Could a new Manager (the right manager) change everything?

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Change everything? No.
Make watching us more enjoyable? Definitely.

Nuno’s tactics (if he even has any) have sucked the life out of the players and the fans and he’s clearly completely out of his depth at a club of our size.

I can’t wait for a change. Anyone* who can get this lot of apparently demoralised players playing decent attacking football again gets my vote.

*apart from Southgate.
 
Help and improve - Yes

Fix - No.

Unless the new manager can get rid of Levy, Parawanky and lots of deadwood and bring in and knit together a coherent squad.
 
This game of ignoring the root cause and picking out symptoms is pointless.

Chelsea's squad cannot be compared to ours.

But yes we could be better with a good manager. Better still wouldn't be good enough though without investment
 
Yes Brighton, Brentford, West Ham all have weaker squads. Brighton and Brentford play better football and West Ham are more ruthless. Difference is coaching/management.

City/Liverpool/Chelsea have better squads but ours is about the same or better than the rest bar Leicester and United who are roughly the same. An elite manager would get us 4th. I am talking Conte level.
 
Our squad isn’t great or perfect but is performing way below its peak. Tottenham is a club that usually doesn’t buy superstars so we need managers that make us the players play to their absolute peak and above. So yeah a better manager would make the squad and players play better
 
Some of you act like we have the resources and ambition of burnley.

Our spend is not the problem… we have bought like complete shit for half a decade now.

Leicester have bought better on less resources, hence the progress.

We really fucked ourselves by refusing to sell top players and replace them with young talent. We don’t have a reputation for developing young players and do have a reputation for refusing to let players go. Why would a young player ever choose us over Leicester at this point?

We also can’t buy 1st team stars because every top 4 team will gobble up the good ones before we have a chance. We will just get leftovers. We really fucked ourselves trying to operate like clubs with more spending power.
 
We're a pretty shit squad at the moment, to be fair. I don't know what anyone could realistically be expected to achieve. We've wasted a lot of money and haven't really competently replaced, much less improved, a single position from the 16-18 squad. We've ended up in a place where one time bench options, like Moura, are required to play a song in the first XI.

Part of it is underinvestment, but most of it is just poor talent identification and development. We've spent shedloads on players like Sanchez, Lo Celso, and Ndombele which should be forming the spine of our next generation but instead are leading the downward charge.

I suspect a top manager could paper over the cracks and maybe get us in the hunt for 4th. But all that would do is give us an excuse not to strip this team to the bones and start over. Sell anyone worth two coins.
 
How would Liverpool be doing right now if Salah decided to tell his teammates he dreams of playing for another team and wants to leave. Would Liverpool fans be calling for Klopp to be replaced?

Out problem is our best player has checked out - and refuses to be dropped and subbed in games.

The cunt bragged on Sky about wanting to join City whilst we were still in with a chance of top 4.
 
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Looking on paper at the squad we have and it really isn't that bad.

we saw last year what Tuchel coming in to replace Lampard did for Chelsea. if we got the right man. be it Potter/Gallardo/Valverde/Parker/Ten Hag etc could they have us challenging for top 4 again or is a complete squad overhaul required?

*This doesn't need to be "nothing with change till that **** Levy is gone" thread. That isn't happening, trying to look optimistically to the future.

How much of how poor we are is down to Nuno? if we had an attacking manager with a proper system, given the players we have, how good could we be?
 
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I was prepared to finish between 5th and 8th this year and fine with that.

But we needed to see decent football and a plan for the future. There's no apparent plan.

Our best players are a 29 year old winger that relies on pace and a 28 year old that doesn't want to play for us anymore. That doesn't bode well for the future.

We have a short list of young players that show promise: Romero and Skipp definitely, and possibly Gil. I like Tanganga as well but he has been second choice to Royal, who I don't think is better.

We still have zero backup plan for Kane even though we clearly should have moved him on and replaced him with a young talent over the summer.

It's not an exciting time to support spurs.
 
The squad isn’t great, but yes after over 18 months of Jose and then an equally dull, drone with a beard - I think a positive, upbeat attacking manager will improve things
 
We're up shit creek without a paddle for the foreseeable future, me old fruits.

Every article I see where we are linked to a decent player, just makes me laugh as I know we aren't going to even get close to signing him.

Potter/Gallardo/Valverde et al mentioned by fans and posters on here. Our owners dont have that foresight to pick a manager with that sort of intent. Look who we have right now. Paratici involved for how many days, and Levy folds to his recommendation cuz £££.
 
Improve and play better football yes
Fix no.
Until levy and enic fuck off ...no decent manager will come. The amount of interference
And penny pinching from levy will stop decent managers coming.
The fact we have some lazy, going through the motions players (see dele & Kane etc)
Until we get a decent scouting system in place - the one we have at the moment clearly doesn't work.

Whoever comes in needs to have the balls to drop Kane
 
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I think Poch and Levy actually got on pretty well?
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They did work together fairly well and kinda both wanted to be closer personally than they were and were left to kind of fake it.

The two of them are profoundly different people, and neither one is the easiest guy in the world to get on with, but they both understood they’d found something good…for a time.
 
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We're a pretty shit squad at the moment, to be fair. I don't know what anyone could realistically be expected to achieve. We've wasted a lot of money and haven't really competently replaced, much less improved, a single position from the 16-18 squad. We've ended up in a place where one time bench options, like Moura, are required to play a song in the first XI.

Part of it is underinvestment, but most of it is just poor talent identification and development. We've spent shedloads on players like Sanchez, Lo Celso, and Ndombele which should be forming the spine of our next generation but instead are leading the downward charge.

I suspect a top manager could paper over the cracks and maybe get us in the hunt for 4th. But all that would do is give us an excuse not to strip this team to the bones and start over. Sell anyone worth two coins.
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Imagine baulking at Bruno, then spending the same on GLC.

Barking madness.
 
It’s both in my opinion. We need the right manager because Nuno clearly isn’t it, but the squad is awful too. We’ve got some good players in the first 11, but beyond that we are severely lacking in quality.
 
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