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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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Get in! said:
I think it could very well be Slot. In an interview with Dutch journos he didn't commit to extending with Feyenoord, nor did he say anything after they won the title yesterday. And from the grapevine among football people in Holland it's almost a given that he will be managing in the PL next season.

This is all circumstantial, of course, but it points to him potentially being the manager of Spurs. And it could be a great appointment. He has a similar trajectory to JN, in that he took has been teams and made them title contenders, and he also did very well in European competitions. In Holland he's regarded much more highly than ETH.
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I wonder if there are concerns (beyond his relative inexperience beyond Dutch football) about Slot being a mercenary?

"On December 5, 2020, he was sacked as head coach of AZ for not being focused on the team, having recently negotiated a deal with Feyenoord, despite earning 2.11 points per game in the Eredivisie, the highest of any AZ-coach in history.[2]"

Conversely, Xabi Alonso (also relatively inexperienced as a manager, but has played and managed in multiple leagues) turned down the Borussia M'Gladbach job after his Real Sociedad B was promoted to the 2nd division for the first time in 60 years.

I could see Slot getting the gig -- purely as a "hired him to fire him" (if) ENIC is selling and the prospective buyers have their own ideas about hierarchy, or if we're still waiting for the bigger fish to make their decisions first.
 
Château NoHo said:
I wonder if there are concerns (beyond his relative inexperience beyond Dutch football) about Slot being a mercenary?

"On December 5, 2020, he was sacked as head coach of AZ for not being focused on the team, having recently negotiated a deal with Feyenoord, despite earning 2.11 points per game in the Eredivisie, the highest of any AZ-coach in history.[2]"

Conversely, Xabi Alonso (also relatively inexperienced as a manager, but has played and managed in multiple leagues) turned down the Borussia M'Gladbach job after his Real Sociedad B was promoted to the 2nd division for the first time in 60 years.

I could see Slot getting the gig -- purely as a "hired him to fire him" (if) ENIC is selling and the prospective buyers have their own ideas about hierarchy, or if we're still waiting for the bigger fish to make their decisions first.
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I don't know if he's a mercenary, but any up-and-coming manager would look for the next best gig in their career, no? And we're clearly a huge step up.

On top of that, he did plan on seeing out the season with AZ and he did see out the season with Feyenoord. It's not like he downed tools midway.

In any case, we shall see what happens.
 
FightingIllini said:
Honestly Rodgers isn't even the worst coach in the world, he's just such an oily obnoxious chancer of a person, I feel like his presence as the coach would be the ultimate insult in how cynical the club has become.

I'd feel about him the way a lot of people felt about Mourinho throughout his tenure I guess. Jose has a sense of humor and there's a certain honesty in what an asshole he is. Rodgers just gives me the creeps.
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My opinion of Rodgers was much higher 12 months ago, and it wasn't that high to start... but the way it ended there was a very bad look.
 
kcspurs said:
My opinion of Rodgers was much higher 12 months ago, and it wasn't that high to start... but the way it ended there was a very bad look.
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He is a yes man and will do whatever levy asks. I can imagine the interview….
Dier , winks …. Yes Daniel I can work with them.. plenty of class and character. Yes.
The fact he he was happy to go along with selling a schmeichel for a million quid and saying he was content with ward and Iversen to replace him shows how bad his judgment is. No way should we go near this fool.
 
Levy won't employ a new manager until 1st August because he doesn't want to pay wages during summer break. Then we will have a manager who doesn't know the players until Jan next year, not enough time to make his stamp on the team so another write off season. The new manager will be sacked by end of next season, we are mid table at best. The cycles goes on with another manager until Spurs fans wake up and do Newcastle against Ashley rioting and that takes another 3 seasons if works.
 
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Isn't the Levy is cheap an old take. It's not really true anymore. I read somewhere that Conte was backed with players for 192 Mil. And Mourinho, and Conte wasn't the cheap choices. Maybe Nuno was, but I think he was Paritici's choice.

What is true however is that the organisation responsible for finding these players and managers has failed miserably. There isn't many starters among the 20+ players we have got since Pochettino left. And the one's who are starting haven't made us better. What Levy needs to do is let Munn hire a DoF, that needs to get us a new manager. Levy also needs to budget as much or more than he did for Conte, and stay the fuck away.
 
