Need levy to announce manager soon. Seems to be snowball of negative press about club which is winding up fans even more. Still think it might be ten haag.
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Management Poll: Who do you want most as our next manager?
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Unless Leicester and Spurs end up in the Europa League together (which looks doubly unlikely if the current result holds), I would still take the field at this point.
I was just kidding mate
I'd still argue that those are fairly comparable performances. Lazio and Spurs are clubs of comparable size in their respective leagues and I do not think that Inzaghi would be a name that we should scoff at.
Oh I'm not scoffing at all, I'm saying put some respect on Poch's name.
He performed a miracle at Spurs, the light of which is now fading from view.
Pinch of salt maybe but cascarino was saying on talksport poch might get the bullet at psg for failings this season. Could he come home?
Just watched Potter's team give away a last minute goal and lose 2-1 !
He lost to Wolves, so is the hairy cornflake our next manager ?
He lost to Wolves, so is the hairy cornflake our next manager ?
I'm a one-man woman, I'll have you know.
I could be tempted by Daveed, Erik the Viking, Paulo but that's just between you and me
I wouldn't scoff at it but I don't really see how it makes sense for either side.
Inzaghi is an Italian who has spent his whole playing and managerial career in Italy, with most of it at Lazio. As you say we are similar-ish level clubs, I would say we are bigger but not such a massive jump that it is career changing job for him. Perhaps he feels he has done all he can at Lazio and wants a new challenge but that would be a pretty big change for a guy who has spent his whole life in Italy.
For us, he is a fine, not great manager, with no history of rebuilding a club, not a massive record of working with youth, isn't noted for playing a super attacking style or one that fits with the club although not a defensive dinosaur either, he doesn't bring a history of winning trophies, isn't a big name or a well known name for PR purposes. I am failing to see what Levy would see in him over other candidates that could fill at least some of those things.
Yeah but they were cruising at 1 nil before dunk got sent off. Darren bent was saying earlier we should get him big time.
The Levy case is pretty simple, and that's a proven history of doing more with less and being fairly content about the lack of ambition from ownership.
Combine that with some notable successes, attacking football (Lazio aren't Atalanta but they're pretty buccaneering by Italian standards), and player development bona fides, and that's a fit on Levy's end.
Makes less sense on Inzaghi's, but we'll outbid Lazio if it's about money.
And of course he is a Tottenham legend and a successful PL manager !
The name on the periphery that continues to make the most sense to me is Christophe Galtier.
He's leaving Lille one way or another this summer, per reports.
He's leaving Lille one way or another this summer, per reports.
Steve would understandI'm a one-man woman, I'll have you know.
I could be tempted by Daveed, Erik the Viking, Paulo but that's just between you and me
I just think Levy would go with someone like Parker over him as Parker brings so much more PR cover for him.
Plus, I can't see Inzaghi coming here for cheap or to just be Levy's lapdog as he is in a very good situation in Lazio and I don't see Levy giving him a big contract or any control.
Would he? After taking Fulham down? Who gives a shit about Scott Parker?
Now Steven Gerrard would be PR cover, which I agree is a not insignificant consideration here. Social media followers are a huge part of securing commercial deals, and sacking Jose will have been damaging in that regard.
Still, before Jose Levy had generally taken the same attitude toward managers that he had towards players thinking that he could identify undervalued assets in the marketplace and outsmart everybody.
I think Levy wants three things from this appointment:
- A "name" to appease sponsors
- Attacking football to appease the fans
- Someone he genuinely believes is a top tactician who can pull this squad back into the CL without major investment
Unless Conte is actually available, the only person who ticks all three of those boxes is Brendan Rodgers. We've not heard the last of that pursuit, I bet.
If we get Brenton that would be awful, so disappointing. Slightly better than Jose, but not much.
I think that for many fans Scott Parker is a very likable guy, much like Mason. I think that fans would immediately want to support him, have trouble criticizing him and would get a lot, especially the more casual fans, excited based just on the name. I also think that Parker has the reputation as being a progressive manager, whether that is true or not, so he would also cover the attacking aspect.
Plus Parker covers the two most important things to Levy in my view, cheap and willing to do whatever Levy says.
Gerrard for me would do the opposite, a lot of fans would be pissed that we are bringing in a Liverpool guy and would be very quick to turn on him the minute things went wrong.
I think the name aspect will be more important for the fans than the sponsors, in Levy's view so that he can take some of the heat off of him from the ESL stuff and get fans back into the stadium spending money. He will use the stadium and Kane to butter up the sponsors and bring that money in.
I have heard from recent weeks we are looking at coaches in germany. Do think perhaps ragnick may be involved in a consultant role but not a coach. New coach really needs to be announced soon though.
Agree to disagree on all three.
The "legacy" fan isn't going to forgive the disarray of the ENIC project for a manager that just took Fulham down, and the upwardly mobile Malaysian junior executive who is the ESL dream fan doesn't know who Scott Parker is.