Bielsa has great ideas but is a complete mentalist. He could never hack it at a big club where his foibles can’t be indulged. He could never work with Levy or deal with the external pressures of managing a big club.
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Management Poll: Who do you want most as our next manager?
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At this stage I would actually be happy with 'burn it down and start again' as an approach. The alternative is just getting in someone like Benitez and letting our ageing squad gradually tire itself out over the next 2-3 years.
Both approaches are deeply flawed but I would rather watch the football under a young manager with a bit of hunger and a renewed squad, even lacking quality in certain areas.
If Mourinho taught us one thing it's that the current squad is not good enough to challenge for silverware, irrespective of who is managing them. I do think we would have had a more enjoyable and successful season under someone more committed to playing attacking football, but the clock can't be turned back with most of our players.
Benitez football is on par with Maureen, eye wateringly bad
Day 2, and Bielsa has just thrown Levy through a plate glass window at Hotspur Way...
Ryan MATES-ON, as I saw him described on Twitter.I've just noticed 3 people have voted for Ryan Mason
I don't think Mourinho had the wrong idea quite frankly. Our defense is like Amir Khan's chin. He knew this. He knew they needed protection so he deployed players to shield them.
It all went wrong when even that failed because the next line of defence was barely adequate.
Every Tottenham related thread is the same. The only escape is Off Topic and there are some mad folk in there too.
That's settled it for me
stop all interviews and just give that man the job
Basically we need to replace our entire defence - Reggie potentially excepted - which to me suggests we might as well go for a full rebuild anyway.
He definitely had the wrong ideas
If your defence is terrible don’t base your entire game plan on them being solid for 90 minutes
Worst manager we’ve ever had bar none
Yes and wasted our strengths - good attacking players.
Bielsa would choose a highly experimental covid 19 Kazakhstan backed vaccine that has to be administered via testicular injection , over working for Levy. They are the most philosophically opposed people I can think of. And despite what Riggs and Murtaugh would have you believe that never works.
Too many shit players then in a nutshell
Don’t want either but would rather Bielsa than Benitez. At least it would be fun for the 3 weeks it lasted before he physically attacked Levy
Add that to any signing Woolwich make this year, seeing AFTV tweet "he turned down an offer from Spurs to join Woolwich" crap.
Rogers: won’t take it and why should he, also prone to Spursy collapses so imagine him here.
Ten Hag: looks to be staying at Ajax
Benitez: boring and after Jose Spurs fans won’t accept boring football.
Conte: the idea of him and Levy working, that would explode.
Allegri: unproven outside Italy and been out the game for a while.
Tuchel and Nagelsmann where the outstanding candidates but one is with Chelsea and the other gone Bayern. Potter plays good football and gets a lot out of very shit players, decent football for cheap, fits The limitations of the club. It’s an attempt for a new Poch.
Trust you to actually find the one upside to Bielsa GBH on Levy with that bucket he sits on....
You saw what happened when we tried to throw the kitchen sink at Leeds.
They're a mid table team and they ripped our defence apart with astonishing ease.
IMO, on paper, that was our strongest available defence as well.
Man City have the best defence in the league. Chelsea aren't far behind. Strong attack is built off trust for your defence. No one trusts ours.
Potter does equal Poch to me. Similar history in management. Similar philosophy by the looks of things.
I’d love to see Conte here, but think Levy would rather cut his cock off. Can you imagine the moaning Conte has about needing investment in the squad and the effect that would have in Levy’s blood pressure?