Poch or Frank for me.
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Get somebody in that will truly evaluate players. Spence, Gill, Danjuma, etc. Surely one or more of them can play.
I've commented on this before but the last three managers have all been very similar in that they are very defensive minded managers who produce very boring football.
The trend for most teams now is to play the game on the front foot with clubs like Brighton, Brentford & Fulham having success with a more imaginative style of football.
I feel that there is no-one at the club who has a vision of where the club should be at the one year, two year or three year mark.
It's time to give a young manager a chance to create a style that allows the introduction of young mobile players.
The trend for most teams now is to play the game on the front foot with clubs like Brighton, Brentford & Fulham having success with a more imaginative style of football.
I feel that there is no-one at the club who has a vision of where the club should be at the one year, two year or three year mark.
It's time to give a young manager a chance to create a style that allows the introduction of young mobile players.
DeZerbi is an upgrade on Potter and is not frightened to play youngsters if he sees fit. Passionate manager but will be back in Italy after Brighton stint. 11.5m to get him out of contract also.
How on earth can you compare Luis Enrique with AVB? They are totally different managers. AVB played defensive, counter-attacking football while Luis Enrique play a very attacking and possessive tiki-taka style of football.
Spain, under Luis Enrique, was not boring; they were always the attacking team but lacked an end product.
AVB didn't play counter attacking football at all, it was just rick averse nonsense when we had the ball, a lot of square passes, possession for possession sake with not much penetration and also not much support for the striker.
Luis Enrique is a possession hound but he does like his players to get in support of the striker and he liked to keep his players in close proximity with each other.
It's one thing to manage Brighton but a totally different thing to manage Chelski or Spurs. The only pressure at a club like Brighton is for them to be a mid-table team...and play and improve youngsters so they can be sold for a huge profit.
Look at Potter at Chelski: due to the pressure of immediate results, he can't afford to groom youngsters. DeZerbi will be under the same pressure.
Potter would've been an amazing appointment for Spurs after sacking Poch he is a project manager and i know De Zerbi is getting huge credit for the way Brighton are playing since he came in but all the personnel i.e Macallister, Mitoma,Caicedo and Evan Ferguson were players Potter brought to the club
What has been detrimental to Potter moving to Chelsea is the signings made by the CLUB he is just expected to bed them in and make them gel super quick and it hasnt happened at Spurs i think would've suited him much better as a project
With respect Chelsea are a bigger club than Spurs and Potter done no favours by Boehly scatter gun approach. Will never know but if DeZerbi was given the Chelsea job instead of GP they would be in top 4 right now. Like I said for me he's an upgrade...watching his football is high risk but high reward. If he can do it with our bunch he will be a major success if any big club took the risk.
AVB was not defensive, he played for possession just didn’t do much with the possession, AVB was boring but he has a totally different style to Jose and Nuno despite being Portuguese like them. Both AVB’ Spurs and Luis Enrique Spain often lack end product or in the case of AVB a plan to create chances. Luis Enrique did great at Barca but he had the right players for the system, he will not get that here. Hence he would be a very risky appointment. We can’t get a manager who needs elite and specific players to make it work, we don’t have the strategy or the money.
Luis Enrique is a much better manager but again I don’t see the fit with us sadly.
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Pep and his clones are the ones at the top of the league right now though, and I still think this Woolwich team on paper aren’t World beaters. No matter who we get we need players who are going to be able to play a more possession based style as I’m sure we’re all against another counter attacking type manager.
He’s a massive risk and I wouldn’t want him on an 18th month deal or something like that but I don’t see him as the same type of appointment as a Conte or a tuchel. I think he’s the right mix of plays football the right way and someone who’s done enough in football to command respect of the players.
Still think Poch makes the most sense, but Enrique would be my second choice, I’m very unsure about people like De Zerbi and Frank.
That makes more sense with Kompany though. Someone who works with lesser or younger players like Arteta has. Pep himself has never been good with anything less than perfect, he came into the league and got the best squad at City and still had to spend over £1bn to make it work. Some of his clones have done it very different and seem better with lesser players. Luis Enrique I worry about adapting to far inferior players and we play a possession game but with no bite.
I want a manager who plays the right way and is best with inferior and younger players because we need to be honest that is what they will get often. If I was City and Pep left then yes Luis Enrique would be a top target. He is a great manager it’s the fit that concerns me.
Yeah. Ginger cunt who used to play for Leicester
Very unique background as an Australian who managed in Japan. Would absolutely not be one to big-time us like Mourinho and Conte has.
Everywhere he's been, his players have loved him, and he's gotten teams from being middling to being great everywhere he's been. Celtic obviously have huge advantages in Scotland, but he quickly course-corrected from them getting their butts beaten by Rangers a few years ago.
4-2-3-1, with a focus on outnumbering opponents in the middle of the pitch to advance the ball, and then outnumbering them in the box. They definitely build out of the back, but there's always a plan to get the ball forward and it's not cross-and-pray to score goals. From a stylistic perspective, it's the opposite of Conte because the focus is on dominating the middle of the pitch on both planes. Everyone knows where everyone else is going to be and it ends up looking pretty technically savvy at its best - even a clunker like CCV is pulling the strings from CB.
I think he's got the potential to be the sort of man-manager that Poch was with a better mind for tactics. He's in his late 50s, though, at this point, and jumping from Celtic to a Big 6 team is a lot. As a watcher of Scottish football (I'm a masochist, I guess), I'm a big fan of him as a manager, but I wonder if a move to somewhere like Leeds would be a better expectations match for him.
Does he develop young players, make more than the sum of the parts and play on the attack.
Asked my Celtic daft cousin about that, his reply...
Ange is at a big club, Michael Beale is the man for Spurs. Best manager in Scotland by a mile. Please spread on all spurs forums…
This is simply not true about Guardiola. The last few years Liverpool's squad has been better, ManC have bettered them with no CF, no LB, some pretty ropey CB's and by playing two relative inexpensive AM's as 8's. ManU have spent even more than City, and Liverpool, Chelsea and ManU have a bigger wage bills than City.
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