He has also beaten Shakhtar and he beat Napoli with AZ.
In regards to point 4, Feyenoord's players are awful and they keep selling their best players.
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In regards to point 4, Feyenoord's players are awful and they keep selling their best players.
It needs to be some who bends over to give uncle fester a reach around, is able to sign a contract which deems he "shuts his mouth and keeps it shut" and is able to play with absolutely no restrictions but accept transfer policy will be dictated by uncle fester, his Aussie look alike aka uncs festah or that Italian bloke (who is way to good looking and knowledgeable about football, so how the fck...) Oh he's a crook! Ah of course!
Either way it will be someone who either is utterly desperate or totally ignorant about spurs...
Either way it will be someone who either is utterly desperate or totally ignorant about spurs...
Plus Burnley sold/got rid of tons of players and bought in even more. And hes got them all playing his way.
This is exactly what needs to be done at spurs. We've collected a lot of junk over the years and shouldnt be afraid of dumping a whole lot of them in 1 go and replacing them with others. I'd trust Kompany with that than the dinosaurs weve been appointing.
That’s why they should be in if possible or already signed pre contract so that they can start planning for next season. By the time new manager comes it will be pre season and we’ll have the same crap players still here. There is so many players to move on.
Good piece this morning in Athletic. Ever so slightly concerning that we are still in due diligence phase.
theathletic.com
Cristian Stellini was the one giving the miserable post-match press conference on Saturday evening, but it could have been any of his recent predecessors sitting up there. “When we scored, we dropped,” he sighed, “and (then) we dropped again.”
Sound familiar? It might as well have been Antonio Conte, Nuno Espirito Santo, Ryan Mason (first time around) or Jose Mourinho on that same lonely stage, voicing those same complaints. Stellini is smart enough to know this. He even said that this was a “habit” the Tottenham Hotspur team have, something they have been doing for a “long time” rather than just starting now.
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Stellini talked nobly about having to “change this type of mindset” but not with any real conviction or force. How could he, when he had also admitted that these problems pre-dated him?
We are three matches into Stellini’s 10-game spell trying to save their season. Six weeks from now, he will be yet another ex-Spurs manager. In the long timespan of Tottenham as a football club, his tenure is just a brief flicker. And he is utterly powerless to do anything about the problems that he has inherited. He might as well have been talking about trying to change the weather.
It is easy to criticise the manager after a game like this.
Tottenham have had some awful days this season — Goodison Park was just 12 days before — but, as a result, this was probably the worst in the league. The one thing they have done well this season is win their winnable home games. But not this time. Not only did they lose here at home against Bournemouth, after going 1-0 up, but they did so immediately after top-four race rivals Newcastle United had lost away to Aston Villa in Saturday’s early fixture.
It briefly felt, after Son Heung-min’s opening goal, as if Spurs could put real pressure on Newcastle in the chase for Champions League qualification. It felt as if their 2022-23 season might be salvageable after all.
Until their old habits of dropping deep kicked in…
Levy is under fan pressure to get the next appointment right (Photo: Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)
By the end, Spurs’ hopes of scrambling fourth place when the music stops on the evening of May 28 looked more remote than they have done all year. The issue here is not the current league table: the points gap is small, just three to Newcastle, and Spurs still have seven games left, including a run of Newcastle, Manchester United and Liverpool in eight days starting next Sunday.
The issue is simpler than that, and has been staring everyone in the face for weeks: this team has had every last drop of confidence drained out of it.
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We knew this at Everton, when they were 1-0 up against 10 men and still found a way to surrender the initiative. We saw this again against Brighton a week ago, when only an unlikely combination of refereeing and VAR decisions helped them to victory over opponents who were far the superior side on the day. And we had it confirmed again on Saturday, as they handed control of the game to Gary O’Neil’s resourceful relegation candidates.
