It always bothered me a few months ago that Iraola was spoken about by some as the only choice. He was a potential choice who happened to have a lot of momentum around him in February/March. I also think that he won't ever be as hot as he was then.. Not saying he's not a good coach. But we see this kind of thing sometimes. Managers can have a short window where they have all the hype around them. Then they don't get the move in that moment. And then they never quite get the big move we thought they were going to get.
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I think this guy is going to rapidly make Ange look like a footballing dinosaur.
Dragging this out aren't we? He's going to be fired before he starts at this rate!
Really excited about this appointment.
I really do think he is exactly what we need.
Arguably the best pound for points manager in the PL.
The best thing about him is he will look at the squad and work our tactics and game plan suited to get the best out of the them. He will adapt, he will tweak things regularly, and he will customise tactics dependent on the opposition. He won't just play one way and say "this is who we are" when we get battered.
You won't get Frank saying "We didn’t deserve, on our second-half performance, irrespective of subs or anything else, to get something out of the game. If you do get something out of the game, you’re falsely rewarded and I don’t want to get falsely rewarded." this nonsense that Ange came out with.
He really could be a special manager for us.
He has all the tools a moden manager needs, and I think his comunication is excellent. There won't be no philsophical ramblings, grandstanding and all that shit we had to put up with the last 2 years.
SO excited about a new season, new manager, new backroom staff, new era. Bring it on.
I really do think he is exactly what we need.
Arguably the best pound for points manager in the PL.
The best thing about him is he will look at the squad and work our tactics and game plan suited to get the best out of the them. He will adapt, he will tweak things regularly, and he will customise tactics dependent on the opposition. He won't just play one way and say "this is who we are" when we get battered.
You won't get Frank saying "We didn’t deserve, on our second-half performance, irrespective of subs or anything else, to get something out of the game. If you do get something out of the game, you’re falsely rewarded and I don’t want to get falsely rewarded." this nonsense that Ange came out with.
He really could be a special manager for us.
He has all the tools a moden manager needs, and I think his comunication is excellent. There won't be no philsophical ramblings, grandstanding and all that shit we had to put up with the last 2 years.
SO excited about a new season, new manager, new backroom staff, new era. Bring it on.
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Gonna need to weed out the dickheads, first.
The Summer Window before the CL final, we become the only team ever not to sign any players ,
Tottenham make transfer window history with no summer signings
Tottenham have made summer transfer window history for all the wrong reasons.
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I do agree that we should have won more and Levy can't take all the blame as we are getting to the finals , so its a 1 off game, I do feel though he will just do whatever he thinks is enough in terms of spending etc to get us to compete for Top 5 , now we are in the new stadium I would actually like us to start acting like a big club and if finishing 17th wasn't a wake up call then I don't know what is for Levy.
This is lightning speed for Spurs.
Baz, I'm at that age now where you don't decide when it happens. And when it does, you just enjoy it cause you can't be sure if/when it'll happen again.I thought you’d stopped that
Why not though, the only reason we finished 17th is because Ange was out of his depth and nothing but a Sunday League pub manager........ We are sacking Ange as he under achieved, surely the expectations of Frank are Top 5 as a bare minimum ?
I will give him a chance.
Not going to pretend he was my first choice though.
The bottom line is, without serious investment this window I think there is a good chance he is hounded out by Christmas.
Not going to pretend he was my first choice though.
The bottom line is, without serious investment this window I think there is a good chance he is hounded out by Christmas.
Top 8 maybe. Seriously going from 17th to top 5 is a lot in one season.
We could easily compete in a domestic cup but CL might be tough with this current squad.
I think his main problem is dealing with over expectation because half our fan base is so clueless they think we have world class players like Kulusevski and err Brazil’s number 9. We don’t. This squad is very average in all truth.
We need to Spend, if we can get A decent 6 , Eze and Mbeumo then I'd be quite excited for the new season.
I've been watching Iraola teams longer than most. It's telling to me that Rayo Vallecano got better after he left. I think he's a good coach for the PL because that style will always be able to get enough points for a team playing once a week. Their drop off from people saying Champions League qualification, to missing Europe altogether wasn't unexpected IMO.
Ironically, they are exactly the type of team to take points off a Frank team that is playing twice a week but I still think Frank was a better choice for us out of the PL proven coaches.
Well those 3 things would be a good start for sure.
The squad isn't strong enough to compete on all fronts. You can't rest players for Champions league games unless you want to get embarrassed. I don't see us finishing top 10 as it stands without serious investment.
Either the best or the worst. Frank not having a clear identity could make him better able to make it work with our priority for signing players because of the financials but it could also make them relax and recruit an even more incoherent, directionless squad where the financials become EVEN MORE important than the player profile.
Only time will tell but Frank is definitely a good coach and in that Eddie Howe type of mould where the outcome should be reliable.
Spot on. We won the Europa and Ange was sacked, it's the best case scenario possible out of a wretched season.
We've had to put up with the Ange cultists now telling us all he's a winner, and is amazing and should never have been sacked, all complete bollocks, but it's a small price to pay.
