Ange Postecoglou | New Spurs boss on 4 year contract

Had a quick shufty at one of the Spurs forums. No idea if this is one of the more sensible forums or not. Most common view seems to be that he deserves another season but will need to improve. Lots of giving him a 6/10 for the season. Most common complaints levelled at the manager seem to be quality of football after Christmas, being so weak at set plays and that they're easy to outmanoeuvre tactically.
 
quadrant said:
Had a quick shufty at one of the Spurs forums. No idea if this is one of the more sensible forums or not. Most common view seems to be that he deserves another season but will need to improve. Lots of giving him a 6/10 for the season. Most common complaints levelled at the manager seem to be quality of football after Christmas, being so weak at set plays and that they're easy to outmanoeuvre tactically.
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Fair assessment.

He's going to need to be smarter about things next season. They ended up scraping 5th with no mid-week football and having their season propped up by some title-challenging form at the very start of the season, while the expected rivals for European places happened to all be quite shit for most of the campaign.
 
Well they ended up higher than I thought they would after selling Kane and hiring Postecoglu, I was expecting 8th-10th. Had a crazy run of injuries at one point as well. How do the Spurs fans on here feel? 5th and Europa league good enough to get Big Ange another season?

The squad overall needs work, dont really see Levy giving Postecoglu any money unless they sell however. But he may get some funds if they move a bunch of players surplus to requirements and players that want out(Ndombele, Gil, Royal, Lo Celso, Hojbjerg, Solomon, Perisic, etc).
 
duffer said:
Good season from him. Spurs fans seem a lot happier with him than he is with them.
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Some of their fans seem to have turned on him because of results in 2024. Combined with his recent comments.

At least on The Fighting Cock anyway. Spurs fans can be quite deranged due to always being the bridesmaid. They're sick of being Spursy.
 
Fallon d'Floor said:
Some of their fans seem to have turned on him because of results in 2024. Combined with his recent comments.

At least on The Fighting Cock anyway. Spurs fans can be quite deranged due to always being the bridesmaid. They're sick of being Spursy.
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Their results have been horrific for a long time now. It was ok when they had awful run with Romero and Van De Ven out but they and Madison have been back for most of their shit results of late. They basically had a rich man's Brighton season, carried by a good early run. I wouldn't blame them for being very worried about him, even though in the context of losing Kane I'd give him leeway.
 
DJ Jeff said:
Their results have been horrific for a long time now. It was ok when they had awful run with Romero and Van De Ven out but they and Madison have been back for most of their shit results of late. They basically had a rich man's Brighton season, carried by a good early run. I wouldn't blame them for being very worried about him, even though in the context of losing Kane I'd give him leeway.
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They didn't play badly in the defeats against Arsenal, Liverpool or City though. You can see that they have the potential to be a good team.

They're able to mix it with these teams for sustained spells in games, but aren't ruthless enough.

A new DM and ST should be their priorities for next season. They probably need to bring in a prolific wide player as well. They needs more goals in the team.

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Why’s spurs only playing 1 defender in their friendly against Hearts? All out attack.
 
DJ_21 said:
Why’s spurs only playing 1 defender in their friendly against Hearts? All out attack.
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van de Ven, Romero and Dragusin given extra time off after the summer tournaments, Udogie and Davies injured apparently.
 
Bought a lot of youth prospects. Have not really improved the first team though, you would imagine it is the same line-up as last season.
 
Really likeable guy but I think his lack of adaptability will be Spurs’ downfall.

They’ll continue to play well consistently, create chances galore but be undone by naive tactics/defending. Strange because once refined they’ve got some really strong personnel defensively.

I do think they could be a surprise package (in a negative sense) this season.
 
Meh. Dominated the game and should won. Starting Odobert was a bad decision, he was horrific. Nothing wrong with the football they play.
 
ForFuchsSake said:
Really likeable guy but I think his lack of adaptability will be Spurs’ downfall.

They’ll continue to play well consistently, create chances galore but be undone by naive tactics/defending. Strange because once refined they’ve got some really strong personnel defensively.

I do think they could be a surprise package (in a negative sense) this season.
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I think it is actually pretty good to create 'chances galore'. It is not his tactics failing, it is the finishing of his players. He cant kick the ball in the goal for his players.
 
Stadjer said:
I think it is actually pretty good to create 'chances galore'. It is not his tactics failing, it is the finishing of his players. He cant kick the ball in the goal for his players.
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Well, yes. By ‘chances galore’ I mean they’re unlikely to struggle for goals. That shouldn’t be in vain though because of defensive issues which I think will be Spurs’ undoing and possibly Ange’s too.
 
Spurs might be more entertaining to watch but they don't look like doing anything at the same time

Stuck in a roundabout
 
That was dreadful

They might’ve taken a step back with the Solanke signing.

They made up for Kane by being a bit more dynamic going forward, and now they’re going back to crossing balls to a worse version of Kane
 
They haven’t recruited well in attack in my opinion. Johnson and Solanke is about as mid as it gets and Son seems to have dropped a level
 
He is amazing! I base all my opinions off the genius sports panels…they told me last season…all the players know what they are doing and he has a “style of play”

Won feck all last season but don’t let those small details get in the way mate!
 
Robbie Boy said:
They've spent a lot on Solanke and Johnson. Two very average players imo.
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Solanke has just arrived, i think he will be okay but Johnson was an absolute waste of money.
 
44 points from their last 32 games. That good run at the start of last season was very obviously an outlier. They’ve been poor for the clear majority of his time in charge. Will be lucky to make it to Christmas at this rate.
 
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