JimJams

https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/ange-postecoglou-sacked-tottenham-hotspur-head-coach-lm2v3vb0n >it was not only the results. When the pressure mounted, the club were unimpressed by Postecoglou’s antics and believed certain players checked out. There were concerns about attention to detail and fears that the injury situation that derailed his first two seasons could, with the added strain of the Champions League, be repeated in a third. >Others made a connection between his high-intensity methods and the high number of muscle injuries. Medical experts estimate that about half the hamstring strains are linked to sprinting, and Tottenham were posting unusually large numbers for both. This season, ten Spurs players suffered hamstring injuries and in February, at the height of their injury crisis, 39 per cent of their injuries had been hamstring related, compared to the league average of 23.5 per cent. Tottenham were the top team for sprints (4,200) in the Premier League. >Even with nine men against Chelsea in November 2023, Postecoglou refused to adjust. “It’s who we are mate,” he said afterwards, while at half-time, according to one source in the dressing room, he told the players: “Even if there’s five or six of you out there, you don’t stop running.” >Those ideas grated with medical staff, who warned Postecoglou early in his first season the data for sprint and high-intensity distances in training was too high. Postecoglou insisted the players needed to endure to adapt. Staff were dismayed when he ignored advice around how long players should stay on in games, particularly those returning from injuries. They told him the risk rate of recurrence for a hamstring injury doubles after an hour but Van de Ven played 79 minutes against Chelsea last December, before going off with another hamstring tear. >insiders at Tottenham felt Postecoglou gambled too often and leaned too heavily on players’ opinions, which led to overly optimistic judgments around recovery times.

Ateltico Madrids Brazilian Miranda?

They'd probably tell us to bogof though unfortunately.

Because, like the man himself, he talks a good game.

It's as different thing though replacing a manager, especially one that's been in the job as long as Frank has. They've done well replacing forwards in the last 5 years, but one shit manager and they could be in trouble. They has a poor season in 23/24. Get a repeat of that with somebody in charge that nobody believes in and it's shit creek, no paddle. Could of course go the other way. We might see Frank struggle at Spurs and Brentford continue to thrive.

They did. You're wank.

We already can't defend for shit. Don't think we need Ange to double down on that.

So Brentford will lose Mbuemo and possibly Frank this summer. I think their slide starts now...

"Raid"? Does that mean they want more than one? Please???

There's no excuse to keep Coady. Fxxk him off at the first opportunity if we're lucky enough to find someone as stupid as we were.

If we need free CBs we go for Darling and Mbemba!

That was never proved!

Bournemouth maybe cos Kepa is off. Why West Ham though? Areola is their number 1.

Mads to Man Utd makes sense on the face of it but I just don't see him being an Amorim target tbh.

Okoli out - Darling in then?

And they've just spunked on Cunha and will on Mbuemo, and none of the players they want to sell want to go currently. He's staying innit.

You don't like Fatawu? You are dead to me...

And nothing should. The rule has been bent/broken for other bigger clubs within a network, it'd be a pisstake to enforce anything against Palace.

They're not paying 9mill though.

Yeah, interesting one. Liked the look of him whilst watching KDH perform in the Conference, but that's just it really, the opposition he's faced and scored against is doggo tbh. But he can only score against the sides he plays. He's had very brief minutes, but done well in them.

When your post merits one, you'll get one.

I think this is good. Brentford are the kind of suitor that Mads might push for but wouldn't be paying us a fee in the region we really want. Now it's just Bournemouth needing a Kepa replacement and the big boys. Or we get stuck with a keeper we were all wanking about before he got injured.

Doubt we'll get offered much but happy with whatever. We have enough rightbacks. Riccy only has a year left. And while I think he'd probably be best at DM now, we'd be losing him in a year anyway and might as well address it now. If he can't find a move we benefit in the short term as he's a level above when he's fit. If he does leave, we benefit in the longer term if we get a little bit of cash. Saying that we'll probably agree to release him for nowt.

Let's not forget we were absolute dog shit though. We did miss him when he was out injured but is that a case of him being still being good or just that the alternatives in our squad were absolute horse shit? The thing is of course is that not every club thoroughly checks out players. I think he'll still have a fairly decent rep and could be purchased just on being a known experienced player. Given the fees for players to Prem sides, £9mill would be ok for a squad player for a lot of clubs. Starters fetch 2 or 3 times that.

Rodgers was good at managing the players we had. He was fxxking awful when it came to bringing players in. Only one player brought in during his time here was an improvement in Fofana (I suppose you could say Perez as well because he didn't come in for Mahrez, but he basically filled an empty position).