Yes, if Richarlison had managed to direct his header inside the post in added time then Spurs would have won and would now be level on points with Newcastle. But it would still have been a game in which they trailed for 38 minutes, it would still have been a shambolic defensive performance, it would still have been a largely toxic atmosphere in the stadium, and it would still have provided no assurances that Tottenham are on the right path — or any path at all.
At this point, it feels extremely unlikely that anything can be salvaged from this spiralling season. Because when you watch Spurs right now, it does not take very long for something to be ominously clear: this is a team with nothing holding it together. There is no confidence or belief, no personality, no robust plan with or without the ball.
Some teams fall apart as soon as something goes wrong for them in a game. This Spurs team fall apart as soon as anything goes right. That is the only explanation for their reaction to taking the lead against Everton, Brighton and now Bournemouth. They get vertigo as soon as they look at the scoreboard.
On Friday, Stellini explained to the media that he wanted his team to be better in possession and create more chances. But when he was repeatedly asked whether that meant moving away from his old boss Conte’s blueprint, his patience started to wear thin.
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He insisted there was nothing wrong with the 3-4-3, he pointed to how many goals Spurs scored with it last season, and when Stellini was asked whether Conte was a “defensive manager”, he snapped. It was the most passionate we have seen Stellini, explaining with some anger that he wanted to speak about “reality” rather than “philosophy”, and that the key for Spurs was to “go strong” and “play with desire”, just like they did when they beat Chelsea here in February.
But Stellini’s exasperation at being asked to put any distance between himself and Conte just underlines the muddled logic of his appointment.
He is meant to deliver change from the old regime while being its most loyal lieutenant. He has to lift the spirits of the players whose confidence Conte destroyed, after spending 17 months as Conte’s voice on the training ground. He is expected to generate a new-manager bounce but without using the leverage of difference to get Spurs off the ground.
It is an idea so fundamentally confused that when Chelsea recently did the same, they realised days later they were better off bringing back Frank Lampard.
Whatever patience or credit Stellini had with the fanbase is surely gone now. It will not be long before they turn their ire on him too. But blaming Stellini for being a bad appointment is like blaming Davinson Sanchez for being a flawed defender. Not wrong, but not quite the point either. Ultimately, they are both fall guys for years of strategic drift and decay that runs throughout the whole football club.
Booing Sanchez achieves nothing - he's just another piece of collateral damage at Spurs
So the question — in this long week until kick-off at St James’ Park — is whether Tottenham can do anything to arrest this.
Tottenham
Pochettino and Levy had a strong relationship during their time working together (Photo: Tottenham Hotspur FC via Getty Images)
It barely even needs to be reiterated here that getting the next managerial appointment right is crucial to the club’s steady forward passage. (Tottenham managerial appointments are like general elections, in that every single one is sold as being ‘the most important in modern history’, but this one really is.) Get it right and there is the prospect of rediscovering some sort of unity between the players, fans and board. Get it wrong and the already mutinous atmosphere will get worse.
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Given the stakes, it is understandable Tottenham want to get it absolutely right. But fans can be forgiven for being anxious at the lack of obvious public progress so far.
The shortlist is effectively more of a long list, including names as wide-ranging as Julian Nagelsmann, Luis Enrique, Arne Slot, Vincent Kompany, Ruben Amorim, Thomas Frank, Oliver Glasner and Roberto De Zerbi. As well as its length is a list so broad, it makes you wonder whether Tottenham have put enough time into thinking about what sort of a manager they actually want, and what the strategy for the football club is. Or will they appoint a manager they like the sound of and then just engineer a strategy to fit?
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Regardless, this process is still at the due diligence stage, with Spurs doing their research on the candidates before they start the interviews. Many fans will wonder why Tottenham have not progressed further with this given they knew for months that they would be needing to replace Conte; especially now Chelsea have sacked Graham Potter and are fishing in the same waters — but much more aggressively — rendering Spurs’ head-start irrelevant.
The most important event this week is Fabio Paratici’s appeal against his 30-month football ban, which will be held in Italy on Wednesday.
