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Management Paulo Fonseca (Poll Added)
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Sky are saying were after right back lamptey. Top top player. Glad we get this kid. Potential to be best right back in europe.
This coming season will be worse no matter how much you hate Moureen.
There's no such thing as pretty football when you're getting dicked every week.
Have you only just started supporting Spurs or just got a sky subscription?
Nice thread by a Roma + Spurs fan. I think it echoes what we've been reading that Fonseca's sides are quite good in attack, but his weakness is on the defensive side. That's why I'm glad it sounds like we're working on bringing in assistant coaches to shore up that area instead of taking them from Roma, though it remains to be seen if we can do any better.
When other teams bring in managers do they have to bring in coaches because their manager is no inept at a key aspect of the game?
I know that managers will bring in guys to work with certain areas but I don't think I have ever heard of it being a positve that a manager is so bad at coaching offense/defense that we will be fine because we can bring in a coach to help him with that.
Maybe I don't pay attention to other managerial hires enough but doesn't it make sense to bring in manager that is competent in all areas of coaching?
I know that managers will bring in guys to work with certain areas but I don't think I have ever heard of it being a positve that a manager is so bad at coaching offense/defense that we will be fine because we can bring in a coach to help him with that.
Maybe I don't pay attention to other managerial hires enough but doesn't it make sense to bring in manager that is competent in all areas of coaching?
I heard at Roma he had pretty much all his first team defenders out injured for lengthy periods.
I would assume that while a head coach/manager is competent in all areas of coaching they will still rely on there staff to be specialists in specific areas whether it fitness, defence and so on.
Surely it would be a sensible thing to bring someone in to aide him considering he hasn't got his right hand man anymore
footballl is going the way of nfl - specialist coaches and players.
changes in play to bring on attackers for certain parts of game and defenders at other times.
and always specialist coaches for defence and others for attack.
I understand bringing in coaches that will have more of a focus on offense or defense but I am not sure I have ever heard it said like we are hearing here like we will bring him in because the manager sucks at one aspect of the game and that supposed to be a good thing.
He did not.
Sounds like vintage Spurs then.
Been supporting tottenham for 35 years. Links to area as well as know tottenham and edmonton well.
Yeah, the game is so complicated at this point I don't see why you wouldn't have specialist assistant coaches. I really don't think it's possible for one person to be good at everything, not to the level this league demands. I'd even say that being able to delegate and recognize good ideas in staff is a big part of being a good manager today.
When we hire a head coach, we're really hiring a team.
I don't think anyone says that's supposed to be a good thing. Just recognizing that we're not hiring a perfect product but we can absolutely improve on those potential weaknesses, the same way that inexperienced coaches can lean on a much more experienced one (e.g. Gerrard and Beale) and the result remains quite fruitful.
Personally I'm not sure how much of some managers' success is really down to their backroom because we rarely get that kind of insight, but I'd wager that it's more than people think.
Yh I think that's probably the media trying to make a mockery of the whole thing it's them saying like this guy plays good football but his teams aren't very good at the back and then they hear his assistant isn no longer part of his team and he happened to be the defence coach. So now it's like we need a defence coach which we would need anyway.
From what I hear it seems his teams concede goals because they maybe leave themselves open at the back being too gung-ho.
I think they were 3rd in the league in march then injurys hit and they fell off but I can't be sure just something I read. Blaming it on injurys is a bit shit but think it was a few of them
Some of the posts on twitter would indicate that it is a good thing and people who are concerned about the defense shouldn't be because we are brining in a defense coach that will be better than other managers will.
I think backroom staff are a major part of a managers success and have no problem with bringing in the best assistants out there. I just find it odd how this is being reported is all. And concerning that we are hiring a manager at our level that needs that level of help.
Like I said I may have missed it but it is hard to imagine when Pep, Tuchel, Klopp were hired that they had to bring in a coach to deal with offense or defense because they sucked so much at dealing with it.
So you still think, after 35 years, that one line on Sky Sports, in early June, saying we fancy Lampty means he'll be a good player for us?
We're going to be linked to every player with a pulse and some without over the next 3 months. We'll sign very very very few of them.
Fonesca seems to have a reputation for playing open attractive attacking football - and that requires having a solid defence to base it on.
Unlike when Poch started out at Spurs where we rapidly added Alderweireld to Vertonghen (and both knew each others game well from Ajax and Belgium) who had been at Spurs for a couple of years, and that pair were for a couple of years the best defensive partnership in europe. Add Walker and Rose (both already at Spurs) and we had a very decent defence.
We now have parts of the defence in place (maybe Roden at ,CB but not played much at Spurs so far) and ,maybe a CB partner for a year in Alderweireld who is slowing down, no RB and an attacking LB in Reguillon. But no existing coherent unit - nobody knows very well the others in defence.
So a coach has to bring all the pieces together from ground zero to get players who don't know each other well to play as a defensive unit. Cue a need for a defensive coach .... or Ledley