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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Was he a club legend? He did pretty well there but I’m not sure he reached legendary status? But anyway, I get your point, and I think you’re right: there was probably a bit more goodwill towards him given his playing history for the club. Although lots of Arsenal fans seemed to be wavering...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I think you’re right about some of this but winning a cup only buys so much time. We sacked two coaches shortly after winning a trophy and we sacked one coach a few months after making the final of the biggest club competition in the world. Roma sacked Jose a few months after he was in a final...
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    Dele Alli at Everton

    Yeah, I think Dele’s decline in form was pretty much in line with the decline of the team in general. I think the difference was people expected him to come back from that because he was still young. But he didn’t, for various reasons. In fact things got worse. Maybe things would have worked...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I think you’re right, but there’s other fundamental differences too. 1. Ange’s preferred style of football is much more aligned with the club and the fans than Conte’s preferred style. 2. Ange’s style of football is more aligned with how most successful teams play right now than Conte’s, e.g...
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Timo Werner

    I think for them all to leave we would probably need to sack/pay some of them to go, like we did with Aurier and Doherty. Or maybe arrange deals where we are subsidising their salary elsewhere. I don’t think it will be straightforward trying to sell all these guys though, even at nominal fees.
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    There’s different levels of backing. Have Brighton backed De Zerbi? They have sold some of their best players, after all. Has Klopp been backed by Liverpool? Arguably they would have won more titles if he had been backed the way Pep has been at City. There’s backing and there’s backing and...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Yep every single coach we have ever had has wanted their own type of player, from Jol to Redknapp to AVB to Poch to Conte to Ange. I think the ones who have tended to do the best are the ones who were here for several windows and focused on attainable targets, and working with what they had...
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Yves Bissouma

    I haven’t heard anything about Biss having an attitude problem. It seems like after a good start to the season, he was suspended for a few matches, we had an injury crisis, and then he was away at the African Nations where he contracted malaria. Then he struggled to regain his earlier form...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    No one is avoiding it, we just don’t want to talk endlessly about Conte in the Ange thread. Maybe take it over to the Conte thread and those interested can talk about it with you there?
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I really think a lot of our issues right now come down to needing better and/or more suitable players and especially to have better players to rotate with. It feels like we are halfway there but we’re still four or five top players short of really competing. Everyone is talking about being...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I think especially in the case of Brighton, loads of people were talking about how far ahead of us they were, in terms of their scouting, their coaching, their progressive style of football and so on. They were the model to be emulated. We finished two points below them last season and 12 goals...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I think it’s a bit different though because football players are hampered by physical limitations. They have a small window where they can be expected to operate at their peak. With football coaches, the window is much bigger. You get guys working wonders in their late 30s all the way up to...
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Timo Werner

    Personally I think Johnson has a bit more about him than Werner. And he’s five or six younger, so we can realistically expect him to develop whereas Werner not so much. We can also hope to recoup some of the Johnson fee, whereas it’s unlikely with Werner that we will recoup any fee given his...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Yeah. I’m not sure how much more obvious Conte could have made it that he wanted to leave. I actually think Levy’s last 3 major sackings (Poch, Mourinho and Conte) were probably the right decisions. I think for all 3 of them, their positions had become more or less untenable by the time they...
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