If the ban is upheld. it will be impossible for him to continue in his role at Tottenham. If the ban is overturned, Paratici might be welcomed back with open arms for the next stage of the process — although a second case potentially heading for the Italian courts could complicate that.
At this stage, there are just too many variables to be able to make any realistic guess at what will happen next. There is Paratici’s future, there is Spurs’ eventual league finish, there is a long list of candidates, and there is competition not just from Chelsea but from any other big club who may decide to change their manager at the end of the season.
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And then hovering over all of this is the figure of Mauricio Pochettino.
His name was sung louder than ever during Saturday’s game. He is still out of work, for now, and would be open to coming back to Spurs. But he is not under active consideration by Levy and Paratici, and there has been no direct contact with him about his old job.
Levy may well have good reasons for not wanting to reappoint him: a desire for a fresh start, a need for a new voice, a reluctance to fall back on nostalgia, a fear of a repeat of the sour ending to his reign in 2019. He may well want a candidate who is more like the Pochettino of 2014 — young, ambitious, cutting edge — than the Pochettino of 2023, whether that is De Zerbi, Kompany, Nagelsmann, Amorim or anyone else.
But with every mishap under Stellini, the crowd’s calls for Pochettino will only get louder. It was clear enough against Bournemouth, but what will it be like against at home Manchester United next Thursday if Spurs lose to Newcastle?
The public pressure on Levy has never been greater and is still growing by the week. He only has one lever left to pull with any hope of mollifying the supporters who are calling for his head.
That lever is Pochettino. Who knows whether he will be able to resist the temptation to pull it?
Can Levy resist Pochettino with so much going against him?
Tottenham are becoming increasingly toxic. Bringing back Pochettino would change the mood, regardless of whether it's the right decision
Cristian Stellini was the one giving the miserable post-match press conference on Saturday evening, but it could have been any of his recent predecessors sitting up there. “When we scored, we dropped,” he sighed, “and (then) we dropped again.”
Sound familiar? It might as well have been Antonio Conte, Nuno Espirito Santo, Ryan Mason (first time around) or Jose Mourinho on that same lonely stage, voicing those same complaints. Stellini is smart enough to know this. He even said that this was a “habit” the Tottenham Hotspur team have, something they have been doing for a “long time” rather than just starting now.
ADVERTISEMENT
Stellini talked nobly about having to “change this type of mindset” but not with any real conviction or force. How could he, when he had also admitted that these problems pre-dated him?
We are three matches into Stellini’s 10-game spell trying to save their season. Six weeks from now, he will be yet another ex-Spurs manager. In the long timespan of Tottenham as a football club, his tenure is just a brief flicker. And he is utterly powerless to do anything about the problems that he has inherited. He might as well have been talking about trying to change the weather.
It is easy to criticise the manager after a game like this.
Tottenham have had some awful days this season — Goodison Park was just 12 days before — but, as a result, this was probably the worst in the league. The one thing they have done well this season is win their winnable home games. But not this time. Not only did they lose here at home against Bournemouth, after going 1-0 up, but they did so immediately after top-four race rivals Newcastle United had lost away to Aston Villa in Saturday’s early fixture.
It briefly felt, after Son Heung-min’s opening goal, as if Spurs could put real pressure on Newcastle in the chase for Champions League qualification. It felt as if their 2022-23 season might be salvageable after all.
Until their old habits of dropping deep kicked in…
Levy is under fan pressure to get the next appointment right (Photo: Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)
By the end, Spurs’ hopes of scrambling fourth place when the music stops on the evening of May 28 looked more remote than they have done all year. The issue here is not the current league table: the points gap is small, just three to Newcastle, and Spurs still have seven games left, including a run of Newcastle, Manchester United and Liverpool in eight days starting next Sunday.
The issue is simpler than that, and has been staring everyone in the face for weeks: this team has had every last drop of confidence drained out of it.
