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Ange Postecoglou

Discussion in 'Ex Players' started by Mr. Slippyfist, May 29, 2021.

Discuss Ange Postecoglou in the Ex Players area at TalkCeltic.net.

  1. Creativecelt Gold Member Gold Member

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    The problem is, we as a club have to sell our best players every two years and start the rebuild again. The players know this. If we were qualifying for the CL every season without fail, we would have a much better chance of keeping a player for a longer cycle of 4-5 years, before we would need to sell them.

    our repeated failure to make the group stages of the CL is what is holding back the club.
     
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  2. Peej Gold Member Gold Member

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    Here, I've for a girlfriend and I still want Celtic to be winning football matches.

    Sitting 6th in the league with 4 wins in the last 10 games we have played, and yet again some folk still think everything is fine and we have no right to be critical.

    Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk
     
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  3. PaulM1888 Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    Are you American Soccer Guy?
     
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  4. packybhoy Administrator Administrator Gold Member

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    Did James Cagney just post from the grave?

    "MA, MA. TOP OF THE WORLD MA" :47:
     
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  5. Mr. Slippyfist

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    * up.
     
  6. JamesM09

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    Can anyone translate this?

    I feel like it's something a Russian sleeper agent might post to get a message out to his handler.
     
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  7. AdamRS Gold Member Gold Member

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    I said the same about not making the champions league is whats making players leave so soon but was shot down. Players don’t come here to win the SPL.
     
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  8. JamesM09

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    I don't think that's the problem, I think our inability to handle that situation is the problem. Take Dembele as an example. We had Edouard in and ready to go for when he left and it worked beautifully.

    This season, while we actively tried to punt Edouard for £15m, we waited until the final day to bring in Giakoumakis for £2m and snubbed paying good money for Toney last season.

    We're a club that goes week-to-week and rarely plans ahead, mainly due to incompetence.
     
  9. Mr Cleansheets

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    Meanwhile, poor old Ange does his best.
     
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  10. Mr Cleansheets

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    Mind you, I still think we should be a little higher placed than we are.
     
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  11. JamesM09

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    Last win was massive even though Aberdeen are struggling too.

    If he puts some wins together now we might never look back.
     
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  12. The Prof Administrator Administrator

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    Can you honestly see that happening ? ....... i don't think we look very convincing, defence looks so fragile.


    It was lucky for us that the sheep are brutal themselves.


    Teams don't fear us and will certainly fancy their chances with the system we're playing.
     
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    UEA Sports, it's in the game.
     
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    The part in bold. This is what is most worrying of all for me this season.

    The fear factor is all but gone, and as you say, teams see an opportunity.
    We´ve been very predictable so far, it´s not rocket science to set up a team to give us a fight (Martindale is a case in point).

    We can´t continue to rely on individual brilliance to bail us out, as was the case for example against Aberdeen.
     
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    If I had to bet the house then I’d say no, but I’m hoping with players getting back from injury and guys like Jota beginning to find their feet we might just get the league wins we need to buy some time.

    I think the two week break would’ve been massive for Ange too to take a break and think about his system vs his situation.
     
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    …ish.

    No manager’s ‘best’ involves actively snubbing a Plan B. Your Klopp, Guardiola types all adapt; maybe not majorly, but they change it up a bit when they need to, and do so to great effect.

    Ange hasn’t properly shown that yet, and until he does, we should be careful about saying he isn’t part of the problem. Board have shafted him, yes, but he could still have done better at points.
     
  17. Graeme1888

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    Hopefully he’s been working on the defence with his players during the break, we need to stop conceding stupid goals literally every game. Wasn’t it something like 3 out of the 4 v Leverkusen were our own mistakes?
     
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  18. MagicBallBhoy Gold Member Gold Member

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    im concerned that the board have taken notice of us getting beat and or outplayed by smaller european clubs with inferior players so regularly that they have decided to go that route and the bringing in of ange with his philosphy of hard work helps signal that to me

    if you like weve gonna back to the strachan era of average players and a couple of stars, whose to say that isnt correct either strachans teams done well in europe
     
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    Might not be a bad thing.

    I think it probably suits our style of play for teams to have a bit of a go at us, opening themselves up a little more, as opposed to them parking the bus. Certainly will make for a more entertaining game to watch!
     
  20. NomDePlum

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    Is it just me or has this thread got absolutely nothing to do with Ange Postecoglou?

    It's just random board dissatisfaction chatter from what I can tell. With other random stuff thrown in too.

    Not seen an on topic post for weeks.