It's ok to disagree, his Chelsea team towards the end played a back five and relied on the counter attack. I don't want that to continue at Tottenham.
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I'd go for de zerbi and plenty of patience.
Not sure about the romantic poch reunion.
Too many of his players that downed tools under him still remain at the club , and we 100 percent aren't getting rid of
Kane
Son
Hugo
Davies
Dier
Sanchez
Winks
Ndombele
Locelso
Sessegnon
Tanganga
In one window, probably just Lucas, rodon and unfortunately Kane
Not sure about the romantic poch reunion.
Too many of his players that downed tools under him still remain at the club , and we 100 percent aren't getting rid of
Kane
Son
Hugo
Davies
Dier
Sanchez
Winks
Ndombele
Locelso
Sessegnon
Tanganga
In one window, probably just Lucas, rodon and unfortunately Kane
Yeah, I agree with that but we don't know what the situation is.
If we know his position is untenable then we get rid. What I'm saying is we don't know if his position is untenable. So can only make the assumption that, as he is still here, that he is carrying out his duties as MD of Football.
This is the club that had to cancel Doherty’s contract due to loaning out too many players & over booked Beyoncé
I'd only want to retain 3 of those players anyway.... And one of those may be off.
If we appoint another ex-Chelsea manager, I'm done.
There's still day-to-day work to be done and co-ordinated..... Obviously the situ isn't ideal, but there's no better way to deal with it other than business as usual until such time that Fab's future is resolved.
Put simply it would be better to have irons in the fire; even if a new bloke opts not to use them and prefers to bring his own.
That was down to Paratici and his department, he's in charge of that aspect of the business not the Board.
Don’t think can really use any national team job as reason for or against a manager. The knock on Enrique is that he’s only really done it with a super team at barca, but he did have them playing some of the most exciting football the worlds ever seen, won a treble with them and they went to shit when he left.
It would be a big risk but his style and philosophy is what we need, any manager we hire has to be on a long contract and committed to a project, to avoid the mess we’re in now. But I really don’t think we can wait til May to decide so for me it has to be someone available now
It would be a big risk but his style and philosophy is what we need, any manager we hire has to be on a long contract and committed to a project, to avoid the mess we’re in now. But I really don’t think we can wait til May to decide so for me it has to be someone available now
I am almost certain that the board are discussing it right now. There's too much smoke going around. But I also understand them not jumping the gun by sacking Conte before they have the next guy done and dusted. We don't want another Nuno scenario.
Yep.
And I assume this will be known or not known.
Sky are reporting we are looking for a new DoF. If this is true and not made-up clickbait then great and that makes total sense. What would follow would be an appointment of a new manager by new DoF. We've got time to get this resolved too.
But if there is no issue with Paratici, then it's business as usual - this is his job.
I don’t think he has anything to do with concerts , why would he .
We have many levels of incompetence
Honestly, the idea of Pochettino is so very, very appealing because of the nostalgia, and knowledge of what he brings. But I fear that after working to bring in a Sporting Director and having Levy step away from day-to-day running of the football side of things, bringing Pochettino back would get rid of all that, and leave us with another mess in 24 months.
So, I think someone else would be better just to avoid the potential of a relapse. That being said, I do not want another superstar, "win now" guy who has no history of working with a squad, developing young players, or coaching attacking football.
I don't think there is anyone available right now who will do that. In the summer, I think my choice would be Roger Schmidt. And I say that because I want someone who is explicitly not a "long term" choice. We need to get away from this idea of a guy coming in, and being another Fergueson or Nicholson and having a decade plus tenure as manager. We need to fix our mentality. The club needs to be run with a specific football identity. And frankly, that identity already exists, but the club never likes to talk it up.
We were tika-taka before the Spanish had invented a word for it. We taught Ajax how to play Total Football. We invented positional play when everyone else copied Chapman's Woolwich. That's Spurs. We are the club that plays attacking, positional football, with young talent from England and across the planet, and we don't do it the normal way. We need to stick to that approach, and bring in managers every 2-3 years to keep the training routines fresh and the players interested, but the expectation of what kind of players the manager will have to work with, and our approach on the pitch, should already be known and accepted.
And over time, we will get to Cup finals, we will get into title fights. Whether or not we win any of them is frankly the whims of the cosmos and beyond our control, but we'll at least have a chance, and enjoy the ride. And that's what matters.
