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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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Sir Archibald Crooks said:
I'd class 3 seasons as 3 whole seasons but each to their own. I'd say he lasted less time with us as he is getting worse as a manager year on year and we have less resources than his previous clubs bar Porto.
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He didn't have one whole season with us, he came 3 months into a season and left 2 months before the end of the next one.
I reckon others are looking at it and asking what the fuck is that all about? I can't be certain of it obviously.
Not even saying sacking him was right or wrong, just saying it was a clusterfuck by the club.
 
Sir Archibald Crooks said:
He's lasted 3 whole seasons once, at Madrid and that was true eye gouging, nervous breakdown material. With Chelsea x2 and United he's sacked just after 2 seasons. Should never have been appointed. Our stock was high 18 months ago despite a poor start to the season and we pissed it away on Mourinho. We're just a laughing stock now.
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His first Chelsea tenure was in excess of 3 full seasons.

Brief stints at Benfica and Uniao de Leiria
1.5 at Porto
3 + a month-ish at Chelsea
2 full seasons at Inter
3 full seasons at Real Madrid
2.5 at Chelsea
2.5 at United
17 months at Spurs, at neither end a full season
 
Thin Lilywhite Duke said:
“My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study and that's been my biggest influence.”
-Brendan Rodgers

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ElTel said:
That's not backing:levylol: Look at the players signed not the net spend. It's not backing it's more like being backed into a corner and forced to accept something rather than nothing. Bit like how Poch ended up accepting Sissoko at the last minute when all summer he failed to bring in players he really wanted in Mane and Zaha

In Jan 2020 we were desperate for a striker but couldn't buy one so Levy offers Bergwijn as an opportunity too good to turn down. That's the kind of nonsense our managers have to deal with
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Massive oversimplification when talking about Poch. I think he was dragging his feet massively on his particular profile of player. I think he had a massive contributary hand in not signing anyone. Mane simply got a much higher salary at a club that could afford it at the time, at the time we couldn't afford it. He knew 100% at which the parameters of the Club were operating under, he knew 100% our finances and was totally onboard with our approach to having to do it differently. He also saw Berahino as his dream striker!

But now you're just pulling names out who YOU don't rate. I think Bergwijn was a very good buy, I think without a fucking dinosaur as a manager he'll go on to prove to be thus. We needed a striker because the dinosaur can't set up a team without one. Klopp, Pep and Poch all capable of setting up their teams to play without one.

Anyway, let's not waste our time on this subject matter. It's not proving anything, it's in the past and has nothing to do with who our next manager should be.
 
FightingIllini said:
His first Chelsea tenure was in excess of 3 full seasons.

Brief stints at Benfica and Uniao de Leiria
1.5 at Porto
3 + a month-ish at Chelsea
2 full seasons at Inter
3 full seasons at Real Madrid
2.5 at Chelsea
2.5 at United
17 months at Spurs, at neither end a full season
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Could have sworn his first stint at Chelsea was shorter bur fair enough. It was still a rank bad appointment for us. A manager clearly past his best, whose style of football was never suited to Tottenham. Its not the only reason we're in this mess but it didn't help. Levy is culpable but no way was Mourinho part of the solution.
 
Jenny Talia said:
He didn't have one whole season with us, he came 3 months into a season and left 2 months before the end of the next one.
I reckon others are looking at it and asking what the fuck is that all about? I can't be certain of it obviously.
Not even saying sacking him was right or wrong, just saying it was a clusterfuck by the club.
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Poch may well be the first guy to break a long held tradition of he wins the CL. Is there any other manager we’ve ever had that we haven’t completely fucked the career of? I can think of one that has gone on to succeed after being exposed to our club.

They say the England job is a poisoned chalice, but I’m thinking joining us is a quicker route to football suicide.
 
