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How? I'm saying Hojbjerg is overly criticised and we shouldn't sell him.Is this not a contradiction?
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How? I'm saying Hojbjerg is overly criticised and we shouldn't sell him.Is this not a contradiction?
To give someone slack means to not be overly critical or give them leeway for bad behaviour or performance.How? I'm saying Hojbjerg is overly criticised and we shouldn't sell him.
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I agree to an extent with regards to the players being more important than the manager. Give world class players to a so-called average manager and he'll usually still do well.The only difference between Poch and other "successful" Spurs managers during Levy's reign is that Harry Kane, the greatest striker in Prem history, came through our academy, so he was gifted a once in a life time player. Other than that, all the praise he gets are people being selective in order to keep up the fantasy that there is more to this than having good players. I love Poch, but swap Kane for any of our best strikers under Jol, Redknapp and AVB (and we had some very good one's) and we are just as good. Swap Kane for Adebayor in 2011/12 or Crouch in 2009/10 and we finish in the top 3. If Jol had Kane in 2005/6, then we easily finish in the top 4 with a cheap team, that had the 9th highest wages, but in a much, much better league. There is zero chance of Leicester winning the league with a prime Mourinho Chelsea, an SAF Utd and Henry/Wenger Arsenal.
To give someone slack means to not be overly critical or give them leeway for bad behaviour or performance.
I think you mean he gets too much stick.
The acoustics in the new stadium are wasted on our fans. The NLD last year was amazing but its rarely ever like it. The away fans often make it better. If we had the passion of say Liverpool fans our home form would be better. We want to turn our home into a fortress but the fans are the ones letting us down in that regard.
Also works.Flack.
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It's a double edged sword because if fans aren't behind the team then it also doesn't lift the players. It doesn't help if fans moan every time the ball is played backwards either. We have fans with the mindset of a big club but players who don't have the mentality of a big club. They lose confidence easy like Conte said so rely more heavily on the crowd. There's plenty of poor teams who have great atmosphere. I think it just comes down to expectations and maybe ours are too high. We are essentially underdogs but we're the biggest club in the underdog bracket so act like we should roll over everyone outside the top 6. Fans talk about West Ham treating the fixture like a cup final but that's a good thing. We don't do this often enough and a big part of it is the flat atmosphere which doesnt lift the players or give them the sense the game is important. We often raise our voice more for the big games only.Interesting. I would say partly the crap football doesn’t help and I don’t mean poor results. Fans and players feed off each other, we have been often lifeless as a team for 4-5 seasons now.
against Arsenal the crowd was wild at the start of the game this season then the players where limp from the start and the energy just drained.
if Slot isn’t able to turn it around playing a great style then I think you might be right but I think Liverpool fans would be pretty flat after 4-5 seasons of Jose, Nuno and Conte.
You can be…I should be a mod.
I'm as good as certain that this isn't remotely true.We never won anything with Poch because he lacked a winner’s mentality. Any other decent manager would have left Leicester eating our dust on the way to winning the title.
Despite the quality of the first team Poch still overachieved with the lack of depth to perform well in all competitions. People talk about how great the team was but it was largely developed by Poch and there were only a few good subs. Leicester and Chelsea took advantage of no European football.We never won anything with Poch because he lacked a winner’s mentality. Any other decent manager would have left Leicester eating our dust on the way to winning the title.
And that’s why you’ll never be a ModHow? I'm saying Hojbjerg is overly criticised and we shouldn't sell him.
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Though many of them are half baked, reallyPuns are too rare in here
I like what you are saying but when I think about our defence I think we have a lot of work still to do.I don't think we're far away from creating an exciting, competitive, potentially trophy-winning team. A good manager coming in and smart recruitment this summer gets us back on track really quickly.