overlord.
For once in recent history Daniel Levy has got the guy that he seemed to want from the off, to be the new Spurs head coach, Brentford’s Thomas Frank, instead of being rebuffed from all sides.
Ange had to go, I’ve said it all along, I don’t care that he followed up on his boast and won that trophy in his second season. The fact he made that boast is bad enough.
Quite frankly as I’ve said before those trophies he won didn’t count for much. Thomas Frank getting Brentford into the top flight, after a 47 year absence, and keeping them there for the following four seasons, with the meagerest budgets in the Premier League, surpasses every “trophy” Ange won before the Europa League triumph.
I mean Ange’s previous club have won 13 of the last 14 championships.
The other two things I’ve seen said about Frank’s suitability are firstly, he hasn’t managed in the Champions League. Well Ange has and he’s a record of played 6, won 0, drawn 2, lost 4. So Frank has won as many CL games as Ange. The other that he lost to Ange, regularly over the two seasons. Well, you’re a Poch fan and well, he didn’t exactly have a stellar record against Spurs, managed by Dim Tim, of played 3 lost 3. Turning Poch down are you?
Well, Frank’s Brentford finished 7 places higher than Ange’s Spurs, so more points to go with more goals scored, fewer goals conceded, this season.
Frank’s Brentford look coached. And there’s one good thing that he’s brought some of his backroom staff with him – Justin Cochrane (First Team Assistant Coach), Chris Haslam (Head of Performance & First Team Assistant Coach) and Joe Newton (First Team Coach Analyst).
I’m pretty sure the defensive strategy won’t be, everyone in the opposition half except the keeper and Micky van de Ven and Micky can cover everything until his hamstring pings again. They’ll be real coaching involved. And I don’t mean Ange’s other tactic of a flat back 10, which the Ange fans hated before the final when other managers did it. Except none of the so called negative coaches went this negative of 3 shots, none in the second half and barely getting out of their own half.
Attacking surely won’t be so shot shy as they ended up under Ange. Angeball faded fast.
The only caveat is the one that comes with every Spurs’ manager. Daniel Levy. And his cheapness. Give Frank the tools and there’ll be success. Because as you can see he’s managed it with the players at Brentford. Give Ange the tools and he’d waste them like he has with a squad better managers wouldn’t have finishing bottom of the non-relegated teams, even with cup runs.
Of course while others have seen where they need strengthening and gone out and dealt with it, Spurs are already running behind because it’s taken them so long too do what needed to be done in sacking Ange and then so long getting the guy they wanted.
And the fans, well all the players coming out with their tributes to Ange and the mugs are falling for it. The players that these people slagged off all season for putting in that 17th placed season are now great for saying they’re sad to see Ange go. All these players that are now gonna have to work in training. The worst of all is the hero worship for Romero for his Ange eulogy, that came out what half an hour after the Frank announcement. Proper cucks claiming a player who loved Ange so much he’s wanted off to Madrid all season, one team at the start of the season, another at the turn of the year. And the mugs say he’s a “legend”.
I don’t know how Frank will do but one thing, at least he’ll be looking at the camera when he explains it…