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    Ange departs

    No different to any other major club these days. The coaching team are not that involved in transfers any more, because the footballing strategy is set by the sporting director and the coaching staff are expendable - the strategy should carry on under a new head coach. The head coach does get...
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    Ange departs

    He wasn't exceptional at CB. He was passable as a kid who clearly hadn't played in the position before. Don't see that being his future at all. Not a top level future anyway. You're right about him looking like a rabbit in the headlights in CM. But then the team has been such a mess its hard...
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    Ange departs

    No, they can't do all that. Yes, City are getting more from commercial than Real Madrid. They're also facing 115 charges of breaching FA rules and possible expulsion from the PL, or default relegation by virtue of the relevant points deduction.
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    Ange departs

    Owners can't really bank-roll a club anymore. Not like Mansour or Abramovich did anyway. Look at Saudi Sportswashing Machine. They've invested more wisely but necessarily a huge amount more. The limit of what owners can pump into Spurs has been pretty much what ENIC have been pumping in recently, they provided...
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    Ange departs

    Come on, that really would be stupid. Even if the club come down on the side of keeping him, that would be done in the knowledge and with im sure the contingency planning in place for an early sacking if next season starts as this one has ended....youre not gong to pile on the compo you have to...
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    Ange departs

    I absolutely think if he's to be kept on he needs a really experienced assistant that isn't afraid to challenge constructively.
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    Ange departs

    It's not really silly. IF we are going to let him continue it would be silly to do that without some hefty caveats. He isn't getting a big contract extension and long-term security let's put it that way. He's on a final written warning.
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    Ange departs

    Why dont you see it happening again? I keep saying it but we got 5th because Ange went his first 10 games unbeaten, posting 8 wins and 24 points. That's over 36% of our season points total in just over 26% of the season's games. Since that fast stat we've seen a steady decline in PPG, that's...
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    Ange departs

    This is the thing though. It's a repeat of previous patterns. We are never allowed to analyse performances under this guy are we? - We draw away at Leicester, lose against Saudi Sportswashing Machine, blow a 2-0 lead away at Brighton and lose at Palace with our first choice players available and its "but our...
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    Ange departs

    I think it does nail it to be honest. Ange has delivered us a trophy and CL football, which is a unique opportunity, to invest and supplement the core of very promising young players we have accumulated. We may not get another similar opportunity to complete the rebuild - we've been offered a...
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    Ange departs

    There's no doubt it was an achievement. And it shouldn't be downplayed. Only analysed in the context as to whether that achievement should allow a stay of execution from the horrendous league performances. The achievement was certainly based on a change of tactics for the knock out stages and...
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    Ange departs

    Yep. Over 38 games you'll generally find your level with a few exceptions (Leicester or Deportivo La Coruna coming from nowhere to win the PL or La Liga only to dissappear quickly back into obscurity). Cup football is a strange old beast and rewards temporary runs of form and luck. Of course...
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    OMT: European Champions v Brighton - Sunday 25 May

    There is a wholly different set of criteria that some apply to Postecoglu when compared to other managers. Funnily enough this difference in criteria seems to extend to that used by the club senior management when you look at what got previous head coaches the sack. On injuries, and "throwing...
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    OMT: European Champions v Brighton - Sunday 25 May

    So a well drilled set up utilising the strengths of what was available while minimising the weaknesses, right? Son in his pomp comment too - there's an assumption that the marked decline in Son's contribution over the last two seasons is down to age. And I do think thats an assumption.
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    OMT: European Champions v Brighton - Sunday 25 May

    I think the squad would appear a lot better with "proper drilling" as you say. Conte got us 4th with: Kane Son Kulusevski (for half a season) Emerson Bentancur (for half a season) Hojbjerg Sessegnon Dier Romero Davies Lloris There wasn't a huge amount on the bench for him either.... Now...
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    OMT: European Champions v Brighton - Sunday 25 May

    So at what point does it become a legitimate decision to get rid of him for you? Because the downwards trend is there. The "everything else that has happened" presumably the Europa win and constant injuries. I'm just trying to figure out at what point being right at the bottom of the league...
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    OMT: European Champions v Brighton - Sunday 25 May

    What if we are in the bottom 3 with 10 games gone. You still going to give him the entire season?
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    OMT: European Champions v Brighton - Sunday 25 May

    What are you trying to say here? Why excuse the inexcusable? We just played Brighton reserves at home with pretty much all bar 3 positions filled with our best first XI players. Yes, they players are coming off a final and resulting celebrations, but Brighton reserves had 67% possession, 23...
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    OMT: European Champions v Brighton - Sunday 25 May

    True....
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    OMT: European Champions v Brighton - Sunday 25 May

    Our team was much closer to our starting XI than theirs.
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