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Management Poll: Who do you want most as our next manager?

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Who would be your first choice?

  • Graham Potter

  • Scott Parker

  • Ten Hag

  • Rafa Benitez

  • None of the above - comment below

  • *Marcelo Bielsa

  • *Ralf Rangnick

  • *Ralph Hasenhüttl

  • *Steven Gerrard

  • *Julen Lopetegui

  • *Christophe Galtier

  • *Marcelo Gallardo

  • *Oliver Glasner

  • *Ryan Mason

  • *Maurizio Sarri

  • *Gian Piero Gasperini

  • *Mauricio Pochettino

  • *Antonio Conte

  • *Eddie Howe

  • *Gareth Southgate

  • *Nuno Espirito Santo

  • *Paulo Fonseca

  • *Gennaro Gattuso

  • *Ernesto Valverde

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Do I remember a time when we were waiting forever for Levy to pick a new manager? Was it Santini? I'm getting anxiety just remembering how long it took
 
Don Corleone said:
Call me mad, but I still got a funny feeling Brendan Rodgers will be the Spurs manager next season. I got a feeling he will get Leicester in the CL and feel maybe that’s as far as he can take them. He’s had 2 interviews now asking him about the Spurs links and not once has he said he’s not interested. If anything, he was very complimentary on spurs as a club last week. If he was 100% not leaving Leicester you would simply say “Spurs are a great Club but I’m not interested in the job” he is interested no doubt about it
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I've thought him and Potter very unlikely from the start. Long contracts from which I see no chance of Levy buying them out, and neither have reached the heights they probably intend to with the clubs they're at. Plenty of good coaches with one year left much more likely imo.
 
Skooch said:
The difference was Mourinho was a promotional stunt to raise the profile of the club. The supposed "World's best manager" coming to Tottenham? Watch the deals and sponsorships follow.

Did he suit Spurs? No
Was he at the peak of his powers? No
Were we ever going to give him the tools he obviously needs to do the job? No

So really Mourinho was more based on a financial impact than what he could do on the field. A gamble which has spectacularly backfired.
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I’m not sure I can even begin to follow that logic. Yes, there may have been commercial opportunities that hung off the back of his appointment, but to say it was a publicity stunt for profile raising above all else is beyond parody.

If that’s all we had wanted, give the job to someone like Tom Hardy or an Instagram influencer. We took Jose on as he was a guy with multiple trophy wins under his belt, who’d won two trophies a couple of years before. We took him on to win football matches. It didn’t happen for many reasons, but it wasn’t just a profile raising exercise. Ridiculous.
 


Longari claims that we have Glasner on our list as well.

He's done a good job with Wolfsburg so he is worth a shout. Also has a history as both manager and sporting director for LASK Linz (remember them?) before he took the Wolsfburg job in 2019.

Another man from the Rangnick school of football as well.
 
AberdeenYid said:
I’m not sure I can even begin to follow that logic. Yes, there may have been commercial opportunities that hung off the back of his appointment, but to say it was a publicity stunt for profile raising above all else is beyond parody.

If that’s all we had wanted, give the job to someone like Tom Hardy or an Instagram influencer. We took Jose on as he was a guy with multiple trophy wins under his belt, who’d won two trophies a couple of years before. We took him on to win football matches. It didn’t happen for many reasons, but it wasn’t just a profile raising exercise. Ridiculous.
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Ok.

We installed the ultimate chequebook manager to work under the ultimate closed chequebook chairman.

Yep, Jose was installed purely for his coaching abilities.

2 trophies 2 years prior. Sorry, 2 minor trophies 2 years prior at what cost? £420 million wasn't it? Weren't they FA cup champions when he arrived.

Yep Jose was installed purely for his coaching abilities.
 
Five said:
I am not on the Potter train. But I will give you my unvarnished opinion on Brighton's squad; I think it is garbage.
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and not very good at shooting!
 
As per german press:
Jesse Marsh from Salzburg will go to Leipzig
Tottenham were also interested in him but Marsh were not interested in us
Leipzig were also interested in Ten Haag but he said the he will stay at Amsterdam until his contracts end...

I think we will get Potter or Rangnick
 
Skooch said:
The difference was Mourinho was a promotional stunt to raise the profile of the club. The supposed "World's best manager" coming to Tottenham? Watch the deals and sponsorships follow.

Did he suit Spurs? No
Was he at the peak of his powers? No
Were we ever going to give him the tools he obviously needs to do the job? No

So really Mourinho was more based on a financial impact than what he could do on the field. A gamble which has spectacularly backfired.
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This is why I know I should keep my head down when it comes to prospective managers. I agree with a lot of what you are saying here, but when we hired Mourinho, I'd imagine Levy felt he could virtually guarantee that we'd keep our snouts in that CL trough and bag us some kind of pot (FA Cup, at the very least). And I thought he would at least be capable of that. As a matter of fact, I still can't believe he didn't finish in the top 4 last season. OGS and Lampard got the better of him.
 
To be honest Marsch is just a student of Rangnick anyway.

Why get the student when we can get "the professor"?

Get him in as head coach and director of football, let him have a couple of seasons putting the fundamentals in place on the sideline and then pass the managerial role to one of many coaches that have a close relationship with him.
 
Five said:
This is why I know I should keep my head down when it comes to prospective managers. I agree with a lot of what you are saying here, but when we hired Mourinho, I'd imagine Levy felt he could virtually guarantee that we'd keep our snouts in that CL trough and bag us some kind of pot (FA Cup, at the very least). And I thought he would at least be capable of that. As a matter of fact, I still can't believe he didn't finish in the top 4 last season. OGS and Lampard got the better of him.
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Mourinho had been in decline for a long time. Since 2013 his big trophy, the EPL in 2014/15 came with a ridiculously good Chelsea team that he drove into the ground (along with the furore caused by the physio row and other pissy acts)

The Utd job was a shambles FA Cup winners with the likes of prime De Gea, Martial, Herrera etc, £420million spent and can you say they improved much?
 
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