A composite picture of Ange Postecoglou and Kevin Keegan. Photograph by Michael Regan/Getty Pictures and Mark Sandten/Bongarts/Getty Pictures
Though Stan Collymore loves the best way that Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham Hotspur aspect play the sport, he has urged that the Australian is “extremely naive” to try to get away with it within the Premier League.
The Lilywhites have dipped badly this season, and even should you take accidents into consideration, they nonetheless haven’t been adequate within the large moments.
Spurs gamers have complained about coaching strategies, and one Tottenham participant desires a switch, all of which gained’t assist the Australian’s temper.
Ange Postecoglou is ignoring the pink flags
At current, the North Londoners discover themselves manner down in fifteenth place within the Premier League desk and simply eight factors off the underside three.
Entering into Europe will certainly be a pipe dream as they’re at present 14 factors behind Man Metropolis in fifth and wading by way of treacle in a whole lot of video games.
“Do I like Ange Postecoglou? Sure, I do. Do I like the best way that he performs his soccer? Sure, I do,” Stan Collymore stated to CaughtOffside for his unique column.
“As a child after which as knowledgeable footballer, I wished to play attacking soccer. That’s what it was all about. I wished to grow to be a ahead, and that’s why I beloved to run with the ball, rating objectives, left foot, proper foot.
“Now, clearly someplace like Celtic or in Japan, that’s going to be simple for Ange to get success, however you must acknowledge that within the Premier League these days, you possibly can’t be ‘Kevin Keegan at Newcastle MKII.’
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“[…] He’s obtained to get his fundamentals proper. Set items, defensive set items, attacking set items, second balls and the soiled stuff which you’ll nonetheless cover beneath the veneer of being a complete soccer workforce […] All people desires to come back out and play these days, and he is not going to reinvent the wheel at Tottenham or within the Premier League.”
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It’s a damning indictment on Postecoglou’s type of play, even when, from a fan’s perspective Collymore enjoys watching Spurs.
The previous participant turned pundit is precisely proper when he says that the Australian must strip issues proper again, relatively than having the ‘you rating three, we’ll rating 4 perspective.’
After all, it isn’t simply on the pitch the place there are points, and Collymore can’t ignore what’s staring everybody within the face.
“I feel the actual elephant within the room, nonetheless, is whether or not Daniel Levy will ever depart Tottenham Hotspur as a result of I feel he ought to,” he added.
“I feel that he, as a CEO, has succeeded with infrastructure tasks, has a beautiful coaching floor and a beautiful stadium, however he’s spectacularly failed on the enterprise of working the soccer departments on the membership.”
