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  1. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I think Frank is very likely an interesting person, great to talk to, and as it relates to our squad I’m certain that our players want to do right by him. He is a good guy, no question. I wouldn’t be surprised if being a ‘good person’ was a key part of the criteria that the board interviewed...
  2. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I think it’s an intangible quality of leadership. You understand the people, you understand what will inspire them, you understand the context of your environment, and then you communicate something effectively that gets people to fall in behind you. Frank started slow at Brentford so maybe it...
  3. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I think we’re in a funny spot as a club where we have players that have too much belief in themselves to want to be overly coached, and yet not quite enough quality to just be left to run the game as they see fit like under Ancelotti. Which is why I feel we oscillate between these different...
  4. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Personally the selection against Arsenal didn’t concern me. I was interested to see how it could work, and was excited to try and catch them out like we did PSG. I thought selecting for height made sense, and I believed we could do something. But…setting up like that and allowing that first...
  5. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I’m sorry but I just don’t agree that we don’t have players in the squad that couldn’t play a more progressive style of football. Many people have said - a different manager could play one of Palinha or Bentancur, partnered with any 2 out of Bergval, Sarr, Gray, Xavi and we’d be perfectly...
  6. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    There’s plenty of people saying he’s only playing this way because that’s all the squad is capable of. This is the result of that. I’m sure people actually think that (as I have also said) the idea is especially in the big games to look much more like the Super Cup than the Arsenal game. But...
  7. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Just crazy to me that people will genuinely say our squad isn’t good enough to play better than 0.05xG attacking output. Like seriously…what are we talking about here? We are not a League 2 side going up against the best in the country. We are at very minimum a top 8 side and the idea of Frank...
  8. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I didn’t hate Spence over Porro, as I assumed it was about height vs their set pieces. And hey…they didn’t score from a set piece! We would lack passing from Spence but gain carrying…still could have worked in possession if we had any intention whatsoever to do anything with it.
  9. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    You’re right on shape, but it still gets at the core issue people have. In possession he’s done 5-2-3, 4-2-4 and 4-1-5. In each of those instances there is nominally a potential mismatch, overload, or at least getting them going backwards with equal numbers defending our attackers. The issue...
  10. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    if that’s the case then he’s doing something pretty drastically wrong, and maybe that would explain a lot.
  11. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    We can say the players are not good enough for some idealised final stage we will hopefully arrive at where we truly start competing for the PL and CL. That I agree with, But in the last few weeks we’ve managed to put together our two worst Xg performances since records began. The players are...
  12. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I just don’t think having to rebuild the attack is the chief reason for what we are seeing to be honest. The stats you see in the post above mine, they are not because he’s had to replace 4 internationals with 4 other internationals. I think it’s something deeper. I’m not saying his system is...
  13. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    One other point on culture and the difficulty in changing it; When Dele says ‘just smashing it long and fudging defending, same thing every game’. It’s an interesting insight into the psyche of a squad that had great success doing something a different way. You’d probably never hear Lampard or...
  14. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    It’s funny…when Frank was hired I actually fully believed that it was a strategic move by the club to say ‘thank you Ange for the trophy, and for guiding us through a tough season, but we want to hire someone more closely aligned with our Sporting Director.’ And I saw Frank and Lange’s history...
  15. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I think having some key lieutenants trusting in the vision is really crucial. Mason and Kane, which then filters into the dynamics around the squad like Bentaleb, Rose, Walker, Dier, Townsend. Add Jan into that who finally had a manager who could get the best out of him after his feud with...
  16. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Yeah, all very fair, and what’s interesting is that the shortlist was basically leaked in January - it was Frank. Silva and Iraola. So it wasn’t as if we were going for someone with deep CL experience. We then qualified which was a bonus, but yeah…surely we aren’t sacking our trophy winning...
  17. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I feel for him here. It’s Frank being a nice guy in the press conferences, basically sharing a ‘dad joke’ and trying to bring humour to a situation that could have been seen as embarrassing for Spurs. Footballers are weird though, and known to take absolute non-slights as excuses for...
  18. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Your last point is a really interesting one. I happen to be one of the people that would have given Ange this season, but when you think about the fact that we sacked our European trophy winning manager, you’d have to expect that we’re doing that because we’re damn sure that the replacement is...
  19. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ***OFFICIAL***SPURS***L'arse***OMT***

    Agreed. It’s a bizarre way of talking down a clearly talented player we have signed, who so far has been playing in a system designed to bypass him.
  20. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ***OFFICIAL***SPURS***L'arse***OMT***

    To be clear, I understand that it was a defensive set up with the intention to be reactive and counter. My point was that I would assume Frank would have wanted us to offer something offensively, like in the Super Cup. The fact that we didn’t even see that is why I think there is a disconnect.
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