a word on the Spurs medical team, which I suspect speaks volumes on their competence. Even Richarlison (iirc) has gone back to Brazil to seek treatment for his injury.
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    ENIC

    Right, thanks for clarifying mate. I agree it's quixotic to expect that new owners will do too much about the club essentially having rid itself of its lower-income supporters over the last 20 years. Even if they were Qatari sheikhs (for instance) who don't need the money, the extra revenue...
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