Even last season we showed the obvious signs of lacking any bottle in big games. When we were lurking around 7th/8th we'd walk games. Then having won 2 or 3 to put is back into top 4 contention, we'd completely hide in the games that would put us back in it. The real stand outs last season were home and away to Chelsea and away to Man United. You day Lampard and OGS got the better of Mourinho, but for me, the lack of fight and bottle was the difference in those games.
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Management Poll: Who do you want most as our next manager?
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Even last season we showed the obvious signs of lacking any bottle in big games. When we were lurking around 7th/8th we'd walk games. Then having won 2 or 3 to put is back into top 4 contention, we'd completely hide in the games that would put us back in it. The real stand outs last season were home and away to Chelsea and away to Man United. You day Lampard and OGS got the better of Mourinho, but for me, the lack of fight and bottle was the difference in those games.
This is exactly where I was at. It’s still a bit surreal how much he underachieved
Yes. He was. And two minor trophies? Fuck me, what an entitled attitude. I’d maim some cunt for a sniff of a Europa League trophy.
And when we employed him, I believe the idea was to hand him a load of dough from the new stadium to go out and improve the team. Then shit happened and that money wasn’t there.
That’s just what I think though. If you want to believe he was there as a celebrity signing, like when Melchester Rovers signed the guys from Spandau Ballet, you carry on.
Nope. He hired Jose to sell more billboards and to increase programme advertising by 10%. Duh.
Dawson believes it should be Parker.
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Michael Dawson says Scott Parker should be the next Tottenham manager
Former Tottenham defender Michael Dawson has revealed his pick to succeed Jose Mourinho as the club's next manager, after the Portuguese tactician was sacked last week
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I like Parker, I've been quietly rooting for him to survive the drop, but I just don't think it's time for that kind of risk. I think he's done well considering the poor strikers, but I'd give him a few years before he's ready for us.Dawson believes it should be Parker.
Michael Dawson says Scott Parker should be the next Tottenham manager
Former Tottenham defender Michael Dawson has revealed his pick to succeed Jose Mourinho as the club's next manager, after the Portuguese tactician was sacked last week
To be honest with you, I lived in a bit of a Tottenham bubble until recent years. I never really knew what went wrong at Chelsea or United. I remember a good deal of the noise, but I don't remember watching very many of their games. But I remember being blown away by his TV punditry before we gave him the gig, and fancied he still had a superbrain for reading games and inspiring players for a couple of years. I can see now that he did a dreadful job at Utd, and I have a better insight into the reasons for that, too.
But every time we played Fwank Lampard's Chelsea in the league, he had his pants pulled down. I couldn't believe it. I just couldn't believe it. The same Fwank Lampard who's on the dole right now. If it is any consolation to you, I wanted him out after Norwich dumped us out of the FA Cup, and I was really torn over whether or not I wanted European football at all this season, because I was so desperate to see the back of him.
Is that really the case? I'd written him off as an option due to contract but that's coming from a place of ignorance if 3m is the buyout. He's worth looking into for sure.
If it is true that Potter would only cost 3 mil to buy out then that means that he became much more doable despite his contract length.
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Of course you'd "maim some cunt for a sniff of a Europa League" your boy Jose fucked up royally in Europe.
You honestly believe Levy was going to turn around and give the, to use your phrase, "most entitled" manager a shitload of money. Did you see what happened at Man Ure? £420million and the whinging bastard claimed he never got any support from the board. How much did you see Levy giving him? £600million, £700million?? Really?
to buyout a contract a club only needs to pay the wages of the original contract to said club.
Yep. In many ways Pleat was responsible for our upturn. He bought Defoe & Brown. We'd pretty much got Robinson signed at the end of the season and Arnesen apparently went off his scouting reports on Lennon, Carrick and Dawson.
Pleat has always had a good eye for domestic talent. Our uptick in stature has sadly meant that we don't do as much shopping in the domestic leagues as we used to. I think our most recent get through his word was Clarke, and before that Dele.
He's getting on in years but if he is still active it would not be a bad idea to have him do some scouting for the rebuild. Especially since he is a guy that Levy has a track record of listening to.
