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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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I can see why some newly promoted side would want to hire him to play ambitious football and try to score enough goals to stay up. I can see why Belgium wanted him to use their superstars in an expansive structure. Shit, I can see why Everton thought it might work. But it really, really didn't and the emperor was shown to have no clothes.

But, as someone else said, he's a youngish, English-speaking tactician who believes in an attacking philosophy and is very good at communicating business jargon-y football ideas to non-football people. It's Levy catnip.
It is, but Levy also needs to see something in the way of results, and unlike other candidates, his results have one relegation, and one near-relegation (Everton) on his CV, with no success where it counts to show for it.
 
It is, but Levy also needs to see something in the way of results, and unlike other candidates, his results have one relegation, and one near-relegation (Everton) on his CV, with no success where it counts to show for it.
I will be very upset if he's the appointment, but we really seem to be circling around a list of very uninspiring options.

Allegri stands out like Mount Everest from these lists, I cannot understand why we aren't all over him.
 
I will be very upset if he's the appointment, but we really seem to be circling around a list of very uninspiring options.

Allegri stands out like Mount Everest from these lists, I cannot understand why we aren't all over him.

Has Allegri shown any ability or interest in working with youth and/or a project that will take time?

He seems more like a guy that will want to bring in older players to win immediately resulting in papering over the cracks, mediocre results and not the necessary changes he needs.

If he is willing to do the work needed, then great but to me he seems more like a guy that wants to win now rather than do what is needed.
 
Lack of attacking football, lack of track record outside Juventus, lack of desire from Allegri to come to us?
He won the league at Milan!

And the attacking football thing is overrated. Football is tactically homogenized today more than it was in years past, but for the odd Dyche it's more a question of playing well and playing with the right mentality than tactics.

I can certainly see why he might not want the job. But where does he want to go? It was reported he was interested in England, I dunno.
 
Why not both though?

Why not bring in the youth like Skipp that are better than their counterparts and bring in some youth that might not be immediate upgrades but aren't really much of a drop off either?

In my example of Aurier and Lavinier. Neither are good enough to start in the PL so if we are getting in a new RB why keep Aurier as the back-up when putting Lavinier in there gives us hope for the future, develops a player and helps us move out guys that should be gone?

I am not saying boot Kane for Scarlett, I am talking about moving out guys that clearly are not good enough and giving youth a chance to step up. Stop worrying about whether we have replacement for crap like Aurier, Winks, Sissoko, Dier, Sanchez, Lamela, Moura and get them out even if it means short term drop off by playing a young guy that doesn't have the same level of PL experience.
Are you suggesting selling players and replacing them with youth. We will never hear the end of it if we have a negative spend although I think some would welcome the opportunity to moan. What makes you think that an acceptable offer will come in that the players accept.
 
I know we have appointed some real numpties in the past but I cannot believe that Potter is top of the poll !
If he gets the job, we will all support him to start with at least. We are all hoping that we will get another Poch but when he came into the club he inherited a lot of good players. Potter would inherit what's left after Kane leaves and we clear out the dead wood.
I don't believe in fairy stories !
 
Has Levy?

Who's fooling who here?

We're either in a desperate win-now gambit to make use of what Kane and Son we have left or we're not.

There's no three-year plan when your two talismen need to be sold before the end of it.

I think Levy showed it when he hired Poch so it isn't like he is totally against it.

And I am still talking about what I want. If we are going to try and win now then it doesn't really matter who we get as they will just be maintaining mediocrity so Allegri coming in to get us 6th versus Parker getting us to 8th doesn't matter too much to me. I guess the EL would be nice but the end result is the team remains crap with either guy.
 
Are you suggesting selling players and replacing them with youth. We will never hear the end of it if we have a negative spend although I think some would welcome the opportunity to moan. What makes you think that an acceptable offer will come in that the players accept.

I am suggesting moving out guys like Aurier, Sissoko, Winks, Dier, Sanchez, Lamela, Moura and bringing in guys 24 or under.

Doesn't have to be a negative net spend. In an ideal world we would be bringing in guys like Kounde, Kessie, Camavinga, Sancho etc. All who would cost a ton.

But more realistically looking at guys like Olise, Periera, White, Todibo, Botman. Guys who people will complain are too young or not enough experience.

The example for me is Sabitzer who is linked with us. Rather than bring in an expensive 27 year old like Sabitzer who is closer to the decline that growing, lets pay less to get a young guy who can turn into what Sabitzer was when he was at peak 2 years ago.
 
So when Poch said we needed a rebuild, he was reflecting an American idea? I dont think so.
I'm not an American. I have lived there many years ago. I'm not particularly sympathetic to loads of things about the place. But there's way too much casual disregard on this forum of the knowledge and enthusiasm for football and Spurs. Folk should do better.

We have some really good contributions from our American Spurs contingent....I mean they really could hold a certain.Err hem... constantly banned poster (Harry's biggest fan) over us Brits, with some justification. No one talks more utter BS pound for pound than him.
 
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