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Manager Ange Postecoglou
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Another case of one eyed football fans living on cloud 9, as if Iarola is gonna abandon his project now to come and firefight at Spurs now.
The same people will tell you we're in a relegation fight and that we have horrible owners but yeah whatever delusion world people live in I guess
He definitely would. Absolutely no question whatsoever. Unless he has a better offer at Bilbao lined up for the summer.
His contract ends 2026
Ange is the future
You only need to go back to the manager interview merry-go-round after Conte.
We are a hard sell and right now, we are an extremely hard sell for any manager with ambition.
I honestly think Marco Silva is a better fit. Fulham are an equally messy club but are performing much better than us in the league because they have a better manager.
Silva strikes the right balance between defense and attack. He's a great tactician. He'd be my preferred choice and I think we have a much better chance of prying away the Fulham manager than we do the Bournemouth manager bound for Europe and with ambitions of returning to his boyhood club one day.
Bournemouth would say that they are in the European places and want at least the amount they stand to gain from that in compensation.
20m. There you go. Job done.
When Brendan Rodgers won the cup with Leicester. He would've been seen as a coup by any club that got him out of Leicester. He stayed too long and became a punchline again.
De Zerbi at the end of his first season was the hottest manager around. By the end of his second, the Brighton fans were getting tired of him..
The point being that Iraola is as hot as he's going to get while at Bournemouth.. There's only one direction it goes from here. If he gets an offer to a bigger club now and Bournemouth are receptive. He should take it. While he's seen as a coup and can essentially write his own ticket.. Whether he wants to show respect to Bournemouth and wait for the seasons end is another matter.
Another good point
Why would he now when he will have more options in the Summer including the Spurs job, he has nothing to lose by staying at Bournemouth?
I'd happily take either of them - Valverde would be a bit of an adjustment from the "Tottenham way", but the team is crying out for coaching: a solid defensive structure, adaptable approach to their oppo, and direct attacking football which would suit our current squad (although he does tend to use high and wide wingers). Nowhere near the hard pressing Ange expected the players to carry out week in week out either.
This is a decent tactical summary: Controlled Directness: Ernesto Valverde's Athletic Club - Analytics FC
I don't think he'll take the Bilbao job this early in his career considering he's already in European spots in the biggest league in the world and probably has a similar amount of buzz around him as Alonso. You have basically no control of squad depth issues there which always hamstrings them when they get in Europe, they can't battle on 3 fronts effectively with the Cantera policy outside of having an absolute golden generation come through. Not to mention by the time he actually gets there chances are someone will have bought Nico Williams off them and they're gonna be fucking knackered when he goes, think his current deal runs for 2 more years so likely to be a lot of clubs on alert for him in summer.
Hopefully for the next few hours only
Exactly. It's the type of logic his agent will be thinking with. They don't give a fuck about the things fans think.
Because he would make much more money than almost any other offer he would get in the summer except maybe Bilbao.
Spurs aren't a hard sell, working with Levy is
I'm not sold on Iarola (yet) but do think it's not an entirely impossible scenario in which we triple/quadruple his wage and give him a now or never decision like Amorim had when United came calling.Another case of one eyed football fans living on cloud 9, as if Iarola is gonna abandon his project now to come and firefight at Spurs now.
The same people will tell you we're in a relegation fight and that we have horrible owners but yeah whatever delusion world people live in I guess
I mean his contract is up in June anyway and he hasn't renewed yet.
He's Basque.
He also has nowhere close to the hype that Alonso has around him because he's nowhere near as good.