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We knew this at Everton, when they were 1-0 up against 10 men and still found a way to surrender the initiative. We saw this again against Brighton a week ago, when only an unlikely combination of refereeing and VAR decisions helped them to victory over opponents who were far the superior side on the day. And we had it confirmed again on Saturday, as they handed control of the game to Gary O’Neil’s resourceful relegation candidates.
Yes, if Richarlison had managed to direct his header inside the post in added time then Spurs would have won and would now be level on points with Newcastle. But it would still have been a game in which they trailed for 38 minutes, it would still have been a shambolic defensive performance, it would still have been a largely toxic atmosphere in the stadium, and it would still have provided no assurances that Tottenham are on the right path — or any path at all.
At this point, it feels extremely unlikely that anything can be salvaged from this spiralling season. Because when you watch Spurs right now, it does not take very long for something to be ominously clear: this is a team with nothing holding it together. There is no confidence or belief, no personality, no robust plan with or without the ball.
Some teams fall apart as soon as something goes wrong for them in a game. This Spurs team fall apart as soon as anything goes right. That is the only explanation for their reaction to taking the lead against Everton, Brighton and now Bournemouth. They get vertigo as soon as they look at the scoreboard.
On Friday, Stellini explained to the media that he wanted his team to be better in possession and create more chances. But when he was repeatedly asked whether that meant moving away from his old boss Conte’s blueprint, his patience started to wear thin.
ADVERTISEMENT
He insisted there was nothing wrong with the 3-4-3, he pointed to how many goals Spurs scored with it last season, and when Stellini was asked whether Conte was a “defensive manager”, he snapped. It was the most passionate we have seen Stellini, explaining with some anger that he wanted to speak about “reality” rather than “philosophy”, and that the key for Spurs was to “go strong” and “play with desire”, just like they did when they beat Chelsea here in February.
But Stellini’s exasperation at being asked to put any distance between himself and Conte just underlines the muddled logic of his appointment.
He is meant to deliver change from the old regime while being its most loyal lieutenant. He has to lift the spirits of the players whose confidence Conte destroyed, after spending 17 months as Conte’s voice on the training ground. He is expected to generate a new-manager bounce but without using the leverage of difference to get Spurs off the ground.
It is an idea so fundamentally confused that when Chelsea recently did the same, they realised days later they were better off bringing back Frank Lampard.
Whatever patience or credit Stellini had with the fanbase is surely gone now. It will not be long before they turn their ire on him too. But blaming Stellini for being a bad appointment is like blaming Davinson Sanchez for being a flawed defender. Not wrong, but not quite the point either. Ultimately, they are both fall guys for years of strategic drift and decay that runs throughout the whole football club.
Booing Sanchez achieves nothing - he's just another piece of collateral damage at Spurs
So the question — in this long week until kick-off at St James’ Park — is whether Tottenham can do anything to arrest this.
Tottenham
Pochettino and Levy had a strong relationship during their time working together (Photo: Tottenham Hotspur FC via Getty Images)
It barely even needs to be reiterated here that getting the next managerial appointment right is crucial to the club’s steady forward passage. (Tottenham managerial appointments are like general elections, in that every single one is sold as being ‘the most important in modern history’, but this one really is.) Get it right and there is the prospect of rediscovering some sort of unity between the players, fans and board. Get it wrong and the already mutinous atmosphere will get worse.
ADVERTISEMENT
Given the stakes, it is understandable Tottenham want to get it absolutely right. But fans can be forgiven for being anxious at the lack of obvious public progress so far.
The shortlist is effectively more of a long list, including names as wide-ranging as Julian Nagelsmann, Luis Enrique, Arne Slot, Vincent Kompany, Ruben Amorim, Thomas Frank, Oliver Glasner and Roberto De Zerbi. As well as its length is a list so broad, it makes you wonder whether Tottenham have put enough time into thinking about what sort of a manager they actually want, and what the strategy for the football club is. Or will they appoint a manager they like the sound of and then just engineer a strategy to fit?
go-deeper
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Tottenham need a new manager - but which one actually suits their squad?
