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  1. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    I’ve turned into one of the most ‘ENIC needs to spend some money’ guys around, but I don’t think we can blame Levy for having a strategy of developing younger players and hiring the right coach to execute that strategy. I don’t think he thought we would ever get to a CL final so I agree it is...
  2. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ENIC

    Interesting. I agree with you. He’s always been super conservative with his PR. So this was either a way to show the club was ambitious post the Ange sacking - like a way of saying the Europa is not enough, we need the biggest prizes - or he really does think we can realistically challenge for...
  3. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    I’ve answered a lot of your other points above, in admittedly posts that are way too long and probably make most readers want to rip their eyes out, especially around why he might not have used the Europa system in the league. But on the point about Romero and VDV - I think it’s fair to argue...
  4. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Another thought experiment - if the injuries had put us down in say 10th, 8 points off of 6th, when players started to come back properly, I think he would have made different decisions. There was still a chance to maximise our options by making sure we qualified through the league, and ‘seeing...
  5. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Agreed - but for whatever reason he chose not to be in the Premier League. He’s clearly a smart enough guy who knows a bit about football, so rather than jump to something along the lines of him being stupid or stubborn, I’m interested in trying to understand the reason why. It might be - he...
  6. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Agreed on the pre season bit. This is the part I am really fascinated about. Because it’s an actual, substantive ‘football discussion’ as opposed to discussing whether a manager who got us 5th and a European trophy in two seasons is actually ‘good enough for the Premier League’. Ange has...
  7. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    But again, ‘when players returned’, which players actually played in the league? I also can’t believe you don’t think the drop off between VDV and and Gray / Davies isn’t that much. It’s monstrous. One is an 18 year old midfielder playing out of position in his first PL season and the other is...
  8. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    I think the idea that he couldn't cope with 2 games a week in a normal season is absolute nonsense. A specific context this season meant that this was what we saw. I think Steff above just did a good job explaining it. The drop off in quality of our back ups was in some cases vast. He is not a...
  9. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    I don't think it was either / or, I think it was risk / reward. Ange said to these players that they would come through the hardship of the season, become legends of the club, and be winners at the end of it. To achieve that, he optimised for results in the Europa League. If he had a normal...
  10. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Urrrggghh we weren’t throwing our hands up and not expecting anything else though were we? We were winning the Europa League and qualifying for the Champions League!! That was his solution to salvage the season! Not some arbitrary charge up the table to some pointless league position that would...
  11. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    I genuinely think you don’t remember what it was like in those months, and I don’t think Saudi Sportswashing Machine endured something similar to what we did. To say that ‘injuries might be an excuse’ and say that maybe 8th would have been acceptable is just completely off of what exactly we were enduring. But...
  12. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Why would injuries not appropriate context to use though? 😂😂 Why would a manager not having his best players available impact his ability to get results?
  13. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Isn’t the point about when our injuries happened, and who they happened to? Like, they were mainly confined to a 3 month period where we also had the Christmas and European schedule to contend with. And it involved our first choice defence, both our strikers, our wingers, our top scorer, our...
  14. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Clear as day that the fact that the players stuck together through the ridiculous circumstances was not only a theme of his motivation, but a massive coaching achievement in its own right. When we ask for context, this is what we mean. Any other manager who suffered the league defeats that he...
  15. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    This is what I find completely mad. Emirates Marketing Project, with their resources, basically get blown off course and have a trophyless season because Rodri gets injured. Eddie Howe went from being under pressure, dealing with a lot of injuries and a PL + CL schedule at once, and then was back in good graces...
  16. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    I don’t disagree with you there on any part! I truly hope the talk of wanting to win the PL and CL is backed up by the decision makers at the club.
  17. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Obviously he made those comments before a crazy injury crisis hit and a decision has to be made in how to salvage the season. And his point was that unless he has set the club up for long term success, one trophy here and there is not going to change that.
  18. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    My view is that if Ange had a deeper squad and normalised injuries, and actually had the opportunity to properly play the football he wanted to play, there was a chance we could punch above our weight. Because to do that by having a system, it requires getting those specific pieces in place in...
  19. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Or we just try something that requires such a belief and such bravery that no other club would dare try it? I think to out perform our financial position we need to do something different. Maybe that something is Frank getting it right every game with his adjustments. Or maybe it could have...
  20. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    If Frank ends up being the perfect combination of defence and attack, and that was what it took for us to out perform our financial position, I’d be delighted. I wouldn’t say thought that Ange was just about attack attack attack. I think done well it swarms the opposition and keeps them far...
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