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Grandad Holy Spirit it is, then.
Will hold onto his overhaul and promotion of Wolves for some hope, but it's pretty underwhelming.
Will hold onto his overhaul and promotion of Wolves for some hope, but it's pretty underwhelming.
Paratici doesnt officially start work until tomorrow, and per reports has only just got into the country - regardless of manager situation Id expect fair movement on players from here on anyway.
Perhaps pending the Euros too.
Basically a combination of what we were told by Valencia and Porto fans, and what I've experienced during his tenure here.
At Porto, he didn't do too badly, but failing to win the league and any cups saw him sacked. He approached games with a Defensive mindset and struggled to break down teams that defended.
Same as at Valencia, when he left there he hadn't lost many games, he just drew too many.
You can split his tenure into three parts, championship and pre Wembley defeat to Watford and post Wembley defeat.
Championship we were too good. We had signed players from top sides in Europe and waltzed it. We were comfortable BUT we didn't turn teams over. We went 1 or 2 up and stepped off the gas and controlled games. But we could afford to do this because the skill gap was so wide.
Pre-wembley:
We pressed teams and counter attacked to perfection with pace. Obviously as a new team to the league, teams saw us as vulnerable and tried to attack and we exploited it, this was some of the better football we played and we became known for this swashbuckling counter attacking style.
When teams didn't attack and sat back, we didn't have the ability to break them down like we did in the championship. We lost twice to Huddersfield who finished on 16 pts, conceded 76 goals, and only won 3 times.
Wembley:
Raced into a 2-0 lead then sat back. Conceded a first, Nuno made subs to defend lead rather than remain a threat on the counter. Lost our attacking threat, lost 3-2. This marked the change.
Post Wembley:
Refused to commit men forward, at all. We lost all style, counter attacks went out the window, Neves' role changed from being an orchestrator a la Pirlo, into basically babysitting Conor Coady for 90 minutes and us playing with a back 6.
Intent from set pieces dried up.
Same squad selections week in week out. Our only tactic was give it to Adama. Every match was groundhog day, strikers were instructed to come back and defend, so when we did break through the lines with Adama, we had nobody in the box to cross to.
I maintain that last two seasons we did not have any attacking training at all, there was zero cohesion or pattern to attacks, it relied on individual brilliance from Adama and Neto. We focused on nullifying the opposition and their tactics. It was very spurs/late united Mourinhoesque.
If you get the best out of Nuno:
Fast counter attacks, overlapping fullbacks (he did invert Doherty but that's because Doherty is a shithead who spent most of his days stood on the penalty spot to stat pad his FPL while Moutinho or Dendoncker covered the RB spot) and inside forwards running at centre backs. Long raking balls from midfielders switching the play.
This style won't work for Spurs as the onus is on them to break down teams, rather than rely solely on the counter attack. Which is why I'm strongly of the belief it won't end well.
Nuno is a good guy who builds a rapport with the fans, but this is a double edged sword, as his nice persona to the fans gives him "credit in the bank" and saves him from being asked the tough questions.
Don’t worry we are used to it with AVB and Jose. If a boring manager is around Levy will ignore our history of attacking football and go with the dinosaur.
Always remember: this is what Levy really thinks of you.
This is the sewer level of regard he has for you.
He'll abuse and exploit your love for the club and serve you a plate of steaming hot turds garnished with snot, with a smile on his face.
And the submissive, masochistic hordes will tuck in and say, "... hey, it's not that bad, actually... mmmm... "
This is the sewer level of regard he has for you.
He'll abuse and exploit your love for the club and serve you a plate of steaming hot turds garnished with snot, with a smile on his face.
And the submissive, masochistic hordes will tuck in and say, "... hey, it's not that bad, actually... mmmm... "
And he was pretty much a back up goalie his whole career. Hopefully that gave him lots of time to observe the coaches and managers
If there is no compensation involved he's all over it, it doesn't matter about style then. 4 of our last 5 managers were free to appoint. What a way to run a supposed top level football club.
I don’t think this time. If you don’t offer success then you must offer a decent style of football. We all had all lowered our expectations, I wanted Ten Hag, would have taken Potter or at worst even Eddie Howe. The Jose experience of utter wank football meant we all just wanted excitement, seems like that has been pissed in the wind.
I am not sure how anyone can make a defence of the chairman anymore, even ‘’remember the 90’s’’ doesn’t work as a number of 90’s seasons where a lot better than the last season we just had.
Because he's not Mason
Penny wise pound foolish. After 20 years he still hasn’t made the connection between getting a decent quality of player/manager and improving the asset worth of the club by increasing the value of the squad overall and the money from the CL football and sponsorship brings. It’s all short term tactics and opportunism with little overarching vision.
Ironically he runs the bussiness side very strategically, the stadium, the NFL. All of that is done with a thoughtful long term view but that is never actually applied to the team.
Bunch of drama queens on here. This is not Jose 2.0.
We will be fine and finish 5th/6th.
We need a couple years to weed out the shit squad players and steady the ship and then we can sack Nuno off for whatever "superstar" manager is around at the time. (Levy is probably waiting for the first chance to get Poch back in anyway).
Get Nuno in and let Patrici get to work rebuilding this squad as that is far and away the priority right now.
We will be fine and finish 5th/6th.
We need a couple years to weed out the shit squad players and steady the ship and then we can sack Nuno off for whatever "superstar" manager is around at the time. (Levy is probably waiting for the first chance to get Poch back in anyway).
Get Nuno in and let Patrici get to work rebuilding this squad as that is far and away the priority right now.