Regardless, this process is still at the due diligence stage, with Spurs doing their research on the candidates before they start the interviews. Many fans will wonder why Tottenham have not progressed further with this given they knew for months that they would be needing to replace Conte; especially now Chelsea have sacked Graham Potter and are fishing in the same waters — but much more aggressively — rendering Spurs’ head-start irrelevant.
The most important event this week is Fabio Paratici’s appeal against his 30-month football ban, which will be held in Italy on Wednesday.
If the ban is upheld. it will be impossible for him to continue in his role at Tottenham. If the ban is overturned, Paratici might be welcomed back with open arms for the next stage of the process — although a second case potentially heading for the Italian courts could complicate that.
At this stage, there are just too many variables to be able to make any realistic guess at what will happen next. There is Paratici’s future, there is Spurs’ eventual league finish, there is a long list of candidates, and there is competition not just from Chelsea but from any other big club who may decide to change their manager at the end of the season.
ADVERTISEMENT
And then hovering over all of this is the figure of Mauricio Pochettino.
His name was sung louder than ever during Saturday’s game. He is still out of work, for now, and would be open to coming back to Spurs. But he is not under active consideration by Levy and Paratici, and there has been no direct contact with him about his old job.
Levy may well have good reasons for not wanting to reappoint him: a desire for a fresh start, a need for a new voice, a reluctance to fall back on nostalgia, a fear of a repeat of the sour ending to his reign in 2019. He may well want a candidate who is more like the Pochettino of 2014 — young, ambitious, cutting edge — than the Pochettino of 2023, whether that is De Zerbi, Kompany, Nagelsmann, Amorim or anyone else.
But with every mishap under Stellini, the crowd’s calls for Pochettino will only get louder. It was clear enough against Bournemouth, but what will it be like against at home Manchester United next Thursday if Spurs lose to Newcastle?
The public pressure on Levy has never been greater and is still growing by the week. He only has one lever left to pull with any hope of mollifying the supporters who are calling for his head.
That lever is Pochettino. Who knows whether he will be able to resist the temptation to pull it?
Yeah the original short list which had poch on it was drawn up by Hitchen before paratici arrived
Some good points but the team don’t intentionally drop deeper - we are set up to play passively to concede possession and territory with players behind the ball so obviously when the opposition fall behind they are going to be more attacking minded and forward looking - so we get pushed back deeper and deeper if the likes of Mourinho conte and Stellini can’t see or understand that there is no hopeGood piece this morning in Athletic. Ever so slightly concerning that we are still in due diligence phase.
Can Levy resist Pochettino with so much going against him?
Tottenham are becoming increasingly toxic. Bringing back Pochettino would change the mood, regardless of whether it's the right decision
theathletic.com
Cristian Stellini was the one giving the miserable post-match press conference on Saturday evening, but it could have been any of his recent predecessors sitting up there. “When we scored, we dropped,” he sighed, “and (then) we dropped again.”
Sound familiar? It might as well have been Antonio Conte, Nuno Espirito Santo, Ryan Mason (first time around) or Jose Mourinho on that same lonely stage, voicing those same complaints. Stellini is smart enough to know this. He even said that this was a “habit” the Tottenham Hotspur team have, something they have been doing for a “long time” rather than just starting now.
ADVERTISEMENT
Stellini talked nobly about having to “change this type of mindset” but not with any real conviction or force. How could he, when he had also admitted that these problems pre-dated him?
We are three matches into Stellini’s 10-game spell trying to save their season. Six weeks from now, he will be yet another ex-Spurs manager. In the long timespan of Tottenham as a football club, his tenure is just a brief flicker. And he is utterly powerless to do anything about the problems that he has inherited. He might as well have been talking about trying to change the weather.
It is easy to criticise the manager after a game like this.
