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  1. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Whether it has come up in debate before or not (and it definitely HAS) I think there are two things: Just like the wage budget can be lower because we’re in a cycle of younger players starting their careers with us, transfer net spend can be higher because we’re in a cycle of refreshing the...
  2. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Top 10 is way too easy. We would have been there under any manager next season. Top 6 likely too. I expect top 6 at a minimum, a credible challenge for the top 4 (or does 4th even matter anymore? 5th probably fine?) and ideally a great cup run. Will be delighted and eat some humble pie if...
  3. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Cristian Romero

    Absolutely love the timing of his post 😂😂
  4. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Ange departs

    I don’t really disagree with what you’re saying here. Indeed I’ve said similar, I would have rather we pushed on under Poch, or Conte (even if that would have only been for another year or two of striving for a title under him). I just don’t think we were that far off it either after Ange’s...
  5. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Ange departs

    I feel like we’ve done the hard yards. Stadium, training ground, CL and at least some form of European football more often than not. A squad with some top players. An actual trophy! Now I want to win the league. I think my mistake was assuming that when the stadium was built we’d start acting...
  6. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Ange departs

    I'm just very fine advocating for new owners who will be willing to invest to a level that will make us title challengers. I am fine taking the risk that we might attract a Casemiro, if there is the potential for us to attract a De Bruyne. Honestly I find this idea mad, we can’t attract the top...
  7. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Ange departs

    I mean...we could turn out to be United post Fergie. We could turn out to be Liverpool under FSG. Or Emirates Marketing Project. Or Chelsea under Roman. I'm fine taking that punt.
  8. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Ange departs

    I just think simply put, the moment we change our wage structure is the moment those elite players choose us. Again, it's not that I don't understand all of the rationale from the perspective's of ENIC's strategy. I totally get it. I'm just arguing that I think it's reached the point where...
  9. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Ange departs

    I completely agree with all of this. I don't think ENIC are terrible owners or villains, I just think their time is up. In the same way that managers are right for a moment in time, or executives in business are, I think they were too. Built the infrastructure, did a phenomenal job with it. Made...
  10. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Ange departs

    it's all relative though. What did other teams do? What kind of wages are they paying? As far as I can make out we're still a distant 6th on wage expenditure, and that's the biggest thing to dictate the quality of player we can attract. It's easy to have a higher net spend figure when we went 18...
  11. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Ange departs

    Ok, that wasn’t really the point I was trying to make... Let’s take any other time - when we got 4th under Conte. Let’s say Klopp did that. Would ENIC have decided they had their man and pushed on? How about after the CL final? The money isn’t there because as owners they won’t invest it...
  12. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Ange departs

    I don’t agree, but even accepting the premise here, the original point was around the idea that ENIC haven’t had the right manager to back. Are you contending that if Klopp got 86 points ENIC would have said ‘we have our guy, let’s invest, push on and build a title challenging team for him’ or...
  13. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Ange departs

    Horrific piece of writing. In a lot of ways I get what he is saying, and I understand why he writes it provocatively. But it just comes across so snide and disrespectful. Whatever we can say about Ange as a manager in terms of tactics or training, the one thing that you clearly can't take away...
  14. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Ange departs

    Sorry, not sure what you're driving at there? If you're saying I understand what else was going on, stadium etc. Course I do. I'm just not convinced it should matter any more to us as fans. I completely understand why from ENIC's perspective, what they do works for them. They have...
  15. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Ange departs

    Look very simply, we need owners who can play by those same rules. City have operated in a league of their own in terms of owner backing, fine. But Liverpool have managed to get there with smart investment at the right time. I suspect that Chelsea will keep getting closer again. It is not...
  16. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Ange departs

    I agree with your second para. They didn't even push on when we were finishing 2nd with 86 points. Or when making the CL final. We simply weren't going to finish anywhere near 17th again under Ange or anyone else. We'd very likely be back in the top 6 whoever was manager. I want to win the...
  17. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Ange departs

    I would have loved to have stuck with Poch or allowed him to strengthen when we were challenging for the title. I would have loved to have backed Conte, considering he has proven he can win the league against richer opponents if he gets the right pieces for his system. We have not had a...
  18. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Ange departs

    Honestly I just don't understand how the context of a massive, historic injury crisis and a relentless schedule keeps getting ignored! He finished 5th in his first season! As you say, Spurs is a top 6 club. I have full confidence we would have been back to 6th as a minimum in his 3rd season.
  19. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Ange departs

    I think 'multitude of reasons' is doing a lot of work there to be honest. We haven't kicked on because we didn't back Poch. Or Conte. Poch and Klopp started at the same time. Liverpool kicked on with an aggressive move for a top goalkeeper and centre back and have won league titles. Poch was...
  20. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Ange departs

    I think even the eye test shows we played a very different form of football from December onwards. That was the coaching staff adapting. There was no solving of his system, because we weren't even playing his system. On your last point, I think they saw enough. From Poch. From Conte. Arguably...
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