Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

[braineclipse]

Firstly, you are entitled to your opinion of course. You say that if we were poorly managed we wouldn't have beaten City or Liverpool with a depleted side, I would therefore argue we wouldn't have lost against Everton, Ipswich, Wolves or several other lesser clubs we have lost against. We are now called doctor Tottenham, which means when we play poor performing sides we get to cheer them up when they beat us. This is quite funny, but yet true. Under Ange we have become a laughing stock.

I also refuse to believe that two games a week for a professional footballer in their prime should fatigue them. Mo Sala is the same age as Son, he plays every game and shows no signs of being tired. Ange loves to use this as an excuse to help cover his total incompetence as a coach. Although a side note, I find the man arrogant, very dislikeable, and when he is interviewed by the press I think he does himself and the club a disfavour. I have been attending Spurs since 1971 and can't remember a manager I think is more naive or incompetent than this one. Once more though, if you like him that's your choice.

The doctor Tottenham thing is not a new thing.

Well managed teams underperforming in games and losing to smaller teams is a thing v that happens with some regularity though. Injury struck teams beating better teams if poorly managed is more rare I think. At least we're having a disagreement of opinions now, I appreciate that rather than just claiming your opinions as truths.

If you refuse to believe that two games a week over time can cause fatigue for footballers that's fine. I think you're disagreeing with most of sports science people, most managers, most players who talk about this kind of stuff. There being individuals who don't suffer that fatigue much doesn't disprove that.

I don't think Ange has "loves using that as an excuse". I think he's complaines less about injuries than most managers in a similar situation.

 

[Muttley]

I think I am a pretty easy man to please. I seem to be more positive at present than 90% of the people on the forum. I thought we were undercooked for this seasons campaign, that isn't something I've decided recently with hindsight but something I said at the end of the transfer window and I think that has perhaps been proven with what has happened.

You can see the club had no intention of playing Austin and Whiteman by the way they immediately signed Kinsky when Forster got ill.
IMO Forster being on the payroll doesn't automatically make him suitable cover for Vicario, our system needs a keeper who is good with his feet, Forster is anything but. I'm really pleased with the Kinsky signing.

Regi is on our payroll simply because we couldn't shift him. He has proven himself to not be good enough over a few years. We need better.

Replacing Skipp and Hojbjerg with the two 18 year olds will be great for the future. Both players have massively higher upsides than the two they replaced. However, both also still have lots of developing to do and we are therefore weaker in the short term.

Everything we have done and are doing is for the long term from what I can see. That is great. It is why I am actually reasonably happy despite our league position. It seems to me that we are finally trying to do something significant instead of aiming for 6th and hoping for 4th. It seems however that many of those on here are not as patient as I am in this case.

Yeah, I get it.

I don't want to be a hypocrite myself. I've always lambasted the club for stockpiling players and making weak decisions. I felt it was strong of them to not get a LB when we had 2 others behind the first choice at the club. Ditto with Forster. Ange sanctioned the extension of that contract, and the new contract for Austin. We didn't have 1 keeper. We had 4. You make your choices in life.

Moving forward, I want this to be a squad strategy and policy. No more proliferation of the squad. The numbers set themselves within the parameters set by the governing bodies. If you can't rightsize, you don't get to add.

A Spurs manager's job is to fully utilise the squad he's been given between transfer windows. Accepting Reggie for what he is should have been part of that. Pretending you don't have that player just borders on plain stupid. It's cutting your nose off to spite your face. Ideally, you don't have to use your 25th guy. When injuries hit you do. You don't start bleating on about "11 fit players" when you have a prime footballer who has played for a tier 1 international team sitting there. Respect is lost at that point.