Tottenham have had some awful days this season — Goodison Park was just 12 days before — but, as a result, this was probably the worst in the league. The one thing they have done well this season is win their winnable home games. But not this time. Not only did they lose here at home against Bournemouth, after going 1-0 up, but they did so immediately after top-four race rivals Newcastle United had lost away to Aston Villa in Saturday’s early fixture.
It briefly felt, after Son Heung-min’s opening goal, as if Spurs could put real pressure on Newcastle in the chase for Champions League qualification. It felt as if their 2022-23 season might be salvageable after all.
Until their old habits of dropping deep kicked in…
Levy is under fan pressure to get the next appointment right (Photo: Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)
By the end, Spurs’ hopes of scrambling fourth place when the music stops on the evening of May 28 looked more remote than they have done all year. The issue here is not the current league table: the points gap is small, just three to Newcastle, and Spurs still have seven games left, including a run of Newcastle, Manchester United and Liverpool in eight days starting next Sunday.
The issue is simpler than that, and has been staring everyone in the face for weeks: this team has had every last drop of confidence drained out of it.
ADVERTISEMENT
We knew this at Everton, when they were 1-0 up against 10 men and still found a way to surrender the initiative. We saw this again against Brighton a week ago, when only an unlikely combination of refereeing and VAR decisions helped them to victory over opponents who were far the superior side on the day. And we had it confirmed again on Saturday, as they handed control of the game to Gary O’Neil’s resourceful relegation candidates.
Yes, if Richarlison had managed to direct his header inside the post in added time then Spurs would have won and would now be level on points with Newcastle. But it would still have been a game in which they trailed for 38 minutes, it would still have been a shambolic defensive performance, it would still have been a largely toxic atmosphere in the stadium, and it would still have provided no assurances that Tottenham are on the right path — or any path at all.
At this point, it feels extremely unlikely that anything can be salvaged from this spiralling season. Because when you watch Spurs right now, it does not take very long for something to be ominously clear: this is a team with nothing holding it together. There is no confidence or belief, no personality, no robust plan with or without the ball.
Some teams fall apart as soon as something goes wrong for them in a game. This Spurs team fall apart as soon as anything goes right. That is the only explanation for their reaction to taking the lead against Everton, Brighton and now Bournemouth. They get vertigo as soon as they look at the scoreboard.
On Friday, Stellini explained to the media that he wanted his team to be better in possession and create more chances. But when he was repeatedly asked whether that meant moving away from his old boss Conte’s blueprint, his patience started to wear thin.
ADVERTISEMENT
He insisted there was nothing wrong with the 3-4-3, he pointed to how many goals Spurs scored with it last season, and when Stellini was asked whether Conte was a “defensive manager”, he snapped. It was the most passionate we have seen Stellini, explaining with some anger that he wanted to speak about “reality” rather than “philosophy”, and that the key for Spurs was to “go strong” and “play with desire”, just like they did when they beat Chelsea here in February.
But Stellini’s exasperation at being asked to put any distance between himself and Conte just underlines the muddled logic of his appointment.
He is meant to deliver change from the old regime while being its most loyal lieutenant. He has to lift the spirits of the players whose confidence Conte destroyed, after spending 17 months as Conte’s voice on the training ground. He is expected to generate a new-manager bounce but without using the leverage of difference to get Spurs off the ground.
It is an idea so fundamentally confused that when Chelsea recently did the same, they realised days later they were better off bringing back Frank Lampard.
Whatever patience or credit Stellini had with the fanbase is surely gone now. It will not be long before they turn their ire on him too. But blaming Stellini for being a bad appointment is like blaming Davinson Sanchez for being a flawed defender. Not wrong, but not quite the point either. Ultimately, they are both fall guys for years of strategic drift and decay that runs throughout the whole football club.
Booing Sanchez achieves nothing - he's just another piece of collateral damage at Spurs
So the question — in this long week until kick-off at St James’ Park — is whether Tottenham can do anything to arrest this.
