The media doesn't decide our managerial appointments. That responsibility belongs to our chairman.
I don't think Mason has long enough to make an effective case for the job which is a shame because I think he's the first manager to get the team playing in four years. I don't want him to leave the club because he is a special talent and if he leaves to get managerial experience we run the risk of losing him altogether. I wish we could loan him to clubs like we do with players.
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Mason has the potential to be one of those special voices at the club like Gary Mabbutt or Ledley King that gives everyone a lift whenever they speak. They were more than just players; they were inspirational figures, icons for everything that was good about the club. We haven't had one of those voices for a long time and the club needs one more than ever.
I don't really agree with what you've said with regards to, the media doesn't decide our appointments. To some extent, fan sentiment and media scrutiny have decided all of our last 3 managerial appointments. Mourinho was the guy brought to replace Poch because Levy knew Poch was still popular amongst the fanbase and no one really wanted him out when he went, but he was seeing us slip further away from top four with poor results and pulled the trigger thinking he was being a genius bringing in "serial winner" Mourinho. Press coverage and negative fan sentiment drove NES out of the club, and the media narrative was we had to get Conte - another serial winner, but doing it all in the modern era, not 10 or 15 years ago. Again, it's not worked out for us.
Now I think the media and fan sentiment is going to very much guide our next appointment; Mason is suicide for Levy, the fans will be fucked off about giving a 31 year old who we didn't even actually want as a player a job for an aspiring top 4 club, the media will be desparate for him to fuck it badly to fit their "Spursy" narrative and consign us back to being the bitch boys of the top 6, and the media coverage of our manager hunt after Mourinho is something Danny boy will desparately want to avoid from occurring again. The NES appointment put a shitload of heat on him, he may be powerful but he is not invincible, and egotistic to boot, he will hate being booed by the fans, you can literally watch a pattern of reactionary behaviour panning out throughout his entire tenure with the club.
What you're saying is right of course, Danny will decide in the end, but to suggest that he isn't hugely influenced by outside factors like the media and the fans is disingenuous. I'm not writing off Mason from getting to a place where he could be Spurs manager in 5 or 10 years time, but it's literal career suicide for both him and Levy for it to happen now.
I'd also add that some of the football we played under Conte in the first 6 months was very good, especially when Kane, Son and Kulu were all in good form. We delivered some serious pastings in that run up to May. Everton and Norwich 5-0, Leeds and Villa 4-0, and the 3-0 pasting of Woolwich was one of the most complete dominations of them I've ever witnessed, up there with the 5-1.
