As a fan I would like a change. This is supposed to be entertainment and a past time. Spurs are enduring currently and we’ve got used to winning more than we lose over the past decade.
If I was running the club, I would be conscious that what we have missed is stability. No recent manager has had time to truly build a winning side. You have to take steps back to go forward sometimes. All the development work that has taken place towards a goal is scrapped, reset and we start again. And this manager hasn’t actually had a stable first 11. Any manager is going to find it tough going missing the spine right now.
I would be talking with Ange. I would be looking at the vision and evidence of us going towards a goal, over and above injuries. And then I would try to make it work. But at what point does it look untenable to Levy? When all the noise is negative how do players and the management stay positive? So I’d be monitoring that too. And looking for a plan as to how we would draw some light from this season.
Not sure what the third perspective is youre referring to, maybe it’s your take…
It was yours, the fans, the club. But you've covered it.
My take - he's gone. He was gone in December for me after he refused to make changes to effect the games, adapt to the horrendous injury crisis and then double down with his "it's how we play" bs.
At new year I have him a small further chance after the Man U game. But that game was the exception.
He wants to only play one way. He uses the injuries as a reason for not being able to get results playing that way, but fails to adapt.
He wants to have his cake and eat it, and then be stroppy if someone points out it's unhealthy to eat all the cake.
A win % around 40 and defeat % over 50 in the past 13 months isn't acceptable with the resources he has available to him.
If we 9/10th, I'd accept the injury position. But we're 8 points from the drop zone, nothing shows any signs of improvement. The performances haven't acceptable for a year. The tactics haven't been acceptable for a year. They are tactics that rely on playing against players of an inferior standard to the EPL.
I was willing to allow Ange to have his own learning and development curve in this rebuild - but he clearly can't/won't, so there is little to suggest much will change.
I would have loved for him to succeed, I think it would be fantastic for doped up football landscape as well as for Spurs.
But romance isn't reality.
It's goodbye Ange. It has been entertaining.
