He sticks with Burnley and does a decent job for two years and the city job is his… why screw that and your career up? This lad is too clever to make that mistake
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He sticks with Burnley and does a decent job for two years and the city job is his… why screw that and your career up? This lad is too clever to make that mistake
I’m not always right and unlike you I don’t believe it’s possible to speak definitively. I am, however, led by reason and I am interested in context and that’s what I lead with. Facts and evidence matter.
People use the “9th richest club” stat to suggest we should be winning trophies in England. But we are the 5th richest club in England. And for most of ENIC’s ownership we’ve been the 6th richest club. We’re not competing for domestic trophies against teams in Germany or Spain who have less money - we’re competing against the very richest clubs in the world.
37 out of 40 trophies in the past decade have been won by teams with more resources than us.
The fact you can’t acknowledge that overwhelming statistic shows your bias.
The one criticism I would agree with you on is the Europa league and Conference league where we should have done better when we’ve been involved. We’ve underperformed in those competitions (we’ve often underperformed in domestic cups too when you look at who has knocked us out).
I have clearly stated the lack of a coherent and appropriate football strategy is a strong and valid critique of Levy. We agree on that.
But the FACTS are that we have overperformed relative to your resources in 10 out of the past 12 seasons. That is staggering overachievement. So while we are both frustrated, the results have been better than we should expect most seasons.
To focus on the 3 times in the past decade when a team with less resources has won a trophy shows how ridiculous your argument is.
A team with less resources than us has never won the league cup in the past decade.
A team with less resources than us has won the FA cup twice in the past decade.
A team with less resources than us had won the league once in the past decade.
The fact this happens so infrequently is all the evidence you need for how tough it is and how far the odds are stacked against us. The league win by Leicester was incredible at the time and everyone agreed it was a historically improbable event.
It’s a shame we haven’t had the luck needed to win a trophy over the past decade… and it’s true that two other teams have had that luck… but on average we have performed significantly better than both of those teams over the past decade. We just haven’t had that bit of luck needed.
Every newspaper, pundit and bookie now has a different #1.
One of them will probably be right by pure chance. None of them have a clue really.
You’d think so and if that was the case why haven’t we heard anything on trying to look down poch or JN. I reckon it’s that cunt fraud and the board who don’t want poch not sure if they have reached out to JN.
Surely they could just go to either promise them £15M like they paid those two lazy ficking coaches who basically coached nothing or instilled any winning mentality in 4 years. Give them the reins on all first team matter. Job done.
Too many cooks now with Munn and DOF for manager to have input in how the football side is run .
Or could be sacked in 10 gamesOnly two of us would like to welcome back Carrick??
A young, so far impressive coach who could build a new (and much needed)team/squad.
That would imply we have a team of people who run the football club and know what they're doing.
It's not just working in a bigger league than Holland. Ten Hag had only worked in Holland, but unlike Slot, he'd been doing it for a sustained period of time, with a decent amount of success in the Europa and CL as well.
Compare that with the previous Dutchman to have a decent record in Holland to come to England.... Frank De Boer was doing well with Ajax for 5 years then completely failed at Palace, effectively ending his career.
Sceptical it’s true, but we’ve tried everything else, so why not. He left Anderlecht apparently because the owners wouldn’t back, him so if Levy thinks getting a young manager in, so he can control him, is the idea then I think he will be sorely mistaken.
I would be excited to see what he could do but it is obviously a big risk.
To save people the click, it’s actually quite a broad article and kompany is just one of the targets. It’s probably a filler piece but who knows.
SunSport told you last month the Manchester City legend was a surprise name on Levy’s shortlist.
But Spurs chiefs have received glowing reports after a stunning season saw the Clarets promoted in record time.
And Kompany is increasingly seen as the manager who can give the club a new dimension.
Spurs have watched how Mikel Arteta has transformed bitter rivals Woolwich into Premier League title contenders having spent three years working as Pep Guardiola’s No 2 at City.
Kompany spent the same amount of time as captain under Guardiola before becoming Anderlecht manager in 2019.
He won two of his four Premier League crowns with Guardiola — who has tipped him as a future Etihad boss.
Spurs are also considering Julian Nagelsmann, Luis Enrique, Brendan Rodgers, Arne Slot and their former chief Mauricio Pochettino.
But, crucially for Levy, Kompany made Burnley the Championship’s most entertaining side after putting almost a whole new squad together.
And Kompany is believed to be ready to listen if Spurs make a move as he fears the Clarets may not have the funds to tackle the Prem.
Levy wants to get a new boss lined up quickly with Harry Kane’s future again in doubt and the club facing a battle to finish in the top four.
They are three points behind Newcastle and Manchester United but have played a game more.
Conte was sacked in March after weeks of uncertainty.
The final straw came when the Italian boss, 53, launched an astonishing attack on his ‘selfish’ Spurs flops after the 3-3 draw at Southampton.
His assistant Cristian Stellini has become the acting head coach at Tottenham for the remainder of the season.
Former Premier League midfielder Ryan Mason is the Italian's assistant head coach as the pair look to rejuvenate Spurs and finish in this season's Champions League spots.
Why try and follow Guardiola? It will be like trying to follow Ferguson, you will never meet the expectations they set. I think if he's clever he swerves that place until 2 or 3 managers have passed through and the standards have dropped. Plus they have the FFP allegations against them.
Son is not 5ft8. That’s wrong.
Well I hope you are right because I want the team to succeed.
But clearly you still haven't twigged Levy's game which is on you.
I don't believe the kompany news.
If we preferred him over the experienced managers it exposes a total lack of footballing ambition and lack of long term plan given that kompany will be off to city as soon as it suits.
If we preferred him over the experienced managers it exposes a total lack of footballing ambition and lack of long term plan given that kompany will be off to city as soon as it suits.
He won't meet the expectations of the board with us either and he will be continuously frustrated in the transfer market too.
Probably. But its a long career as a manager and getting your dream job too early can be a bit of a poisoned chalice as Naglesmann proved. Kompany is likely confident he can improve us from our current mess and he's probably right. Glass ceiling or not. He wouldnt be my first choice but i think it would be intetesting and could well work upto a point.
I don't think there is one manager out there that would think they are confident that they could get us into the top 4, that's what improvement would mean. We also got 7 players out on loan mostly surplus to requirements that he has to sort out.
There are lots of candidates though, which makes it a bit different from the Nuno summer. Plus despite what a lot of fans think it is a great job for someone to make a name for themselves as Poch showed. And that was when the club was seriously hampered by the stadium build. Any promising young manager worth his salt has to see it as a huge opportunity for themselves. I bet there has been a lot of interest from people.
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