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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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Nabil Bentaleb said:
I’d rather get Benitez in relation to Rodgers. That’s how much I don’t like the guy
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I dislike Rogergers (purely based on him being a twat whilst at Liverpool, don't care what people think of that, he shouldn't have been a twat) but I'd have him over the low-block bore-fest that is Benitez. Given the last two seasons, we've endured it beggars belief that anyone would want to see that shit played at the Lane again.
 
FightingIllini said:
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.
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Scored a decent goal I think against City early on and uninspiring ever since

Still young though
 
FightingIllini said:
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?
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I don't know if it does. We don't know very much about who demands a particular player, or the process we've been using to find them. I felt that the 2019 summer was pretty re-assuring. There seemed to be a process that was finding the correct level of talent for positions of need. And Hitchen was part of that process. Then Jose showed up with his access to (and possibly mandatory requirments to buy from ) Mendes' list of players. At which point, I no longer know what the process was.

I would hope that we learn from the experience and stop accepting any kind of impositions like that on our recruiting, but I am not hopeful. I don't think Hitchen is the problem, though. Typecast as he may be, due to his accent and demeanor.
 
Juicy Sushi said:
I felt that the 2019 summer was pretty re-assuring.
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It was extremely reassuring in terms of the kind of net spend we were willing to spunk on upgrading the squad at positions of need in the new stadium era.

And I have fully given up on zero of these players, but man, Ndombele, Lo Celso, Sessegnon and Clarke is not a group that at this moment says great things about our recruitment team.

For that kind of money we should be seeing a lot more dividends over two seasons. We don't even know what the right position is for any of those guys, which should not happen when we're talking about club record fees.

Spending like City and Chelsea is going to have City and Chelsea-like results, and we are currently in the Adrian Mutu/Roque Santa Cruz level of sophistication and nous in the transfer market.
 
FightingIllini said:
It was extremely reassuring in terms of the kind of net spend we were willing to spunk on upgrading the squad at positions of need in the new stadium era.

And I have fully given up on zero of these players, but man, Ndombele, Lo Celso, Sessegnon and Clarke is not a group that at this moment says great things about our recruitment team.

For that kind of money we should be seeing a lot more dividends over two seasons. We don't even know what the right position is for any of those guys, which should not happen when we're talking about club record fees.
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I disagree with that. I feel most of the problems we have had was a Pochettino-squad relationship which had broken down due to everyone running out of gas, and then hiring exactly the wrong person as a replacement. With that mess, I don't think it is possible to make definitive judgements about guys walking into that pre-existing situation in the summer of 2019.

I know most Spurs fans would disagree with me right now, but c'est la vie.
 
Juicy Sushi said:
I know most Spurs fans would disagree with me right now, but c'est la vie.
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No one will be happier than me if Graham Potter has guys like Bergwijn and Ndombele playing a tune for a title challenging Spurs side. But that seems wildly unrealistic to me at this moment.

I guess my feeling on Mourinho is not that he's some singular squad-destroying monster, just that he's now a mediocre manager who plays distasteful football, and our solution appears to be hiring a mediocre manager who plays tasteful football.
 
Guido said:


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If anyone still wants Rodgers have a look at the Leicester meltdown against Newcastle

Could have been more than 4

No thanks
 
Dr Rocktopus said:
I don't dislike him, but he wouldn't be popular. Personally I think we need someone like him to steady the ship.
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The concern I have with bringing in a guy like Benitez is that to me it signals that they are not trying to do a rebuild but instead hoping to get in someone who can grind out wins with the shit players we have.

Maybe I am wrong but I don't see Benitez coming in and building around guys like Rodon, Sessegnon, Tangangam Skipp plus other new young players that we need to bring in. He seems much more like a Jose guy where we will bring in a 27 year old Sabitzer on the decline, bring in a "steady veteran" CB like 29 year old like Dunk who supposedly wont make mistakes, give more time to guys like Moura and Bale because they are big game guys and be left again with zero youth coming up, zero future to look forward to and hoping to grind our way to 1-1 draws and 6th place.

A Benitez regime sounds soul sucking to me, especially after two years of Jose. I personally would rather go through 2-3 years of 10th place football with young, dynamic talent growing into a potential great team than try to play bland, mediocre football hoping to get mediocre results with no future or any hope going forward.
 
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