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In all honesty , whoever comes , are they going to believe the bald carbuncle?
It’s blatantly obvious the squad needs investment & the starting XI needs major surgery. If he won’t do it for the managers we’ve had will he ever ? It’ll be him admitting that he’s wrong. I can’t help thinking of the Boy who cried wolf , you can’t trust him.
Add to that a DoF that can’t do his job properly , what a car crash.
It’s blatantly obvious the squad needs investment & the starting XI needs major surgery. If he won’t do it for the managers we’ve had will he ever ? It’ll be him admitting that he’s wrong. I can’t help thinking of the Boy who cried wolf , you can’t trust him.
Add to that a DoF that can’t do his job properly , what a car crash.
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It's a bad idea, and would be a misstep by Levy, but I don't think this is a Levy-specific thing. If Qatar took over the team overnight they'd be tempted by the same thing.
Poch wanting to come back is what makes the situation so weird. In a normal version of this scenario the former coach would never dream of taking his old job back for any number of reasons.
But the bastard is as romantic as we are
In the unlikely scenario of Qatar coming in wouldn’t they prefer a trophy hound like Conte rather than Poch who they sacked at psg?
If the Qatari links have any substance in them then I think everyone involved at the club needs to chill out and that includes Conte. Their arrival could change everything financially. If they aren’t levy led bollocks of course.
Not sure why Conte wouldn’t be a candidate for Real.
He won a Tottenham trophy by getting ENIC top4 and has a good relationship with Kane to help them replace Benzema who must be ready to retire soon.
I honestly don’t know why he’d come back because of this. The club wore him down until he was a mess and it was reflected in the team. He must really be determined to come back or have forgotten about all the usual broken promises. I’m not as convinced as many that it would be a failure by the way. But I want to keep Conte as I think hiring yet another manager isn’t the way forward.
Well said. Some of the revisionist stuff i'm seeing on Poch at the moment is beyond belief. Reading some of the guff on here you'd think he was no better than Gerry Francis.
He wasnt perfect he made mistakes but his first season was a good rebuild, not dissimilar to what is needed now, followed by 3 great years. It was as good as we've seen since the early to mid 80s. The last 10 months him and the team were clapped out, thats what happens working for Levy and no signings for 18 months. I liked Venables, Jol and Redknapp but Poch is our best manager since Burkinshaw and i say that as someone that doesnt really want him back.
Look at Liverpool, they look a clapped out mess and they have been spending money to try and fix it for Klopp. All teams come to the end of cycle but I dont trust Levy to do it right.
If you bring Poch back you sell basically everyone over 25-27 and spend a lot of money of getting top draw young players in who can be moulded and have the energy to press. But with Levy Son, Dier and Davies will mostly likely get new contracts and it will go tits up.
Players who can stay, (rest would need to be sold)
Udogie
Sessengnon?
Romero
Bentancur
Bissouma
Sarr
Skipp
Spence
Kulusevski
Bryan Gil
Richarlison
Devine
Yea if he comes back then no one older than 27. You need an ego free squad, that can run all day and press the shit out of the opposition, with maybe 3 or 4 really top class players in it. That requires Levy selling his Kane and Son comfort blanket and seriously backing the manager in releasing unwanted players and spending big, and therin lies the issue.
Hopefully Scarlett is in the list of keeps as well.
Oh yeh of course him and a few other kids.
Surely we need to sort out the DOF situation first before thinking about a new long term manager. However If Poch is being brought in for the rest of the season that would make sense as he knows the club as good as anyone.
Everything is a mess right now but it's also an opportunity to make things right. I think Levy realised he has cocked up the football side of things by appointing Patarici. Whilst he has made some good signings he has shown by his manager appointments he doesn't have the right vision for the club. Get a DOF in who is going to get us back to playing high intensity attacking football.
Everything is a mess right now but it's also an opportunity to make things right. I think Levy realised he has cocked up the football side of things by appointing Patarici. Whilst he has made some good signings he has shown by his manager appointments he doesn't have the right vision for the club. Get a DOF in who is going to get us back to playing high intensity attacking football.
Not sure on who the next manager should be.
Would 100% take Rodgers.
Would 100% take Rodgers.
Imagine if klopp left Liverpool at the end of the season and was keen to stay in England….
Imagine all you like.
Klopp ain't going from Liverpool to us full stop.
He would come here. Ask for players X,Y,Z and end up working with Dier and Royal.
In 18 months we would be saying, ‘’he is inflexible’’, ‘’only got plan A’’, ‘’ not getting enough out of the squad’’.
He will be fired and we move on to the next elite manager to fail.
What Arteta has done at Woolwich is either ingenious in terms of seeing his potential or ingenious because he is a fantastic coach or just bits of good fortune on top of some real insight. No bloody idea.
What's clear is that Pochettino was the right managerial signing for us and that those who have followed have simply been the wring choices for whatever reason.
I think if you look at all clubs it takes time and a bit of good fortune to get it right.
We are no different.
What's clear is that Pochettino was the right managerial signing for us and that those who have followed have simply been the wring choices for whatever reason.
I think if you look at all clubs it takes time and a bit of good fortune to get it right.
We are no different.
But the major point is, it won’t happen with levy and enic. Their heart just isn’t in it. Not sure why it needs people to be reminded every day.
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