Tottenham
Pochettino and Levy had a strong relationship during their time working together (Photo: Tottenham Hotspur FC via Getty Images)
It barely even needs to be reiterated here that getting the next managerial appointment right is crucial to the club’s steady forward passage. (Tottenham managerial appointments are like general elections, in that every single one is sold as being ‘the most important in modern history’, but this one really is.) Get it right and there is the prospect of rediscovering some sort of unity between the players, fans and board. Get it wrong and the already mutinous atmosphere will get worse.
ADVERTISEMENT
Given the stakes, it is understandable Tottenham want to get it absolutely right. But fans can be forgiven for being anxious at the lack of obvious public progress so far.
The shortlist is effectively more of a long list, including names as wide-ranging as Julian Nagelsmann, Luis Enrique, Arne Slot, Vincent Kompany, Ruben Amorim, Thomas Frank, Oliver Glasner and Roberto De Zerbi. As well as its length is a list so broad, it makes you wonder whether Tottenham have put enough time into thinking about what sort of a manager they actually want, and what the strategy for the football club is. Or will they appoint a manager they like the sound of and then just engineer a strategy to fit?
go-deeper
GO DEEPER
Tottenham need a new manager - but which one actually suits their squad?
Regardless, this process is still at the due diligence stage, with Spurs doing their research on the candidates before they start the interviews. Many fans will wonder why Tottenham have not progressed further with this given they knew for months that they would be needing to replace Conte; especially now Chelsea have sacked Graham Potter and are fishing in the same waters — but much more aggressively — rendering Spurs’ head-start irrelevant.
The most important event this week is Fabio Paratici’s appeal against his 30-month football ban, which will be held in Italy on Wednesday.
If the ban is upheld. it will be impossible for him to continue in his role at Tottenham. If the ban is overturned, Paratici might be welcomed back with open arms for the next stage of the process — although a second case potentially heading for the Italian courts could complicate that.
At this stage, there are just too many variables to be able to make any realistic guess at what will happen next. There is Paratici’s future, there is Spurs’ eventual league finish, there is a long list of candidates, and there is competition not just from Chelsea but from any other big club who may decide to change their manager at the end of the season.
ADVERTISEMENT
And then hovering over all of this is the figure of Mauricio Pochettino.
His name was sung louder than ever during Saturday’s game. He is still out of work, for now, and would be open to coming back to Spurs. But he is not under active consideration by Levy and Paratici, and there has been no direct contact with him about his old job.
Levy may well have good reasons for not wanting to reappoint him: a desire for a fresh start, a need for a new voice, a reluctance to fall back on nostalgia, a fear of a repeat of the sour ending to his reign in 2019. He may well want a candidate who is more like the Pochettino of 2014 — young, ambitious, cutting edge — than the Pochettino of 2023, whether that is De Zerbi, Kompany, Nagelsmann, Amorim or anyone else.
But with every mishap under Stellini, the crowd’s calls for Pochettino will only get louder. It was clear enough against Bournemouth, but what will it be like against at home Manchester United next Thursday if Spurs lose to Newcastle?
The public pressure on Levy has never been greater and is still growing by the week. He only has one lever left to pull with any hope of mollifying the supporters who are calling for his head.
That lever is Pochettino. Who knows whether he will be able to resist the temptation to pull it?
The Bournemouth game showed it perfectly - for 10 minutes after we scored we looked the more likely to get the next goal but Bournemouth started showing a bit of ambition and 2,defensive errors gifted them the lead
I can't see how you're not blaming the players. They did it with Poch sometimes, and they've been getting worse and worse ever since.
Mourinho, Nono, Conte and now Stellini - ALL of them say "I didn't tell them to do that" or words to that effect.
I just can't see how the coaches are getting blamed anymore. I'm not even sure the players are actively retreating. I just think most of them are so average, that any kind of pressure from the opposition and they crumble. Once they crumble, they drop deep as an instinct.
Can we add anyone that Levy doesn’t want as an option , his 3 successes were not by design in my opinion .
