00:00Yeah, just on Ange Posticoglou and his time, when he obviously came in, you know, they've
00:07been on the back of some top European coaches, you know, like Sergio Zemirino, Antonio Conte,
00:13and they can never get the job sort of over the line with those. If Ange is to go, if
00:19Ange is to be sacked in the near future, who's sort of available to come in? Because they
00:23have tried and tested these top European managers and they've still not been able to prove successful
00:29at Spurs. What's sort of delaying that and who do you feel would work if Ange was to
00:35go? Do you feel it's the right time to part ways with him after his poor form at the end
00:40of the day? Or do you feel there's life in his Spurs time and he can turn things around?
00:48Well, I mean, I'm leaning towards Ange out. I think there's been failings and repeated
00:54failings on the pitch. Tactically, we're so naive. You saw against Leicester, two goals
01:00over the top of the right-back Porros caught up the pitch. There's just some real, real
01:04basic errors that are costing us goals. It almost feels like we're playing Aussie idealist
01:09type football back in the 90s, where you have to score four goals to win a game and that's
01:14just unsustainable in the Premier League. He's been a breath of fresh air. I really
01:17want him to succeed. I think he's been fantastic for the club in terms of regalvanising us
01:23and starting off the rebuild that we were so desperately craving for. But now we're
01:29in a short-term crisis and we need results and we need results now. So, if he is to go,
01:35which I don't think it will be the case, we've got to maybe back him and see what happens
01:39when the players come back from injury. We've got a couple of big players coming back very,
01:42very soon. But he needs some support. We need some leadership in the team. If he wants to
01:48go, that's the big question. I think that's why he's still in a job. I just think there's
01:51a lack of available alternatives at this time in the season. I mean, lots of people
01:55talk about Arreola at Bournemouth. He's doing an absolutely fantastic job. I mean, it's
01:59almost a bit Pochettino-esque, isn't it, at Bournemouth, the way he's really, really got
02:03them playing. I mean, they're the form team in the division on a shoestring budget. They
02:07lost the best striker in the summer, Solanke, to Tottenham and the irony is they're doing
02:11even better out of this. So, he'll be in the running for many top jobs, not probably attainable
02:17in January. Thomas Frank at Brentford, you know, doing a great job. But is he a top-six
02:23manager? Well, I'm not so sure. And again, would he leave Brentford mid-season? And there's
02:28even been calls to Pochettino, which is quite interesting. A little bit of social media
02:33murmurs could be complete nonsense, of course. Obviously, social media is a bit of an echo
02:38chamber. But it's interesting because, you know, would Levy go back to Pochettino, you
02:43know, especially after he went to Chelsea? Soured his sort of legacy there with a few
02:48fans, including myself. But I wonder if that might be Levy's last roll of the dice. I'm
02:53guessing and surmising that he would leave the United States job if he was offered the
02:58role back at Spurs. He's often said he's got unfinished business there. And would that
03:03be sort of the last throw from Levy to sort of reunite the club and bring everything back
03:07together? Who knows? But I think certainly in the short term, Angie's here to stay. But,
03:12you know, if results don't pick up, this just cannot, cannot carry on.
03:19And just finally, on the transfer situation, obviously, you know, you really stress that
03:24names do need to come through the door. What's the sort of type of player that they're going
03:29to be after if they are to make some January additions?
03:32Well, I think now it's all about leadership. You know, we need some experience. We need
03:36some leadership to help some of these younger players through. You know, I mean, the young
03:40players have been the positives and the shining lights this season. You know, they've been
03:43absolutely terrific. But we need some help now in terms of, you know, leadership and
03:49experienced bodies. And we're crying out for a number six, a defensive midfielder. I've
03:54been saying that for a long, long time. I think that's more important than the centre
03:57back position. But, you know, we really do need that. We need some options up front as
04:01well. You know, Richarlison looks like he's got a groin injury. Solanke out for six weeks
04:06leaves us with no available striker. So we need to bring in, you know, a forward looking
04:11at stopgaps now. The strategy's been absolutely abysmal through January. We're, you know,
04:16three quarters of the way through January. There's less than a week left in the window
04:19and we're still scratching around looking at, you know, players and it'll be stopgap
04:22loans now. And, you know, what good's that really? But we're in a desperate situation.
04:27So desperate times calls for desperate measures.
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