Not sure I've ever seen this before... Well done Ange. No point Werner being here.
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/tottenham-postecoglou-werner-unacceptable-b1199759.html
Ange Postecoglou says Timo Werner’s performance in Thursday's 1-1 draw with Rangers was “unacceptable" and not “anywhere near the level" required.
Werner, 28, was replaced by Dejan Kulusevski at half-time of the Europa League tie at Ibrox, which extended Spurs' winless run to five matches in all competitions.
Kulusevski scored a 75th-minute equaliser, cancelling out Hamza Igamane’s goal at the start of the second half, to rescue a point for injury-hit Spurs, who started with 18-year-old Archie Gray as an auxiliary centre-half and introduced another teenager, Lucas Bergvall, on the hour.
Postecoglou, the former Celtic boss, was left furious at Werner’s display and revealed he had given the Germany international a dressing down.
“He wasn’t playing anywhere near the level he should," said Postecoglou after confirming that he had replaced Werner for tactical re
“When you’ve got 18-year-olds [playing], it’s not acceptable to me. I said that to Timo.
“He’s a senior international, he’s a German international.
“In the moment we’re in right now, it’s not like we’ve got many options. I need everyone to at least be going out there trying to give the best of themselves. His performance in the first half wasn’t acceptable."
Asked how Werner took the dressing down, the Spurs head coach said: “Don’t really know. It’s not really of great concern. We need everybody including him to be contributing.
“Because we don’t have the depth to leave people out if they’re performing poorly.
“We need them to play their part. Especially the senior guys. When I’m asking younger guys to do massive jobs. I expect a level of performance from some of the senior guys. And today wasn’t that."
Ange lays in to Timo Werner! Wow!
posted on 14/12/24
And you are homeless since raptors ass crack isnt available to crawl up
So we're even
posted on 14/12/24
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 12 minutes ago
And you are homeless since raptors ass crack isnt available to crawl up
So we're even
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so faaacking weak
Aren’t you a grandad? Faaack me I’ve got second hand embarrassment for you.
Go on, have another go
posted on 14/12/24
Striketeam, so did you give Boehly a standing ovation last weekend, and if so was it before or after we beat you?
I followed up on the original article : https://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewArticle/463416
...but I don't think you saw it
posted on 14/12/24
BTW, regards to your comment to Sheriff, I'm personally still dubious about our ownership but you'd have to be silly to underestimate us right now. We've been steadily improving for awhile & Marseca is clearly onto something atm.
posted on 14/12/24
Think Maresca is doing a good job but new manager bounce can’t be disregarded
Lavia and palmer are the two …..take them out and I’m personally not jealous of anyone else in that squad
Lavia is a real gem
Defensively shat especially the goalkeeper….he is bad but the midfield is protecting things very well, even enzo looking good but no one will ever convince me he is 100 million pound player
posted on 14/12/24
comment by Blackpolespur (U9242)
posted 33 minutes ago
Think Maresca is doing a good job but new manager bounce can’t be disregarded
Lavia and palmer are the two …..take them out and I’m personally not jealous of anyone else in that squad
Lavia is a real gem
Defensively shat especially the goalkeeper….he is bad but the midfield is protecting things very well, even enzo looking good but no one will ever convince me he is 100 million pound player
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I think it's less likely to be a new manager bounce due to the form they were showing at the end of last season. They seemed to have cracked it under Poch and so Maresca, for as good a job as he is doing, came in at a good time. Was the best form they'd shown since the new ownership.
Unfortunately for us and Ange our good form last season does look more like a new manager bounce.
posted on 14/12/24
comment by Blackpolespur (U9242)
posted 1 hour, 34 minutes ago
Think Maresca is doing a good job but new manager bounce can’t be disregarded
Lavia and palmer are the two …..take them out and I’m personally not jealous of anyone else in that squad
Lavia is a real gem
Defensively shat especially the goalkeeper….he is bad but the midfield is protecting things very well, even enzo looking good but no one will ever convince me he is 100 million pound player
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Thing is we've been slowly but steadily improving for a very long time. Something changed when we beat Dortmund almost two years ago, in his last month in charge Potter was getting a heartbeat out of the corpse. Pochettino picked up the baton & over the course of last season we kept slowly improving to the point where, on-form, we were a top 4 team off the strength of the 2nd half of the season. The only point where the trend hasn't been going upwards was the pointless Lampard stint
I could see why a lot of our squad would divide opinion individually, but the concern for outsiders should be the age of it - the youngest players are all 27! The longer things keep improving the more that should worry people.
posted on 14/12/24
comment by Striketeam7 - staying humble (U18109)
posted 4 hours, 31 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 12 minutes ago
And you are homeless since raptors ass crack isnt available to crawl up
So we're even
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so faaacking weak
Aren’t you a grandad? Faaack me I’ve got second hand embarrassment for you.
Go on, have another go
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That stung...didn't it
No idea what your reply means though...don't suppose it matters
posted on 14/12/24
comment by Devil (U6522)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
comment by Blackpolespur (U9242)
posted 1 hour, 34 minutes ago
Think Maresca is doing a good job but new manager bounce can’t be disregarded
Lavia and palmer are the two …..take them out and I’m personally not jealous of anyone else in that squad
Lavia is a real gem
Defensively shat especially the goalkeeper….he is bad but the midfield is protecting things very well, even enzo looking good but no one will ever convince me he is 100 million pound player
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Thing is we've been slowly but steadily improving for a very long time. Something changed when we beat Dortmund almost two years ago, in his last month in charge Potter was getting a heartbeat out of the corpse. Pochettino picked up the baton & over the course of last season we kept slowly improving to the point where, on-form, we were a top 4 team off the strength of the 2nd half of the season. The only point where the trend hasn't been going upwards was the pointless Lampard stint
I could see why a lot of our squad would divide opinion individually, but the concern for outsiders should be the age of it - the youngest players are all 27! The longer things keep improving the more that should worry people.
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‘ but the concern for outsiders should be the age of it - the youngest players are all 27!’
Do you mean the oldest?
posted on 15/12/24
I do