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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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Another day, another train!

Leaving platform Ten...Hag!

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I'd say that ambition starts with our control freak of a chairman realising his limitations, handing over football matters to people who know about and understand them far better than he does and concentrating on what he's strongest at.

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That's not going to happen unfortunately.
We're stuck with him for the foreseeable future. I can't see a much needed overhaul anytime soon.
What I can see is a bargain basement coach working with the same tired unambitious players whilst Levy and ENIC maximise their profits.
I'll always be a Spurs man but in all honesty, I really don't see any real change happening any time soon.
 
That's not going to happen unfortunately.
We're stuck with him for the foreseeable future. I can't see a much needed overhaul anytime soon.
What I can see is a bargain basement coach working with the same tired unambitious players whilst Levy and ENIC maximise their profits.
I'll always be a Spurs man but in all honesty, I really don't see any real change happening any time soon.
100%

Sad, but true.
 
That's not going to happen unfortunately.
We're stuck with him for the foreseeable future. I can't see a much needed overhaul anytime soon.
What I can see is a bargain basement coach working with the same tired unambitious players whilst Levy and ENIC maximise their profits.
I'll always be a Spurs man but in all honesty, I really don't see any real change happening any time soon.
All chairman handle football matters around the finance. That's not the issue. The issue was supporting a manager that was clearly maximising the resources he had and needed the players he wanted and early. Levy hagles to the end of the earth for a hardly much when buying or selling we either sign players late or miss out altogether.
 
Our expectations are higher than ever before. Jol came when we were shit, as did Poch. Now we are shit again but we are shit with standards so it's completely different.
 
Im warming to appointment of ten hag. Will encourage young players and probably run an overview of academy. Cant get better experience from ajax academy. Pity we didnt get van der beek last summer. Perfect tottenham style player. Not 100 per cent sure ten hag style of play is. If its possession high press like poch. Happy days.
 
All chairman handle football matters around the finance. That's not the issue. The issue was supporting a manager that was clearly maximising the resources he had and needed the players he wanted and early. Levy hagles to the end of the earth for a hardly much when buying or selling we either sign players late or miss out altogether.
Yes. Exactly my point. Stick to the financial side and keep your nose where it belongs.
 
Ndombele has had a couple of good games (Sheffield UTD away springs to
mind). Yes, Lo Celso has been injured but he’s been utterly ineffectual since coming back. Powder puff. And Reguillon started well, but genuinely has been garbage for the past few months.

I will support those players completely and hope they all turn it around. My issue is with the fans that put them on pedestals and excuse everything they do (because they fulfill some wanky idea of what a modern footballer should be) but then mug off a young lad that has just started for us, rather than actually support the player.
Agree completely. I actually think Rodon has done ok in a very difficult role.

and despite his massive talent I still have reservations about N’Dombele.
 
Yes. Exactly my point. Stick to the financial side and keep your nose where it belongs.

But that's where the issue still is. It's not a football issue. He simply looks at the asset he is buying or selling and the market. He's not looking at football side. If he was he'd know that doing business quickly and early in a football sense (not a business one) is best
 
I feel like this is a very scoreboard driven kind of thinking that misses the forest for the trees.

What we have learned is that Ten Hag can coach teams made up of very raw kids and past-peak veterans to play effective attacking football in the style we want, and he can get them to play that way against much bigger, more talented teams. He also can get them to press really well and play a very tight defence, without having great centrebacks.

Pochettino struggled to do that by the end of his time, so Ten Hag might be able to at least bring us back to where we were, or even take us further.

If you spend all day just looking at final scores then you miss the point. A coach has no influence on the final score. He cannot kick the ball, can’t make a pass. He can only train the team before the match, shout advice, and make 3 substitutions. The only thing he is responsible for is the process. That’s what he controls. So you need to evaluate him based on that.
I couldn’t put it any better myself great points you have made.

And Just to be clear I do like Ten Haag
and wouldn’t be opposed to Spurs appointing him
I just feel we need to be very careful and remember does winning the Dutch league with the richest club in Holland constitute him being hailed a messiah by some of the numptys on here?
 
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