It's slim pickings for top managers in England. Both of those jobs are a dog's breakfast.Tottenham out to hijack Chelsea's move for Luis Enrique with talks planned
We're about to hijack, guys
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He adapts his style to the strengths in his team.
When he took over Barcelona was just as Xavi and Iniesta started to get old. So he moved on from a style that relied too much on them and instead relied on his attacking line. And the midfield was instead used for longball playmaking and pressing.
For Spain he has lacked a prime striker, so he has focused on retaining possession instead.
Being adaptable is a bonus in my book. Not sure if Enrique would work out but that is a point in his favour.
I find it impossible to really think about managers without knowing first whether Paratici will remain in charge and thus holding an influence over our squad composition and tactics and secondly whether Kane will be on the team.
The basic building blocks of what we'd be asking the manager to do are totally unclear at this point.
Maybe we'll be closer to clarity by the end of this week with the Paratici hearing?
Enrique loves a 4-3-3 so at least we will see the last of the dreaded 5 at the back.
Kane is a big x factor. A big reason for us going for big names is most likely to entice Kane in to staying. It all becomes a spiral in the end.
LET'S START THE MONITORING!!!Tottenham out to hijack Chelsea's move for Luis Enrique with talks planned
We're about to hijack, guys
The club is either being really smart or really stupid.
Stupid: want Luis Enrique cos he is a big name even though he needs a brand of players Levy will never buy and will almost certainly see us back here in 18 months.
Smart: knows Boehy is massive FOMO like with Raphinha or Mudryk. Putting out messages that Spurs desperately want Luis Enrique to force Boehy to hijack thus leaving Nagelsmann the real target and manager is who suited to this type of situation available.
Stupid: want Luis Enrique cos he is a big name even though he needs a brand of players Levy will never buy and will almost certainly see us back here in 18 months.
Smart: knows Boehy is massive FOMO like with Raphinha or Mudryk. Putting out messages that Spurs desperately want Luis Enrique to force Boehy to hijack thus leaving Nagelsmann the real target and manager is who suited to this type of situation available.
So in his entire resume as a coach you have success at Porto and then doing OK at Zenit. It's hardly impressive reading.
There were similarities in terms of high line/preferring possession/physical midfielders but the difference in levels of intensity was staggering, and that's was the primary strength of Pochettino's teams, not keeping the ball.
Yeah, ok but so what? We've had shit coaches lately so AVB was good? Any old coach can get a team to keep the ball in passive areas, it's not a flex.
OK but we never moved the opposition around under AVB because we moved the ball round incredibly slowly. And Guardiola teams are about patience but then exploding in the right areas. AVB's Spurs were about passing in areas of little danger and then hoping Bale picks out the top corner.
Sherwood was fucking dreadful and an inept moron, but his PPG was still higher, because the squad was sick of AVB ball as much as the fans were. He was a manager who relied purely on having the best player in the league. It shocks me you're not able to see that. Nothing about the way we played under him gave the fans reason to be patient.
7th in the league, smashed 6-0 by City, 5-0 by Liverpool ... fucking hell he was garbage. But we kept the ball so he was progressive & the fans were impatient? Nah, not in a million years. Look at his career post-Spurs and tell me he's not been shown up as a mid-tier coach.
1000%
It's time for that cycle to end.
Spurs need to do what's best for Spurs, and if that makes Kane want the exit door, I don't blame him a bit, get every penny we can salvage.
The important thing is we clear this up quickly with clarity and decisiveness.
A meh appointment?? Who the fuck are we that we can say that about Enrique. Some of the names getting banded about fill me with dread. Potter is meh,Rodgers is meh,slot is meh. Every single fan would get behind him and let him do his thing. The difference with him to Nuno,Jose and Conte is that he have us keep the ball for fun and with Kane we’d have an end product. Spain were one of the best teams at the World Cup but at the end of the day you are only as good as your strikers. The only reason we are not in the bottom half is because of Kane. If our other strikers had stepped up this season we’d be comfortably sitting third no matter how bad the rest of the team are.
The thing about AVB is that he's managed to become unpopular with seemingly all relevant constituencies at every club he's ever been at almost immediately.
Seemed a pleasant enough fella in public, but obviously he's not very good at working with others, thus why he's 45 and over two years without a club despite a superficially impressive resume.
AVB’s football was fucking dreadful. I remember being at a EL night game and watching the stars along with half of the rest of the stadium, it could send you too sleep. Its sleep music in football form.
Going from fast paced Redknapp football to AVB was like skydiving into a maths lesson.
Going from fast paced Redknapp football to AVB was like skydiving into a maths lesson.
But there are posters on here that says we can't play 4 at the back, that it would be even worse with one donkey less!
LET'S START THE MONITORING!!!
BY GOD MAN DO NOT RUSH THESE THINGS.
Let's start with considering
Yeah, he seems to me a guy who has a very strong grasp on tactics and is very intelligent, but in terms of coaching I don't see the spark. Pochettino is probably less tactically inclined but he has said spark, he inspires passion from his players.
We were a dead fish in AVB's second season. The game that got him sacked (5-0 vs Liverpool) we had zero shots on target, at home. Why would supporters be patient with that in a managers second season? He lost Bale and that was it. He fucking sucked.
Nagelsmann and Enrique are big names for sure.Are we going for big names??
Tottenham out to hijack Chelsea's move for Luis Enrique with talks planned
We're about to hijack, guys
If there's anything to the story from last week that he wanted to take over at chavs now, I really, really, really hope this is a story that someone from our camp has planted. To get them to force forward their move for Luis Enrique, and leave us with a clear path to Nagelsmann.
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