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I think if all of them were more backed, Redknapp would be the one closer to winning a premier league. Might sound crazy but I think that. Premier league wasn’t as strong as the last years and that team was excellent but had some absolute clowns as well
Harry deserves way more credit than he gets for tactics. Examples… the 2-1 win over Chavs at home is the most complete performance I’ve ever seen from a Spurs team. ‘The’ game at City we slowly strangled them. The whole tie against Milan was tactical genius. He also kept things clear and simple and played to players’ strengths. A good rule for any line of leadership and work. The football before the FA and court case fucked him around was just stunning. Fuck the hypothetical shit bollocks debate - that team was utter class.
Edit: anyone voting for Mourinho with any vague degree of seriousness is an utter moron. Hoofing high balls to the big fella lone striker Lucas Moura? Cancel the creativity and flair of Dele? Egotistical moronic dictator. Jerking off over Winks at breakfast with Levy. Fuck off.
Edit: anyone voting for Mourinho with any vague degree of seriousness is an utter moron. Hoofing high balls to the big fella lone striker Lucas Moura? Cancel the creativity and flair of Dele? Egotistical moronic dictator. Jerking off over Winks at breakfast with Levy. Fuck off.
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Redknapp was not great when given cash, we spunked so much bringing defoe, Keane and crouch, the best of whom was arguably Defoe who would turn up once every 5 games to bully a relegation side but was completely anonymous against anyone decent. Keanes head was gone after he flopped at Pool and Crouch was just pure dogshit, something like 12 goals in 73 league games and his supposed "link up play" was a myth, so often he would be used by defenders to draw a foul when we lumped it up to him.
Poch for me, most of the recruitment at the time was done seemingly without much input from him and if we were signing better squad players than the likes of N'jie, N'koudou, Janssen, etc we might have had the depth not to fall apart at the end like we did in pretty much every poch season due to lack of rotation.
Poch for me, most of the recruitment at the time was done seemingly without much input from him and if we were signing better squad players than the likes of N'jie, N'koudou, Janssen, etc we might have had the depth not to fall apart at the end like we did in pretty much every poch season due to lack of rotation.
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Wouldn't be Poch, his best work was with the likes of Dier (£3m?), Rose (failed champo left winger, Walker (£3m?) Davies £?m). The more money he spent the worse it got. Dom Belly, Lo Celso, that French winger, Sanchez jury still out.
Has to be Redknapp. Backed at Pompey he won the FA cup, kept Spam up when really bad and then got them to 5th in PL.
That Jan window when he got Wilson our form went from relegation candidates to top 4 immediately. No surprise that we got top 4 next season for the first time.
Very good eye for a player, very few failures where he'd splashed the cash. Even Fergie had some expensive failures, Whinger too thankfully.
Has to be Redknapp. Backed at Pompey he won the FA cup, kept Spam up when really bad and then got them to 5th in PL.
That Jan window when he got Wilson our form went from relegation candidates to top 4 immediately. No surprise that we got top 4 next season for the first time.
Very good eye for a player, very few failures where he'd splashed the cash. Even Fergie had some expensive failures, Whinger too thankfully.
At least it wasn't Siado Berahino
I voted for Poch as I feel that he has been the best Spurs manager in my lifetime (although I expect Conte to overtake him).
But then I read the OP again which said "each of these managers had said 'we need these specific players'" and remembered Lo Celso, Ndombele which are some of our record signings that apparently Poch really wanted (and our general transfer record under Poch) and thought that for all of Poch's strengths that make him an great manager, I don't have faith in him picking the right signings. This might be unfair on Poch but it is the impression I have of him.
So for that reason, I changed my vote to my 2nd choice of Redknapp, as AVB and Mourinho don't even come close to him with what they did with Spurs. Redknapp was good in the market and had a very good team, and this was during a period where the top of the PL was closer.
But then I read the OP again which said "each of these managers had said 'we need these specific players'" and remembered Lo Celso, Ndombele which are some of our record signings that apparently Poch really wanted (and our general transfer record under Poch) and thought that for all of Poch's strengths that make him an great manager, I don't have faith in him picking the right signings. This might be unfair on Poch but it is the impression I have of him.
So for that reason, I changed my vote to my 2nd choice of Redknapp, as AVB and Mourinho don't even come close to him with what they did with Spurs. Redknapp was good in the market and had a very good team, and this was during a period where the top of the PL was closer.
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Mourinho.
Redknapp was brilliant, but he wasn't a tactical manager. He was the kind of coach that would say "go out there and do your best".