Don't know how they obtained the info but here are the salaries
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All 2020 Premier League Managers Salaries Have Been Published
Premier League top-flight managers are earning ever-increasing sums of money. See them ranked in terms of their earnings.
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This gesture alone makes me like Potter even more
www.theguardian.com
Graham Potter has become the latest Premier League manager to take a voluntary pay cut as the coronavirus crisis continues to envelop football, and has acknowledged his Brighton players face a challenge to maintain their mental wellbeing in unprecedented circumstances.
Two unnamed first-team players are recovering at home after testing positive for Covid-19 and the rest are training in isolation in line with government advice. Potter said “one or two” were not sleeping well and were worried about events.
Potter has joined the Bournemouth manager, Eddie Howe, in taking a significant pay cut, and Brighton’s technical director, Dan Ashworth, and chief executive, Paul Barber, have also volunteered a decrease in pay for the next three months, a gesture reluctantly accepted by the owner, Tony Bloom, who rejected the trio’s request to take a reduction in wages a fortnight
"It just felt like a normal thing to offer him because he has been good to me,” Potter said. “I know the pressure he is under as a chairman and the challenges he faces. It is a small part we can do but I think it was an important offer. Tony being Tony said: ‘Thank you very much but, at the moment, we are working through things.’ But as things have moved forward, I think we have come to the right decision to do what we have .”
Potter said he could “understand the criticism” directed towards players but hoped they would do the right thing, as the game’s stakeholders, including the Professional Footballers’ Association, prepare for further talks on Friday. “We want to try and do the right thing as a collective, as a humanity,” Potter said. “I am pretty sure football will come to those conclusions. It is up to them and the PFA to come to the right conclusions.”
Brighton's Graham Potter takes pay cut and talks of challenges facing players
Brighton’s Graham Potter, Paul Barber and Dan Ashworth have taken a significant voluntary pay cut for the next three months
www.theguardian.com
Graham Potter has become the latest Premier League manager to take a voluntary pay cut as the coronavirus crisis continues to envelop football, and has acknowledged his Brighton players face a challenge to maintain their mental wellbeing in unprecedented circumstances.
Two unnamed first-team players are recovering at home after testing positive for Covid-19 and the rest are training in isolation in line with government advice. Potter said “one or two” were not sleeping well and were worried about events.
Potter has joined the Bournemouth manager, Eddie Howe, in taking a significant pay cut, and Brighton’s technical director, Dan Ashworth, and chief executive, Paul Barber, have also volunteered a decrease in pay for the next three months, a gesture reluctantly accepted by the owner, Tony Bloom, who rejected the trio’s request to take a reduction in wages a fortnight
"It just felt like a normal thing to offer him because he has been good to me,” Potter said. “I know the pressure he is under as a chairman and the challenges he faces. It is a small part we can do but I think it was an important offer. Tony being Tony said: ‘Thank you very much but, at the moment, we are working through things.’ But as things have moved forward, I think we have come to the right decision to do what we have .”
Potter said he could “understand the criticism” directed towards players but hoped they would do the right thing, as the game’s stakeholders, including the Professional Footballers’ Association, prepare for further talks on Friday. “We want to try and do the right thing as a collective, as a humanity,” Potter said. “I am pretty sure football will come to those conclusions. It is up to them and the PFA to come to the right conclusions.”
Basically whatever the scenario, even if it involves spending huge sums of money, people will say Levy is doing it "on the cheap".
I think Levy is a disease. I think Mourinho is a disease. I don't even like myself very much. But hand on heart, I think there would have been a few bob more available to Mourinho had this pandemic not struck. I don't think that's a secret. I don't mean crazy money, but I mean something along the lines of £30m extra for a more established CB, for example. Maybe a Callum Wilson instead of a Vinicius. Of course, even if we had spent more money, I wouldn't have trusted us to spend it well. I don't trust Mourinho's eye for a player. I don't trust our scouting. I don't trust Levy not to torpedo deals for the right players, for whatever reason.
In the end, we spent some money, but we spent it badly. And that's a constant theme round here.