Yes, I'd love a coach who wants to play a more proactive, aggressive brand of football, but just changing the coach isn't going to solve all our issues.
I think we are going to struggle (relatively) as a club for a few years until we do. I think we are going to go through what Woolwich have the last few years and it's going to take us a while to turn it round. And it's going to be painful.
Clubs like us and Woolwich, and to an extent Liverpool, who can't just chuck unlimited funds and make huge mistakes in the transfer and management market need to rely on a bunch of facets coming together, planned or serendipitously, simultaneously to really succeed and contend. Liverpool hit a great coach and outstanding recruitment consistently a while back (stumbled recently), Woolwich have just hit it, we hit it 5-6 years ago.
But right now we are a fucking mess. A DOF who basically fucked a 6 time winning League leader with his shenanigans, an 18m manager who spends all his time acting like he's too fucking good for us, who's team now plays with the lottery inconsistency of Redknapp's run araand tactics.
Right now I've lost complete faith in Levy to figure it out. The whole Mourinho/Paratici/Nuno/Conte thing just shows massive cognitive dissonance in Levy’s part. Not the first time, but on balance up until about 3-4 years ago I could generally rationalise at least a chunk of what Levy was trying do, applaud the direction of travel if not always the vehicle. There's been times when we've had half decent DOF's, recruitment, youth policy/coaches, and progressive head coaches. But we've rarely managed to put all those things together. There's rarely been more than a couple year period when all those things have synchronised. Our recruitment has been fucking atrocious for about 6 years now.
Targeting the best recruitment set up - Director, Head of Scouting, Analytics - and a head coach(s) who isn't necessarily a big name, who are happy to work with and can improve young footballers - also improving the academy recruitment - would go a lot further than spunking 18m a year on a trophy manager to spend every week publicly pissing his pants about recruitment.
It's stupid just looking at which coaches are doing well and assuming they can replicate that at Spurs (or any club). More important is having an overall strategy and matching up the components.
I know people will be averse to coaches like Tuchel or Potter, but they would probably suit us right now better than trying to transpose a Bielsa/DeZerbi (I like both) onto this squad. There's no way we are getting someone like Nagglesman.
People like Tuchel or Potter would be able to make use of some of the players we've bought for Conte, both utilise 3CB systems - again, not my choice of system, but for logical transition purposes it makes some sense to get slightly more proactive coaches who can work within this system - but both could maybe coach us to be a proactive 3CB team, rather than a reactive one. Both could maybe work with the young players - like Sarr, Skipp, Spence, Udogie, and get a bit of energy back into the team.
If not them (and maybe they are both unlikely) then someone along those lines. Someone that wouldn’t involve an immediate wholesale change of everything tactical. I guess our most successful phase of late came while Poch was doing his 3421 thing, so I guess he could be be considered. I just lost so much faith in him as a coach it would worry me, would rather go and find a new Poch on the up than get the old one back on the down.
I think we are going to struggle (relatively) as a club for a few years until we do. I think we are going to go through what Woolwich have the last few years and it's going to take us a while to turn it round. And it's going to be painful.
Clubs like us and Woolwich, and to an extent Liverpool, who can't just chuck unlimited funds and make huge mistakes in the transfer and management market need to rely on a bunch of facets coming together, planned or serendipitously, simultaneously to really succeed and contend. Liverpool hit a great coach and outstanding recruitment consistently a while back (stumbled recently), Woolwich have just hit it, we hit it 5-6 years ago.
But right now we are a fucking mess. A DOF who basically fucked a 6 time winning League leader with his shenanigans, an 18m manager who spends all his time acting like he's too fucking good for us, who's team now plays with the lottery inconsistency of Redknapp's run araand tactics.
Right now I've lost complete faith in Levy to figure it out. The whole Mourinho/Paratici/Nuno/Conte thing just shows massive cognitive dissonance in Levy’s part. Not the first time, but on balance up until about 3-4 years ago I could generally rationalise at least a chunk of what Levy was trying do, applaud the direction of travel if not always the vehicle. There's been times when we've had half decent DOF's, recruitment, youth policy/coaches, and progressive head coaches. But we've rarely managed to put all those things together. There's rarely been more than a couple year period when all those things have synchronised. Our recruitment has been fucking atrocious for about 6 years now.
Targeting the best recruitment set up - Director, Head of Scouting, Analytics - and a head coach(s) who isn't necessarily a big name, who are happy to work with and can improve young footballers - also improving the academy recruitment - would go a lot further than spunking 18m a year on a trophy manager to spend every week publicly pissing his pants about recruitment.
It's stupid just looking at which coaches are doing well and assuming they can replicate that at Spurs (or any club). More important is having an overall strategy and matching up the components.
I know people will be averse to coaches like Tuchel or Potter, but they would probably suit us right now better than trying to transpose a Bielsa/DeZerbi (I like both) onto this squad. There's no way we are getting someone like Nagglesman.
People like Tuchel or Potter would be able to make use of some of the players we've bought for Conte, both utilise 3CB systems - again, not my choice of system, but for logical transition purposes it makes some sense to get slightly more proactive coaches who can work within this system - but both could maybe coach us to be a proactive 3CB team, rather than a reactive one. Both could maybe work with the young players - like Sarr, Skipp, Spence, Udogie, and get a bit of energy back into the team.
If not them (and maybe they are both unlikely) then someone along those lines. Someone that wouldn’t involve an immediate wholesale change of everything tactical. I guess our most successful phase of late came while Poch was doing his 3421 thing, so I guess he could be be considered. I just lost so much faith in him as a coach it would worry me, would rather go and find a new Poch on the up than get the old one back on the down.
