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Couldn't agree more Belgium with DeBryune and hazard in their side had one shot on goal and zero corners.
And don't get me started on that useless cunt Southgate.
The only manager at the Euros who, if we were waiting for them, would satisfy me is Mancini.
I don't see many Managers at the tournament that would redeem this.
It may provide an excuse, but few of them are good enough to justify it (Martinez, Southgate etc) and those that are there is no chance of happening (Mancini, and even he would've been a meh choice at the beginning of this farce imo).
Our manager is coming from the Euros. Just waiting to hear who. Only real objection I have is to Southgate. The rest I have reached a point, I just want to get over it. We clearly won't be making huge transfers in or out, so any manager coming in will have to get the buy in of 'The Boys Club' first.
Gone are the days of managing your country being the pinnacle of a coaching career, now it's the job for those easing into retirement or not good enough at club level.
Completely agree. The potential from the stock at the Euros is chilling. Martinez I don’t see how it’s him when he just extended his contract to 2022. Southgate is simply not what we need. Mankini is a shrug. Desperate days.
That's Levy's genius in play, getting us to accept mediocrity because the alternatives were worse.
Like a leper offering you a fuck, then realising that they are the last person available so you say "why not".
I understand going for Conte even though he went against what we heard they were looking for because he is the level of manager that you change your approach to get, but outside of that it makes no sense to flip and flop so much between the types of managers we have been linked to.
Not that we had much hope for transfers but this to me signals that once again we are likely to make deals based on the individual deal rather than with an overall view of building a team that works together or makes sense for what the manager spent.
We can argue about the quality of Tanguy, GLC and Sess but what is not debatable was how bad a fit they were for Jose who we brought in 2 months later. I don't see the point of targeting players now if we are willing to go from ETH to Conte to Fonseca to Gattuso to Nuno. We are not targeting the level of player that works in any system. Bringing in Aarons for a 3 at the back WB system is dumb, likewise bringing in Lamptey to play in a back 4 make no sense.
I know people want us to wait for a manager before making transfers but if we have an idea of the style we want to play at least we can start targeting players to fit that style. What we are doing now will get us mediocre players in bad fits which we have already seen does not work.
Even if we get Mancini, who is the only quality manager from the Euros, I don't think it redeems anything because it will clearly have been a reactionary move done to try and salvage something but still a move made too late and with no thinking to how it fits with the overall plan of the club.
If it isn't Mancini then it is likely a shit hire as there is nobody else worth hiring from the Euros.
Unless its to himself
Agree. Could it be that one of the Euro managers is taking over another club and we are getting their manager ? Extreme example; Deschamps to PSG. Poch to Everton. Duncan Ferguson to us ?
Listen, Levy/ENIC are a cancer to our club and need to leave, but can we get a little perspective about what it going on please...
The media get wind of contact and then run away with the story. If nothing happens for a few days (IE, they haven't heard anything) they move on to the line "The deal is imminent"
After a few more days they click the next copy/paste story "Move collapses"
We don't know if anyone has turned us down. We don't know if we had anyone chomping at the bit but knocked them back.
For all we know, we've asked 6 or 7 people if they want to talk. Maybe some said no. Maybe some said yes. Maybe that's all that has happened.
Maybe the above isn't acceptable either but I'd say it's more likely than the ott nonsense we're seeing.
The media get wind of contact and then run away with the story. If nothing happens for a few days (IE, they haven't heard anything) they move on to the line "The deal is imminent"
After a few more days they click the next copy/paste story "Move collapses"
We don't know if anyone has turned us down. We don't know if we had anyone chomping at the bit but knocked them back.
For all we know, we've asked 6 or 7 people if they want to talk. Maybe some said no. Maybe some said yes. Maybe that's all that has happened.
Maybe the above isn't acceptable either but I'd say it's more likely than the ott nonsense we're seeing.
Who knows?
Shamima Begum Rejects Spurs Manager Role
By Huw Jerkokinmaibum
Times Online
July 2026
Tottenham Hotspur’s search for a new manager following the sacking of Jose Mourinho more than 5 years’ ago has finally ended after literally the last person on Planet Earth asked to apply for the role, terrorist-loving Shamima Begum, confirmed to reporters: “nah mate you’re alright I’d rather stay in me camp innit”.
Although the role would have finally enabled the Bomber Bride to return to the UK it is believed that the prospect of working with Daniel Levy and captain Mousa Sissoko on Spurs’ League Two promotion charge was not enough to entice the Murderous Maid back from her living hell in a refugee camp in Syria.
“I may be surrounded by death, misery and the bleakness of my future, but the thought of having to have awkward breakfasts every morning with that bald twat eulogising over the supposed brilliance of Harry Winks is just too much to even consider.”
Daniel Levy insists that Tottenham will not be rushed into an appointment stating that the search so far “has only looked at candidates on Planet Earth” whilst also claiming that Spurs are “a club with galactic ambitions”.
Tottenham start their campaign away to Sutton United on Friday night, available on PPV for £49.99 on WanksportsHD.
By Huw Jerkokinmaibum
Times Online
July 2026
Tottenham Hotspur’s search for a new manager following the sacking of Jose Mourinho more than 5 years’ ago has finally ended after literally the last person on Planet Earth asked to apply for the role, terrorist-loving Shamima Begum, confirmed to reporters: “nah mate you’re alright I’d rather stay in me camp innit”.
Although the role would have finally enabled the Bomber Bride to return to the UK it is believed that the prospect of working with Daniel Levy and captain Mousa Sissoko on Spurs’ League Two promotion charge was not enough to entice the Murderous Maid back from her living hell in a refugee camp in Syria.
“I may be surrounded by death, misery and the bleakness of my future, but the thought of having to have awkward breakfasts every morning with that bald twat eulogising over the supposed brilliance of Harry Winks is just too much to even consider.”
Daniel Levy insists that Tottenham will not be rushed into an appointment stating that the search so far “has only looked at candidates on Planet Earth” whilst also claiming that Spurs are “a club with galactic ambitions”.
Tottenham start their campaign away to Sutton United on Friday night, available on PPV for £49.99 on WanksportsHD.
The reliable guys are not making stuff up, it makes no sense for them to do so they gain nothing and risk everything.
I don't get why there are so many people so desperate to make it as though reliable sources are lying and that Levy is handling this well, when every piece of evidence we have goes against that.
It's still not particularity clear, but c'est la vie.... Crack on, fella.