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Management Next Manager Poll (poll reset 11/04/23)

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Next Manager

  • Rodgers

    Votes: 15 3.6%

  • Potter

    Votes: 25 5.9%

  • Nagelsmann

    Votes: 177 41.9%

  • Kompany

    Votes: 43 10.2%

  • Slot

    Votes: 91 21.6%

  • Postecoglou

    Votes: 74 17.5%

  • De Zerbi

    Votes: 31 7.3%

  • Xabi Alonso

    Votes: 11 2.6%

  • Stellini

    Votes: 4 0.9%

  • Frank

    Votes: 10 2.4%

  • Luis Enrique

    Votes: 21 5.0%

  • Zidane

    Votes: 5 1.2%

  • Glasner

    Votes: 3 0.7%

  • Amorim

    Votes: 10 2.4%

  • Carrick

    Votes: 9 2.1%

  • Gallardo

    Votes: 23 5.5%

  • Schmidt

    Votes: 2 0.5%
  • Total voters
    422
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Shadydan said:
Or perhaps they are rather sensibly waiting until the Summer, I don't know why people think that any manager worth their salt is going to quit their current job or risk their reputation taking over this team with 10 games of the season to go, it's just not realistic to think that.
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Agreed.

And also none of us know what is going on behind the scenes. People are making a lot of assumptions based on click bait
 
Many are cry out for 4-4-2. Maybe we should dig up Claudio Ranieri. He's been away so long, he may not have heard of Levy's bullshit. He won't cost an arm and a leg. He'd probably work for Peanuts. He's great at working with young unknown talent. He's an EPL winning Manager. And I don't think he can stuff the Team up to be worse than they are.
 
bus-conductor said:
The owners have never been 'not interested" but the club got themselves into financial difficulties trying to keep up (plus covid). The owners actually wrote off 200m of loan debt to the club. He's still had some decent players to work with and that squad is better than it's league position under Rodgers currently.

Rodgers has no discernible football philosophy or plan. He’ll end up managing Belgium or England.
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Agreed. But we were better than our league position under Poch, Mourinho and Nuno when we sacked them. It doesn't always mean the coach is bad, it just means the relationship is over.
 
bus-conductor said:
The owners have never been 'not interested" but the club got themselves into financial difficulties trying to keep up (plus covid). The owners actually wrote off 200m of loan debt to the club. He's still had some decent players to work with and that squad is better than it's league position under Rodgers currently.

Rodgers has no discernible football philosophy or plan. He’ll end up managing Belgium or England.
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Plus defensively - both in open play and sert pieces - Rodgers' team is horrible.

He's a very different coach from Mourinho, but you'd think Rodgers would have learnt something about defending from his apprentice with "The Special One".
 
FightingIllini said:
We need someone who will do what Poch did when he started, which is create unity with and among the dressing room as it existed, not as some hypothetical future investment project.

I'm very unsure Poch remains the right guy to do that, the divisions in the dressing room began under him and his relationship with Levy has a ton of existing baggage on top of what's inherent with the Spurs job.

But Poch made the football side of Spurs one coherent present-tense whole when he started (as did Jol, as did Redknapp), and we need that back.

Any manager is going to want and require investment to make any push with this squad. But that's only part of the work and the work's gotta start on day 1. Conte was always playing a two-timey game on that and I suspect a Nagelsmann would too.
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Gallardo is the best suited for that. What is interesting is that not a single outlet is mentioning him as an option for us. And I just checked and it looks like Chelsea might be sniffing at him (actually, the article says he has put himself forward for the Chelsea job). If he is considering the PL as an option, it would be criminal we don't do a thorough vetting of him. He has high salary demands (10 mil), but nothing we would balk at.

More importantly than experience in Europe, he has experience taking a once great club in River and restoring it to its old glory days. Which is exactly the type of manager we currently need. It's great getting a manager that has played well with one team or another, or one that has been successful. But very few have the experience of turning a club around from top to bottom that Gallardo has.
 
So if chavski sign Luis Enrique, Nagelsmann will feel slighted again.

Probably a good thing for his ego to take a few blows in quick succession.

And if he wants revenge, then Spurs will certainly be an option for JN.

 
The Mercurial No.10 said:
What a load of utter shit, check their honours.

Multiple Cup wins including the Champions League between 2000 and 2014.
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Other than the CL it was slim pickings in the 15 years leading up to the Klopp appointment. And what they were getting derided about was their inability to win the league. Nobody cares about the EFL cup and neither would we, if it wasn't accompanied by the team doing well in other fronts. Do you think Poch's tenure would be talked about fondly, if all he did was win the 2015 final, but we were mired in midtable between 2015-2019?
 
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The Dealer said:
I note Unai Emery ain't on the list. Doing well at Villa.
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Looks like Enrique is going to Chelsea.

Hopefully we can sort something out with Nagelsmann soon. If not, we need to move on. If he still isn’t sure about committing to us there’s no point.
 
Elias said:
So if chavski sign Luis Enrique, Nagelsmann will feel slighted again.

Probably a good thing for his ego to take a few blows in quick succession.

And if he wants revenge, then Spurs will certainly be an option for JN.
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I appreciate both your creativity and optimism.

I don't think Nagelsmann could possibly care enough to get upset about it, let alone want to jump onto our train wreck for revenge.

IF he does join us it's not going to be to get back at them.
 
Aimson said:
Depends if they are in doubt like "manage Tottenham? I think I can do better" or if they are "work for Levy? I am not sure I want to do that to myself" if you ask me.
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Isn’t that the car with a lot of job moves or play transfers. In football overtime a lot of players have to teams you’d think they would never go to. If they have doubts the. We need to answer those doubts. That’s the point of interviews. Ask them what their doubts are and try answer them a s ease their fears. Of course that is if want them and if they believe the reassurances. Unfortunately the later is prbly the issue as we still have that fraud on the books and whose gonna believe him or want to work with him!
 
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