@ArsenalIn_Focus The narrative is because you're doing it with one of the best and most expensive squads in the league that's been in multiple title fights in the last few seasons. No other club in a comparable situation is resorting to this to win and they didnt when they win silverware.
My thing is, them same people know damn well they weren't watching Brentford play the likes of West Ham, Burnley etc.
They tuned in once every 8 weeks to watch them play a team of note and then selectively remembered the few games with an upset.
I won’t forget how many people told me Frank was a tactical genius in the Summer. I knew we’d be thinking ‘what if’ right about now.
I didn’t know just how bad we’d be though. Stinking honking tactics
Reminder that when Poch was sacked we were 13th or 14th ... but about 5 points from the top 6.
It was November. And we had always been worse between August and Christmas during his tenure.
People that had this attitude re Poch - instead of recognising we were 3 windows behind in building/maintaining the squad because we went 3 windows with no signings - are the reason this spiral into utter farce happened in the first place.
If we go for Poch there will be no evidence we've actually learned what the problem is with our managerial recruitment process. Even though I think he'd be an infinitely better appointment than Frank, the board would only do it for nostalgia's sake and for the lack of other ideas
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We understand that Spurs owners ENIC Group are making extraordinary plans to bring club legend Mauricio Pochettino back in the summer.
They are worried Thomas Frank might not be the right long-term fit for the club.
@king26ledley Plus, every manager that wants technically proficient players also wants them to be physically impressive. That's how we ended up with VDV. When we've signed a technical player that isn't physical, it's always been a spend-shy punt on the hope they'll bulk and adapt
This is the danger of giving Thomas Frank a window ...
We start thinking players that can enable tactics like hoofing it into space and/or winning second balls, are a good idea.
Ik this is also about Porro being tiny but Schade won the ball from a prett basic if intelligent long pass from Henderson and it led to the FK in a great area and the subsequent pressure and chance.
Schade is a dangerous attacker
@king26ledley I agree that being physically impressive is a very good thing but making it a priority like we made finding a pragmatic manager a priority is a mistake. We'll end up with Joelinton in midfield when what we actually need is a progressive passer.
Soon we will all realise that there is nothing inherently progressive about being queer or homosexual.
It is just a sexuality, like any other inherent trait.
Queer people can be racists, fascists, misogynists, sexists and terrorists. It is not a protective shield from the "isms".
At the very least, don’t sell him until a replacement comes in. What if we don’t get any business done until the end of January? Two ‘keepers on the bench last night. Just leaving ourselves short of options for no reason.
Frank treats it like anything above 17th under his watch is huge progress as a club, opposed to seeing last season being a major outlier on where we usually finish. It was only the season before last that Ange got 5th with a very similar group of players.