Poch on the other hand, was very tactically crafted, however his transfer were 90% of the time a disaster. If he were backed, it might've worked for us, or it would've been our downfall financially.
AVB. LOL.
Redknapp was brilliant, but he wasn't a tactical manager. He was the kind of coach that would say "go out there and do your best".
Poch on the other hand, was very tactically crafted, however his transfer were 90% of the time a disaster. If he were backed, it might've worked for us, or it would've been our downfall financially.
AVB. LOL.
redknapp should of as he had 2 genuine gems in modric and bale. if we had a keane/berbatov strike force with them 2 in the midfield i think we win the league, as long as the defence isnt pathetic.
not investing when we had modric and bale in the team is imo the biggest mistake levy has ever made. ive actually heard idiots saying modric wasnt that great at spurs! hes a playmaker who is governed by the quality around him, luckily for bale he was a devastating individual so it didnt matter if he was surrounded by shit because he could still shine, but modric's good work would just fade out because of the standard of players on the other end.
imagine some of the shit we would of seen with modric and berbatov linking up!!!
not investing when we had modric and bale in the team is imo the biggest mistake levy has ever made. ive actually heard idiots saying modric wasnt that great at spurs! hes a playmaker who is governed by the quality around him, luckily for bale he was a devastating individual so it didnt matter if he was surrounded by shit because he could still shine, but modric's good work would just fade out because of the standard of players on the other end.
imagine some of the shit we would of seen with modric and berbatov linking up!!!
If true we can't say Poch wasnt backed then I suppose, just either Poch was mental or the scout needed sacking
Ah it’s gotta be Poch. We reached peak in 16/17 where we had an extremely good starting 11. I believe we were after Mane and Wijnaldum the summer before which could have made a big difference. He was clearly given a budget and because of that, his signings were hit or miss. Needed to strengthen and kick on but it never happened. Lo Celso and Ndombele were signed too late when wholesale changes were required.
I'm not struggling with anything i simply don't remember things happening like that. I remember us offering Mane a deal he chose Liverpool cause they offered him more cash.
We then fucked about all window and panicked and bought Sissoko no idea his wages where anywhere near what Mane wanted if that's true, I just know the at the time record fee off 30 million we paid was shocking, but he had just had a great tournament with France and looked there best player at times
Awful buisness either way
Yeah fair enough but is that why we ended up with players like N'dombele.Poch didn't want a DoF and was quite clear on that.
Mauricio Pochettino halts Tottenham search for head of recruitment
Mauricio Pochettino has vetoed Tottenham Hotspurs’ proposal to appoint a new sporting director with the manager eager to retain a significant influence over transfers. The club are understood to have assembled a shortlist of potential candidates to replace the former head of recruitment, Paul Mitchewww.thetimes.co.uk
For the most part he was a great coach but he lacked in signings and to be fair I don't think it should be his job, other than creating a list of wants.
So what? Have you seen Real Madrid in this season’s UCL, just to give an example? I bet no one gives a shit that they rode their luck at times to make their way to the final and to win it.
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I voted redknapp just to be contrarian but I agree. Poch did an incredible job. That 86 point season, where you almost expected to batter most teams was unbelievable. He is one of the reasons I went from a casual football watcher to being a bit obssessed.It seems Poch is the clear winner here guys.
And just to confirm what he was swimming against, this table covers Summer 13 to Summer 18 which is 90% of his tenure
While dragging his massively under invested team to 4 successive Top 4 finishes culminating in a Champions League final, ENIC were actually making an average annual profit of over £7million a year on transfers!
He's magic, you know
Trying to be objective, Poch had his flaws and I always find it hard to judge whether he could have done better. Yes, he had a much smaller budget, but at the same time, he had Lloris, Vertoghen, Kane, Rose, Walker, Eriksen, Dembele already at Spurs, and those were his best players pretty much throughout his whole time at Spurs. Whether we invested a lot or not, we had the best 11 in the league.
He was also a poor manager in terms of organising a defence and seeing out big games. Our record against the big 6 was poor relative to the quality of the team. His choice to put Son at LWB against Chelsea in the cup semi-final was a disgrace. We were also an overly emotional team, better than rolling over but too often we'd lose our heads when things went wrong.
I also feel he was at fault for that Juve loss in the CL last 16. We lost to a Dybala goal made possible by the high line, and Sanchez being Sanchez.
Also, eventually when Levy did cave to his demands, we got Lo Celso and Ndombele, which were definitely his first choice, two of the biggest flops in the club's recent history and big reason for the subsequent struggles under Mou and Nuno.