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Management Poll: Who do you want most as our next manager?

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Who would be your first choice?

  • Graham Potter

  • Scott Parker

  • Ten Hag

  • Rafa Benitez

  • None of the above - comment below

  • *Marcelo Bielsa

  • *Ralf Rangnick

  • *Ralph Hasenhüttl

  • *Steven Gerrard

  • *Julen Lopetegui

  • *Christophe Galtier

  • *Marcelo Gallardo

  • *Oliver Glasner

  • *Ryan Mason

  • *Maurizio Sarri

  • *Gian Piero Gasperini

  • *Mauricio Pochettino

  • *Antonio Conte

  • *Eddie Howe

  • *Gareth Southgate

  • *Nuno Espirito Santo

  • *Paulo Fonseca

  • *Gennaro Gattuso

  • *Ernesto Valverde

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ShutUpPatrik said:
Poch did not speak a word of English when he took over Southampton. and could barely make himself understood when he took over us.

Bielsea didn't start learning English until he took over Leeds as well.
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And no big English club would have gone near Poch before he went to Southamption. In his time there he proved he could adapt to English football, pick up the language and find a way to communicate effectively. But he's probably in the minority of coaches that have come to England without much experience of the language or the football and been successful. The vast majority aren't. You could probably name half a dozen examples from Watford alone.
 
I have gone back and forth on a lot of managers but Potter remains the favorite in my mind. He's a little bit of a gamble but he plays an attacking style and most importantly, he won't leave us the second he has a good season like some big games might.

The big names on the list will go right to a bigger club the second they have a good season with us.
 
ShutUpPatrik said:
Ajax heard that we were interested and they activated their extension clause.

Not much harder than that.
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It'd be a very weird thing if our managerial search brought us back to him and we just thought fuck it, let's pay to get him. Improbable but not impossible, surely?

Though if it was an extension clause activation Ten Hag wasn't completely happy about, the photos with glasses of champagne would have been a bit much by their social media team.
 
anti-vaxxer said:
Unfortunately, the RB position has been a curse for us in recent years:

Walker - probably our best but prone to silly mistakes
Naughton - sadly not good enough
Walker-Peters - still think he should have been given more time, and although I don't think he'd ever be a starter for a top 4 team, a decent back-up
Trippier - had an absolutely abysmal final season, which people seem to forget. Just off the top of my head:
> shambolic OG at Stamford Bridge,
> at fault for City's first and third goals in the CL QF (1st - let Sterling cut inside, 3rd - let the ball go across him, seemingly unaware Sterling was behind him),
> at fault for Ajax's goal at home (played everyone onside),
> partially at fault for Ajax's second goal away (looked for a foul from the ref instead of playing on).
I wouldn't have sold him, but he was simply not good enough in 2018-19.
Aurier - braindead fucking dick who has cost us more times than I care to remember. Off the top of my head:
> 0-3 up v West Ham (a) (2018). He gets a straight read in the 60-somthingth minute for a pointless dangerous tackle. We end up holding on to a 2-3 win
> 2-1 down v Juve (a) (2018), and he lunges in to concede a penalty just after we'd got back into the game. Luckily for us, Higuain missed.
> 0-2 v Chelsea (a) (2019). He gives away an unnecessary corner (could have headed it anyway) and is then asleep as it is taken quickly. Willian scores
> 2-0 v City (h) (2020). Gives away a brainless penalty. Luckily Lloris saves it.
> 3-3 v West Ham (h). Gave away the FK that lead to their 3rd goal.
> 0-2 v Leicester (h) (2020). Gives away a brainless penalty just before HT.
> 1-0 v City (n). Gives away a needless FK whence they score.
Doherty - another donkey. No pace, no skill, no intelligence. Dogshit player.
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Bring back Alan Hutton!
 
I am getting quite bored with all these names.

Clearly the best choice is the sexiest man alive.

Potter.

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Bill Madrid said:
In that case he'll be fine ordering a meal in restaurant, asking for and understanding directions, talking about daily routines and so forth but not an awful lot more
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Levy won’t care if he speaks English as he won’t listen to him anyway. As long as he understands enough English to grasp the phrase “ No , but here is a cheaper option in a different position” him and Daniel will be fine
 
Now Brighton are virtually safe I doubt very much Potter would even want to come to Spurs , I'm not sure the managers job here will be seen as a step up for Potter knowing full well the type of chairman we have compared to Brighton .

Levy has destroyed any good name the club ever had and Tony Bloom will fight tooth and nail to keep Potter at Brighton , if it turns into a poker game there's only 1 winner .

I think the damage caused will take years to get over and the club will have to take a chance on a unknown manager or one off the magic managerial roundabout.
 
MemphisWill said:
The entire footballing operation needs to be rebuilt and I think Rangnick understands where that side of the game is moving. For that reason I think he's target #1. I prefer, like you, him as a DoF with a progressive manager like Potter...but if he says he wants to manage as well I think I'd take it, because we need the overhaul of the whole system badly.
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If I was Ragnick - would never want to work with the bald snake - he's made himself a name as possibly the worst football CEO rn
 
Arch said:
Now Brighton are virtually safe I doubt very much Potter would even want to come to Spurs , I'm not sure the managers job here will be seen as a step up for Potter knowing full well the type of chairman we have compared to Brighton .
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Regardless of how awkward Levy can be, we would be a MASSIVE step up from Brighton. 60,000+ stadium? European football almost every season, challenging for CL most seasons? Fantastic youth academy? Much bigger budgets to deal with? Working with the greatest all round English striker in modern times?

Potter might well be thinking that at some stage a really big PL club will come calling. Us and the Goons are the likely ones in the SE/London.

Yes, Bloom will fight tooth and nail, he's provably about the best manager they could ever hope to get. But he left Swans when BHA came calling.
 
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