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Management So (hypothetically) who replaces Ange then?
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Bore-ball?
Wait... It is? Someone better tell the chairman that.
I've watched every game Ange's Spurs have played against Silva's Fulham.
The most recent game with Fulham, which we drew at home, was a travesty. Fulham deserved to win all day long.
I don't recall being bored by Fulham either.
Just annoyed that their manager seems to be able to get inferior players to frustrate and get the better of Ange's Spurs with ease.
It's the games against teams managed by Howe and Silva that have caused me my main doubts regarding the effectiveness of Spurs current style of play over 38 games.
You state our goal is to win the Premier League and the Champions League.
If you believe that then Spurs either need better consistency or Ange needs better players.
Ange already has better players than Silva; in my opinion.
I accept Levy has left Ange short of two quality players but it's also looking as though other Premier League experienced managers could do better with what Ange already has.
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The counter or adaptive style that managers like Silva employ is less risky and in some ways “easier” because it’s a fit for teams that aren’t expected to win and play dominating football.
That’s why managers like Conte and Jose will talk their chances down to lower expectations of fans and managers like Klopp or Pep don’t.
Asking Silva to come here and build a team that dominates and plays attractive football is a huge ask. He’d come in and play counter attacking whilst talking our chances down and talking up our opponents.
He’d get even less patience than Nuno most likely. All it would take is a couple of teams to score first and break his plan and our fans would be out for blood.
If Silva could get Udogie to the levels Antonee Robinson is currently at or Bissouma to produce what that gooner reject Iwobi is achieving I personally couldn't give a shit if Silva wants to talk Spurs down and talk up the opposition.
Silva is improving bang average players. Howe does this too.
If we are stuck with the miser, and I think that one is settled, then this is the direction we are headed.
Can he do that playing twice a week?
Edit: in terms of direction, Levy has already tried this direction with much more established coaches. Silva would be like going back to Conte and Jose or even Nuno.
Fair point.
Howe has struggled with this and Silva is an unknown quantity in that respect because neither Watford, Everton or Fulham have had the problem of extra games.
I'm gonna think about this for a while and change the subject.
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David Moyes could be a decent outside bet, currently 25/1.
If you want to throw money away, yes.
I guess he could be a decent caretaker manager to save us from a relegation scrap in case we hold on to Ange too long, but I would hope to God Levy can just pony up enough cash to confidently spring the desired candidate from their job- that's what a "big" club would be able to do.
Saturday is the first game of the second half of the season, and is the most important one to win right now in front of us. We'll know a lot more about how our second half of the season will look based on if we can motivate ourselves at home against Newcastle with the early kickoff.
Yep has history with us, but does that work against us, in that he knows the way Levy operates?
Prefer him to likes of Potter or Southgate.
I don't mind it in principle except that, weirdly, I'd think less of him if he left Ipswich at this stage of the season. Which doesn't make any sense because I'd be happy for Iraola to come now.
Don't ask me to make sense of that, please...
How do you know that?
Our team is currently best at playing fast transitional football because we lack players to break parked busses constantly like City for example.
Every team struggles with bus parkers, even City under Pep to begin with. It's a myth that you solve bus parkers with players, you solve it with a team that has experience together playing possession football and timing passes and moves to get through them.
McKenna has Spurs connections as well.
Another one who has no experience playing twice a week and maintaining the intensity but the Championship is probably better prep for that than most leagues.
I'll be honest, of all the names mentioned so far, Silva, Iraola, Potter, Frank, Terzic... McKenna would be above all of them IMO. There is something about him that just makes me think he's going to be one of the really elite coaches.