Sacking Ange would be ultimate Spurs move
Writing in to reply to paul merson from yesterday’s mailbox.
Paul merson writes ‘Ange’s refusal to assess opponents and not change his (plan A, same as Plan B tactics) are getting found out in the top league, as I knew they would.’
Do you think Ange will go on and do a Klopp, or have Spurs as a clear second best in the league? Probably not (almost definitely not). But that would be Spurs punching miles above their weight, and even with Spurs thinking back to their dreamboat Poch – even he managed to finish third in a two horse race and absolutely turn to water in the Champions League final.
For some context. Spurs have not won the league since 1961. The FA Cup since 1991. League Cup was the last trophy win in 2008.
Since Spurs last won a trophy, Leicester have won the Prem, the FA Cup and I will throw in the Charity Shield as well, just to make it 3-0. Spurs are not a trophy winning club over the last 60 years or so.
So Spurs fans. What do you want next after apparently wanting to sack Ange? A “serial winner” that plays pragmatic football? Great idea, that worked well the last two times.
A left field selection that is starting to pull a style of play together and build a squad out of the shambles that was there before? Yeah, you have that now and you want to bin him for basically not being Pep.
Sacking Ange now after just over a year in the gig and starting to change things would just be wonderfully Spursy. You could only top that by going and hiring Ten Hag or something.
Dixon Hunt
Dr Tottenham or Mr Hotspur?
Just reading the manager rankings and caught another reference to Dr Tottenham, I wonder if we are at the point when they have honed their skills and are now so perfectly precise and surgically excellent in their pursuit of perfection, that they should be promoted to, or have passed all the exams and are fully qualified and as such should now be referred to, as all surgeons should…. Mr Hotspur?
Just thought..
Why is no one seemingly talking about Antonee Robinson for a left back – Seems as good as anything I have seen for 2 seasons. Has he got a 5yr Fulham contract. I’d have him in a heartbeat!
Al – LFC (keep going Arne, I already think you can keep or replace Trent and Mo whichever you wish! Amazingly my trust levels after 11 games are insane)
Pep staying? Get in
Pep Guardiola extending his contract is fantastic news for all City fans. So so so happy to have him in charge for even longer, although I did think it was likely to happen as I wrote last week.
And I look forward to seeing him dominate League Two and showing your Barrows, your Newports, your Bromleys what’s up.
Andy D. Manchester. MCFC
Klopp as coach > Klopp as man
Nearly spat my coffee this morning when I’d read it and who knows if we take all reports as fact, but did Jurgen Klopp really see Antony fit to replace (the then possibly departing) Mo Salah? Blimey… our same beloved gaffer who wanted Julian Brandt over the Egyptian king before he’d come in, and wanted that heaving pile of Brazilian uselessness after, bless him.
Unlike David Coote I’ve nothing but love and a trunkful of fond memories for Klopp and his reign. Also don’t know what his new remit will be exactly, presiding over the Red Bull umbrella, but on our little patch thank god for the return of Michael Edwards (and the installment of Richard Hughes). While there’s little debate Klopp was an excellent leader and one consistently capable of doing the most with the least, he had massive blind spots when it came to recruitment. And we paid dearly at times with numerous opportunity costs.
As much as I enjoyed Thiago, he was an inarguably poor signing for us and one Edwards would’ve never sanctioned on his own. Same could be said of Darwin (and though the jury’s still out, it doesn’t look great). Naby Keita wasn’t necessarily poor recruitment, but he was woefully short in robustness and always lacked the fitness profile to geggenpress eight days weekly. There are more examples I’m sure, but just trying to get to what I’m saying…
Which is simply that I’m on board with Arne Slot and Michael Edwards. It’s the proper setup.
I’ll forever miss Klopp on the touchline and any Liverpool supporter will be ever grateful he came to us, but dare I say the club might be in better hands now going forward. More prudent, more sustainable hands. Less emotion. Klopp was the right man at the right time; I’m convinced nobody could’ve come in to wake the slumbering giant as he did. But from where we are now, where we could go, I think FSG have got it right once again… by putting the proper people in place to get it right, once again.
Eric, Los Angeles CA (Also just my opinion but I don’t think moving Kane into a roving 10 role for England is the answer. Kane should sit. Rooney shared many of Kane’s attributes while in decline and shifted back, but at that time England weren’t spoilt for choice in that position as they will be for 2026. Kane could be devastating off the bench from the 70th, as needed, and as a 9.)
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