Danny Mansfield

I’ve just this minute come back from a walk In BPP. Was like being abroad on such a lovely evening. It’s a wonderful park.

As far as I am concerned, it’s called White Hart Lane. ‘Naming rights’ for an existing home have always seemed a very odd concept.

This one is still a classic

Popescu in the midfield 3 would possibly be an upgrade.

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We did. It's called Brexit. And it fucked up our entire country.

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This whole thread is fantastic

Very impressive from the u21s. Outstanding result.⚽️

More of this tone please 😏

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This is fun to watch if you’re of a spurs persuasion. Especially the last 5 mins of the game, and all the individual reactions to the stress of it all www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdjr...

I’m hopeful we’re now 2 years into that. The squad overhaul started when conte left and we’ve been mainly buying young players to build for the future. Plenty for Frank to work with, if he also gets to bring in 3 or 4 decent new ones too.

Absolutely. I was happy for him to stay but could totally see the other side of the argument, and am very much looking forward to seeing what someone else will do with the squad.

I've noticed a bit of this. There seems to be a willingness to totally ignore the terrible league form and end position. And also the fact that we only won games when specifically NOT playing Ange-ball. It's felt a bit cult-ish.

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That willfully ignores 18 months of awful league form. At least be honest enough to recognise there’s another side to the argument.

Why Thomas Frank is exactly the right manager for Tottenham Spurs are interested in hiring the Dane after sacking Ange Postecoglou, and his track record at Brentford proves he deserves the chance

Also, it was ultimately the logical decision to change Postecoglou. Against clubs with far less resources, his compromised approach did not suggest a path to sustained progress in the PL. The trophy made it worth it though

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Can you name one, or are they just different people?

All things considered, including how likely it was to have only delayed the inevitable by a couple of months if he’d stayed, it’s probably the right decision. Thanks for the memories Ange. Bilbao was fucking epic. #coys

Or maybe there is more than one English pundit, and that both views are widely held, and neither is entirely unreasonable.

I’d be happy to see him stay on, but there seems to be a collective failure to see the glaringly obvious other side of the argument.

Less than 40 points in a league season is a very compelling argument for change

I’m unsure if I’m in or out, but I think ‘reaching 40 points’ and ‘turning up to league games thinking we might have a chance of winning them’ might be reasonable expectations, and an improvement on this year.

I agree. I have a feeling the club will be more ruthless than most fans would have been. It’s possible that will save writing off next season in October, but it will also leave a massive ‘what if…?’ & a huge stick for every pundit to beat him with whenever it once more looks to have gone wrong.

Is it too early to regret winning the Europa League?

Just looked at the capacity of the Stadio Friuli, the venue for the super cup. WTF?

Let’s hope you’re right.

There is a problem with this though (looking ahead). The job is about more than one tournament, and if he repeats the trick and gets it just slightly worse than he did this year, we get no trophy and relegation.

Quite right. I’ve been really surprised by those who seem to think 100% that the cup totally legitimises the worst league campaign for decades, or thinks winning it means nothing and he needs to be sacked (normally with no suggestion of what next). It’s an incredibly hard decision.

That’s way too binary. Any other season and our league form gets us relegated.

It is lazy and you could equally compare him to Ferguson, who only stayed because he won the FA Cup in 1990. However, there’s no getting away from the fact that the league campaign was a disaster and no other manager in spurs recent history would’ve got away with it.

I’ve done a massive u-turn on Ange since the final. I couldn’t see how the league form could/should lead to anything but a change. However, the vibe has shifted, and I agree that a reset would chuck that all away. How the club manage the recruitment this summer will be key.