So, I think someone else would be better just to avoid the potential of a relapse. That being said, I do not want another superstar, "win now" guy who has no history of working with a squad, developing young players, or coaching attacking football.
I don't think there is anyone available right now who will do that. In the summer, I think my choice would be Roger Schmidt. And I say that because I want someone who is explicitly not a "long term" choice. We need to get away from this idea of a guy coming in, and being another Fergueson or Nicholson and having a decade plus tenure as manager. We need to fix our mentality. The club needs to be run with a specific football identity. And frankly, that identity already exists, but the club never likes to talk it up.
We were tika-taka before the Spanish had invented a word for it. We taught Ajax how to play Total Football. We invented positional play when everyone else copied Chapman's Woolwich. That's Spurs. We are the club that plays attacking, positional football, with young talent from England and across the planet, and we don't do it the normal way. We need to stick to that approach, and bring in managers every 2-3 years to keep the training routines fresh and the players interested, but the expectation of what kind of players the manager will have to work with, and our approach on the pitch, should already be known and accepted.
And over time, we will get to Cup finals, we will get into title fights. Whether or not we win any of them is frankly the whims of the cosmos and beyond our control, but we'll at least have a chance, and enjoy the ride. And that's what matters.
One thing I'm not sure about.... I vaguely remember reading that Fab's contract was up this summer regardless....... I assume that without this drama we'd have sought to renew his deal, but I wonder if the drama casts a shade over that happening?
If it does, then maybe gardening leave and getting the new DOF in now is the right way to go... That way New DOF is best placed to influence the new manager process.
I assume finding a DOF who's vision to match the last DOF is an even trickier proposition that ordinarily finding a manager to match your DOF's vision..........
I think he's a very good manager BUT I think his football is boring, 70% possession with XG of about 1 or 2!!
I love my teams to have possession of the ball, I'm consistent on this, but I really don't like Barca tiki-taka nonsense. The only pleasing aspect was watching the genius of individual layers like Messi do something amazing.
I'm also not sure if a) We have a team/players that will enable him to play the way he wants b) that the challenge of the PL will expose it as it did with Pep when he first arrived at City (BTW he had a squad that was already stocked to the gills with talent, many of whom had been pre-selected especially for Pep at least 2yrs earlier as they knew they could get him so the copied and they also recruited loads of ex-Barca staff behind the scenes to facilitate this too).
With the names mentioned i think we can assume its not going to be Carrick, Gallardo or someone like that. To me its Poch now or next week or De Zerbi in the summer. Frank has done a great job but dont think he's right for us and Enrique and Tuchel would likely be more of the same and leave me cold. I'd be surprised if its someone outside those 5.
I was only really responding to the Doherty aspect.
I don't get the stress on the Beyonce stuff, we've applied for more dates, which is good business for the local economy (and us too). If we don't get them then she performs fewer dates. It's highly possible we are pulling a cheeky fast one on this which if it comes off will net us more income. If it doesn't we still get the income for the dates she does.
I'm not a huge possession for possession's sake man, either. Wenger-ball was fucking woeful to watch, like paint drying. At times we lapsed into that in the later Poch years and it was as fucking dull and dreadful as Mourinho.
Just attack the goal. When you lose the ball, press and get it back...then attack the fucking goal again. 4-3-3 with young hungry players with legs. Results be damned, just make it fun.
Fecking run about a bit.
I always thought of Enriques barca being slightly different to peps, they always excited me more than his team, but maybe that’s just that front 3 of Messi Neymar and Suarez.
I think if he were to come he would have to adapt to the premier league for sure, as that same style of tiki-taka just isn’t possible in the prem. But I just look at city and Woolwich right now and the football they’re playing is so clear of everyone else in the league, Enrique whilst not being the same would adopt a similar philosophy in playing style to them.
Yes certain players would definitely have to move on but I do think players like Romero, bissouma, bentancur, Porro for example would be suited to this style. I really just want to see us having control over games again, I want to see us with the ball, trying to penetrate teams.
"Our idea is never going to change. We will attack, want the ball, play in their half, defend near halfway, press high, take lots of risks. If we have the bravery to stay faithful to that idea, I will consider that we have done our best." - luis Enrique
Whoever it is I want a manager who wants to
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