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Management Next Manager Poll (poll reset 11/04/23)

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Next Manager

  • Rodgers

    Votes: 15 3.6%
  • Potter

    Votes: 25 5.9%
  • Nagelsmann

    Votes: 177 41.9%
  • Kompany

    Votes: 43 10.2%
  • Slot

    Votes: 91 21.6%
  • Postecoglou

    Votes: 74 17.5%
  • De Zerbi

    Votes: 31 7.3%
  • Xabi Alonso

    Votes: 11 2.6%
  • Stellini

    Votes: 4 0.9%
  • Frank

    Votes: 10 2.4%
  • Luis Enrique

    Votes: 21 5.0%
  • Zidane

    Votes: 5 1.2%
  • Glasner

    Votes: 3 0.7%
  • Amorim

    Votes: 10 2.4%
  • Carrick

    Votes: 9 2.1%
  • Gallardo

    Votes: 23 5.5%
  • Schmidt

    Votes: 2 0.5%

  • Total voters
    422
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1 good thing about this situation:

There is more than 1 good manager available.

If Chelsea go after Nagelsmann, they piss off Enrique and make him more motivated to join Spurs and vice versa.

Actually have a feeling they will go after Enrique and leave Nagelsmann open and pissed off.
 
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

De Zerbi took over a Brighton team that looked exceptional at the start of the season, Potters last game was the 5-2 hammering of Leicester they looked CL candidates back then.

My concern with De Zerbi or anyone from Brighton is the star of the show at Brighton is the boardroom and back end, they have a brilliant set up, we don’t.

Interesting there was an article prior to appointing De Zerbi that Brighton had Postecoglou and Gallardo as a their main choices. So I guess if we want to follow Brighton it might be worth checking them out.
 
1 good thing about this situation:

There is more than 1 good manager available.

If Chelsea go after Nagelsmann, they piss off Enrique and make him more motivated to join Spurs and vice versa.

Actually have a feeling they will go after Enrique and leave Nagelsmann open and pissed off.

Would rather Nagelsmann than Luis Enrique. Naglesmann was brilliant at RB and Hoffenheim, worked with young players to build something special, bit of a German Pochettino. Luis Enrique’s was wonderful at Barca with Messi and co but his Spain team mostly reminded me of AVB, all possession without any cutting edge in most games.
 
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 agree with everything except Potter. Didn't want him, don't want him, never want him.
 
Would rather Nagelsmann than Luis Enrique. Naglesmann was brilliant at RB and Hoffenheim, worked with young players to build something special, bit of a German Pochettino. Luis Enrique’s was wonderful at Barca with Messi and co but his Spain team mostly reminded me of AVB, all possession without any cutting edge in most games.
Agree.

Still feel like it’s been Poch all along but if we can get Nagelsmann, he’s the top of the list.

We have a good track record with Germans at Spurs.

Jurgen and Steffen are legends. Actually don’t understand why we haven’t signed more German players or players from the bundesliga. Son worked out ok as well.
 
Given that we contrived to lose at home to Bournemouth I'd say it's entirely feasible, if statistically unlikely, that we could actually lose every remaining game of the season, personally I'd be more surprised if we didn't lose the next 3 on the spin.

Were the worst case scenario begin to unfold, do we reckon Levy would at some point backtrack on his idiotic idea to cut off the head of the snake but leave the writhing, brainless body in charge? Or would he just delve his stupid little head yet deeper into the sand whilst he continues to delve his thumb yet deeper into his ass?
 
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.
Alternatively we can hope that his ban holds up and Levy is forced to let him go.

Does mean that Levy can fuck up the search for a replacement DOF though.
 
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The more I read and look into things, Rodgers actually makes sense lol.

He's very good at setting foundations for possession and attacking football. He's adaptable with his tactics too I think he utilises his squad to suit them rather than the other way around.

He has gone to clubs before who played shit football and got a tune out of them.

He's experienced in premier league. Can handle Egos. Apparently decent man manager according to Stevie G.

Has won Silverware.

And best of all he's got Leicester in a relegation scrap.
Jokes aside he's lost a lot of players. The likes of Maguire, chilwell and fofana at the back Pereira hasn't been the same after his injury. Vardy and Evans have had age catch up with them. Teilemans is off and the new signings haven't worked out.

He done most of his good work by getting the best out of what he had, improving the likes of Barnes soyunuci maddison ndidi and others . He never had Mahrez or kante to call upon. And got them playing their best ever football.

Obviously Leicester's poor season reflects badly on him too but he's definitely not a bad option in my opinion and I think if the top choices don't come because they don't want it. Rodgers can definitely lay some foundations at spurs and get us playing some decent football.
 
Think Fonseca was the guy we where going to appoint then Paratici came in and stopped it and went for Gattuso instead. Might be wrong but that was what I remember for reported at the time.
Exactly right according to Fonseca. Can we get Fabio "I love Nuno and negative football" Paratici out of our club, please. Really don't want anywhere near our manager search.

Paulo Fonseca says Tottenham's Fabio Paratici pulled out of deal to appoint him over his attacking football​


Quotes made by Fonseca:

"The agreement was done. We were planning the pre-season and Tottenham wanted an offensive coach. It wasn't announced but we planned pre-season players. I have some principles. I wanted to be coach of the great teams but I want the right project and a club where the people believe in my ideas, my way to play, and this didn't happen with the managing director [Paratici]. It's what the chairman (Daniel Levy) and the sporting director (Steve Hitchen) asked for: to build a team who can play attractive and offensive football and I was ready for that. I cannot be a different way. All my teams will have these intentions. Against the biggest teams, I'm not sending out my teams to defend near their own box."
 
