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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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Lewis Hamilton for me. I know he's not said he's retiring and he's a gooner, but the soccer thing is dead anyway and his karting background will be invaluable, if he becomes available.
 
Luís Enrique would be such a fucking meh appointment, I really don’t see him being given much time at all by the fans and he will need it with a system completely different to the one we currently play.
Exactly his system is more of a slow passing gane. We need more pace and pressing. He could score a goal v morroco in 120 mins in WC. So to me shows he possibly doesn’t know how to change to diff tactics?
 
Reckon we end up with Enrique. One of the worst possible current candidates to tie off Levy's coup de turd to the Tottenham faithful. To Dare is to Doo-Doo. Announcing Eric as new Club Craptain.
 
We should have hired him the week after Conte went (January would have been preferable). We should have also binned Paratici and bought in Ramon Planes as DoF, someone that knows and obviously gets on with Poch. We should have then given them all 4 year contracts, told them they'll be left alone to get on with it, that theyd be backed and not to worry if they finish mid table next season as long as there are some green shoots.
Bloody spot on! It’s so obvious to us Min ions yet to people being paid millions who probably don’t have the same passion for the football team as we do can’t figure it out.
The soec is a dynamic manager , I’m who utilises youth, builds a string team ethic, sets the team to go out and win babes and plays on the front foot. Now that iis saying we need to play pretty patterns bcos that ain’t never gonna happen. Hence why Enrique is also unsuited. It has to be a poch JN or slot type of coach.
 
Just not true. We were superb in certain games against them, the Chelsea and Woolwich ones in 09/10 we absolutely dominated. Liverpool in 11/12 we were all over them and won 4-0. Man City away when we got champions league, all front foot. Certainly better than what preceded and what followed him. It was a very enjoyable 3.5 seasons.

I haven't gone back to his first two seasons (where the record I think might have been marginally better but his last two seasons it was fucking awful, he took 6/24 points in both seasons (including a 5-2 hammering by Arse).

Redknapp was a blagger. It was lottery football. Good against shit teams, generally bad against the top teams. He had some great players at his disposal (King, Gallas, Walker, Modric, Parker, Palacios, Adebayor, VDV, Bale) all he got was one 4th and he fucked a ten goal lead to lose CL to Arse.

He talked utter bollocks. No serious club would have gone near him.
 
So in his entire resume as a coach you have success at Porto and then doing OK at Zenit. It's hardly impressive reading.

Won the league and Europa League at Porto, League, Cup and Super Cup at Zenit.

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.

You are just wrong. So many people seem to have retro remembered every game of Pochettino like this. It very much wasn't. Despite having much better squad than AVB had, so many of Pochettino's games were identical in nature to AVB's, where we struggled to move the ball quickly and to break down passive teams. The football in the last two seasons was fucking dire, worse than anything AVB served up. To be fair by then we had donkey's like Sissoko in midfield, but similar personnel issues hindered AVB too.

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.

Well our last three coaches couldn't do it, so...

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.

So similar then. Patience, then explosive player produces. I mean Guardiola is a genius, I'm not the one who was comparing them, you did, but let's be fair, AVB had nowhere near the squad Guardiola did when he was at Spurs, he was stripped of Modric, VDV, Bale. In leagues where he did have relative strong squads he won titles, in Portugal he set a record for goals scored and won the Europa too.

Sherwood was fucking dreadful and an inept moron, but his PPG was still higher, because the squad was sick of AVB

No, his PPG was higher because he had 3 months, if we'd let the fuckwit loose any longer that PPG would have nosedived.

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.


What's it going to take to keep the punters happy? Dominating the ball - not enough. Decent PPG (in context of team) - not enough (let's face it Conte's PPG is decent in context).

So we've got to find a coach who will play the entire game in the opposite third, press for 90 minutes, and win most games?

Ignore the AVB and Ramos references if you like, my point is, I believe there are people on here who are genuine when they say they can buy into a process/project. I can. But I don't believe everyone who says it. And I know a big chunk of fans in general won't.
 
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.
It doesn't matter what you tell the players. They do what you practice. If you only practice low defence, parking the bus-football, that is what the players naturally will do. And honestly that's the football the players have practiced under Mourinho, Nuno and Conte.
 
It doesn't matter what you tell the players. They do what you practice. If you only practice low defence, parking the bus-football, that is what the players naturally will do. And honestly that's the football the players have practiced under Mourinho, Nuno and Conte.
agree with this, the other thing is as a player when you are looking for a player to create a change we only have Kane, under Poch we had Eriksen & Kane,
 
I was just about to say this.

If Nagelsmann goes to Chelsea, I am quite worried we will be heading towards Enrique.
It just seems too predictable. We've been in this Top Tier Manager holding pattern since Poch left (Nuno aside - an expensive interim) when what the team (and manager) have desperately needed the whole time is the clear-out that Poch referred to before he left. To their credit, Conte and Mourinho both managed to get a tune out of them for a few months before it all fell apart.

I'm sick to death of Levy papering over that gaping hole with expensive bandaids, at odds with the playing style and philosophy that endears so many of us to the club. Is glory just about the top 4 financial trophy?
 
think only hope we can have is we drop out of top 7 (not getting top 4 ) and new manager will have midweek training time with the players
 


Just a reminder of what was. Forgot how much movement there was from Son, Dele, Kane and Erikson when we had the ball in the final third. Crisp quick passing and players making runs to open up chances.

When the counter-attack isn’t on - Conte ball is SO STALE - No movement - Just a couple of guys standing in or around the box waiting for a speculative crosses from the wingbacks. Lots of goals off set pieces though … especially corners this season so that’s a plus - Not very entertaining however.

I’d really like Poch back with a mandate to be ruthless in clearing out the deadwood from the squad.
 
with Poch think we need young fit players and a couple of creative players, yes we have a group of young players (many on loan) but no eriksen & maybe no Kane
think whoever comes in its got to be lots of second 11 players out and those first 11 players being subs
 
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