3 good managerial appointments in 23 years
fucking disgrace
a blindfolded kid throwing darts at a list of names would have a btter record
any cunt who defends that record is a cunt
And until this season it was 2 good managers in 22
clown
Jol, Redknapp, Pochettino, Ange I would count as good appointments? Ramos was poor but it made a lot of sense at the time, he was very successful in Europe and La Liga with Sevilla, had some big jobs (including RM!) after us, just we tried to do too much too fast in the first summer window he was in charge and fucked the squad chemistry, didn't help at all losing Berba and Keane in the same window. Santini you can't really hold against them, it was an ambitious appointment and he turned out to be an almighty prick, but again he had just left the France job and won Lyon their first ever Ligue 1 title (the first of their massive run of Ligue 1 wins in the 00s), you couldn't really predict he would fall out with Arnesen to the point he decided to leave.
AVB was a piss poor appointment, I was incensed when we signed him, he had completely flopped at chavs playing shit football and it was just as bad as expected. I never backed Mourinho appointment because I felt Poch deserved the full season to get the squad firing with his new signings, having finally got Levy to get the chequebook out after 18 months of no signings. I did hope we would win a cup while he was here though. Nuno was unforgiveable, a 15th choice no direction appointment that made no sense with all the bollocks Levy spouted at the time about reclaiming our identity. Conte is a tough one. Realistically speaking it was not a poor appointment, he pulled a top 4 finish out of a very shit start to the season, but a combination of not adequately backing him in the market and him losing interest in Spurs due to his personal issues led to a perfect shitstorm.
When viewed through the lense of objectivity, I would say ENIC have a "middling" managerial appointment history. You can point at several managers they have signed that meaningfully advanced the team's interests, took us up a rung on the ladder, and several that were poor and took us backwards. I wouldn't say managerial acquisition has been the biggest downfall of ENIC though, I think almost all of those managers could have had some modicum of success greater than they achieved, if ENIC had been more willing to pull the trigger on additional investment to push us to the next level. We have been penny wise, pound foolish when it comes to: Redknapp during the Saha/Nelson window, never gave Jol enough resources to push the team on because they always had one eye on replacing him, 18 months no signings under Poch, starting the Conte summer window promisingly but then curtailing all spending by the end of July when we clearly still needed 2 or 3 more additions to finish the squad, and then there is the countless number of "cheap options" he has foisted on managers, such as Janssen, all the N'wingers, previously mentioned Saha and Nelsen, etc etc.
EDIT: I did forget about Timmy, won't ever be forgiving or forgetting for that one. At least he found us Kane though!