Hrytn said:
Levy won't employ a new manager until 1st September because he doesn't want to pay wages during summer break. Then we will have a manager who doesn't know the players until Jan next year, not enough time to make his stamp on the team so another write off season. The new manager will be sacked by end of next season, we are mid table at best. The cycles goes on with another manager until Spurs fans wake up and do Newcastle against Ashley rioting and that takes another 3 seasons if works.
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Who’s managing the first few games in the league then?
 
Smogz said:
Isn't the Levy is cheap an old take. It's not really true anymore. I read somewhere that Conte was backed with players for 192 Mil. And Mourinho, and Conte wasn't the cheap choices. Maybe Nuno was, but I think he was Paritici's choice.

What is true however is that the organisation responsible for finding these players and managers has failed miserably. There isn't many starters among the 20+ players we have got since Pochettino left. And the one's who are starting haven't made us better. What Levy needs to do is let Munn hire a DoF, that needs to get us a new manager. Levy also needs to budget as much or more than he did for Conte, and stay the fuck away.
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Higher fees, still lower wages, lower agents fees.

You can put a transfer fee in the middle of the balance sheet. You may pay £60m for a player, but unless he's Ndombele, you probably can't sell him for £60m
Wages, fees, bonus' etc on the other hand are purely liabilities.
 
Smogz said:
Isn't the Levy is cheap an old take. It's not really true anymore. I read somewhere that Conte was backed with players for 192 Mil. And Mourinho, and Conte wasn't the cheap choices. Maybe Nuno was, but I think he was Paritici's choice.

What is true however is that the organisation responsible for finding these players and managers has failed miserably. There isn't many starters among the 20+ players we have got since Pochettino left. And the one's who are starting haven't made us better. What Levy needs to do is let Munn hire a DoF, that needs to get us a new manager. Levy also needs to budget as much or more than he did for Conte, and stay the fuck away.
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We can see that some of the players were not on Contes list , some players were brought in who he reluctantly accepted. Again , it’s money spent but not wisely , we also know levy is too hands on when it comes to getting players in. He has to leave it alone . Say what we have available money wise & leave others to doing the deals.
 
spurs9 said:
Under Potter, they averaged a 1.83 goals per game this season. Under RdZ, they average 1.96. They have improved but hardly scoring for fun vs a side struggling to score.
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Who were those goals against?
I haven't heard once since Potter went, the old excuse "They'd have won that with better strikers"
The closest we've seen all season under Do Zerbi was against us when the ref cheated the hell out of them.
 
Furball man said:
We can see that some of the players were not on Contes list , some players were brought in who he reluctantly accepted. Again , it’s money spent but not wisely , we also know levy is too hands on when it comes to getting players in. He has to leave it alone . Say what we have available money wise & leave others to doing the deals.
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Lol, by reluctantly accepted, do you mean flat out didn't want and flat out refused to ever play ever never no way never ever
 
Matt1882 said:
Lol, by reluctantly accepted, do you mean flat out didn't want and flat out refused to ever play ever never no way never ever
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I think it’s similar to that scout talking about Poch , he had the final say in players but if you’re only getting offered what they offer you , you probably say fair enough , managers get disillusioned, they have a clear plan of what they need.

I don’t know of course but it wouldn’t surprise me if the 500 day self imposed transfer embargo was partly Poch saying “ I don’t want the players you’re offering me”
 
Hrytn said:
Levy won't employ a new manager until 1st August because he doesn't want to pay wages during summer break. Then we will have a manager who doesn't know the players until Jan next year, not enough time to make his stamp on the team so another write off season. The new manager will be sacked by end of next season, we are mid table at best. The cycles goes on with another manager until Spurs fans wake up and do Newcastle against Ashley rioting and that takes another 3 seasons if works.
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Also, the later he appoints some one, the less time they have to suss out all our donkies need upgrading and we get another few months of not having to really commit to putting them down and upgrading.

Oracle said:
Who’s managing the first few games in the league then?
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Probably a pot plant
 
Furball man said:
I don’t know of course but it wouldn’t surprise me if the 500 day self imposed transfer embargo was partly Poch saying “ I don’t want the players you’re offering me”
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If my memory serves me right, Poch was set on wanting Frenkie De Jong in that summer of no signings. And rejected Grealish as an option until it was too late.

Just one story that I heard.
 
I’ve come to the basic conclusion that we will not go anywhere as a club, until Kane leaves.

I’m not saying we’ll get better. Rather a lot worse, at least in the short term.

But it will force the club to actually do something.

ENIC probably have their head in the sand and are hoping that he will pen an extension this Summer, against all better judgement.
 
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