Jol was a takeover for the disgraceful shambolic Santini hire
Redknapp , was a panic Ramos is going to get us relegated , Harry might keep us up hire
Poch was a Van Gaal flaked on Levy for United hire
He should be nowhere near the next hire, although we all know his grubby fingerprints will be all over it
Jol was a takeover for the disgraceful shambolic Santini hire
Redknapp , was a panic Ramos is going to get us relegated , Harry might keep us up hire
Poch was a Van Gaal flaked on Levy for United hire
He should be nowhere near the next hire, although we all know his grubby fingerprints will be all over it
Paratici wanted Nuno, Gattuso and Luis Enrique (he is good but I think a poor fit). Our DoF has no football Philosophy, he is just a good scout/wheeler dealer and is on corruption charges.
Our entire hope is Scott Munn is really good and is allowed to be part of the process.
I keep changing my mind between who I'd like next.
I started off really wanting Amirom from Lisbon, but it seems he isn't too keen?
Slot is an exciting choice. He's unknown, has Feyenoord performing very well, and is the sort of manager that has worked well for Spurs in the past.
Poch is a very romantic and emotional choice. I love him, and just want to feel connected to a manager and team again. My biggest concern is that majority of us are hanging on to the 2015-18 period, where now we are back to square one, and I wouldn't want him to tarnish what he had. However, I'll be fully onboard if he is appointed.
Enrique I'm not overly fussed about. Nothing since Barca (with their the best team ever) has impressed me. Nagelsmann I'm 50/50. Exciting because of his age and football that's played, but I get more vibes of a manager who will see us as a stepping stone.
Rodgers I wanted when Mourinho went, and I still think he's a good manager. You can see the state Leicester are in, it wasn't him. I wouldn't be distraught if it was him.
Potter again is another one we would have all wanted 12 months ago. Failing at Chelsea under this current shitshow is no shame, he's a top manager. I just worry his teams don't score. He laid the foundations for what De Zebri is reaping from now, and that shouldn't be forgotten.
I started off really wanting Amirom from Lisbon, but it seems he isn't too keen?
Slot is an exciting choice. He's unknown, has Feyenoord performing very well, and is the sort of manager that has worked well for Spurs in the past.
Poch is a very romantic and emotional choice. I love him, and just want to feel connected to a manager and team again. My biggest concern is that majority of us are hanging on to the 2015-18 period, where now we are back to square one, and I wouldn't want him to tarnish what he had. However, I'll be fully onboard if he is appointed.
Enrique I'm not overly fussed about. Nothing since Barca (with their the best team ever) has impressed me. Nagelsmann I'm 50/50. Exciting because of his age and football that's played, but I get more vibes of a manager who will see us as a stepping stone.
Rodgers I wanted when Mourinho went, and I still think he's a good manager. You can see the state Leicester are in, it wasn't him. I wouldn't be distraught if it was him.
Potter again is another one we would have all wanted 12 months ago. Failing at Chelsea under this current shitshow is no shame, he's a top manager. I just worry his teams don't score. He laid the foundations for what De Zebri is reaping from now, and that shouldn't be forgotten.
A decent coach would have our squad purring - may not win trophy’s but we’d be entertained - having watched extended highlights of Chelsea v Brighton De Zerbi has gone to the top of my list - we’d be great to watch with him as manager
Don’t forget Fonseca AKA Zorro , although at least he plays good football
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Levy wasn't involved in Nono or Conte really, was he?
As far as I recall, Baldini was still at the club when we brought Pochettino in.
Regarding Santini, was that Levy, or was it Arnesson? It was a long time ago, but I seem to recall Arnesson, Santini and Jol all coming together.
Pretty sure Conte would have loved to bomb a load out , nobody wants our dross , especially at inflated Levy prices
Same time , but they had no history together . If Levy did not interfere do you not think we might keep a DOF longer than Liz Truss was PM , an exaggeration , but ask yourself why does his preferred strategy of a DOF never last
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