Guido said:
I largely agree with this take, however, I do think AVB put in place a structure that stabilized the results, in his first season I would go into a game very confident of getting the result, bored but confident, as opposed to "swashbuckling" Redknapp's Spurs which when on song was fantastic, but the very next match we could easily still put in a dross performance and get beat by Hull or whoever, (his 2nd season I expected an improvement on the 1st year and hope for a more expansive team, that bit didn't come and he was right to be binned off). But I still think his appointment helped Poch to a degree, as the profile of player (possession capable if that makes sense) brought in under him underpinned some foundations for Poch's team.

TDLR I don't see his appointment as a failure, I see it as an incremental improvement in the squad and a low-bar or basic possession side.

The truly worrying aspect of his tenure is just how random his appointments have been: No two managers share the same philosophy to the game, in many of those cases they are polar opposites to each other (even though I think AVB's possession game and squad building helped Poch, AVB's football was more like his mentor's Mourinho). This reeks of lack of planning, it's a massive concern and I think it's unsustainable to run the football side of the Club like this.

IMO he's backed his managers, he's provided them the environment in which they want to work, so that meant ditching Comolly because Redknapp didn't want to work under/with a DoF, he I think did the same with Poch and Mitchell. But all this does is exaggerate the potential for what has happened under the dinosaur and also will now complicate the recruitment of a replacement.

What philosophy does this team/squad/academy play under now? What is the identity of Tottenham? Who owns it?
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Brilliant post especially the bit about the lack of a consistent profile of coach. Its at the heart of our problems.
 
ElTel said:
The club had nowhere else to go because we wouldn't pay what Atalanta wanted for Castagne. Basically levy used the Mendes connection to get Doherty for a relatively cheap fee, everyone was surprised how we managed to buy a PL proven and experienced player for the fee we did.

If he 100% wanted Doherty why did he treat him like he did. It was a compromise signing, like the majority are for managers under Levy's stewardship.
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He treated Paul Pogba like shit the player he wanted and their record buy. Deir tried to get him at Man United I remember him all over him in the tunnel binned him off in the end after extending his contract. Alderweireld was who he wanted when United got Bailey. He then binned Toby that capricious shit IS WHAT Jose dose. He was banging on about how every time he played Wolves Doherty tormented him and wanting him for ages lol😂
 
dmize1 said:
No we don't. But he also made all those youth players look better than they are with his management style.

I completely agree that any managers success will ultimately fall on the recruiting. But I think he can paper over those cracks better than others.
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Skipp, Scarlett, Cirkin, Sess, Harvey White and Devine are all top prospects
 
Guido said:
I do hate how the media works. If we don't get Dyche, who is now on our list of targets according to them, does that mean we are failing here too?

I don't doubt that Nagglesmann was on our list, he was also on Chavs, Real Madrid's, Barca's & Bayerns to name but a few.

With Rodgers, I say it's probably accurate that he is on a list of ours but they way it's presented is Rodgers thinks Leicester is better than Spurs and who the fuck would ever go to Spurs???! Yet, I suspect the truth is Rodgers is well aware that the expectations on him at Spurs would be higher than what he has at Leicester. Let's not forget he became a living and walking meme during his time at Liverpool, he literally couldn't handle it.

Nagglesmann & Poch both turned down Real Madrid, was that reported in the same way as Rodgers today? I don't think so.

Rodgers is a good manager, he's getting rewarded handsomely and has his feet under the table with his slippers on, their fancy dress wearing fans love him for having them just a handful of points above us and in a semi-final for the first time in a million years. With most managers lasting approx 2yrs, he's absolutely right to keep his slippers on and avoid another meltdown.
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Let’s see what happens if we offer to double his salary.

That’s what we’d do in normal times to get him and we probably would. But I suspect he’s too expensive.
 
AberdeenYid said:
Isn’t that understandable though? One method doesn’t work, so why would we take on someone similar to replace that guy? As it is, I think we’ve run out of styles to choose from.
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Not sure that follows its not a method that has failed. We built a playing staff around progressive front foot play then got a defensive coach who tried to coach players out of their skill set. Mourinho’s thinking was flawed. Replacing a coach who had embedded an ethos and going the other way diametrically was an obvious error.
 
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