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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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I like Rodgers, but if he fails to get Leicester in the CL again, then he’s a bottler in my option and that’s the last thing we need at this club. We are trying desperately to rid of this bottler tag that has plagued the club for the best part of 25 years and we then want to hire a manager that would of failed to get Leicester in the CL 2 seasons running after leading it comfortably? Not for me. If Rodgers gets them in the CL, then he deserves plaudits and should be taken seriously. We shouldn’t be going for guys that fail, just so it’s easier to get them.
But we just had a manager that never fails and he failed with us. I think the fact that Leicester have been in the top 4 towards the end of the last two seasons is a big achievement. Through good recruitment by the club and his coaching he has established them amongst the top 5 or 6 in the league

I've said before I don't particularly like him as a bloke, not as easy to warm to like Poch for example, but I do respect the job he has done there. How many winners are there who we could realistically attract? Allegri? Sarri? Benitez? And even if they come would they turn us into winners of fail just pike Mourinho did.
 
Quite a change from claiming this squad is good enough for Top 4 / PL title
And didn't need any new signings just a couple of years ago.

The back tracking is truly something to behold.

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And didn't need any new signings just a couple of years ago.

The back tracking is truly something to behold.

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What?
So because we didn’t need new signings in 2018 when we got 4th and a CL final, that means we don’t need new signings in 2021, with what will be our 4th manager in those three years, Eriksen, Jan, Trippier, KWP, Llorente all leaving, Rose going into meltdown and the utter regression of most of the squad.
Coupled with shit signings like Reguilon and Doherty who also need instantly replacing.

Can you explain how your pea brain thinks the 2018 window is remotely similar to the 2021 window?
 
Alasdair with another write up.


TLDR: The club has put together a shortlist and are moving into sounding them out. The club is however not telling him anything regarding names so he is just re-using the same paragraphs about the same names as previously with some new sentences taped on.
 
Alasdair with another write up.


TLDR: The club has put together a shortlist and are moving into sounding them out. The club is however not telling him anything regarding names so he is just re-using the same paragraphs about the same names as previously with some new sentences taped on.
Its going to be Rodgers or Potter. Season over in 2 weeks, we'll hopefully know within 3 weeks. Problem is without a DOF i'm not sure we'll see the level of change that is needed.
 
Alasdair with another write up.


TLDR: The club has put together a shortlist and are moving into sounding them out. The club is however not telling him anything regarding names so he is just re-using the same paragraphs about the same names as previously with some new sentences taped on.

He must be getting as bored writing those articles as we are reading them!
 
He must be getting as bored writing those articles as we are reading them!
He's getting grumpy on twitter something fierce now. I do not pity his mentions.

Earlier today he posted a article about Spurs filing for a planning agreement to expand the training ground so the women's team have their own space and to build a new medical/sports science facility in a few years time. And all the replies were just "SO NOW THERE'S MONEY?!" or such. Ignoring that it clearly said that we wanted to build in a few years and not now.
 
Its going to be Rodgers or Potter. Season over in 2 weeks, we'll hopefully know within 3 weeks. Problem is without a DOF i'm not sure we'll see the level of change that is needed.
Honestly, despite what the documentary implied, I think Hitchens, with an intelligent manager asking for solutions to problems rather than brand names, could work well to get what we need. I worry about slow pace due to Levy, but if Hitchens, of his own accord, was targeting players like Bergwijn, then I would be fairly confident in his judgement. I think that the problem was much more Mourinho and Mendes requirements rather than Spurs own internal views of what we needed.
 
Honestly, despite what the documentary implied, I think Hitchens, with an intelligent manager asking for solutions to problems rather than brand names, could work well to get what we need. I worry about slow pace due to Levy, but if Hitchens, of his own accord, was targeting players like Bergwijn, then I would be fairly confident in his judgement. I think that the problem was much more Mourinho and Mendes requirements rather than Spurs own internal views of what we needed.
Is Bergwijn not a bang average player? What am I missing here?

Seems like a good lad and really works hard doing some of the dirty work to allow Kane and Son to thrive and create, but Lucas Moura does all of that too and is a much better player with the ball at his feet and cost less money.
 
I think he's an excellent attacking prospect who is a victim of a ridiculously inappropriate manager who has no idea what to do with him and gave him no minutes.
I hope you're right, but Mourinho actually did give him quite a lot of opportunities, albeit in a more water-carrying role.

If the best advertisement for Steve Hitchen is an attacking player with 33 appearances and zero goals this season, that rather tells the tale, no?
 
He's getting grumpy on twitter something fierce now. I do not pity his mentions.

Earlier today he posted a article about Spurs filing for a planning agreement to expand the training ground so the women's team have their own space and to build a new medical/sports science facility in a few years time. And all the replies were just "SO NOW THERE'S MONEY?!" or such. Ignoring that it clearly said that we wanted to build in a few years and not now.

People are fucking idiots that’s why. It must be so tedious, luckily for him the abuse isn’t directed at him but at the club. Won’t be long though before someone has a pop at him unfortunately.

I still think the manager will be Rodgers or if not he’s softening us up for potter.
 
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