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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'm a Spurs optimist, so I'm choosing to believe 2.

You're still a Spurs optimist? I just can't will myself to be optimistic anymore.

It's clearly #1 and I don't think that it has anything to do with level of optimism. Paratici isn't even official, so there is no way in hell that an organization is going to let someone handle negotiations while not even being an employee of the club. I think we had a plan but Levy likely abandoned it when Conte looked available, and we were chasing after Poch after just sacking him 18 months previous.

This is a gigantic misstep by Levy. I think he has pulled off some masterful things over the years, but I don't think there is any way to twist this that it isn't a complete mess.
 
ten Haag "one step away"

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Denise Van Outen was such a welcome addition to my hangover mornings.
The show when Michael Hutchence was on with Paula Yates and they were either clearly already fucking or just had crazy chemistry stuck in my memory as a young man.

The guy that was one of the Mangels in Neighbours was quite good on BB...was a good show, Zig and Zag would be better on This Morning than that cunt Morgan ever was.
 
The show when Michael Hutchence was on with Paula Yates and they were either clearly already fucking or just had crazy chemistry stuck in my memory as a young man.

The guy that was one of the Mangels in Neighbours was quite good on BB...was a good show, Zig and Zag would be better on This Morning than that cunt Morgan ever was.
I had no idea Morgan was on this morning. I lost all interest in that the day Fred the Weather man disappeared. He always seemed to care a lot for his younger viewers too, weird. Old Judy Finnigan (was never thin let alone being thin again ) was a good moral compass for a young man too.
 
It could be that one of the reasons it’s taking so long is because we are waiting for the DOF to come on board because we want him to be a major part of the head coach decision making process, as our new DOF kind of should be?

I still wish that DOF was going to be Rangnick, who as well as overseeing some good player scouting, has a pretty good track record of scouting young up and coming coaches.

Failing that, Campos has a much better recruitment cv than Paratici, and Campos, like Rangnick has worked with limited resources and is between jobs right now.
 
It could be that one of the reasons it’s taking so long is because we are waiting for the DOF to come on board because we want him to be a major part of the head coach decision making process, as our new DOF kind of should be?

I still wish that DOF was going to be Rangnick, who as well as overseeing some good player scouting, has a pretty good track record of scouting young up and coming coaches.

Failing that, Campos has a much better recruitment cv than Paratici, and Campos, like Rangnick has worked with limited resources and is between jobs right now.
“Rangnick and Campos” people name a single other DoF challenge
 
Leicester signing Soumare and Edouard.

Villa signing Buendia and enquiring for Ward-Prowse.

Tottenham getting rejected by managers, not linked to players and falling further behind teams all at the same time.


We've gone from the brink of glory, a Champions League final, to being further away than we've ever been in the space of 2 years.
Well said.
How the hell are we ever going to attract any decent players when we can’t even attract any half decent manager......
 
This is a great write up and you touch on what I wanted to add when you say turn over the squad and for me that is a key point. He didn't just do it based on the back of a few players, when he lost a lot of the key players he had he was able to keep having success. He brought in both youth- De Ligt, De Jong, Gravenbach and vets- Klaassen, Blind and Tadic and making it work with all of them.
This is Great but doesn't cut it for leagues as competitive as the EPL. Young players will take time to develop and when they reach a point they good enough to take silverware, they usually ready to move on. I'm not saying it isn't a good idea to promote out home-grown players, I'm just saying it would take a balance to achieve league honours. Unfortunately Levy needs to let go of some players as they are just not good enough or their attitude isn't that of winners. In Our case it's possibly up to half of our squad. We will need to buy new players. We cannot only buy youngsters. We need experienced players too. I don't think any manager can use Levys' model and build a successful team.
 
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