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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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Yeah continuity in winning nothing...

The best clubs back their managers. Period.
No, the best clubs back themselves. If we let Conte have 7 guys he wants, but then when he leaves we lose the 7 people with all the decisions and plans, then we have a much larger gap to fill going forward. The club does have a job to do in protecting itself against sudden changes. Continuity as a club does matter. You don't just roll over the lick the boots of the new coach. You are hiring a talented employee, but you are not giving them full control of the entire business.
 
It does not necessarily mean the club are not being ambitious. Spurs fans are guilty of very binary views on who is responsible and like to use Levy as a whipping boy, but if Conte rocks up, demands 100 million in transfers this summer, and then gets angry because we won't do them, then it's on Conte. Spurs are not run on a loss making basis, and so will not spend like that. Almost no club in Europe is in that position this summer, unless they are not run as a business.
What do you expect

Firstly the ultimate responsibility for failure always rests with the CEO

Secondly ENIC are the only constant in 20 years of footballing failure. Even if we give them a free pass first 5 years following Sugar that is 15 years
 
No, the best clubs back themselves. If we let Conte have 7 guys he wants, but then when he leaves we lose the 7 people with all the decisions and plans, then we have a much larger gap to fill going forward. The club does have a job to do in protecting itself against sudden changes. Continuity as a club does matter. You don't just roll over the lick the boots of the new coach. You are hiring a talented employee, but you are not giving them full control of the entire business.
But generally with Management teams in football the whole team gets hired and fired. Spurs hiring Poyet and Freund as assistant managers did not work for their respective managers. Poyet in particular undermined Ramos.
 
No, the best clubs back themselves. If we let Conte have 7 guys he wants, but then when he leaves we lose the 7 people with all the decisions and plans, then we have a much larger gap to fill going forward. The club does have a job to do in protecting itself against sudden changes. Continuity as a club does matter. You don't just roll over the lick the boots of the new coach. You are hiring a talented employee, but you are not giving them full control of the entire business.
What if your continuity is being a continuous disappointment?

Maybe something needs to finally fucking change behind the scenes.
 
No, the best clubs back themselves. If we let Conte have 7 guys he wants, but then when he leaves we lose the 7 people with all the decisions and plans, then we have a much larger gap to fill going forward. The club does have a job to do in protecting itself against sudden changes. Continuity as a club does matter. You don't just roll over the lick the boots of the new coach. You are hiring a talented employee, but you are not giving them full control of the entire business.
If continuity matters you do not hire a manager like Conte who doesn't give a fuck about projects. You hire a Poch, a Ten Hag, a Potter, coaches who buy into a club philosophy and work within it. I really think Levy has some serious mental problems because his actions don't match his words.
 
No, no, fucking, no! (No offence Sushi)

Put the 3 pushed aside on shadow secondment- absorb the best traits n technical understanding of this guy coming in, to take forward.

If they don’t like it, sorry, we’ll give you a good reference… Ledley aside I’m cool.
It's not about Ledley. Do you know which 7 guys he means? Does he want a whole bunch of new medical staff? Do you want a whole bunch of new guys who don't know the players or their medical histories, and whose practices you don't know, playing with their health? Sounds great until someone gets a major injury due to unfamiliarity with their situation, or fails a drug test due to new steriods they weren't warned about.

Does he want a someone to control the Academy? And maybe steer all the kids to signing with his preferred agent? (Sam Allardyce's favourite habit)

We don't know exactly what the 7 people would be doing, so there is no point in assuming it's something we should want. The club does have a need and a right to ensure it retains control over certain things, regardless of the manager. We should have done more of that with Mourinho, given what has come out about his training and fitness habits.
 
It will be absolutely pathetic if we fuck this up. The guy wants to come here and is one of the very best in the world. The only way he doesn't come is if we don't pony up the money. We're not Burnley for fucks sake, we are a top 10 most valuable club in the world.
 
What if your continuity is being a continuous disappointment?

Maybe something needs to finally fucking change behind the scenes.
You're being very binary and trying to claim that everything is awful. If it was, we'd be relegated and have no good players. We're not. We have a board who made a very bad choice of managers and failed to make the correct long term plan and hire a sporting director. The whole club is not a disappointment.
 
What do you expect

Firstly the ultimate responsibility for failure always rests with the CEO

Secondly ENIC are the only constant in 20 years of footballing failure. Even if we give them a free pass first 5 years following Sugar that is 15 years
If you call this failure, you haven't been watching for very long. We narrowly missed out on a few big results under Pochettino. We hired a bad replacement, which is on the CEO, but to claim that everything is constant failure, given where we were 20 years ago compared to now, is just utter fiction.
 
StagePrize Money
Winner$23.2 million
Runner-up$18.3 million
Semifinalists$14.6 million
Quarterfinalists$12.8 million
Round of 16$11.6 million
Group-stage wins$3.3 million each
Group-stage draws$1.1 million each
Group stage$18.6 million
Those are 2021 CL payments This season alone, Manchester City and Chelsea have already collected $75.2 million and $73 million, respectively, before taking into account the prize money coming to them in the final.
 
You're being very binary and trying to claim that everything is awful. If it was, we'd be relegated and have no good players. We're not. We have a board who made a very bad choice of managers and failed to make the correct long term plan and hire a sporting director. The whole club is not a disappointment.
We've basically won fuck all in the last 2 decades, despite masquerading as a big club and have went backwards.

Carry on.
 
No, the best clubs back themselves. If we let Conte have 7 guys he wants, but then when he leaves we lose the 7 people with all the decisions and plans, then we have a much larger gap to fill going forward. The club does have a job to do in protecting itself against sudden changes. Continuity as a club does matter. You don't just roll over the lick the boots of the new coach. You are hiring a talented employee, but you are not giving them full control of the entire business.
Well the club aren't exactly backing themselves if they are expecting the guy to leave or things to go tits up? Why tf are they hiring him if they don't have faith in him to deliver.

Look at the Liverpool/Klopp example for a case study on how it should be done. Look at Daniel Levy for a case study on how it shouldn't.
 
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