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  1. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Ange’s whole point was that the players need to get used to a different type of training in order to play a higher tempo style of football, a style he believes would generate results. It’s not a controversial thing and actually pretty common in high level sport, where the athlete gets used to...
  2. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Appreciate this response. To be clear I’m not trying to take any firm line on Amorim being good or bad, or predicting what is going to happen with him going forward. My personal opinion is that I actually want Amorim to do quite well, because I like someone that so firmly sticks to their guns...
  3. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    1. I don’t think he’s ever ‘changed’ his ‘list’ because whatever explanation he has given for last season has stayed the same, and has been grounded in the reality of what happened. 2. He has acknowledged that when he first joins a new team there is an adaptation period where there may be a...
  4. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    By saying ‘what patience have they had to show this season’ you’re disregarding last season, when it’s plainly obvious that a club the size of Manchester United finishing 15th and losing their cup final route into Europe would have had to show patience to a manager delivering those kinds of...
  5. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Can I remove the off season and pre season from Ange’s time, and also last season up to November when we won at City before all the injuries hit? Because then it wasn’t really 18 months right? It was like 6 months which included a European trophy.
  6. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Manchester United finished 15th and are not in Europe and you’re arguing nobody at that club showed patience?
  7. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Just to flesh out what I’m saying a bit more, as it seems like you are saying that because Ange’s second season added to the second half of his first means he doesn’t deserve trust and patience, I see a world where: The drop off from the first half to the second half of his first season could...
  8. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    You can’t seriously be holding up the fact that he is 6 days from the end of his first year to invalidate my point here? As I’ve said, there’s plenty of teams that would have sacked Amorim way sooner, and plenty of other managers that would have gotten better results and performances from a...
  9. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Look…my point was that a year is enough time to show improvement, to show a ‘right path’ and that Amorim hadn’t really shown that in terms of performances. But United were showing him patience. Ange finishing 5th in his first season with a 59 point run rate from the last 19 games of that...
  10. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ***Tottenham Hotspur v Everton*** - OMT

    I think to exploit set pieces you need to have a physically big team. Arsenal not only have big players in the positions you’d expect them to but their full backs are tall, their central midfielders are tall, and it means their investment in set pieces is more likely to pay off. With Ange...
  11. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Ok…maybe my point will hold some weight in 6 days 😂😂😂
  12. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    In the spirit of debate, how do you square Amorim with this idea of seeing no improvement? Also responding to another idea I’ve seen that patience is earned. Because I would argue in this context that offering patience to a manager is when you DONT see improvement. It’s easy to stick with...
  13. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Going by @carl ’s post above, 1.57 ppg for the last 19 games of his first season, would average out to 59 points over a full league campaign. I’ve never understood the idea that we descended into relegation form. We simply didn’t maintain a crazy good start, and decided to roll about ten dice at...
  14. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    When people say Ange’s first season ended in disaster I’m just begging them to actually look at our results over the course of that season. Anyone would think we went from title contention to relegation form. But it’s just not the case. Yes, we dropped off after a crazy good start, but we had...
  15. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I really agree with this. I can’t think of another manager that has a similar ‘step 1’ approach where they end of working on a possession game later on. I think a lot of the more pragmatic or flexible managers (ranging from say Moyes to Silva) just are what they are. It’s not as if their styles...
  16. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    OMT ** Tottenham Hotspur v Monaco ** 22/10/25.

    One thing is results. The other is the system, the positioning and the instructions that we can see plainly in front of our eyes. If Frank wanted to play a different game in possession right now he could, he doesn’t need 1 year or 6 years. Whether it would be as successful without the money...
  17. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    OMT ** Tottenham Hotspur v Monaco ** 22/10/25.

    You could see this shape at many points during the game, it was very intentional and deliberate. To caveat everything I’ve been saying, maybe Frank also feels like with the tough run of fixtures coming up, we need to be excellent playing this way. And then maybe we’ll loosen up if we have a...
  18. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    OMT ** Tottenham Hotspur v Monaco ** 22/10/25.

    I get the theory, but in reality because the gap is so large we’re relying on a direct ball, hoping to win the 50-50. This means it’s extremely hard to exhibit any sort of control and this is why typically teams who had less good players played this way, because they could afford to buy the...
  19. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    OMT ** Tottenham Hotspur v Monaco ** 22/10/25.

    This is exactly what I’m talking about with the deep 6 and the high 4. It’s simply not chemistry, inexperience or anything other than the front 4 are totally isolated and we have to hit them with direct balls. Would Kolo and Solanke help us in this system? Absolutely. Does it inspire...
  20. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    OMT ** Tottenham Hotspur v Monaco ** 22/10/25.

    Fair points. I just personally don’t think that the hat we’re seeing is because we have young players upfront. We’re intentionally isolating them.
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