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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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enfield1985 said:
Anyone coming in will need to rebuild the squad. I just worry that Conte will quit by Christmas because Levy and Conte fall out over transfers and we are embarrassed even more as a club after the Mourinho debacle. It is like Levy has been going out of his way the last few years to make us the laughing stocks of the premier league.
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I don't think the squad needs that much rebuilding. It needs some work, but it is not a trainwreck. I also don't think we've been a laughing stock, but I am not going to be arguing over fan narratives in a thread on something else.

My concern over Conte is that he has a clear pattern of behaviour, much like Mourinho did, and that it is something that is not planned in support of, it is something you plan around. Which leaves me with the question over whether it is worth hiring him instead of someone else who could be planned with, instead.
 
Juicy Sushi said:
I think the argument is that Conte has a habit of having unrealistic demands, and then picking fights with people who he can't beat. If that's the case, then you cannot treat him as someone you plan with, as much as plan around.
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I think it really depends on the project. If Conte is told that the project is top 4 then he will adjust his demands accordingly, likewise if he's told to win the league.

Levy has to be clear about what our plan is for this next cycle. That's part of why it fell apart with Poch, the first 5 year cycle was to reach the CL in the new stadium but what were we supposed to do after that? Win the league? Just stay in the top 4? Poch seemed to think it was the former and Levy the latter, there has to be clarity from the chairman.
 
postbox said:
Kane made it clear in that Neville interview that Mourinho just expected a lot of stuff to happen off the players own backs.

Perhaps some fairness to that, but regardless its his job to make sure it happens. So if the players arent doing it, make them - where as Mourinho seemed to just say "ah fuck it!" instead.



Isnt the story at Inter that he fell out with them because they just cut the budget massively and expected him to sell off loads of players to balance the books? After picking up Inter where he did, and taking them to the title for the first time in a decade - I dont blame him for feeling he/they deserved more.

Similarly with Juve, dont forget where they were when he went in there and what he achieved.

Both examples of taking a team from relative nowhere to winning the league.

Similarly with Chelsea, though it can be argued they were in a falsely low position.

I think, reading up on him, what seems to get ignored is a) how adaptable he is to get the best from his squad and b) how many players improve under him. Both qualities that would serve him well with us, and qualities lacking in Mourinho.
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He fell out with Inter for that reason, but essentially that means he wanted something that did not match the actual reality of the club. If they want to balance the books and so are going to be selling, and he doesn't, then it isn't a sign that he had realistic expectations about where the club was. And would be in for a very big disappointment at Spurs.
 
enfield1985 said:
Anyone coming in will need to rebuild the squad. I just worry that Conte will quit by Christmas because Levy and Conte fall out over transfers and we are embarrassed even more as a club after the Mourinho debacle. It is like Levy has been going out of his way the last few years to make us the laughing stocks of the premier league.
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Conte is brilliant but he is a short term manager. No matter who we get we ain’t winning things next 1-2 season with how strong City, Chelsea and Liverpool are going to be, we need a manager who can build over a 3-5 years like Poch because we don’t have the money to compete or at least uncle Joe won’t spend it.

Conte is a better manager but it’s suitability that is the issue with the mess we are. Conte is a short cut like Jose, we need money for that.
 
StripiestPilot said:
I think it really depends on the project. If Conte is told that the project is top 4 then he will adjust his demands accordingly, likewise if he's told to win the league.

Levy has to be clear about what our plan is for this next cycle. That's part of why it fell apart with Poch, the first 5 year cycle was to reach the CL in the new stadium but what were we supposed to do after that? Win the league? Just stay in the top 4? Poch seemed to think it was the former and Levy the latter, there has to be clarity from the chairman.
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I don't think that was the reason for Poche and Spurs falling apart, but with Conte, it's not just the results that need to be made clear, it's the level of spending he should expect. If he keeps expecting a club to spend beyond what they want, it's not going to work.
 
MasonBall said:
Alot of the players he brought in at Inter are players that most of us would have turned our noses up at. Lukaku and Sanchez for example were awful coming from United. His coaching improved them.

I think it's a bit of a myth that Conte is a chequebook manager. He built some really good teams from fuck all and only seems to get frustrated when the board won't give him the control/backing to push on even further.
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I understand what you’re saying, but it kind of just backed up my point.

He’s undoubtedly a great coach and he has improved players who would have been seen as “average” before he arrived.

However, just because our fans would turn our nose up at Lukaku doesn’t take away from the fact he was a 70 odd million striker. Would he get that kind of support from the Spurs board? More than likely not.
 
Conte showing up day 2 of training

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Juicy Sushi said:
I don't think that was the reason for Poche and Spurs falling apart, but with Conte, it's not just the results that need to be made clear, it's the level of spending he should expect. If he keeps expecting a club to spend beyond what they want, it's not going to work.
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Poch:

"When you talk about Tottenham, everyone says you have an amazing house but you need to put in the furniture."

“If you want to have a lovely house maybe you need better furniture. And it depends on your budget if you are going to spend money. We need to be respectful with teams like Manchester City or Liverpool who spend a lot of money. We are brave, we are clever, we are creative.

“Now it’s about creating another chapter and to have the clear idea of how we are going to build that new project."

I don't think we ever got a clear signal of what that next project was. Poch wanted to take that next step and build a team to match our new stadium and Levy didn't. There's no way Poch's vision of his next 5 years at Tottenham was to compete for the league with Eric Dier as his defensive rock.
 
StripiestPilot said:
Poch:

"When you talk about Tottenham, everyone says you have an amazing house but you need to put in the furniture."

“If you want to have a lovely house maybe you need better furniture. And it depends on your budget if you are going to spend money. We need to be respectful with teams like Manchester City or Liverpool who spend a lot of money. We are brave, we are clever, we are creative.

“Now it’s about creating another chapter and to have the clear idea of how we are going to build that new project."

I don't think we ever got a clear signal of what that next project was. Poch wanted to take that next step and build a team to match our new stadium and Levy didn't. There's no way Poch's vision of his next 5 years at Tottenham was to compete for the league with Eric Dier as his defensive rock.
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I don't think that was the case. I think he was pretty burned out, as was the squad with him. And the lack of transition in the squad was also an issue with him as well as Levy. There was a lack of clarity, but it was hardly the only thing, even if it didn't seem that way to him while he was on the inside.
 
Nabil Bentaleb said:
levy as to take losses, that is known
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I agree. But what if there are literally no buyers at any price? That's the problem I can see, given the financial black holes in most clubs' bank accounts right now. We're going to need to either buy guys out, or loan them for free. I would be ok with that, but Conte might not be when it becomes clear that the club, being run on the financial basis it is, won't have the money he wants for transfers.
 
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