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.
They all came in together, Levy hired Arnesen as DoF, then hired Santini with no consideration for his new DoFs opinion, Jol was apparently the Manager Arnesen wanted and was brought in as AM, and I guess the behind the scenes rumours were that both Jol/Arnesen were quite happy to see Santini flounce in short order...

So yeah, typical Levy, typical Spurs.
 
Exactly right according to Fonseca. Can we get Fabio "I love Nuno and negative football" Paratici out of our club, please. Really don't want anywhere near our manager search.

Paulo Fonseca says Tottenham's Fabio Paratici pulled out of deal to appoint him over his attacking football​


Quotes made by Fonseca:

"The agreement was done. We were planning the pre-season and Tottenham wanted an offensive coach. It wasn't announced but we planned pre-season players. I have some principles. I wanted to be coach of the great teams but I want the right project and a club where the people believe in my ideas, my way to play, and this didn't happen with the managing director [Paratici]. It's what the chairman (Daniel Levy) and the sporting director (Steve Hitchen) asked for: to build a team who can play attractive and offensive football and I was ready for that. I cannot be a different way. All my teams will have these intentions. Against the biggest teams, I'm not sending out my teams to defend near their own box."
Didn’t this collapse because he had some tax evasion hanging over him?

This article looks like PR saving Fonseca more than it’s based in the reality of the situation
 
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
Because Levy is a fucking idiot and as soon as a Manager isn't working out he does away with the whole lot and starts afresh, completely negating the point of having a DoF to assure continuity in the first place...

Comolli sacked with Ramos, Baldini gone with AVB, he seems to view DoF and Manager as a package deal, until the DoF is a fucking crook of course, then they're bulletproof...
 
The more I read and look into things, Rodgers actually makes sense lol.

He's very good at setting foundations for possession and attacking football. He's adaptable with his tactics too I think he utilises his squad to suit them rather than the other way around.

He has gone to clubs before who played shit football and got a tune out of them.

He's experienced in premier league. Can handle Egos. Apparently decent man manager according to Stevie G.

Has won Silverware.

And best of all he's got Leicester in a relegation scrap.
Jokes aside he's lost a lot of players. The likes of Maguire, chilwell and fofana at the back Pereira hasn't been the same after his injury. Vardy and Evans have had age catch up with them. Teilemans is off and the new signings haven't worked out.

He done most of his good work by getting the best out of what he had, improving the likes of Barnes soyunuci maddison ndidi and others . He never had Mahrez or kante to call upon. And got them playing their best ever football.

Obviously Leicester's poor season reflects badly on him too but he's definitely not a bad option in my opinion and I think if the top choices don't come because they don't want it. Rodgers can definitely lay some foundations at spurs and get us playing some decent football.
Please No, People need to move away from Rodgers the man is 100% ego and likes to get his own way on recruitment and sacked a very good recruitment team for his personal recruitment team.

Also most Spurs fans really dislike him.
 
Exactly right according to Fonseca. Can we get Fabio "I love Nuno and negative football" Paratici out of our club, please. Really don't want anywhere near our manager search.

Paulo Fonseca says Tottenham's Fabio Paratici pulled out of deal to appoint him over his attacking football​


Quotes made by Fonseca:

"The agreement was done. We were planning the pre-season and Tottenham wanted an offensive coach. It wasn't announced but we planned pre-season players. I have some principles. I wanted to be coach of the great teams but I want the right project and a club where the people believe in my ideas, my way to play, and this didn't happen with the managing director [Paratici]. It's what the chairman (Daniel Levy) and the sporting director (Steve Hitchen) asked for: to build a team who can play attractive and offensive football and I was ready for that. I cannot be a different way. All my teams will have these intentions. Against the biggest teams, I'm not sending out my teams to defend near their own box."
Fuck me, I'd happily finish 8th with a guy like this in charge over the shite we've watched since Poch went.
 
Exactly right according to Fonseca. Can we get Fabio "I love Nuno and negative football" Paratici out of our club, please. Really don't want anywhere near our manager search.

Paulo Fonseca says Tottenham's Fabio Paratici pulled out of deal to appoint him over his attacking football​


Quotes made by Fonseca:

"The agreement was done. We were planning the pre-season and Tottenham wanted an offensive coach. It wasn't announced but we planned pre-season players. I have some principles. I wanted to be coach of the great teams but I want the right project and a club where the people believe in my ideas, my way to play, and this didn't happen with the managing director [Paratici]. It's what the chairman (Daniel Levy) and the sporting director (Steve Hitchen) asked for: to build a team who can play attractive and offensive football and I was ready for that. I cannot be a different way. All my teams will have these intentions. Against the biggest teams, I'm not sending out my teams to defend near their own box."

I think Paratici has done a great job getting players but my god his lack of vision is astonishing for someone of his position. Gattuso, Nuno and then someone really different like Luis Enrique.

Weird thing is we have signed Porro, Royal, Udogie, Kulusevski, Bentancur, Richarlison, Bissouma. Players who you would think would suit a hard press attacking manager yet the man doing it wants old fashioned defensive football.

The whole point of a DoF is to bring a clear vision from top to bottom of how things should work, something Levy never was capable of and we hire a DoF who has no vision. Really really weird. I just hope Scott Munn gets a DoF of the highest calibre who has a long term plan and wants to play the right way.
 
Think Fonseca was the guy we where going to appoint then Paratici came in and stopped it and went for Gattuso instead. Might be wrong but that was what I remember for reported at the time.
Yes, I also recall there was something about a situation that Fonseca would need to pay a large some of tax for some reason, and he wanted Spurs to cover that amount, IIRC.
 
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