Have you watched us for more than 10 minutes? Our attacking style consists of compressing the pitch in the opposition half, playing narrow, passing the ball sideways for eternity, causing 0 concerns for the opposition’s defence. There are times when our wingers try to dribble through 2-3 defenders which is obviously not going to produce much effect unless we’d have Messi on both flanks. And when we end up crossing the ball, we have one or two players in the box against a whole backline. That’s the broad attacking pattern in the last 2-3 months at Spurs. This is as dull as Conte’s football. In fact, we played more effective attacking football in Conte’s first season, in the last 10-15 games than we play now.
Fair enough . Most teams play fairly slow possession football nowadays. Guess looks and views can be deceiving .
The Spurs fans will be able to correct me on this if I'm wrong but I don't think they give their managers much scope to sign the players they want.
Well considering bigger managers like Mourinho and Conte didn't get that luxury would tell me he won't get very far making that demand
To be fair, I suspect that was more to do with the amount they expected to spend, rather than the bald creep refusing them the ability to make purchase per se. Maybe Ange will get more joy if he's willing to be clever in who he buys and what he spends.
Depends on the kind of players he wants, if his aim is to get 30 year olds for £80m then he won't get them. But he'll probably have an idea what kind of players he wants and have the scouting/data team and Lange/Paratici make a shortlist of players that fit those criteria. I don't think there's many clubs left that give their manager a wildcard on who they want to sign.
I don’t quite know right now mate. Before Nuno/Conte were hired, when we were looking for a long time manager, I rated these three: Nagelsmann, Marco Rose and Erik ten Hag. I know the latter is not highly regarded anymore because of his Man Utd stint, though I feel he’d be closer at home if he was Spurs manager than Man Utd’s. Marco Rose failed to set the world alight at Dortmund, but has done a pretty solid job anywhere else. And for Nagelsmann, apparently we were interested in him, but don’t know what happened.
Ten Hag did well at Ajax with a team that way too good for the league and had 4 times the budget of it's nearest competitor. Then he went to Man Utd and spent £500m and has not improved them one bit, hasn't managed to make them play better football, hasn't managed to improve their defensive record or offensive record. Man Utd have the most shots conceded out of 96 teams in the top 5 leagues fgs. I genuinely rather have Frank De Boer than Erik Ten Hag
Yeah, unlike then hag he hasn't been here 3 seasons, spent 500m and made us worse in every regard. There's plenty of issues to sort out and Ange might turn out not good enough but Ten Hag has already proven hes completely out of his depth, his attack, his defence, his transfers, his post match interviews all show he doesn't have a clue what he's doing and has no place at this level. Sent from my SM-F731B using Tapatalk
I think the difference is Ange is looked at as a long term manager. Jose and Conte were expected to win with the core of Kane, Son, Lloris, etc. Ange is here to rebuild a squad and not expected to win anything right away. I doubt people even expected us to challenge top four in year one.
