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    Interim Manager Discussion - Igor Tudor joined until end of season

    Feel the same about de Zerbi. Has experience at this level and seems all round a decent manager who could suit this squad quite well. But like you I'm guessing he'd want a permanent deal. Most likely a more clear interim manager would be my guess. And probably Pochettino come the summer.
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Let's see what actually happens and how quickly. That phrase could be said in many different circumstances.
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Can't see how he could stay. Been an absolute mess of a season and while there are many factors in that it just hasn't worked at all for him. He's a good manager, but like almost all managers he needs the right circumstances for him.
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    Frank Give him time or get rid?

    Opening 9 games we outperformed our xG by 5.8 goals, our xG against by 3.7. Opening 9 games we played all three teams currently in the bottom three, as well as Leeds, Brighton from the bottom third, Everton and Bournemouth in the current middle third. Only City and Villa from the top third of...
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    OMT Spurs vs Geordies 7.30 Tuesday 10th Feb

    The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about playing football. It is nothing of the kind. The game is about sitting back, it's about hoping for a chance to put in a long throw and waiting for the opposition to die of boredom.
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    OMT Spurs vs Geordies 7.30 Tuesday 10th Feb

    They were better than us at just about everything in the first half. They absolutely dominated. Could easily have scored more than the one they did score. Obviously difficult to know how much of that was them being good at stuff or us being bad at stuff. But they were all kinds of better than us...
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    OMT Spurs vs Geordies 7.30 Tuesday 10th Feb

    To do that you first have to get the ball forward and then players forward.
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    OMT Spurs vs Geordies 7.30 Tuesday 10th Feb

    The difference is they could attack. And they wanted to attack. At 0-0 we essentially played as if we were playing for a draw. Once we took the handbrake off and tried getting forward we played alright I thought. Shame it again takes us going behind to start trying to play.
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    OMT Spurs vs Geordies 7.30 Tuesday 10th Feb

    It's funny that Frank said something about playing with no risk being the biggest risk or something like that, because that's who we are. Big important game, at home, vulnerable opposition. We lack our best deep passer so we play 3 box to box midfielders in a midfield three and for me a grand...
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    OMT Spurs vs Geordies 7.30 Tuesday 10th Feb

    They had 10 corners in the first half, loads of situations, crosses. Get enough of those situations and ultimately a mistake will happen. It was also never a penalty. We were clueless on the ball in the first half. As we have been most season.
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    OMT Spurs vs Geordies 7.30 Tuesday 10th Feb

    Because Frank"s response to being desperate is to set up defensively and hope we nick a goal from a set piece?
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    OMT Spurs vs Geordies 7.30 Tuesday 10th Feb

    Ended up with the Levy cheapskate signing of Npanic instead...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Ange gets brought up by different people. Both to criticise Frank and to defend Frank it seems. And probably also just leftovers of past disagreements. To some extent comparing how a manager is doing to how the last guy was doing is probably helpful. But for sure Ange gets brought up a lot...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    I have no real disagreements with Ange getting sacked. Personally I was torn on that, but can definitely see the rationale for him having to go. I think some of the descriptions of him and his football are over the top, and for a manager who oversaw us lifting our first trophy in 17 years, and...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    We were inconsistent, there for sure were flaws there. But we were also good at times.
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    If only things were that easy to fix... Ange naive and incompetent, bring in someone pragmatic and competent, surely things will improve. Did the attacking and high risk football thing, didn't work so surely going in the opposite direction will be the right decision. Meanwhile Ange had one...
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    ****Tottenham Hotspur v Man Utd********* OMT Official

    Game state will swing different ways, the example above may also be one where if you score first you get a higher xG because the game opens up. Over a larger sample size teams will play in many different game states and while expected points obviously isn't some kind of perfect measure of...
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    ****Tottenham Hotspur v Man Utd********* OMT Official

    Last season's results in the league were actually unfortunate. Injuries, sure. Prioritising the CL, sure. But we were actually also unfortunate with regards to xG (12 points worth of unfortunate according to understat). This season we've been unfortunate with regards to xG to the extent of 3,5...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Thanks for what gave me a positive take. At some point in the future all I'll remember is spending more time watching Danso wipe the ball off for a long throw than watching us play good football and hopefully then I'll much prefer the football I'm watching. Ange for all his flaws (or however...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    That's a big if 😉 Alternatively they have no idea what the right decision is and are just hoping it works out well enough that we don't get into a relegation scrap.
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