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Son Spurs said:
The football is so bad that even a 5-1 win was boring! Look at us when we don't have the ball, we don't press, we don't drop back, there is no movement off the ball. The lack of energy, pace and most importantly movement is as bad as it was in 2013 under AVB but at least he tried to play a high line and dominate possession against lesser teams.

His situation is completely different to when Poch first came in because there was a football philosophy we were willing to back and he was weeding out the lazy players. Alot of key players bought into Pochettinos philosophy straight away, remember Lloris signed a 5 year contract and said in the interview it was because of the talks he had with Poch.

A similar project right now would be just the tonic for our current situation. Bring in a manager with an attacking style, who puts importance on pressing high, quick transitions and keeping the ball on the ground. Give him a 5 year contract like we did with Poch and tell the squad that we are backing his vision and if they don't like it they can leave. This "head coach" experiment has never served us well in the past, we've enjoyed most our success when we get a manager in to shape the squad as he likes and get rid of the players who don't fit his style.
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Poch was a head coach to begin with. Levy the genius chased Paul Mitchell away.
 
Tomo said:
I agree with that but a 5 year deal needs to be for a coach that has significant ability, a Potter or Ten Hag, not sure I would give a 5 year deal to Eddie Howe even though his football would be better.
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I wouldn't give a 5 year deal to any coach. It's too long a commitment. You never know when a manager, good or bad, burns out or something goes wrong. A 3 year contract with an option for a fourth year is a reasonable starting contract that can then be negotiated as needed.
 
Tomo said:
I agree with that but a 5 year deal needs to be for a coach that has significant ability, a Potter or Ten Hag, not sure I would give a 5 year deal to Eddie Howe even though his football would be better.
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Yeah absolutely, I'm willing to bet that is the reason Potter turned us down in the Summer. There's no way he would stay at Brighton over us unless we were only offering a short term deal where he can't reshape the squad if it's underperforming. Even though they are a smaller club than us, Brighton are backing his vision and we'll have to do the same if we're gonna get anyone good enough.
 
ShutUpPatrik said:
I wouldn't give a 5 year deal to any coach. It's too long a commitment. You never know when a manager, good or bad, burns out or something goes wrong. A 3 year contract with an option for a fourth year is a reasonable starting contract that can then be negotiated as needed.
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The 5 year contract we gave Poch was essential to what he built. Imagine if we gave him a shorter deal with the remit of getting the best out of our international "superstars" like Paulinho, Capoue, Soldado and Chiriches. Its kind of a similar situation to where we are now only you can replace those players with Dele, Ndombele, Bergwijn and Sanchez. We can't keep hopping from manager to manager, we need someone to set a standard and have the authority over the squad to let them know that if they underperform they are out, regardless of name and stature.
 
ShutUpPatrik said:
I wouldn't give a 5 year deal to any coach. It's too long a commitment. You never know when a manager, good or bad, burns out or something goes wrong. A 3 year contract with an option for a fourth year is a reasonable starting contract that can then be negotiated as needed.
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Why? So you wouldn’t give Conte five years if he demanded it?

A few extra years is immaterial financially when you think about how much influence a single person has on such a large business. It’s the equivalent of a bang average player (2 years x £10M per year)
 
Lickher said:
does it feel like we’re actually biding our time until Poch wins a league or Champions league title and wants to come back home
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I get the feeling that may be the case which makes our decisions over the Summer even more baffling. If our long term goal is Poch then why do we have Nuno coaching us to play long ball? Why not do what City did while waiting on Pep and try to get some foundations in while we wait? Someone like Quique Setien on a short term deal.
 
Son Spurs said:
I get the feeling that may be the case which makes our decisions over the Summer even more baffling. If our long term goal is Poch then why do we have Nuno coaching us to play long ball? Why not do what City did while waiting on Pep and try to get some foundations in while we wait? Someone like Quique Setien on a short term deal.
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I’m surprised that you are surprised at Spurs making baffling decisions

I would be surprised if we made a sensible decision
 
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