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Management Who should be Tottenham's next manager after Frank?

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If Frank gets sacked in a near future, who would you like to see as his permanent replacement?


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players should practically be willing to take a vow of poverty to play for the club.

I'm just going to provide the whole quote here for context and to make it clear that I was paraphrasing Bill Nicholson's sentiments and not making a personal comment.

It's a problem that was there in the early-mid 70s. Players demanded under the table payments to sign (what we would call Signing On Fees in today's game) and Bill Nick refused to pay them. This greatly reduced the pool of talent available to us and eventually culminated in our relegation in 1977.

We stopped being a top tier club when the maximum wage was abolished. Bill Nick believed that the honour of playing for Tottenham Hotspur should have been enough for any player and that players should practically be willing to take a vow of poverty to play for the club.
 
players should practically be willing to take a vow of poverty to play for the club.

I'm just going to provide the whole quote here for context and to make it clear that I was paraphrasing Bill Nicholson's sentiments and not making a personal comment.
I know what you say is all true.

I've heard Steve Perryman talking openly about this period and this particular subject.

Levy would have loved that though.
 
Unless there is a big name lined up he will be here till the summer , I hope we don’t go back for Poch , don’t get me wrong he would be an improvement on Frank but we should look forwards , not backwards ( excluding Kane)
Glasners contract with palace is up in the summer , we should be testing the water on that , he actually has experience of winning and plays the kind of football we want to see - my only worry is he was crap at Palace at the start, but they stuck by him and look at them now - however I’m not seeing anything from Frank that says he can be a success here
 
Do we still want Glasner or is he shit now as well?
Hes a v good manager but it would be another bad appointment. Surely people realise that we won't accept a Nuno/ Frank manager and that's what Glasner is. He wouldnt last here. We need a possession/ front footed coach who isn't suicidal with his defense. No fucking idea who that is and I've no faith in the Muppets at top of club identifying the right manager. It's all pretty shit
 
If we are going down that route, rather Ange. Firstly, that will see the meltdown of some fans. Secondly, the players knew him already and I'm sure they would run through steel walls for him, or at least respect him more than timid Frank. Thirdly our club is a joke, and what's better than to make it even funnier. Fourth, Johnson will score goals again lol.
I take issue with your second point. That group of players were taken to extra time by a semi pro team and had 22 league defeats. They couldn't run through walls for themselves, let alone the manager/club/fans/whoever else.
 
Honestly, I think we need to just scratch the Poch itch after the World Cup is over, until we do, a large section of the fan base is always gonna be pining for him when things are going tits up.

These types of grand returns very rarely work out, but let’s face it, it would be fucking magic if it did. You always live in hope. There’d be nothing more romantic than a Poch return, no manager has even remotely felt the same as him.

Just don’t know if I can stomach another 6 months of Frank ball to get there, it really is dire. What do you do? Get a caretaker in till the summer? And who’s out there that would be willing to do that? Get old Harry in to come take the handbrake off and roll it back to 2010?

As much as some would take the piss, it’d be preferable to 6 more months of this shit.
 
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