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Just watched the Ange interview.

Yeah it's his side of the story but it tracks.

God I miss his positivity. The one thing I never got from Frank

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Friday's Morning Star front page: Billionaires are the problem, not immigrants #tomorrowspaperstoday

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A really, really important ingredient of successful football club ownership is being smart enough to know what you don’t know.

Any time a wealthy stakeholder thinks they understand the game better than they do and doesn’t defer sporting decisions, it goes badly.

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If you're asking for Dyche then I think you've missed the problem with Frank, which is that you can't manage an £800m squad like a £50m squad. The next manager will get more out of these players, even with injuries, if they treat them like good players and let them get on the ball and dictate.

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Disappointing to listen to several pods discussing the prospect of De Zerbi getting the Tottenham job with no mention of how he enthusiastically rehabilitated Mason Greenwood while at Marseille.

It's a hard no from me for that alone, and I hope enough of the fanbase feel the same

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I think, as hard as some of it is to hear, Ange's interview on The Overlap is one of the most insightful, accurate & interesting analyses of what's been holding Spurs back for so long. None of it is surprising, but it's the first time it's been properly articulated by someone who was on the inside.

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Ange pretty much says what every Tottenham supporter has suspected and been saying

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Don’t kid yourselves into thinking Thomas Frank was everything that was wrong at Spurs just because of some hastily released articles.

Don’t lose focus on where the blame lies.
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.
news.sky.com

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With no immediate succession plan imminent, this is a failure not just at the managerial level, but also the executive level.

It's unfathomable, and damning.
Tottenham board finally sacks Frank, but still has no succession plan
This is a failure at the executive level, not just at the managerial level.
cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com

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Had to happen because Enic made it happen. No cause for celebration, nor praise for them: this is another of their failures.

No wild celebration from me. Another season wasted, more money wasted with zero accountability for the people getting these decisions so horribly wrong so often.

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Spurs have sacked another manager, and I feel no joy. I guess Heitinga is the interim to keep us up, and then in the summer it’s going to be so hard to attract talent to this rolling clown car of a club

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That took far too long. What I won't do, though, is level personal abuse at Frank. He was not the right fit for us and likely should never have been appointed but he's clearly not a bad dude and will likely get a good job at a club that don't have expectations as lofty as ours. No hate from me

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I'm not gonna gloat over a sacking, nor am I gonna celebrate it. I think it's the right thing for the club and it's what I wanted to happen, but that doesn't mean we're in a good place. Still, onward.

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One of my favorite things is when badly run clubs hire managers from well run clubs and are shocked when it changes nothing for either team

Yes Thomas we finished 17th last season. The only reason you were brought in was to fix that. It’s a frankly ridiculous defence to justify this mess we are in by pointing out that this is the position we were in when he took over.

Ultimately these decisions are not being made with football as the priority. Money, greed, influence is what the hierarchy cherish above all else. The elation, emotion, camaraderie, bonding, community spirit, togetherness and force for good that football clubs can bring - not so much. Really sad.

To go from Nuno to Conte to Ange and then to Frank is a ride through a ridiculously wide variety of playing styles and personalities, each bringing in their own players to suit their own tactics leaving half the squad at any one time not suited to the current playing style. Farcical decision making.

Yes the hierarchy at Spurs mostly to blame but not because of underinvestment on the pitch. £40m - £50m signings throughout the squad. Problem is who we have spent the money on and why. Crazy scattergun approach to hiring managers and identifying players with no long term plan, vision or direction.

It was this bad months ago with zero evidence it was going to get any better. The hierarchy at Tottenham are fundamentally incompetent.

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Some good news for us Spurs fans

I like Frank. I really do. But he’s just not the right fit. He’s going to go on and impress again at whatever club he ends up with.

This is a Newcastle team in the midst of their own mini crisis. Instead of putting them under pressure we’ve given them the freedom of White Hart Lane. Abject surrender. No feasible defense for this.

I’ll say it over and over again - it’s not the results, it’s the utterly abysmal performances and utterly pathetic attacking intent. Pathetic. Embarrassing.

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How you get from massive victory to complete mess in 18 months is a story that should be studied for years

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I don't see who replaces Starmer. And that's one big reason why I suspect he'll survive for the moment. No obvious candidate.

Think too harsh to award goal AND send player off.

Great thing about referees that people seldom mention is they get most decisions in a game right. Worst thing is the absolute nonsense decisions they make because of VAR intervention. How the actual fuck are we now prioritizing red cards over goals. Get a grip chaps.

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Last May I was ecstatically, stupidly happy. I had a permanent inane grin. My prolonging my happiness plan was to spend the summer wearing Spurs t-shirts or retro shirts. Within days the shirts were back in the cupboard & the sun had gone in. But did I imagine how bad it was going to be, who did?