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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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We're going to have rely on Tel, Odobert, Gray and likely a couple other kids as injuries continue.

Bring in Harry.

Got the nous, experience and especially, the character needed for this, now.

Exactly the chipper, no-nonsense, straight-talking personality to slap them on the back, get the banter going and get them up for it.

The younger players will respond.

We need someone enigmatic for this.

As long as he can walk, bring him in.
 
JDefoe said:
Everyone will lap this up and applaud it but I’m telling you, this isn’t the Pochettino we had a decade ago. His Chelsea tenure was awful, saved only by a 10 match purple patch where they played teams with nothing to play for and Thiago Silva basically doing on-pitch tactical instruction. Go watch the 0-4 to Woolwich in April 2024, I’m telling you he hasn’t got it.

Has been shocking with the US as well.

If and when he fails here… we will have no more last resorts left. It will break the club to see Poch ruin his reputation here.
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And we already saw how bad things got under porch when the squad was weak, and this squad is even weaker
 
Any manager coming in will need to play front foot football, we just don’t do sit back well and also not be tied to out and out wingers.

3421

Vicario
Palhinha Dragusin VDV
Porro Sarr Gray Souza
Xavi Gallagher
Solanke

4321

Vicario
Porro Dragusin VDV Spence
Gray Palhinha Gallagher
Xavi Tel
Solanke

Despite the injuries we do have options if we change the system to one that fit the players we have left.
 
thinktank said:
We're going to have rely on Tel, Odobert, Gray and likely a couple other kids as injuries continue.

Bring in Harry.

Got the nous, experience and especially, the character needed for this, now.

Exactly the chipper, no-nonsense, straight-talking personality to slap them on the back, get the banter going and get them up for it.

The younger players will respond.

We need someone enigmatic for this.

As long as he can walk, bring him in.
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Odobert tore his ACL...
 
thinktank said:
We're going to have rely on Tel, Odobert, Gray and likely a couple other kids as injuries continue.

Bring in Harry.

Got the nous, experience and especially, the character needed for this, now.

Exactly the chipper, no-nonsense, straight-talking personality to slap them on the back, get the banter going and get them up for it.

The younger players will respond.

We need someone enigmatic for this.

As long as he can walk, bring him in.
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I think it's pretty crazy that you are A) Team Frank, B) don't want us to sign Pochettino and C) want to bring in a 78 year old manager who hasn't had a job for a decade to try and keep us in the Premier League.
 
JDefoe said:
They also drew to Burnley and Sheffield in that run in hugely frustrating fashion. They basically beat sleepwalking midtable teams with nothing to play for and got pumped in the Woolwich match which sealed his sacking. Remember he couldn’t win at PSG with Neymar Messi AND Mbappe either.

I’m a huge fan of Poch but his last success was nearly 8 years ago. A LOT has changed in football in 8 years, in many ways Pochettino’s style is still a relic of the mid-2010s PL where a “high press” and a DM dropping into the back 3 during buildup was some innovation. The league has passed him by tactically and that is very concerning to me.

He showed no tactical innovation and no ability to organize a style of play. He struggled vs low blocks as we all know he does and was clueless against other top managerial talent. I am not enthused.

The only real enduring quality he has is charisma - he will be able to go the board and stand up to them, but when he’s let down in the market as per usual, I could see things getting very toxic… and when things do go bad, seeing the fanbase turn on him will be dark.
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Yeah fair, those are legit concerns. And if we were a decent team with high aspirations I'd be far more inclined to aim higher (I've long been anti-Poch II). The thing is we're an actively BAD team at the moment, hence I think someone like Poch might actually be a better fit for the kind of intangible 'knows the club', 'charisma', 'man management' stuff. A bit like Moyes, a manager we'd all turn our noses up at going into Everton, saving them from relegation and getting them back to 8th and in the hunt for Europe.
 
Tomo said:
Any manager coming in will need to play front foot football, we just don’t do sit back well and also not be tied to out and out wingers.

3421

Vicario
Palhinha Dragusin VDV
Porro Sarr Gray Souza
Xavi Gallagher
Solanke

4321

Vicario
Porro Dragusin VDV Spence
Gray Palhinha Gallagher
Xavi Tel
Solanke

Despite the injuries we do have options if we change the system to one that fit the players we have left.
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That’s the thing, we have a strong enough XI to play attacking and win games against teams around us in the table. Just need a manager to get something from the players.

That XI you posted (either formation) should be beating Wolves, Burnley, West Ham.
 
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thinktank said:
We're going to have rely on Tel, Odobert, Gray and likely a couple other kids as injuries continue.

Bring in Harry.

Got the nous, experience and especially, the character needed for this, now.

Exactly the chipper, no-nonsense, straight-talking personality to slap them on the back, get the banter going and get them up for it.

The younger players will respond.

We need someone enigmatic for this.

As long as he can walk, bring him in.
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Not sure how much we can rely on Odobert
 
Don Pedro said:
We can't go from Ange to Frank to De Zerbi. FFS.

Attacking to defensive back to Attacking.

Can we just get a balanced manager who can do both? Poch in the summer is the answer for me. Everything else won't work
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We are Spurs, attacking is our DNA. De Zerbi is nowhere near as ultimate as Ange. Stylistically De Zerbi might be the closest to a 'Tottenham Manager' out there

I am actually surprised by the pushback towards De Zerbi. Must be because everyone is set on Poch in the summer (let's see if he'll take the gig in The Championship). I get that De Zerbi is a hothead an most likely will have a fall out with the board due lack of backing, but until then I'm all for it
 
reachingforthestars said:
We are Spurs, attacking is our DNA. De Zerbi is nowhere near as ultimate as Ange. Stylistically De Zerbi might be the closest to a 'Tottenham Manager' out there

I am actually surprised by the pushback towards De Zerbi. Must be because everyone is set on Poch in the summer (let's see if he'll take the gig in The Championship). I get that De Zerbi is a hothead an most likely will have a fall out with the board due lack of backing, but until then I'm all for it
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DeZerbi is a cunt
 
JDefoe said:
They also drew to Burnley and Sheffield in that run in hugely frustrating fashion. They basically beat sleepwalking midtable teams with nothing to play for and got pumped in the Woolwich match which sealed his sacking. Remember he couldn’t win at PSG with Neymar Messi AND Mbappe either.

I’m a huge fan of Poch but his last success was nearly 8 years ago. A LOT has changed in football in 8 years, in many ways Pochettino’s style is still a relic of the mid-2010s PL where a “high press” and a DM dropping into the back 3 during buildup was some innovation. The league has passed him by tactically and that is very concerning to me.

He showed no tactical innovation and no ability to organize a style of play. He struggled vs low blocks as we all know he does and was clueless against other top managerial talent. I am not enthused.

The only real enduring quality he has is charisma - he will be able to go the board and stand up to them, but when he’s let down in the market as per usual, I could see things getting very toxic… and when things do go bad, seeing the fanbase turn on him will be dark.
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No thank you, don't want any of that fancy nonsense round here...

:vinai: :langetroll:
 
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