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I've no reason to believe the already circulating rumours other than our performance last night and the 'warning' from Ange that 'some backroom and players are questioning his approach'...
God help us what state we will be in after the Liverpool and City games?!
So steel yourself with what might happen next/or at the end of the season...
In line with our reputation of being 'unmanageable' we could well see him forced out, or as a broken man - (as he appeared post match), one that is ready to throw the towel in.
He doesn't engender confidence now, and that's a death knell for a PL manager, as we have all seen far too much of.
I've mentioned before how increasingly unwell he appears and how his furtive looking at the ground in recent interviews is reminiscent of a man about to be sentenced but can't or doesn't want to face up to it.
The most worrying aspect of his demeanour, which I've mentioned before, is he is now looking ill.
The stress is clearly getting to him, and he now looks and is acting like a man who has lost control, and doesn't know what to do next.
In the first half, there was no discernable pattern of play, so it didn't surprise me when he started losing his rag and showing his frustration. That is probably one of the worst performances this season, it was a low point, which tells me, all is not well with him or the players.
He'll have his chance to correct it, but after last night, it's impossible to believe he can or will. The more positive amongst you will believe it doesn't matter., and what will be will be, all he has to do is survive until next season and be handed a new influx of blood.
For now, the smell of desperation is all pervasive. He needs help, it's good that he finally concedes that this is all on him and his approach - so what will he do now?
You can't help put feel his stubbornness is a test of faith for him now, which he may well not be able to rise to. As has been said many times, he is up against some of the best coaches and the smartest footballing brains in the business, and they all now seemingly know how to counter his set-up and approach. We got beat by a team last night with a thrown together defence and arguably their 'B' team. That's pretty humbling, if not an absolute humiliation.
I won't go on about his denials on set-pieces and what we could all witness last night.
The Players made him look pretty stupid last night.
Like it or not, we are now a club in crisis, at best, we're likely to limp over the line, at worst, it could be a complete implosion. It may well be the manager merry-go-round starts again as the experiment of Ange ball comes to an embarrassing and fruitless end.
We need to prepare ourselves, I'd lay a bet with anyone that after next week's management meeting, the search for a new manager will 'just in case' begin in earnest.
I'd like to see him survive, as long as he can grow/evolve and refresh our approach. But his stubbornness in clinging onto his approach suggests to me, he won't. He is too tactically inflexible for the prem is my all-pervasive feeling again this morning. I'd love him to survive and prove me wrong.
The club have some huge multi-million pound decisions to make about the summer's targets now - do they buy who Ange wants, (who may not be suited to other more pragmatic styles) or do they hold back?
What's for sure is between now and the end of the season, we're going to live in the old Chinese curse of "may you live in interesting times"..
God help us what state we will be in after the Liverpool and City games?!
So steel yourself with what might happen next/or at the end of the season...
In line with our reputation of being 'unmanageable' we could well see him forced out, or as a broken man - (as he appeared post match), one that is ready to throw the towel in.
He doesn't engender confidence now, and that's a death knell for a PL manager, as we have all seen far too much of.
I've mentioned before how increasingly unwell he appears and how his furtive looking at the ground in recent interviews is reminiscent of a man about to be sentenced but can't or doesn't want to face up to it.
The most worrying aspect of his demeanour, which I've mentioned before, is he is now looking ill.
The stress is clearly getting to him, and he now looks and is acting like a man who has lost control, and doesn't know what to do next.
In the first half, there was no discernable pattern of play, so it didn't surprise me when he started losing his rag and showing his frustration. That is probably one of the worst performances this season, it was a low point, which tells me, all is not well with him or the players.
He'll have his chance to correct it, but after last night, it's impossible to believe he can or will. The more positive amongst you will believe it doesn't matter., and what will be will be, all he has to do is survive until next season and be handed a new influx of blood.
For now, the smell of desperation is all pervasive. He needs help, it's good that he finally concedes that this is all on him and his approach - so what will he do now?
You can't help put feel his stubbornness is a test of faith for him now, which he may well not be able to rise to. As has been said many times, he is up against some of the best coaches and the smartest footballing brains in the business, and they all now seemingly know how to counter his set-up and approach. We got beat by a team last night with a thrown together defence and arguably their 'B' team. That's pretty humbling, if not an absolute humiliation.
I won't go on about his denials on set-pieces and what we could all witness last night.
The Players made him look pretty stupid last night.
Like it or not, we are now a club in crisis, at best, we're likely to limp over the line, at worst, it could be a complete implosion. It may well be the manager merry-go-round starts again as the experiment of Ange ball comes to an embarrassing and fruitless end.
We need to prepare ourselves, I'd lay a bet with anyone that after next week's management meeting, the search for a new manager will 'just in case' begin in earnest.
I'd like to see him survive, as long as he can grow/evolve and refresh our approach. But his stubbornness in clinging onto his approach suggests to me, he won't. He is too tactically inflexible for the prem is my all-pervasive feeling again this morning. I'd love him to survive and prove me wrong.
The club have some huge multi-million pound decisions to make about the summer's targets now - do they buy who Ange wants, (who may not be suited to other more pragmatic styles) or do they hold back?
What's for sure is between now and the end of the season, we're going to live in the old Chinese curse of "may you live in interesting times"..
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